Buddhist Romanticism

Recommendations

Info

<strong>Buddhist</strong> <strong>Romanticism</strong> by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu ( G e o f f re y D e G ra f f ) 2
copyright 2015 ṭhānissaro bhikkhu This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. To see a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. “Commercial” shall mean any sale, whether for commercial or non-profit purposes or entities. questions about this book may be addressed to Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 U.S.A. additional resources More Dhamma talks, books and translations by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu are available to download in digital audio and various ebook formats at dhammatalks.org. printed copy A paperback copy of this book is available free of charge. To request one, write to: Book Request, Metta Forest Monastery, PO Box 1409, Valley Center, CA 92082 USA. 3
Page 4 and 5: “Both formerly and now, it’s on
Page 6 and 7: I have found the research and writi
Page 8 and 9: Buddhist concepts have been placed,
Page 10 and 11: freedom. In fact, as we will see wh
Page 12 and 13: Romantics developed the theory of t
Page 14 and 15: example and start using Buddhist id
Page 16 and 17: adequate scholarly overview of this
Page 18 and 19: under the title, “Romancing the B
Page 20 and 21: Dhamma has to offer. And when more
Page 22 and 23: As for religion, the Europe of the
Page 24 and 25: In the Buddha’s telling, his fath
Page 26 and 27: search, he kept referring to it not
Page 28 and 29: pleasure and pain, he had not becom
Page 30 and 31: ought on an attack of dysentery, in
Page 32 and 33: systems, these four thinkers wrote
Page 34 and 35: In 1796, he wrote to Friedrich Schl
Page 36 and 37: While in Leipzig, Friedrich fell in
Page 38 and 39: and even Fichte—who is best class
Page 40 and 41: service. Moving with Dorothea to Vi
Page 42 and 43: distinctive features of Romantic re
Page 44 and 45: theology, The Christian Faith (1821
Page 46 and 47: easons, but only aesthetically—i.
Page 48 and 49: view: “the awareness of being at
Page 50 and 51: Although there was some appreciatio
Page 52 and 53:
At first, his relations with Fichte
Page 54 and 55:
lackey. If anything, the lectures h
Page 56 and 57:
Diotima to die inadvertently as a r
Page 58 and 59:
Schleiermacher is the only one of t
Page 60 and 61:
need to arrive at a final goal. Thr
Page 62 and 63:
had arrived at a timeless solution
Page 64 and 65:
CHAPTER TWO An Ancient Path The Bud
Page 66 and 67:
foods will assuage them; it has to
Page 68 and 69:
ut in desire. In fact, unbinding is
Page 70 and 71:
accepted as a working hypothesis, f
Page 72 and 73:
alternatives: renunciation, goodwil
Page 74 and 75:
provisionally on the level of munda
Page 76 and 77:
not subject to changes in culture o
Page 78 and 79:
would disappear (§69). This is why
Page 80 and 81:
and being provocative himself—or
Page 82 and 83:
to question the mechanical worldvie
Page 84 and 85:
world. Herschel’s reputation—he
Page 86 and 87:
fellow Romantics addressed and how
Page 88 and 89:
very minor differences of doctrine
Page 90 and 91:
technical rigor from their readers.
Page 92 and 93:
Some typical answers were these:
Page 94 and 95:
human being came from freedom in bo
Page 96 and 97:
any of the three philosophers who h
Page 98 and 99:
university officials had asked him
Page 100 and 101:
‘I serve my friends gladly but—
Page 102 and 103:
them into conflict with one another
Page 104 and 105:
Joy, lovely spark of the gods, daug
Page 106 and 107:
history of the universe; and monism
Page 108 and 109:
well. God was no longer timeless an
Page 110 and 111:
validity or authority. The idea tha
Page 112 and 113:
