{"product_id":"9781524595401","title":"Inner and Outer Meanings of Buddhism","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuddha's concept of no self is correct and superior to the old Hindu concept of a permanent, eternal, and unchanging self. God, freedom of will, immortality, and the law of karma (moral retribution) are the things-in-themselves. These things-in-themselves belong to the transcendent realm of noumena. These things are not governed by the causal chain of the world of senses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe outer meanings of many concepts of Buddhism are different from their inner meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMind is a physical thing like mercury, and human body is like a glass tube containing mercury. Mind is active as well as passive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExistence is prior to essence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere is no transcendent aesthetic. There is only a phenomenal aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sense of space is created by the inverse square law.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe light of the absolute goes on decreasing as we move from a mother to the family, from the family to the society, and from the society to the state.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccording to the inner meanings, the twelve links of the dependent origination are actually made of three separate and independent chains. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNirvana and many other concepts of Buddhism are unknowable and inconceivable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn attempt has been made to make the inconceivable concepts as conceivable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48520848081137,"sku":"9781524595401","price":28.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781524595401_p0.jpg?v=1786212163","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781524595401","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}