Document Type
Article
Source
Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture
ISSN
0024-4414
Volume
24
Issue
1
First Page
67
Last Page
78
Publication Date
Winter 1989
Department
Religion and Philosophy
Abstract
"In his Buddhist Meditation, Edward Conze puts it plainly: 'Meditational practices constitute the very core of the Buddhist approach to life.'1 To presume that the wisdom gained from mental culture is equally available to intellectual analysis, even of the highly refined and subtle, sort, is to presume that a job requiring a laser can be done equally will with a blowtorch. The Buddha's deepest insights are available to the intellect, and powerfully so, but it is only when those insights are discovered and absorbed, by a psyche made especially keen and receptive by long coursing in meditative discipline, that they begin to find their fullest realization and effectiveness.
Precisely because of the inestimable importance of meditation practice in Buddhism, we shall adopt it as a perspective from which to assess the notion of the 'Triple World,' a Buddhist version of the hierarchical ontology or 'Great Chain of Being' we often find represented in traditional worldviews." ~ from the article
Rights
Copyright © 1989 Aquinas Institute of Philosophy and Theology. All rights reserved.
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Buddhist Studies Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons