Rilke, Zen Master: On Awakening to Beauty. Part 1. About a Broken Nose

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Группа авторов. Rilke, Zen Master: On Awakening to Beauty. Part 1. About a Broken Nose

A Brief Appeal To the Reader

…and Some Important Things To Know About the Book

A Few Words On Beauty for which there is and can be no cause other than itself

A Paradoxical Meeting

An inviolable principle

Beauty Breathes Where It Wants To

Is Beauty Not Prelest?

́Doppelbereich́

The Essence of the Supreme ́Fruit́

The Head of an Old Man with the Broken Nose

Scrolls on Awakening to Beauty

Records of Conversations Between the Poet and the Patriarch

Scroll I. ́On Death and Beautý

The Swan

– There is a great and eternal beauty that pervades the world – This is what the Buddha’s Pure body is like

• The Big and Small Things (Part I)

• The Big and Small Things (Part II)

• The Big and Small Things (Part III)

• Great Beauty

• Wisdom

– Buddha is born without any support – Death only says ́yeś

• No Foothold on the Way

• Wings of the Buddha

• Freedom of Insight

• The One Reality As It Is

• A True Friend on the Way

• Death Speaks the True Word

• On the ́Swań Gatha

• On the Head of an Old Man with the Broken Nose (Part I)

• On the Head of an Old Man with the Broken Nose (Part II)

Scroll II. On Space and Emptiness

Buddha

– Isn’t everything in front of us just a surface? – It’s like the sky…

• The One Space (Part I)

• The One Space (Part II)

• The One Space (Part III)

• The One Space (Part IV)

– Peer into the mysterious geometry of space – It is incomparable to anything…

• The Master’s Secret

• Where True Craftsmanship Comes From

• No Name for the Nature of Things

• A Natural Way To Shape

• Non-Preference

• Obedience Without Question

• Unrelatedness

• Fullness of Being in and of Itself

• On the Inscrutable Being-ness of the Scarab (part I)

The Scarab

• On the Inscrutable Being-ness of the Scarab (part II)

On the ́Buddhá Gatha

The books published in the Buddha-Rilke series:

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Zen Master Rilke

As for myself, I still haven’t found an answer to any of these rather fair questions. Although, as the author of this book, I’m supposed to have found them. Otherwise, what would be the point of writing it? The only thing that excuses me is that I have tried to find the answers in the pages of this work, albeit with naive hope: first in the pathetic introduction on beauty, written, of course, on the basis of my own self-confident ideas. And then in the main text, in the dialogues which, although imaginary, involve historical characters with their authentic rather than fictional voices.

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We can recall another famous statement about beauty, although it sounds like an echo of Dostoyevsky’s aphorism. We are talking about the words of Nicholas Roerich, who said,

Disagreeing with the Russian classic, the author of the Living Ethics doctrine was convinced:

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