E-Books →The Buddha's Teaching and the Ambiguity of Existence, 2nd revised edition

This book might appear unorthodox. Yet it will appear unorthodox only to those who-possibly for want of something more adequate-have accepted as orthodox the current misinterpretations of those Pali Suttas (i.e. Discourses) which are accepted as representing what the Buddha taught. To them this book will, to a large extent, be something new. But it makes no claim to offer ideas never heard of before. Indeed no. What it claims to offer is the pristine Teaching as contained in these Suttas. This Teaching, the Dhamma, is like a ferment. Yet much depends on what it works upon-whether it works upon the lifeless 'ideational' activity of the scholar or upon the passionately interested meditation of the seeker. To the former it is just another intellectual adornment, with which he can adorn himself as and when it pleases him. To the latter it is a vital nutrition (ahara); but, unlike other nutritions, a nutrition that threatens to denourish his entire being, and yet make him happily say to himself: Here, there is no turning back.