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> in moments of self-forgetfulness, moments in which, by whatever means and processes, the Ego simply disappears? This is very reminiscent of Buddhist thinking

• sjackso 7y ago
  That quote is from the article, not Kierkegaard himself. There's a lenghy answer to your question here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard#Kierkegaard_and_Eastern_philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierk...
• xamuel 7y ago
  There is a lot of commonality between some of the sayings of Christ and some of the sayings of Buddha. But the shared eastern elements are more obvious in Buddha, more subtle in Jesus. For example, when Jesus says, "All who draw the sword will die by the sword" (Matthew 26:52), that's obviously and blatantly false, in the literal sense. But it makes perfect sense from a Buddhist non-dualistic perspective: when we kill our fellow man, we kill ourself, because we ARE (one with) our fellow man. More to the parent's point about ego dissolution, the following words of Christ take on a totally different meaning if you view them through that lens: "In such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Matthew 24:44). The surface-level interpretation is that the hour of His coming will be unexpected. But the subtler esoteric meaning is that if we want to meet the Son of Man, we need to turn off our thinking!