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**blogwado** · 06-13-2011, 03:25 PM

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.

It has become already late here but I will try to open the Thich's books to explore and be more accurate later on... that will take me some time because I left in an old shelf those books because in IMO, while being poetic and inspiring, they result quit useless for practice purpose. I can guess that there are some misleading assumptions and believes that I will bring here to analyse them in open contrast with the Pali teachings.

For example, the book you mention, to say, the best intent of all his series, in a honest intent to be loyal to the teachings of the historical Buddha unable always to set aside the cultural perspective and cultural "add-ons" of a religious believe set in a poetic way, speaks about the Fifth Khandha in a quiet imprecise way mixing the Khandha doctrine of the Fifth Agregate with a kind of Alaya Vijñana with consciousness as a root or permanent kind of Khandha; I will later bring the Pali Dhamma versus the Thich personal view quotes.

This examples illustrate that, along the lines and between the lines, the general argumentative expositions of all Thich's books where he brings the Mahayana religion into a kind of "everythingness" as a derivative of his interbeingness what is his particular world view and main doctrine known as "interbeing" which is a very personal outcome of his understanding as a melting pot between some Zen core issues and the Mahayana religious thought. Along his reading, the treatment he gives to DO is under this approach. He finally permeates what are the main teachings of the historical Buddha with his interbeing very personal elaboration with endless poetic adornments that can lead away people out of the central aspect of what the teachings are asking us to practice in the Pali and endangering its proper practice asked by the historical Buddha into the entangled views and wide world processes.

I say pseudoscientific and sometimes fallacious too so to fit all the teachings in a singularity of a very elegant, inspiring and convincing? world view encompassing all the teaching in this melting pot called interbeing.

The way it was asked the OP by phoenix I could feel he was asking about all this entanglements that are found in popular best sellers books. In my experience they can be good so to become enthusiastic about Buddhism and hook into it. But just that.

06-13-2011, 03:25 PM	#13
blogwado Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 526 Senior Member	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. It has become already late here but I will try to open the Thich's books to explore and be more accurate later on... that will take me some time because I left in an old shelf those books because in IMO, while being poetic and inspiring, they result quit useless for practice purpose. I can guess that there are some misleading assumptions and believes that I will bring here to analyse them in open contrast with the Pali teachings. For example, the book you mention, to say, the best intent of all his series, in a honest intent to be loyal to the teachings of the historical Buddha unable always to set aside the cultural perspective and cultural "add-ons" of a religious believe set in a poetic way, speaks about the Fifth Khandha in a quiet imprecise way mixing the Khandha doctrine of the Fifth Agregate with a kind of Alaya Vijñana with consciousness as a root or permanent kind of Khandha; I will later bring the Pali Dhamma versus the Thich personal view quotes. This examples illustrate that, along the lines and between the lines, the general argumentative expositions of all Thich's books where he brings the Mahayana religion into a kind of "everythingness" as a derivative of his interbeingness what is his particular world view and main doctrine known as "interbeing" which is a very personal outcome of his understanding as a melting pot between some Zen core issues and the Mahayana religious thought. Along his reading, the treatment he gives to DO is under this approach. He finally permeates what are the main teachings of the historical Buddha with his interbeing very personal elaboration with endless poetic adornments that can lead away people out of the central aspect of what the teachings are asking us to practice in the Pali and endangering its proper practice asked by the historical Buddha into the entangled views and wide world processes. I say pseudoscientific and sometimes fallacious too so to fit all the teachings in a singularity of a very elegant, inspiring and convincing? world view encompassing all the teaching in this melting pot called interbeing. The way it was asked the OP by phoenix I could feel he was asking about all this entanglements that are found in popular best sellers books. In my experience they can be good so to become enthusiastic about Buddhism and hook into it. But just that.
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