Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the SublimeThe understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept and provides readers with translations of the most important poems ever written on the subject, the poems of 2nd century philosopher Nagarjuna. |
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... ease . By associating this vision of emptiness with Shantideva's miraculous departure from the monastery , the legend sug- gests a symbolic release from the scholarly and moralistic constraints of monasticism into a life of unfettered ease ...
... ease . By associating this vision of emptiness with Shantideva's miraculous departure from the monastery , the legend sug- gests a symbolic release from the scholarly and moralistic constraints of monasticism into a life of unfettered ease ...
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... ease and well - being . Nagarjuna's aim is to change the way one sees in order to transform the quality of one's life . For In seeing things To be or not to be , Fools fail to see A world at ease . In a passage in the poem Self ...
... ease and well - being . Nagarjuna's aim is to change the way one sees in order to transform the quality of one's life . For In seeing things To be or not to be , Fools fail to see A world at ease . In a passage in the poem Self ...
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... ease , but ease is revealed as a feature of the sublime itself . For not only do fixations generate conflict and anguish , they also obscure a natural world that endlessly unfolds and van- ishes , untroubled by the desires and fears of ...
... ease , but ease is revealed as a feature of the sublime itself . For not only do fixations generate conflict and anguish , they also obscure a natural world that endlessly unfolds and van- ishes , untroubled by the desires and fears of ...
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Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime Stephen Batchelor No preview available - 2001 |
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abiding in emptiness acts addictions anguish appear awakening birth Blue Cliff Record Bodhidharma bodhisattva body Buddhanature Buddhist Buddhist tradition cause Center Ch'an China Chuang Tzu ciphr cling Coleridge compulsive confusion consciousness craving create depend described dharma doctrines Dogen Dzogchen ease Emperor Wu entails ephemeral essence eternity everything existential experience feel fire flames forever fused freedom Gautama Geluk HSI-T'ANG Hui-neng human idea India insight into contingency insist intuiting John Keats juna Katyayana Keats know emptiness Kumarajiva lamas language Lao Tzu letting go living Mahayana mangos meditation metaphysical middle monk moral naga Nagar Nagarjuna Nagarjuna's Verses Nagarjuna's vision nature ness never nirvana notion one's oneself path person pristine awareness recognizes reveals sage Sanskrit seed sense Shabkar Shantideva SHIH-KUNG sublime tantric Taoist teachings things thoughts Tibet Tibetan tion trace of emptiness translation of MMK truths Tsongkhapa understanding of emptiness unfold unreal Vacchagotta walker walking Wisdom Discourses words