Living zen /
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| Author / Creator: | Linssen, Robert. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Macmillan, 1958. |
| Description: | 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1369575 |
Table of Contents:
- Part One
- I. Summary history of Buddhism
- II. Short historical sketch of Zen
- III. Is Buddhism a philosophy?
- IV. Is Buddhism a religion?
- V. The notion of God in Buddhism
- VI. The illusory character of aid, of salvation, of all systems
- VII. The nature of things
- VIII. Complementarity of physics and psychology
- IX. The force of habit
- X. The action of the force of habit on the mind according to psychological types
- XI. Memory-habits and the birth of the 'I-process'
- XII. Tanha, or the thirst of becoming
- XIII. Obedience to the nature of things
- XIV. Nirvana or Satori
- XV. Nirvana and the void
- XVI. Nirvana, Satori, and lucid love
- XVII. Lucidity without ideation
- XVIII. Nirvana, Satori and the present
- XIX. Satori and the Zen unconscious
- XX. Characteristics of Satori according to the Zen masters
- XXI. Zen Buddhism and everyday life
- XXII. The inadequacies
- XXIII. Buddhism and social problems
- XXIV. Buddhism and Christianity
- XXV. Similarities between Zen and Krishnamurti
- XXVI. Divergencies between Buddhism, Zen, and Krishnamurti
- Note 1: commentary on a 'Koan'
- Note II: brief survey of the Tibetan schools of philosophy, of the 'oral transmission', of the (so-called) 'secret doctrines', by Madame A. David-Neel
- Part Two
- Introduction to the conclusions
- I. Transformation of physical life and its relations with the psycho-physical unity
- II. Transformation of human relations
- III. The true 'letting-go' effected by 'love intelligence'
- Note I: On the birth of thoughts
- Note II: Satori and the research techniques of physicists
- Note III: From personal consciousness to the state of Satori
- Note IV. Parable of the flame and the smoke.
- Marginal notes