Thundering silence [electronic resource] : sutra on knowing the better way to catch a snake / Thich Nhat Hanh.

By: Nhat Hanh, ThichContributor(s): Laity, Annabel | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Vietnamese Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Parallax Press, 2009Edition: 2nd edDescription: vi, 70 pSubject(s): Tipitaka. Suttapitaka. Majjhimanikaya. Alagaddupama Sutta -- CommentariesGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: BQ1320.A4222 | E543 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- Sutra on knowing the better way to catch a snake -- Commentaries: the purpose of the sutra -- Circumstances under which the sutra was delivered -- The title -- Arittha's misunderstanding -- Sense pleasures as disasters -- The danger of misunderstanding the teachings -- Catching a snake -- The raft is not the shore -- The finger pointing at the moon -- The pheasant -- Breaking the bonds -- Thundering silence -- No-self -- Ditthi-nissaya (view-refuge) -- The way to practice the teachings of no-self -- The non-achieved and the non-expressed -- Impermanence -- Nirvana -- Tathagata -- Treating wrong understanding.
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"Translated from the Vietnamese by Annabel Laity."

Introduction -- Sutra on knowing the better way to catch a snake -- Commentaries: the purpose of the sutra -- Circumstances under which the sutra was delivered -- The title -- Arittha's misunderstanding -- Sense pleasures as disasters -- The danger of misunderstanding the teachings -- Catching a snake -- The raft is not the shore -- The finger pointing at the moon -- The pheasant -- Breaking the bonds -- Thundering silence -- No-self -- Ditthi-nissaya (view-refuge) -- The way to practice the teachings of no-self -- The non-achieved and the non-expressed -- Impermanence -- Nirvana -- Tathagata -- Treating wrong understanding.

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