The Single Path
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010If Taoism is a dialectic between yin and yang, then Buddhism is into transcending duality, Red Pine argues.
The Taoist understanding of emptiness is the oneness with the Tao through the creation of an immortal spirit body, the Buddhist emptiness on the contrary is not to do anything instead of the permanent current in Taoism.
Reading Cold Mountain’s poem The Simple Path, I wonder whether he believed there was only one single path or there were single paths all leading to the Cold Mountain? Is Cold Mountain more taoist or buddhist, or it doesn’t matter when one reaches mindlessness? (more…)