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Absolute Poverty and Utter Nothingness

 
AuthorRodney H. Clarken
 
Title of item
Absolute Poverty and Utter Nothingness
 
Volume
8:1
 
Pages
29-43
Parent publication   Journal of Bahá'í Studies
 
Publisher of this ed.
Ottawa: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America
Date of this edition 1997
LanguageEnglish
Permission author and publisher
Posted 2011-06-06 by Jonah Winters
Classified in Published Articles
URLbahai-library.com/clarken_poverty_nothingness
Abstract Bahá’u’lláh’s ideas of poverty as detachment, and nothingness as selflessness. Cites some commonalities in concepts of detachment and nothingness from Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad and Socrates as five of the greatest philosophers or prophets.
Notes Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/104.
Tags Buddha; Buddhism; Christianity; Confucianism; Confucius; Detachment; Haft Vadi (Seven Valleys); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Jesus Christ; Meditation; Muhammad (Prophet); Mysticism; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy, Buddhist; Self-annihilation (fana); Socrates; Sufism
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