philosophy as a living, dialectical
Page 114 and 115:
Herder had argued earlier that—be
Page 116 and 117:
fact, the driving force of the nove
Page 118 and 119:
the arts, nevertheless had offered
Page 120 and 121:
time, to experience directly the he
Page 122 and 123:
CHAPTER FOUR The Romantic Universe
Page 124 and 125:
the astronomy and biology of their
Page 126 and 127:
adically different laws, the Romant
Page 128 and 129:
Organic From their study of biology
Page 130 and 131:
completion only when it achieved a
Page 132 and 133:
plant; of all the forms of nature,
Page 134 and 135:
to the wonders of the laws of organ
Page 136 and 137:
This is a serious weakness in the R
Page 138 and 139:
could develop a consistent view of
Page 140 and 141:
this truth was proven by the fact t
Page 142 and 143:
ecause of the good effect it had on
Page 144 and 145:
“O soul! soul! Beauty of the worl
Page 146 and 147:
down by any side in conflicting iss
Page 148 and 149:
society would fall apart. But for t
Page 150 and 151:
minor dissonances in the harmonic p
Page 152 and 153:
than y. With this value judgment, t
Page 154 and 155:
“Julius seemed to be inspired wit
Page 156 and 157:
Schlegel also absorbed a second dic
Page 158 and 159:
His inspiration in gaining this con
Page 160 and 161:
philosophical system, but as a feel
Page 162 and 163:
intuition and feeling are One—whe
Page 164 and 165:
The obverse side of Schleiermacher
Page 166 and 167:
for the laws that govern its behavi
Page 168 and 169:
third type of orientation: the one
Page 170 and 171:
On tolerance: “When you have pers
Page 172 and 173:
Schelling’s and Schlegel’s prog
Page 174 and 175:
and without vestals.” 24 [Julian
Page 176 and 177:
5) Despite its many expressions, th
Page 178 and 179:
with the rest of society. One’s b
Page 180 and 181:
to create his/her own set of belief
Page 182 and 183:
and conditions (§20). 8) Although
Page 184 and 185:
categorical truths (AN 2:18). Simil
Page 186 and 187:
the German Romantics, and Victor Co
Page 188 and 189:
process has been like a river that
Page 190 and 191:
arms of atmosphere; that Unity, tha
Page 192 and 193:
intuitions of the infinite, but als
Page 194 and 195:
Then, however, the essay shifts gea
Page 196 and 197:
unless he speak the phraseology of
Page 198 and 199:
• Freedom defined as the ability
Page 200 and 201:
ut scientific approach available in
Page 202 and 203:
the sciences that would further exp
Page 204 and 205:
would have recognized—of both pas
Page 206 and 207:
attributes to a personality trait:
Page 208 and 209:
character traits that mark a person
Page 210 and 211:
James, like Kant and Fichte, believ
Page 212 and 213:
worldview of a monistic universe in
Page 214 and 215:
dreams so as to help the patient in
Page 216 and 217:
varieties of archetypes, but that t
Page 218 and 219:
Jung’s second reason for seeing p
Page 220 and 221:
own morality at will. In response t
Page 222 and 223:
organic causation. Jung shared with
Page 224 and 225:
“meaning” has no meaning in a s
Page 226 and 227:
modern democratic, pluralistic soci
Page 228 and 229:
“To the extent that all mystical
Page 230 and 231:
human species. As for the personal
Page 232 and 233:
experience, he closed off the possi
Page 234 and 235:
Romantics, though, these various ap
Page 236 and 237:
One: All knowledge, to count as kno
Page 238 and 239:
count, though, his students later f
Page 240 and 241:
This, of course, was a very imagina
Page 242 and 243:
as a form of nihilism, and so Hegel
Page 244 and 245:
To begin with, all three aspects of
Page 246 and 247:
e discovered, as the Buddha claimed
Page 248 and 249:
PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY While thinkers
Page 250 and 251:
the actual religious tradition that
