Zen Master Rilke: There Are No Teachings. From The Buddha-Rilke Series

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Authoŕs Notes on the Booklet

There Are No Teachings

To Be Outside All Doctrine

TO BE A NEW MAN EVERY DAY. Rilke Talking to a Chan Patriarch

• From Heart To Heart

• ́Have the Buddhas Not Appeared to Us?́

• A Man Who Is Not Torn Apart

• Do Not Interpret the Sacred Texts Tirelessly

• Strong Nets of Names

• The Man of the Way Always Remains Himself

• The Great Danger Is the Hordes of Followers

• A Man Who Swallowed a Piece of Dirt

• A Man Without a Name Tag

At the Threshold of The Discourses

The Deerskin Buddha

HELP ME TO CALM TIME. On Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malthe Laurids Brigge and Carl Neumann’s The Discourses of Gautama Buddha. And also about not being in a hurry to enter the vaults of the teachings and seek change

Buddha of Nightingale Chants

• ́Voices, voices…́

• Through the Stages of Ecstasy

IN THE ABODE OF THE PURE LAND. The poet’s dialogues with Buddha and his disciples on ever-blooming paradise, nightingale-like ecstasy and the attainment of perfect silence

• A Call from an Overflowing Heart

• Paradise Within Reach…

• The Shelter of Happiness

• The Trill of Perfect Silence

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This little book is the third in my series on Buddha and Rilke. The book contains three thought-provoking etudes, which may seem rather bizarre to the reader. The point is that the poet appears in them as…

In the first etude, the poet talks to an unknown patriarch of the Chan school about how there is no doctrine to follow in order to gain an understanding of one’s original nature. In the second etude, the poet rejects The Buddha’s Discourses; he reflects on his own and only his own journey towards his authentic Self. In the third, the poet has a conversation with Gautama Buddha and his disciple about… the nightingale’s paradise and silence.

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It is unlikely that the ́strange sagé, the great teacher Linji, despite his ardent devotion to the Dharma, would have been outraged by this polemical outburst from Rilke. Rather, the poet would be considered insufficiently radical by this fanatical advocate of ́shock therapý: it is said that Linji, in his relentless struggle against the widespread false doctrine that was blatantly replacing the living word of his mentors, not only strongly discouraged his disciples from ́traditionaĺ values by admonishing them:

The Sixth Patriarch Reads and Recites a Wonderful Sutra Which Contains Not a Single Word

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