{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_mcb_mcb04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_mcb_mcb04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_mcb_mcb04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/mcb/mcb04.htm","summary":"BUDDHIST philosophy is based on the experience Buddha had about twenty-five centuries ago. To understand, therefore, what Buddhist philosophy is, it is necessary to know what that experience was which Buddha had after six years' hard thinking and ascetic austerities and exercises in meditation. We generally think that philosophy is a matter of pure intellect, and, therefore, that the best philosophy comes out of a mind most richly endowed with intellectual acumen and dialectical subtleties.","tags":["Buddhist Mysticism","D.T. Suzuki","Meister Eckhart Comparison","Pure Land Zen"],"text":null,"title":"Mysticism Christian and Buddhist: Section One: II. The Basis of Buddhist Philosophy","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":11757}