Page 252 and 253:
people to join its celibate order,
Page 254 and 255:
Huxley then quotes approvingly a pa
Page 256 and 257:
mortification of the flesh as morti
Page 258 and 259:
common to all the world’s great s
Page 260 and 261:
complex interacting systems can be
Page 262 and 263:
knowledge are all one) at the same
Page 264 and 265:
tested through action. Despite Huxl
Page 266 and 267:
Hölderlin, asserted the duty to al
Page 268 and 269:
experience can be seen in that, alt
Page 270 and 271:
CHAPTER SEVEN Buddhist Romanticism
Page 272 and 273:
the possible reasons why Buddhist R
Page 274 and 275:
in the larger scheme of things.…
Page 276 and 277:
* * * The next two principles treat
Page 278 and 279:
connectedness, integrity, and belon
Page 280 and 281:
possibilities, new expressions of a
Page 282 and 283:
to all things. All are part of a sa
Page 284 and 285:
authentic encounter with what is mo
Page 286 and 287:
16) Because religious teachings are
Page 288 and 289:
and the universe as a whole. 20) Re
Page 290 and 291:
engage human suffering at multiple
Page 292 and 293:
The first is that modern society is
Page 294 and 295:
transcendent solution to suffering,
Page 296 and 297:
of a framework that doesn’t deriv
Page 298 and 299:
teach them? And why should they bot
Page 300 and 301:
never seriously challenged this par
Page 302 and 303:
“out there” as a primary realit
Page 304 and 305:
inspiring others to do likewise, so
Page 306 and 307:
Point 10 above makes the assertion
Page 308 and 309:
alternative routes to one and the s
Page 310 and 311:
and doesn’t see a return to that
Page 312 and 313:
meaning of this?’ They make open
Page 314 and 315:
Romantic assertion that feelings of
Page 316 and 317:
the word kamma like his contemporar
Page 318 and 319:
helped bring people in new times an
Page 320 and 321:
in perspective couldn’t be more s
Page 322 and 323:
The four noble truths entail four d
Page 324 and 325:
ole after one has reached the goal.
Page 326 and 327:
on winning, he fostered an atmosphe
Page 328 and 329:
APPENDIX Unromantic Dhamma THE DISC
Page 330 and 331:
There are questions that should be
Page 332 and 333:
householder with a talk on Dhamma.
Page 334 and 335:
ecoming.” — AN 3:77 § 10. “I
Page 336 and 337:
conceit that conceit is to be aband
Page 338 and 339:
the view’ I have no self’ … o
Page 340 and 341:
& infinite, either delineates it as
Page 342 and 343:
measured by. Whatever one isn’t m
Page 344 and 345:
“Then, Master Gotama, does everyt
Page 346 and 347:
of a dried-up stream— and, seeing
Page 348 and 349:
footprint of the elephant, and the
Page 350 and 351:
case where a monk, when not loaded
Page 352 and 353:
Thus I am not your mere equal in te
Page 354 and 355:
true goal, destroyed the fetter of
Page 356 and 357:
(to release) from the cosmos have d
Page 358 and 359:
capable of obtaining results. Why i
Page 360 and 361:
“For harm, lord.” “And this g
Page 362 and 363:
actually the whole of the holy life
Page 364 and 365:
about it and dissect it: ‘How is
Page 366 and 367:
won’t listen when discourses that
Page 368 and 369:
Glossary Arahant: A “worthy one
Page 370 and 371:
monks and 311 for nuns. Samādhi: C
Page 372 and 373:
Endnotes CHAPTER ONE 1. Beiser, Fre
Page 374 and 375:
16. Schlegel, Friedrich. Lucinde an
Page 376 and 377:
5. Ibid., p. 31. 6. Ibid., p. 3. 7.
Page 378 and 379:
54. Ibid., p. 203. 378
Page 380 and 381:
York: The Modern Library, 2006. Cot
Page 382 and 383:
Cary F. Baynes. Abingdon: Routledge
Page 384 and 385:
introduction by Peter Firchow. Minn
Page 386 and 387:
Table of Contents Titlepage 2 Copyr
Page 388:
Kamma & Further Becoming 332 Desire
show all

Buddhist Romanticism

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?