Quotes by Nanavira Thera

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Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can — Nanavira Thera
People, for the most part, live in the objective-immediate mode (discussed earlier). This means that they are totally ab — Nanavira Thera
The relationship between these four attitudes—objectivity, immediacy, subjectivity, and reflexion—is worth consideration — Nanavira Thera
But perhaps the most celebrated of these auto-incendiaries is Kalanos. You will remember, no doubt, that Kalanos (the Gr — Nanavira Thera
It is customary, in England at least, for Coroners' courts to give the verdict 'Suicide while the balance of his mind wa — Nanavira Thera
Talking of suicide, it is perhaps noteworthy that both of Dostoievsky's characters kill themselves: Stavrogin out of ind — Nanavira Thera
If you can find no way of getting the Notes duplicated, why not try the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, who might be sympa — Nanavira Thera
I have finished Russell's Nightmares and must confess that they did not come up to expectation. No doubt it was my fault — Nanavira Thera
Kafka is an ethical, not an aesthetic, writer. There is no conclusion to his books. The Castle was actually unfinished, — Nanavira Thera
You will have noticed that my interpretation of The Trial as the account of a man who, at a certain point in his life, s — Nanavira Thera
Every increase in objectivity takes us further from reality. — Nanavira Thera
A few years ago a practising Harley Street psychiatrist, who was dabbling in Buddhism, came to see me. I opened the conv — Nanavira Thera
To be completely objective we must say:All men are mortal.Lionel Samaratunga's son is a man.Therefore Lionel Samaratunga — Nanavira Thera
The word 'inauthentic' is used by Heidegger to describe the ostrich-like attitude of the man who seeks to escape from hi — Nanavira Thera