Thundering silence : sutra on knowing the better way to catch a snake / / Thich Nhat Hanh.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Nhat Hanh, Thich.
• TeilnehmendeR: Laity, Annabel.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English; Vietnamese
• Physical Description: vi, 70 p.
• Notes: "Translated from the Vietnamese by Annabel Laity."

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Sutra on knowing the better way to catch a snake -- Commentaries: the purpose of the sutra -- Circumstances under which the sutra was delivered -- The title -- Arittha's misunderstanding -- Sense pleasures as disasters -- The danger of misunderstanding the teachings -- Catching a snake -- The raft is not the shore -- The finger pointing at the moon -- The pheasant -- Breaking the bonds -- Thundering silence -- No-self -- Ditthi-nissaya (view-refuge) -- The way to practice the teachings of no-self -- The non-achieved and the non-expressed -- Impermanence -- Nirvana -- Tathagata -- Treating wrong understanding.