A reader usefully supplements my post Reininger Contra Buddhism<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n With reference to your recent post 'Reininger Contra Buddhism' you might be intrigued by chapter 5 of D. T. Suzuki's Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist<\/em><\/a> where he talks about trishna at length and states:<\/span><\/p>\n "The later Buddhists realized that t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> was what constituted human nature–in fact, everything and anything that at all comes into existence–and that to deny t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> was committing suicide; to escape from t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> was the height of contradiction or a deed of absolute impossibility; and that the very thing that makes us wish to deny or to escape from t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> was t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> itself. Therefore, all that we could do for ourselves, or rather all that t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> could do for itself, was to make it turn to itself, to purify itself from all its encumbrances and defilements, by means of transcendental knowledge (praj\u00f1\u0101<\/em>). The later Buddhists then let t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> work on in its own way without being impeded by anything else. T\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101<\/em> or "thirst" or "craving" then comes to be known as mah\u0101karu\u1e47\u0101<\/em>, or "absolute compassion," which they consider the essence of Buddhahood and Bodhisattvahood." (Section XI)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I suspect that his unusual interpretation was possibly influenced by his documented reading of Eckhart and Swedenborg, as much as any Buddhist sources, but I found it interesting to read such a famous Buddhist figure interpreting trishna in this way.<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you for your excellent blog. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A reader usefully supplements my post Reininger Contra Buddhism: Dear Professor Vallicella, With reference to your recent post 'Reininger Contra Buddhism' you might be intrigued by chapter 5 of D. T. Suzuki's Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist where he talks about trishna at length and states: "The later Buddhists realized that t\u1e5bi\u1e63\u1e47\u0101 was what constituted human … Continue reading “More on Trishna<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}