INDEX
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absolute: actuality, 9, 20–21, 146; ambiguity, 2–3; sovereignty, 85, 139; the, 31–32, 138, 158; withdrawal, 127, 134, 162
accomplishment, xi, 1, 7–8, 21, 26, 32, 35, 55, 72, 88, 97, 108, 114, 122, 151, 154
acting out, 97–99, 101, 104, 109, 130, 134
action, 5–6, 8, 18, 28, 32–33, 38, 40, 60, 71–72, 85, 95, 99, 121, 124, 129, 135; quanta of, 159
activation, 3–4, 7, 9, 23–24, 27, 35, 43, 48, 50, 54, 60, 63, 73, 77–78, 85–86, 91–92, 115, 152
activism, 124, 129–30
actualization, 7–13, 21, 26–28, 33, 38, 52, 55, 61–62, 77–78, 85, 87, 104–5, 143, 146, 158, 163,
actualitas, 19, 28, 35–36
actus, 4, 19; purus, 30, 35–36, 38
adunamon, 34
aesthesis, 25
alētheia, 4, 49–50
agapé, 45
agriculture, 17, 59, 62–63, 81
Alexievich, Svetlana, 146, 171n1
alienation, 61, 69–70, 74, 80, 106–7, 170n15
allegory, 37, 45–48, 86, 118, 142
Althusser, Louis, 69
ananta, 52
anarchy, anarchism, 121–23, 130–31
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 34–36
Arendt, Hannah, 115
Aristotle, x, 5–15, 19–21, 26, 28, 30, 32–34, 36, 40–42, 44, 49, 51, 53–54, 58–62, 64–65, 70–71, 74, 78, 85–89, 92, 94, 99, 102, 104–5, 107, 110, 113–16, 119, 122, 126, 128, 130, 133, 138, 148–50, 153–54, 160–61, 164–65, 170n3
asana, 52–53
attention, 3, 52, 63, 85, 107–11
Augustine, St., 36–37, 44–45, 47–48, 52, 111
Avicenna, 160, 172n32
 
Barad, Karen, 148, 150, 157, 161, 164
Barlaam of Seminara, 42, 44
Bataille, Georges, 74–76
Bateson, Gregory 161
behaviorism, 90, 100–1
Benjamin, Walter. 121, 126–27, 130
Bergson, Henri, 108
Bibikhin, Vladimir, 41, 51, 129, 167n6, 169n23
Big Bang, 115, 149
biodiesel, 17, 82–83
black hole, 80, 137, 147, 155
Blok, Alexander 12
Böhme, Jakob, 36
Bohr, Niels, 148, 157–58, 161–62, 164
Borisevich, Valentin, 145
breathing, 44–45, 54
bullitio, 39–41
 
capital, capitalism, 16, 26, 48, 55–83, 120, 124–25, 127, 130, 132–33, 148; appropriation, 80; crises of, 70; falling rate of return, 57; financial, 65–66, 80; free trade; 77–78; market, 55–57, 64–66, 74, 78, 133
cathexis, 93, 96–97, 108–9, 134; object-cathexis, 90–91, 96, 101
causa sui, 36
Christianity, 36, 38, 44, 47–49, 72, 119, 127; Eastern Orthodox, 40–42, 52, 54; Protestant, 48, 137, 143; Roman Catholic, 42, 137, 141–43
climate change, ix, 123
commodity, 38, 55–56, 64–65, 74, 78–79, 124
communism, 60, 71–72, 81, 121; protocommunism, 50
community, x, 45, 58–60, 68, 72, 83, 123, 131
constitution (political), 137–38
cooperation, 17, 51, 77, 80
creation, x, 28, 33, 36–43, 74, 115, 119, 153, 168n11
crisis, 1–2, 11, 16, 21, 26, 29, 58, 71, 84, 89, 132, 140, 147, 154, 165
cultivation, 50, 62, 82, 87, 111
Cyril of Alexandria, 42
 
