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Heart Sutra
Autor(a) de The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
Obras por Heart Sutra
The Heart Sutra: Discourses on the Prajnaparamita Hridayam Sutra of Gautama the Buddha (1977) 27 exemplares
The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra: With "Verses Without a Stand" and Prose Commentary (2002) 15 exemplares
Heart of Buddhist Wisdom: A Translation of the Heart Sutra With Historical Introduction and Commentary (Studies in… (1985) 7 exemplares
The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra 1 exemplar
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But anyway. I guess that when we read history or about kings—say King David—we think that the king was really around when he was at that awesome plateau at the peak of his power, even though for most of his life he’s either gaining or losing power, and can’t avoid the bell curve of impermanence, if life is a graph. Life, we think, is later, when we finally finish what we start. Reading this I sorta realized that your life is the whole thing, every day, although nothing that broad is still new to me.
Also, and I don’t know what this is in relation to except personal history, job history, but the cross-cultural truth that suffering is chosen even when circumstances are not cannot safely be made too high-minded: I create my suffering by mishandling painful circumstances (and I still don’t think this is a reason to have to sweat sing and make six figures), yes, but very importantly my personal immediate circumstances—not just my place in world history, and the history of abstract cartoon kings.
And I still chase butterflies—don’t just read the reviews—although I have to learn to let them go too. Or maybe I don’t, because when I die they’ll burn my body along with my books, ensuring that I still have them in the ether library with Jesus and King Arthur….… (mais)