The Buddha's Path of Peace

A Step-by-Step Guide
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78179-962-8
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

In this book the core of the Buddha's teaching is comprehensively cast in modern models of thought - borrowed from science and philosophy - and informed by contemporary concerns. It sets out the basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the so-called 'Noble Eightfold Path') wholly in the context of contemporary and everyday life, personal experience, human relationships, work, environmental concern and the human wish for peace. The reader, who may be completely new to Buddhism, is accompanied along the Path with practical exercises that are fully explained. The Path begins with an introductory overview and then proceeds through Right Speech, Right Acting, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Concentration, Right Mindfulness, Right Understanding and Right Resolve, and concludes with a short chapter on the relevance of the Path to the current global crisis. The reader is mentored throughout by practical meditational and contemplative exercises, with tables, diagrams, analogies and stories. Gradually the reader who has followed this handbook with commitment will feel the benefits of growing peacefulness, wisdom and compassion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunt, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Amaro Bhikkhu Preface Introduction PART ONE Ethics 1 Right Speech: What I say 2 Right Acting: What I do 3 Right Livelihood: How I Live & Work PART TWO Meditation 4 Right Effort: Directing the Mind 5a Right Concentration: Breathing 5b Right Concentration: Objects 6a Right Mindfulness: Refining Attention 6b Right Mindfulness: Anchor & Buoy Model 6c Right Mindfulness: Full Awareness 6d Right Mindfulness: Insight PART THREE Wisdom 7a Right Understanding: Ignorance & Nibbana 7b Right Understanding: Horizon Model 7c Right Understanding: Mirror Model 7d Right Understanding: Reflections Model 7e Right Understanding: Self & Waveform Model 7f Right Understanding: Emergence Model 7g Right Understanding: Self-Evaluation 8a Right Resolve: A Change of Heart 8b Right Resolve: Silence Conclusion: A Global Awakening? Appendix 1: Posture Appendix 2: Glossary of Neologisms

Über Autor(innen)

Hunt, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Hunt is Buddhist Chaplain at the University of Surrey and Visiting Professor in Buddhist Ethics at the same university. In 2002 he founded, and continues to lead, the lay movement New Buddha Way www.newbuddhaway.org.