Dasein, 28, 117, 127
death, 9, 19, 23, 27, 31, 37–38, 54, 65, 72, 97, 109–10, 123, 125, 127–28, 137
decision, 6, 40, 124, 134, 136–38
deconstruction, 3, 5, 25, 41, 143
Deleuze, Gilles, 108
democracy, 132; liberal, 137, 139; parliamentary, 139–40; representative, 139–40
Derrida, Jacques, 4–6, 31, 64, 116, 143
desire, x, 1–3, 18, 45–47, 77, 79, 84, 104, 108–10, 112, 121, 128, 147; desireless, 53; repressed, 92
dialectic, dialectics, 9, 19–22, 114, 122, 139, 142, 151–52, 159
dictator, dictatorial, 124–25, 132
difference, 5, 13, 17, 24–26, 34, 40, 48–49, 53–54, 59, 67, 73, 82, 89, 93, 104, 106, 113–14, 119, 144, 148, 150; originary, 98, 100, 164
diffraction, 8, 138, 157
double, doubling, 3, 5, 7, 21, 26, 33, 48, 86, 119, 136, 163
dream, xi, 1, 3, 5–6, 9, 14–16, 18–19, 21, 29, 31, 33, 38–39, 44, 46–47, 56, 58, 65, 71, 84, 92–94, 104, 107, 111–15, 120, 125–26, 131, 133, 145–47, 154–55, 159, 164–66; of capital, 73, 77–79; dreamless, 53; factories, 27; of indestructibility, 4; of rest, 12; dreamworld, 25, 103
drives, 33, 60, 89–92, 98; analytic, 96; death drives, 95–98, 101, 109–10, 123
dunamis, 7–9, 12–13, 15, 20–21, 30–35, 44, 55, 58, 62–65, 69, 73, 75, 85–86, 88, 92, 105, 107, 110, 112, 122, 125, 128–29, 132, 138, 147–48, 151
dynamism, 18, 52, 94, 98, 101, 110, 128, 131, 135, 138
 
Eckhart, Meister, 39–42
economism, 5, 61, 142–43
economy, 2, 16, 23, 25, 27, 34, 55–83, 124–25, 129, 134, 145, 148, 163; divine, 31–32, 41, 48, 76; ethical, 60–62, 73; general, 74–77; needs of the, 78
ego, 90, 97, 106; formation, 91; instincts, 91
Einstein, Albert, 66–67, 135, 147, 149, 154–56, 158–59, 164, 171n6, 172n25
employment, 66–67, 74; self-employment, 73; unemployment, 23
end, x–xi, 10, 19–20, 43, 50, 59, 62, 67, 73, 79, 115–24, 125–28, 144, 165; and limit, 8–9, 13, 16, 41; and means, 1, 13, 26, 31, 38, 55, 60, 72, 104, 117–18; “dead-end” 128–29; of history, 20; of the world, 9, 117–24; without, 12, 17, 36, 61, 63–64, 115, 129–30, 132, 148, 156
enendment, 50, 86–88, 115, 154
energeia x, 3–12, 14–15, 19–22, 30–36, 38–41, 43–44, 47–48, 51, 53–54, 62, 69, 71–74, 86, 92, 94, 104, 107, 110, 112–16, 119, 122–23, 125–28, 130, 132–33, 138–39, 147–48, 151, 153–56
energy: accumulation, 58, 80, 129; atomic, 15, 135, 146–47; bodily, 46, 50, 71, 86–88; borrowed, 67, 139–40; chemical, 81, 147, 160; “clean,” 17, 58; conservation, 4, 17, 147–49, 158, 161; conversions, 4, 23, 81; crisis, 1–2, 11, 16, 21, 26, 71, 84, 147; differentials, 5, 17, 93, 156; of displacement, 57; divine, 28, 31, 36–40, 46–47, 49, 76, 85; of dwelling, 58–59, 62; drinks, 6; elemental, 17, 50, 78, 115; energy-mass equivalence, 66, 146–47, 149, 155–56, 171n6; excess, 41, 75–76, 82, 133; expenditure, 63, 75; extraction, 9, 15, 58, 82; flows, 66, 104, 108, 143; green, x; of in-between, 36, 54; independence, 79; kinetic, 66, 147, 160; liberation, of, 4, 18, 20–22, 62, 85, 97, 134, 152; libidinal, 90–91, 93–94, 101, 103; of meaning, 14–15; mechanical, 63, 99, 101, 104; of mind (psychic), 14–15, 18, 48, 71, 86, 89–92, 95–97, 101–5, 108–10; production, 15–16, 19, 22, 27, 74, 81–83; quantum, 150, 159, 162; renewable, 17, 46; resources, 2, 6, 23, 39, 55; of rest, xi, 4, 32, 51–52, 71, 75, 94, 96, 105, 110, 113–4, 119, 150; revolutionary, 124; spiritual, 47–48; starvation, 6, 26, 80, 146; storage/release, 4, 9, 16, 38, 79, 148–49; sublimation, 3, 45, 47; substantivization, 2, 87, 96, 109; theandric, 48
Enlightenment, enlightenment, 53–54
entanglement, 148, 150
entelechy, 50–51, 86–88, 115, 154
entropy, 5–6, 19, 24, 56, 106, 117–18, 121, 124–25, 129, 135, 137–41, 156
enworkment, 3–4, 23–24, 29, 35, 38–39, 45–50, 59–64, 67, 70–71, 73–75, 79–80, 87–88, 92, 102–5, 107, 110, 114–15, 121–22, 138–39, 149, 154, 156, 158, 161–62, 164; counter-enworkment, 51, 85, 95, 111
ergon, 3, 7, 18, 20–22, 24, 26, 28, 37, 55, 61–62, 70, 75, 78, 82, 87, 96, 104, 121, 127, 142, 170n8
essentia, 27–28, 35
ethics, 48, 60, 106, 117
eudaimonia, 32, 114
European Union, 125
existence, x–xi, 4, 6, 9–10, 12–13, 17, 20, 22–25, 36–37, 39–40, 42–44, 48, 51, 56, 59–61, 66, 70, 72, 80, 84, 86, 90, 110, 117–18, 120, 123–24, 126, 129–30, 137–38, 142, 146–48, 151, 164
existentia, 28
existential, existentialism, ix, 24–25, 28, 43, 61, 113, 117–20, 122, 140, 142; spatiality, 24
experience, 5, 11, 18, 23, 51, 54, 107, 110, 136–37, 140, 145, 154–57
exposure, 11, 16, 18, 22, 42–43
 
