How Long to Read Liberating Intimacy

How Long Does it Take to Read Liberating Intimacy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Liberating Intimacy by Peter D. Hershock

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Liberating Intimacy dramatically reevaluates the teachings and practice of Ch’an Buddhism. Considering Buddha’s insight that everything is empty or absent of a permanent and independent “self nature,” Hershock argues that not only is suffering without any essence and so dependent on time and place, so is end of suffering or enlightenment. He shows that the tradition need not entail a quietistic withdrawal from social life. Far from being something privately attained and experienced, Ch’an enlightenment is best seen as the opening of a virtuosic intimacy through which we are continually liberated from the arrogance of both “self” and “other.” That is, enlightenment in Ch’an must be understood as irreducibly social—it can never be merely “mine” or “yours,” but is only realized as “ours.” Including new translations from the teachings of Ma-tzu, Pai-chang, Huang-po and Lin-chi, Liberating Intimacy reconciles the almost fierce individualism that characterizes the mastery of Ch’an and its unwavering embrace of the ideal of compassionately saving all beings.

How long is Liberating Intimacy?

Liberating Intimacy by Peter D. Hershock is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Liberating Intimacy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Liberating Intimacy aloud.

What Reading Level is Liberating Intimacy?

Liberating Intimacy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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