The Buddha's Path of Peace

A Step-By-Step Guide

Geoffrey Hunt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2020
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-963-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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 & Nibbāna
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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	11 figures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1030 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-78179-963-6 / 1781799636
ISBN-13	978-1-78179-963-5 / 9781781799635
Zustand	Neuware