fabrication, 26, 29, 36–38, 67
facts, facticity, 13, 37–38, 41
faith, 45–46, 48, 100, 143, 146
feudalism, 57–58
finitude, ix, 2, 8, 10, 16, 23, 30, 35–36, 41–43, 46, 49–50, 63, 71, 85–86, 108, 111, 117–19, 122–23, 128, 140, 147, 149, 157, 164
force, xi, 4–5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 33–34, 58, 80, 87, 91, 94, 102, 104, 114–15, 117, 124–27, 129–30, 134–35, 139, 148, 153–54, 170n13
form, x, 4, 19, 35, 65–66, 79, 87, 150–51, 154, 160; dynamic, 36, 81, 89, 91, 125, 135, 140; energetic, 22, 96–97, 102, 106, 147; political, 130–31, 137–38, 140–43
fossil fuel, 80–81, 116; coal, 17, 68, 83; gas, 17, 22, 79; oil, ix, 2, 9, 16–17, 22, 79–80
foundationalism, 87, 121
fracking, ix, 15–16, 79
freedom, 15, 35, 59–61, 65, 125–26, 128, 131–32, 160–62
Freud, Sigmund, 47, 89–107, 123, 164, 169n2
Friedman, Milton, 78
friend-enemy distinction, 121, 136, 139
fruit, 38–39, 45–46, 64, 117–18
fulfillment, 3, 15, 20, 84, 86, 96, 99, 110, 117–18, 126–27, 130–32, 147–52, 154, 156
 
Galileo, 153, 160–61
Gandhi, Mahatma, 126
Geist, 71, 132, 152
general strike, 72, 124–27, 130
God, 5, 28, 30–49, 101, 115, 118, 137, 153; and Godhead, 39–41; beyond God, 31; energy/energies of, 31, 34–35, 37–39, 41–42, 46–49, 153; essence of, 34–35, 38, 41–43; weakness of, 30, 32, 34, 127; without God, 31
goddess-earth, 63
gods, 62, 85
growth, 1, 22, 33, 46, 50, 56, 58, 64, 68, 74–77, 79–80, 82, 129, 160, 170n13
Guattari, Félix, 108
 
