[Buddha-l] Batchelor

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 18-05-10 08:05, Joy Vriens schreef:
>> Musing about Joy's nostalgia for the 'Unconditioned' a quote [very
>> late Wittgenstein] pops up in my mind :
>> "Wer nichts hofft und nichts fuerchtet, dem entgleitet die Welt." ;
>> that is : "for one who has no hopes or fears the worlds drops away".
>> That may be the only realistic way to transcendence. Some people
>> close to death seem to get that far.
>>      
> Mahamudra teachings keep repeating this. Absence of hope and fear is
> the ultimate result. Except for the last bit, Mahamudrians would see
> it gives one a real grip on the world and an obligation to
> disinterested action.
>    
Wttgenstein converted himself to Catholicism. He wasn't even abused as a 
child, and at the time he had forgotten all about Schopenhauer, who got 
him ripe for philosophy.

erik