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1. Buddhist Romanticism Unromantic Dhamma
    … This being so, he doesn’t attend to ideas unfit for attention and attends (instead) to ideas fit for attention.… “He attends appropriately, ‘This is stress’ … ‘This is the origination of stress’ … ‘This is the cessation of stress’ … ‘This is the way leading to the cessation of stress.’ As he attends appropriately in this way, three fetters are abandoned in him: self-identification view … 
2. Buddhist Romanticism Dramatis Personae
    … At the same time, his unpublished philosophical essays show that he worked out the religious implications of his worldview in many original ways, foreshadowing the thought of later thinkers, such as Carl Jung, who adopted and transmitted Romantic ideas on religion. Hölderlin’s philosophical essays were not published until the middle of the 20th century, so it can’t be said that they were … 
3. Buddhist Romanticism An Age of Tendencies
    … at the way consciousness interacted with the input of the senses, showing that the basic raw material of knowledge is composed not of sense data, but of judgments about sense data. In other words, what we perceive directly is not things-in-themselves in the world outside or the self inside, but the workings of reason in shaping experience in the middle ground. We … 
4. Buddhist Romanticism Buddhist Romanticism
    … I do this as a way of following the example set by the Buddha: When discussing the teachings of his contemporaries to non-monastic audiences, he would quote their teachings but without naming the teachers (DN 1; MN 60; MN 102), the purpose being to focus attention not on the person but on the teaching. In that way he could discuss the reasoning behind … 
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