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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... experienced through the senses , such hard and fast distinctions dissolve . For just as there is no exact time at which one can say the fertilized ovum becomes an embryo , so one can experience no exact point at which the arm becomes a ...
... experienced through the senses , such hard and fast distinctions dissolve . For just as there is no exact time at which one can say the fertilized ovum becomes an embryo , so one can experience no exact point at which the arm becomes a ...
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... experience of it may have passed you by . Somehow a step has to be made across the gap that separates reason from experience , the head from the heart , metaphysics from poetry . The relentless drive of Nagarjuna's inquiry encourages us ...
... experience of it may have passed you by . Somehow a step has to be made across the gap that separates reason from experience , the head from the heart , metaphysics from poetry . The relentless drive of Nagarjuna's inquiry encourages us ...
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... experience is disclosed : These moving feet reveal a walker But did not start him on his way . There was no walker prior to departure . Who was going where ? Nagarjuna's meditations on the emptiness of common experiences like walking ...
... experience is disclosed : These moving feet reveal a walker But did not start him on his way . There was no walker prior to departure . Who was going where ? Nagarjuna's meditations on the emptiness of common experiences like walking ...
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Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime Stephen Batchelor No preview available - 2001 |
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acts anguish appear awakening awareness became become begin believe birth body born Buddha Buddhist cause Center chapter China cling confusion consciousness contingency create death depend depth described dharma Discourses doctrines early ease emerge emptiness entails essence eternity everything exist experience feel fire fixations flames follow freedom fruits future grasp happen Hui-neng human idea identical includes India insight insist language later leads letting go liberation living Mahayana matter means middle mind monk moral moving Nagarjuna Nagarjuna's Verses nature ness never nirvana notion one's oneself opens opinions original pain past path person possible practice present questions reality realize recognizes reference response reveals Sanskrit seed sense Shantideva stops sublime suffering suggest teachings things thoughts Tibetan tion trace tradition translation translation of MMK truths Tsongkhapa turn understanding Verses vision walker walking Wisdom