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The Buddha’s Teaching and the Ambiguity of Existence by R. G. de S. Wettimuny is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Buddha’s Teaching and the Ambiguity of Existence about?

What makes this book so different from the general run of books written on the Buddha’s Teaching is that it sets out to solve a definite personal problem—a problem which, however, is personal to everyone. At the explicit level the problem is the presence of anxiety, fear, worry, agitation, doubt, etc. At the innermost reflexive level, which is also the implicit level, it is the persistence of what is termed the ambiguity of existence or the existential ambiguity. That this existential ambiguity is the most disturbing thing about existence is well recognised by the existentialist thinkers—Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre, Kierkegaard and company. But try as they may, they can do no more than exposing the ambiguity. They cannot find a solution to it, or if they find a solution, it is just that there is no solution. Beyond this point of frustration self-reflexive thinking cannot go. Is then everything lost? Is there no hope? The answer, our author says, is: There is yet a hope. This hope lies in the pristine Teaching of the Buddha. And so at this point the Teaching takes over leading the thinker out of the morass of despair. As the existentialist thinkers do, the author too rejects both rat

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Author

R. G. de S. Wettimuny

Publisher

Path Press Publications

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9789460900204

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Buddhism, Religion