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Thundering silence sutra on knowing the better way to catch a snake /

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Main Author: Nhá̂t Hạnh, Thích
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Laity, Annabel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Vietnamese
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : Parallax Press, 2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Tipiṭaka. > Suttapiṭaka. > Majjhimanikāya. > Alagaddūpama Sutta > Commentaries.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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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