C.W. Huntington Jr.
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Maya
6 editions
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2015
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What I Don't Know about Death: Reflections on Buddhism and Mortality
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The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika
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3 editions
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2014
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“Until I began sitting, it had never occurred to me that one could learn, with practice, to distinguish between attention, or awareness, and its objects. But just this is the central and most basic technique of meditation in all the yogic traditions of India, first described some 2,500 years ago in the Upanishads. In those ancient texts, the meditator is instructed to observe literally every element of experience from afar, to simply bear witness to anything and everything that arises and passes away before the mind’s eye. That’s it. Just sit there, without moving, and watch, allowing the focal point of identity to shift from the”
― Maya
― Maya
“Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all its creatures.”
― What I Don't Know about Death: Reflections on Buddhism and Mortality
― What I Don't Know about Death: Reflections on Buddhism and Mortality