Nhat Hanh, Thich.

Thundering silence sutra on knowing the better way to catch a snake / [electronic resource] : Thich Nhat Hanh. - 2nd ed. - Berkeley, Calif. : Parallax Press, 2009. - vi, 70 p.

"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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Tipitaka.--Suttapitaka.--Majjhimanikaya.--Alagaddupama Sutta--Commentaries.


Electronic books.

BQ1320.A4222 / E543 2009