Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Buddism - 佛教

Buddhism is a psychological religion. The escape of sorrow is Nirvana--which is a state of mind or consciousness, not a place somewhere like heaven. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, and social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out that.

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Reading List

  • Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
  • Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
  • Bhagavad Gita As It Is
  • Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
  • Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
  • Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
  • Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
  • David Weeks: Eccentrics
  • Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
  • Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
  • G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
  • Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
  • John Kekes: The Art of Life
  • John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
  • Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
  • Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
  • Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
  • Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
  • Osho: The Book of Understanding
  • Osho: The Book of Wisdom
  • P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
  • P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
  • Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
  • Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
  • Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
  • Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
  • Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
  • Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
  • Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
  • The Upanishads
  • Xenophon: A History of My Time

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