
Vasubandhu's "Three Natures"
A Practitioner's Guide for Liberation
- 290 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In this book, Ben Connelly shows the power of integrating early Buddhist psychology with the Mahayana emphasis on collective liberation. You'll discover how wisdom from fourth-century India can be harnessed to heal and transform systems of harm within ourselves and our communities. The three natures (svabhavas)āthe imaginary, dependent, and complete, realized naturesāare inherent aspects of all phenomena. The imaginary nature of things is what we think they are. Their dependent nature is that they appear to arise from countless conditions. The complete, realized nature is that they aren't as we imagine them to be: things that can be grasped or pushed away. The three natures form the backbone of Yogacara philosophy, and by showing us how to see beyond our preconceived notions of ourselves and others, beyond the things that we're convinced are "true, " they open up a path to personal and communal healing. Dive into this empowering approach to freedom from suffering, from harmful personal and social patterns, and to finding peace and joyfulness in the present.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Three Natures
- 2. Experience, Imagination, and Interdependence
- 3. Itās Not What You Think
- 4. Not Two
- 5. Mind Only
- 6. Eight Consciousnesses
- 7. Seeds and Fruit
- 8. A Threefold Illusion
- 9. Cause and Effect
- 10. Free from Within Duality
- 11. Relax, This Really Matters
- 12. Painting the Moon in Water
- 13. Nonduality Is Real
- 14. Oneness and Duality
- 15. Life Has Arisen Like This
- 16. The Taste of Freedom
- 17. Suffering and Freedom
- 18. Samsara and Nirvana Are One
- 19. Already Buddha
- 20. Aināt No Thang
- 21. Intimacy Is Transcendence
- 22. There Is a Path
- 23. Breaking the Chain
- 24. Nonself, No-self, and Nondual
- 25. Right View: Both/And
- 26. Nothing to Hold Onto
- 27. The Illusory Elephant
- 28. Learning the Trick
- 29. Trauma, Perception, and Healing
- 30. Thusness and Things
- 31. Knowledge, Relinquishment, and Realization
- 32. Both Perception and Nonperception
- 33. Let It All Go
- 34. Seeing Through the Magic Trick
- 35. Projection Only
- 36. There Is No Mind in Mind Only
- 37. Enter Where You Are
- 38. This Very Body, for Everyone
- āTreatise on Three Naturesā
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author and Translator
- Copyright