happiness, 10–11, 14, 24, 26, 32, 74, 114
Hegel, G. W. F., x, 14–16, 19–22, 26, 38, 41, 70–71, 99, 107, 114, 127, 130–32, 138, 142, 148, 150–52, 156
Heidegger, Martin, 4–6, 9, 12, 24–25, 27–28, 31, 36, 43, 116–17, 122–23, 127, 150, 167n4
Heisenberg, Werner, 157
Hesychasm, x, 42–45, 52–53, 168n15
hesychia, 42, 54
high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), 83
history, 19–20, 33–34, 71, 114, 118, 121, 126, 130, 146, 162; of metaphysics, 5, 9–10, 45, 133
Hobbes, Thomas, 138, 141
Horujy, Sergey, 41, 52
hulé, 87
hunger, 76, 78, 124, 169n22
Husserl, Edmund, 110, 154–55, 159–60
 
Idea, eidetic, 4, 20–21, 28, 40, 71, 86, 92–93, 101, 113–14, 128, 130–31, 155; of the Good, 6
incarnation, 31, 49–50, 101, 141
indeterminacy, 6, 102, 157, 159–61, 165
indifference, 37, 53, 56, 63–64, 147
inertia, 18, 117, 140, 156
infinity, infinite, 10–13, 19, 24, 52–53, 113–14, 116, 137, 148–49, 156, 159
instrumentality, 46, 49, 60, 114, 118–19, 123, 126
instrumental rationality, 1, 116–17
interiority, 17–18, 21, 23, 37–38, 44–45, 98, 100, 152
 
John, St., 49–50
Judaism, 33, 45, 47, 119
Jung, Carl, 93–94, 98
 
Kant, Immanuel, 28, 51, 71, 90, 113–17, 119, 155
katechon, 120
kenosis, 31, 33
Keynes, John Maynard, 56, 66–68, 164
 
labor, 16, 57, 64, 69–70, 72–74, 77–80, 98, 124, 127, 145, 169n22; power, 55, 65, 69, 75; process, 69–71, 73; productive, 72–73; time, 56; unproductive, 57–58, 73; wage labor, 65, 73
Lacan, Jacques, 99–109
Le Bon, Gustave, 134–35
legality, 120, 136–38, 169n22
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 152–54
Lenin, Vladimir, 128
Levinas, Emmanuel, 31
libido, 91, 93–95, 98, 108
life, 1–2, 5–6, 15–16, 50, 54, 56, 58, 74–75, 84, 86–87, 95, 123–24, 128, 137, 139, 147, 149, 153, 160–61; economic, 59, 64; good, 10–11, 79; in God, 37–38, 49; political, 136, 138, 143; psychic, 16, 84, 93, 95, 98–106, 109–10; of Spirit, 22; vegetal, x, 8, 18, 22
light, 76, 147, 157–58; speed of, 66–67
limit, 8–10, 13, 16, 27, 40, 63, 66, 72, 116, 119, 121–22, 125, 137, 148, 155–56
logos, 88–90
Losev, Alexey, 14–15, 33, 88
Lossky, Vladimir, 41
love, 32, 45–46, 48; work of, 21
 
machine, 19, 27, 29, 55, 57, 69, 78, 80–82, 98–99, 103–4, 132–33
Magun, Artemy, 134
Marx, Karl, 16, 56–57, 60–61, 65–66, 69–71, 73–76, 80, 82, 131
matter, x, 9, 15, 18, 35–36, 39, 76, 79, 87, 118, 135, 145, 147, 149–52, 154–57, 159–62, 172n25
Maudlin, Tim, 155, 172n25
Maximus the Confessor, 42, 48
measure, 55, 157–59; inner, 62–63, 168n1
metaphysics, metaphysical, ix, 4–6, 8, 10–11, 13–14, 18, 26–28, 31, 33, 40–43, 45, 49, 76, 81, 90, 99–101, 106, 108–9, 112, 116–19, 121, 128, 130, 136–37, 140, 143–44, 146, 152, 154, 156–57, 160, 164–65; non-, 8, 41, 50, 93; post-, 31, 34, 38, 108, 113, 144
methexis, 89
Mill, John Stuart, 67–68
mindfulness, mindful, 14, 44, 52, 54, 98
Mohr, Karl Friedrich, 148
money, 55, 64, 68, 73–74; circulation, 56, 74; income-velocity, 66–67; rate of interest on, 65
movement, 5, 7–8, 11, 18–19, 23, 40, 44, 49, 65–67, 86, 95, 99, 114, 116, 122, 131–32, 138, 150, 152, 158, 160, 164
mysticism, 39, 142
 
