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1. Buddhist Romanticism An Ancient Path
    … Other religious teachings may contain elements of the noble eightfold path, such as the practice of virtue or strong concentration, but because they lack right view—and thus fail to ask the right questions that would induce total dispassion for even the subtlest levels of fabrication in the highest states of concentration—they remain stuck in states of becoming. The Buddha’s claims for … 
2. Buddhist Romanticism Unromantic Dhamma
    … They—being undeveloped in body… virtue.… mind… discernment—will not listen when discourses that are words of the Tathāgata—deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness—are being recited. They won’t lend ear, won’t set their hearts on knowing them, won’t regard these teachings as worth grasping or mastering. But they will listen when discourses that are literary works … 
3. Buddhist Romanticism Dramatis Personae
    … But because one could not choose one’s nature, this meant that virtue had no freedom. Thus the retreat from his earlier position—that philosophy begins and ends in freedom—was complete. God may be free in the beginning and end, but human beings have no genuine freedom at any point in the timeline. As the book was being readied for publication, Caroline died … 
4. Buddhist Romanticism An Age of Tendencies
    … From that contemplation one was able to give birth, “not to images of virtue—because one is in touch with no images—but to true virtue—because one is in touch with the true Beauty. The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given birth to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be … 
5. Buddhist Romanticism Buddhist Romanticism
    … Although the new transcends the conventional… the new cannot immediately and completely escape the conventional wisdom it surpasses.” “It’s never a matter of trying to figure it all out, rather we pick up these phrases and chew them over, taste them, digest them and let them energize us by virtue of their own nature.” “Even these ostensibly literal maps may be better read … 
6. Buddhist Romanticism The Romantic Universe
    … Schlegel also extolled the virtue of making oneself open and receptive to the influences of one’s environment in preparation for a natural creative response. In a passage in Lucinde, he expressed the organic nature of this process in even more graphic terms. His choice of words for describing this process, however, was somewhat unfortunate, and may have been inspired by his “Indian state … 
7. Buddhist Romanticism The Transmission of Romantic Religion
    … He did not define the term spiritual value, but he did provide a list of questions that spiritual values should answer: “What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What … 
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