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Title

Living zen / Robert Linssen ; pref. by Christmas Humphreys ; foreword by R. Godel ; translated by Diana Abrahams-Curiel.

Author

Linssen, Robert.

Publication

New York : Macmillan, 1958.

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Details

Description

348 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Zen Buddhism
• Buddha (The concept)
• Buddhism
• Zenaga (language)
• khans (built works)
• Ch'an (religion)

Note

• "Translated from the French 'Essais sur le Bouddhisme en Général et sur le Zen en Particulier'."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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

OCLC

• ocm02295025
• 2295025
• SCSB-121547

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library