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Many of the Asian expressions of dialogical transcendence bear a resemblance to philosophical ideas of complexity today.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
And so he proposes death as the penalty.
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
Additionally, Wang Mingming tells us that the cosmology of tianxia cannot be grasped in a singular fashion. Rather, it has to be understood in its two different varieties datable to the periods before and after the Qin unification of 221 BCE.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
SU CH’E says, “People all drown in what they love: the beauty of the Great Sacrifice, the happiness of climbing to a scenic viewpoint in spring. Only the sage sees into their illusory nature and remains unmoved. People chase things and forget about the Tao, while the sage clings to the Tao and ignores everything else, just as an infant only nurses
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Yang's successor, Jin Shuren,
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
For beings who lack the bodhisattva’s aspiration cannot hear, grasp, memorize, recite, or master this dharma teaching.
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
Of such renunciates, Cold Mountain says, “Dressed in sky-flower clothes / wearing tortoise-hair shoes / clutching rabbit-horn bows / they hunt the ghosts of delusion.”
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
One of these was the haiku poet Taneda Santoka.