Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World Quotes

“the Mahāyāna Buddhists came to see emptiness as signifying a deep, second dimension of the earlier doctrine of dependent arising. It is not just the dependent arising of suffering and pain. It is the dependent arising of all that is, of the passing beauty and the painful history of all of our lives. The Middle Path, then, is the practice of holding the two—negative emptiness and positive dependent arising—in healthy and dynamic tension.”
― John P. Keenan, Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World: with a little help from Nagarjuna

“for no viewpoint has a vantage point (an advantage) from which it can experience all the traditions or gain true insight into the doctrine and practice of other peoples’ faiths. No single perspective is ever capable of rendering judgment about other religions. A Mahāyāna philosophy of religions is a no-philosophy. It is a philosophy that empties philosophy.4”
― John P. Keenan, Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World: with a little help from Nagarjuna

“Deep, unmediated, and inexpressible experiences do occur.12 All the traditions agree that in moments of grace, moments perhaps almost unnoticed, a person may move apart from all mediated meanings. No language. No culture. No words. No images. For those moments, one abides in simple and pure consciousness, sharply aware of the mystery surrounding us all.”
― John P. Keenan, Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World: with a little help from Nagarjuna