Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.
In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is … - Masao Abe
In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is …
- Masao Abe
Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized. - Masao Abe
Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.
To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's p… - Masao Abe
To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's p…
Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe a… - Masao Abe
Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe a…
Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spiri… - Masao Abe
Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spiri…
When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather,… - Masao Abe
When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather,…
When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell. - Masao Abe
When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.
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