Elijah the Bodhisattva (eBook)

An Interspiritual Exploration

Malcolm David Brown (Autor)

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2024
Collective Ink (Verlag)
978-1-80341-278-8 (ISBN)

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This is an interspiritual commentary -- largely though not exclusively Buddhist-inspired -- on the life of Elijah as recounted in the Bible. It treats the externals of his life as metaphors for internal mind-states, his story as a labyrinth-like journey toward enlightenment, an unfolding realization of the non-duality of himself and God. Elijah begins with a henotheistic conception of God as a national deity connected to the land of Israel and progresses to a realization of God as the ground of being, being-itself, the God of those who struggle with God, which is the deeper meaning of the name Israel. While the inner dimension is emphasized, there is also a focus on the political dimension of the story, which liberation theologians call God's preferential option for the poor, and here it is called the politics of anatta -- the core Buddhist principle of not-self.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• ISBN-10: 1-80341-278-X / 180341278X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80341-278-8 / 9781803412788