Comparative Philosophy;Enlightenment;Metaphysics;Mysticism;Ontology;Organicism;Salvation;Suffering;Bahm, A. J.;
摘要
Disturbed by conflicting doctrines of different Buddhist sects, the author discovered，by reading the "Pali Pitakas" in Rangoon University，what appears to be the original teaching of Gotama, the Buddha. It is：Desire for what will not be attained ends in frustration; to avoid frustration，avoid desiring what will not be attained. The desire to avoid such desiring may itself be desired too much. The middle way，between desiring too much and too much desire to avoid such desiring，is willingness to accept things the way they are and are going to be. Not extinction of all desire (as held by Theravadins and many Hindus) but only of unrealizable desires, constituted his radical enlightenment. His views are exemplified in chapters on the Four Truths, the Eight-Fold Path, the Middle Way，Nirvana, Dhyana, Sangha, and No Soul.
