Mahayana Myths and Stories: complete works of Sangharakshita volume 16
Mahayana Myths and Stories: complete works of Sangharakshita volume 16
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ISBN / SKU
9781909314894
Format
Hardback
Description
Mahayana Myths and Stories, which brings together the commentaries on The White Lotus Sutra, The Sutra of Golden Light and the Vimalakīrti-Nirdeśa. This volume contains:
- The Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment
- The Priceless Jewel (essay)
- Transforming Self and World
- The Inconceivable Emancipation
- New endnotes reflecting original sources
A Foreword by Ratnaguna reflects on how these myths and stories 'invite us to re-imagine our lives' with their 'descriptions of fantastic, utopian worlds, gorgeous imagery, and magic'. He relates the way in which his own life was touched by the magic Sangharakshita communicated to him.
'Up until then I'd viewed my spiritual problems as negative. They were holding me up, blocking my progress on the path to Buddhahood, and I wished that I didn't have them. On hearing [one of the lectures in this volume], I realized that they weren't blocking the path, they were the path. They weren't in the way, they were the way. Rather than needing to rid myself of them, I need to cherish them, painful as they might be.'– Ratnaguna in the Foreword
- The Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment
- The Priceless Jewel (essay)
- Transforming Self and World
- The Inconceivable Emancipation
- New endnotes reflecting original sources
A Foreword by Ratnaguna reflects on how these myths and stories 'invite us to re-imagine our lives' with their 'descriptions of fantastic, utopian worlds, gorgeous imagery, and magic'. He relates the way in which his own life was touched by the magic Sangharakshita communicated to him.
'Up until then I'd viewed my spiritual problems as negative. They were holding me up, blocking my progress on the path to Buddhahood, and I wished that I didn't have them. On hearing [one of the lectures in this volume], I realized that they weren't blocking the path, they were the path. They weren't in the way, they were the way. Rather than needing to rid myself of them, I need to cherish them, painful as they might be.'– Ratnaguna in the Foreword
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