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About this book
When Thinking is a Problem examines the activity of thinking and how it is a primary factor in suffering at the individual as well as at the collective level, while at the same time, a necessary function that is often taken for granted and misused.
When Thinking is a Problem is unique in helping the reader to see the activity of thinking from a variety of different perspectives provided by writers representing diverse backgrounds. It contains essays, contemplations, and dialogues by eighteen teachers, all of them leaders in their fields. In these chapters, the mechanics and dynamics of thinking are discussed by well-known teachers from the Buddhist and Advaita traditions, as well as from noted neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, academics, and prominent writers. In its focus on thinking as it relates to suffering, whether by its presence or absence, the writers discuss the need to honor both thinking as well as the dimension or reality beyond conscious thought.
When Thinking is a Problem is unique in helping the reader to see the activity of thinking from a variety of different perspectives provided by writers representing diverse backgrounds. It contains essays, contemplations, and dialogues by eighteen teachers, all of them leaders in their fields. In these chapters, the mechanics and dynamics of thinking are discussed by well-known teachers from the Buddhist and Advaita traditions, as well as from noted neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, academics, and prominent writers. In its focus on thinking as it relates to suffering, whether by its presence or absence, the writers discuss the need to honor both thinking as well as the dimension or reality beyond conscious thought.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for When Thinking Is a Problem: About and Beyond Thinking
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: About Thinking
- Chapter 1: Every Kind of Seed
- Chapter 2: Thinking Problems and Jung’s Typology: Frederick R. Gustafson
- Chapter 3: How My Mind Works and Visualizes the World
- Chapter 4: SEEKING Thinking: Greed and Need in Affective Neuroscience
- Chapter 5: Thinking about Thinking
- Chapter 6: Introduction to Thinking at the Edge
- Chapter 7: Mental Health and Normality: Toward a New Process-Oriented Perspective
- Chapter 8: In Thought We Trust: A Podcast Conversation
- Chapter 9: Mind Only, beyond Thought
- Part II: Beyond Thinking
- Chapter 10: Going beyond Thinking: Thinking, Attachment, and Interdependent Origination
- Chapter 11: Introduction to J. Krishnamurti
- Chapter 12: Banaras Fifth Public Talk (Sunday, February 6, 1955)1
- Chapter 13: Beyond Thinking
- Chapter 14: Dialogues in Delphi (November 6, 1990)1
- Chapter 15: John Doe, the Actor
- Chapter 16: Putting an End to the Discriminating Mind and To Study the Way Is to Study the Self
- Chapter 17: Who Is Thinking? Satsang with Papaji
- Chapter 18: On Dying to Self: Retreat, End of Day
- Chapter 19: No Trace
- Appendix
- Index
- About the Contributors