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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... ness is experienced as the letting go of fixed ideas about oneself and the world : Buddhas say emptiness Is relinquishing opinions . Believers in emptiness Are incurable . One can become fixated on emptiness as easily as on any- thing ...
... ness is experienced as the letting go of fixed ideas about oneself and the world : Buddhas say emptiness Is relinquishing opinions . Believers in emptiness Are incurable . One can become fixated on emptiness as easily as on any- thing ...
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... ness . HSI - T'ANG : How do you do it , then ? Shih - kung grabbed Hsi - t'ang's nose and pulled it . HSI - T'ANG : Ow ! You're going to pull off my nose ! SHIH - KUNG : That is the only way to grasp empti- ness . This dialogue is ...
... ness . HSI - T'ANG : How do you do it , then ? Shih - kung grabbed Hsi - t'ang's nose and pulled it . HSI - T'ANG : Ow ! You're going to pull off my nose ! SHIH - KUNG : That is the only way to grasp empti- ness . This dialogue is ...
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... ness he discovers that he is not alone but intimately interwoven into a seamless web of sentient life , which he compares to a vast organism : Just as these arms and legs Are seen as limbs of a body , Why are embodied creatures Not seen ...
... ness he discovers that he is not alone but intimately interwoven into a seamless web of sentient life , which he compares to a vast organism : Just as these arms and legs Are seen as limbs of a body , Why are embodied creatures Not seen ...
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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