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 72
narcissism, 91; infantile, 90
negative, negativity, 19–20, 47, 58, 76, 97, 106, 115, 136, 151; definitions, 6, 8, 157; energy, 19, 26, 64, 134, 151; theology, 30
Newton, Isaac, 33, 66, 95, 155, 159
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 32–34, 72, 101, 127, 150
nihilism, ix, 15, 31, 56, 118, 129, 134, 146
nisus, 150–53
nomos, 57–59, 61–62, 120, 168n1
 
oikonomia, 57, 59–60, 62
oikos, 57–62
One, the, 106, 119–20, 123
ontology, 2, 5, 8, 23–24, 27–28, 43, 60–61, 63, 77, 86, 106, 117–18, 121, 129, 143–44, 157, 160, 163–64
opera, 45–46, 80; misericordiae, 45
ousia, 4, 41, 43
 
Palamas, Gregory, 41–44, 164
Paley, William, 36
passage à l’acte, 104–5, 109
Patañjali, 52–53
Paul, St., 45–46, 48–49
pistis, 45
peras, 9, 116, 137, 170n3
perpetual peace, x, 71, 113–15
phenomenology, 16, 42, 110, 119, 143, 154–55, 159; correlations, 108; experience of time, 23; fulfillment, 110; intentionality, 110; lifeworld, 9
philosopher-king, 133
phusis, 88, 153
physics, 4, 56, 81–82, 92, 135–36, 147–52; atomic, 145–46, 158; Newtonian, 33, 66, 95, 155; post-Newtonian, 147; quantum, x, 51, 137, 150, 157, 159, 161; relativity, 66–67, 154, 156, 159
Planck, Max, 157, 159, 164
plant, x, 9, 17–18, 21–22, 38–39, 45, 58, 60, 64, 80, 82–83, 89, 123, 153, 160, 169n1; energetic superficiality, 17, 22; monocultures, 82
Plato, 4, 6, 21, 28, 37, 40–41, 48, 85–86, 88–89, 111, 133–34, 138, 140
pleasure principle, x, 94–100, 105
plenitude, 8, 10, 12, 15, 28, 31, 39, 44, 47, 49, 51, 54, 58, 71, 75, 122, 150, 156–58
plenum, 30
Plotinus, 8, 86
plurality, 124, 164
potentiality, xi, 7–10, 12–13, 17, 19, 26, 32–33, 35, 58, 61, 63–64, 69, 75, 86–88, 90, 92, 94, 98–99, 104–5, 122, 125–26, 128–33, 135, 148–49, 153–54, 164; joint, 85
power, xi, 2, 32–33, 35, 43, 53, 55, 61, 64, 87, 122, 129; of actualization, 26; nuclear, 15, 146; political, 113–14, 120–28, 132–33, 137; potentiality as, 8, 31, 69, 75, 94, 98, 129–30; powerlessness, x, 8, 19, 22, 26, 30–34, 41, 72, 76, 88, 105, 113–14, 122–23, 125–28, 130, 133
pranayama, 53–54
present-at-hand, 116–17, 122
productivism, 26–29, 36, 38–39, 43, 58, 72, 74; non-, x, 39, 72
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, 42, 48
psychoanalysis, 29, 47, 51, 90–105, 107–10, 134, 146
psychology, x, 18, 29, 56, 84, 90, 92, 100, 104, 135, 163; depth psychology, 100; Greek, 85–91; without a psyche, 90
pyropolitics, ix, 112
 
