Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron: VOLUME 8 - Realizing the Profound View

Sprache / Language: Englisch / English
Hardcover, 480 pages.

Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron: VOLUME 8 - Realizing the Profound View

About the book

Realizing the Profound View challenges the ways we view the self and the world and brings us that much closer to liberation by guiding us in the analysis and meditations necessary to realize the ultimate nature of reality.

With attention to Nagarjuna’s five-point analysis, Candrakirti’s seven-point examination, and Pali sutras, the Dalai Lama leads us to investigate who or what is the person. Are we our body? Our mind? If we are not inherently either of them, how do we exist, and what carries the karma from one life to the next? As we explore these and other fascinating questions, he skillfully guides us along the path, avoiding the chasms of absolutism and nihilism, and introduces us to dependent arising. We find that although all persons and phenomena lack an inherent essence, they do exist dependently. This nominally imputed mere I carries the karmic seeds. We discover that all phenomena exist by being merely designated by term and concept—they appear as like illusions, unfindable under ultimate analysis but functioning on the conventional level. Furthermore, we come to understand that emptiness dawns as the meaning of dependent arising, and dependent arising dawns as the meaning of emptiness. The ability to posit subtle dependent arisings in the face of realizing emptiness and to establish ultimate and conventional truths as non-contradictory brings us to the culmination of the correct view.

Contents

1. The Seven-point Analysis: How Does a Car Exist?
2. Refutations Similar to Candrakīrti’s Seven Points
3. The Selflessness of Persons: Seven Points
4. The Person is Not the Six Elements
5. Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence
6. The Selflessness of Phenomena: Diamond Slivers
7. Does the World Exist Objectively?
8. The Selflessness of All Existents: Dependent Arising
9. Gaining the Correct View
10. The Path Pleasing to the Buddha
11. Illusion-like Existence
12. Self and Selflessness in the Pali Tradition
13. The Pāli Tradition: Eliminating Defilements
14. The Pāli Sutras and the Prāsaṅgika View