Buddha (Happiness & Immortality) part 15 ( full audio book )
This book contains the essence of all the works of George Grimm. When in 1915 the first German edition of The Doctrine of the Buddha appeared, Karl Eugen Neumann, wrote to its author: ‘Your work is undoubtedly by far the most important presentation of Buddhism which has appeared since Oldenberg. Yet it is much deeper, more comprehensive, and thoroughly thought out from every aspect. From a first cursory perusal I have been particularly impressed by two explanations, namely anatta as not-I, and asava as exercising an influence.’1 Friedrich Zimmermann (+ 1917), who as Subhadm Bhikshu, compiled the Buddhist Catechism, wrote to Grimm: ‘I was particularly pleased with your treatment of the difficult theme of personality and anatta. On this doctrine so much preposterous nonsense has been published in Buddhist periodicals, that I was beginning to doubt whether any of our “Buddhists” really understood the matter. It seemed as though everyone wanted to show off his profundity of thought, in order to plunge the reader into confusion and misunderstanding, and to discredit the Master’s principal teaching. For, at bottom, all this amounts to stating that the Buddha taught the absurdity that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, in and behind personality. On the contrary, they stated that there is no such thing as the subject of knowing, and that, in modern language, the Buddha said: “Brothers, I proclaim to you that I am not; I am nothing but an illusion.” Here it was not even explained who then really had this illusion, so that this too was again left in the air without support. I have often reproached myself with my dislike for polemics, but my profound fear of such Writing prevented me from attacking and ending such non-sense with a precise presentation of the truth. I am now delighted that you have done this, and indeed so thoroughly and comprehensively, that the brainless adherents of nihilism will not be able to advance against it.’2 In these videos Ashishji explores with perennial questions of Life, Mind, Yoga, and Enlightenment. SUBSCRIBE TO US AND OUR PARTNER : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZWlQYml5QcUTOOworDv-A 👉Get amazing life hacks let's be friends 👇👇 FACEBOOK PAGE ~~ https://goo.gl/DFGFi5
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