The Sound of Two Hands Claps Am

"I've been reading your book, the sound of two hands claping am," he says. "One of the things that jumps out at me is a this tension between learning and practice" In buddhist tradition, you find a distension between intellectual life and non-discursive meditative practices. The hellenistic philosophy is filled with this sort of tension, writes Ravi Agrawal. 'It's an ongoing tension that inhabits all the buddhist traditions'