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**griddle** · 06-13-2011, 10:59 AM

When I first came into "Buddhism" it was thorugh the popular Buddhist bestsellers -Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh- where, and mostly the last one, likes to give a different approach to DO, widen it into poetic and pseudo scientific constraints... the flowering of the cherry trees are about those; I thought that was what Buddhism was about.

Hi Kaarine,

I gather you're referring to "interbeing". But why do you say this is an interpretation of DO?

Since TNH typically discusses interbeing in the context of prajnaparamita (for instance, in his commentary on the Heart Sutra), it would seem more likely that it's another term for sunyata.

06-13-2011, 10:59 AM	#11
griddle Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	When I first came into "Buddhism" it was thorugh the popular Buddhist bestsellers -Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh- where, and mostly the last one, likes to give a different approach to DO, widen it into poetic and pseudo scientific constraints... the flowering of the cherry trees are about those; I thought that was what Buddhism was about. Hi Kaarine, I gather you're referring to "interbeing". But why do you say this is an interpretation of DO? Since TNH typically discusses interbeing in the context of prajnaparamita (for instance, in his commentary on the Heart Sutra), it would seem more likely that it's another term for sunyata.
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