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.