Rankine, William, 148–49, 153
rational, rationality, 1, 16, 19–20, 38, 81, 99, 103, 114, 116–17, 130–31, 142
ready-to-hand, 116–18, 122
Real/Imaginary/Symbolic, 100, 104–7, 109, 170n15
reality, 10–12, 14, 16, 18–20, 25, 27, 41, 85, 103, 105, 113, 117, 120, 131, 142, 152, 155–57; constitution of, ix, 37, 148; entropy of, 6; principle, 84, 97–98; of time, 149; virtual, 15, 29
religion, 45, 52, 143
repetition, 21, 39, 61, 96, 98–99, 101, 105
representation (political), 139–44; “from above,” 141
repression, 47, 91–92
revolution, 18, 68, 112–13, 124, 126, 128–31, 155; postrevolution, 134
Rita (Vedic), 93
 
sacrifice, 32, 46–49, 52, 57, 76, 79, 150
samadhi, 52–54
Sanskrit, 52
Sapientia Dei, 37–38
satori, 52
Schelling, F. W. J., 12
Schmitt, Carl, 120, 131, 135–44, 164, 168n1
Scholasticism, 28, 30–31, 42, 153
self-actualization, 21, 72, 79, 113; through labor, 16, 69
self-consciousness, 3, 92
self-interest, 48, 77–78
self-legislation, 114
self-relation, 13–15, 19–20, 33, 36, 88, 100, 104–5, 130–31, 150
Smith, Adam, 48, 68, 76–77
Smolin, Lee, 149
Socrates, 61–63
Sorel, Georges, 72, 124–27, 129–30
sovereignty, 120, 131–33, 136–37, 141; divine, 31, 35; psychic, 85
space-time, 51, 84, 122, 155–56, 158
Spinoza, Baruch, 76, 92
stasis, 19, 32, 110, 112–13, 131
state (political), ix, 27, 58, 78, 95, 125, 127, 129–32
status quo, 18, 39, 112, 120, 126, 129, 131, 134
Sun, solar, x, 2, 4, 6, 17–18, 37, 41, 76–77, 80, 128
supplementarity, principle of, 157–58
superficial, superficiality, x, 16–18, 22, 51, 57, 67–68, 75, 79, 100, 107, 135, 137
synergy, 48–53, 59–60, 62, 70–72, 77–86, 88–89, 91, 94, 96, 98, 104, 110–11, 124, 157–58, 164, 168n11
synthetic a priori, 51, 84
 
technocracy, ix, 38, 47, 112, 125, 133–34, 145
telos, 4, 9, 86–87, 114–16, 170n3; atelos, 8
teleology, 115–17, 119, 122; ateleology, 9
terrorism, 122, 129, 134
theoria, 58
thermodynamics, 1, 17, 56, 92, 100, 118, 134–35, 148, 171n4
Thoreau, David, 51
tō agathon, 114
tokos, 64
totality, 32, 34, 50, 61, 99, 123
Trinity, Trinitarianism, 32, 39–40
truth, 16, 49–50
 
Ugilt, Rasmus, 129
uncertainty, principle of, 157
unconscious, 2, 15, 19, 38, 66, 91–94, 96, 99, 101, 104, 109, 111, 120, 135; Cs./Uncs., 90
unmoved mover, the, 9, 13–14, 20, 26, 28, 33, 41, 51, 88, 130, 150
 
value, 55–58, 61, 64–66, 76–77, 79, 82, 94; extraction, 16; self-augmentation of, 56, 73–74
Vattimo, Gianni, 31
Vedas, 93
violence, 16, 31–32, 43, 65, 114, 122, 124–26, 129, 135, 138–39, 153, 169n22; divine, 127; nonviolence, ix–x, 18, 21, 31, 113, 126, 146; powerless, 126
vis: mortua, 153; viva, 153
void, 9, 107, 129, 153, 170n13
 
Weber, Max, 48
Weil, Simone, 111
will-to-power, 32–34, 127, 150
Wirklichkeitx, 19–21, 25, 71, 99, 105–6, 122, 130–31, 151, 156
world, ix–x, 8, 11, 14–15, 19, 21, 24, 28, 33, 35, 49, 55–56, 88, 91, 105, 107–8, 125, 130, 141, 143, 148–49, 150, 156, 163–64; creation, 25, 29, 34, 36–40, 115, 119; destruction, 5, 10, 16, 80, 83–84, 147; end of, 9, 117–23, 170n5; livable; 7, 117
worldhood, 119, 122
 
Xenophon of Athens, 59, 61
 
Yeltsin, Boris, 134
yoga, 52–54, 168nn14, 15; Ashtanga, x, 52
 
Zen Buddhism, 52