In fresh and inviting language and making frequent use of strikingly clear diagrams and illustrations, Unlearning the Basics challenges many of our common-sense understandings about ourselves and the world. The author lays out a new way of seeing that enables us to live more serenely, more compassionately, and more free from the slings and arrows of our busy lives.Along the way, Rishi Sativihari looks at love and grasping, at "the great unfixables, " and at how vulnerability and pain feed the "evolution of character" -all in the service of helping us return to our true home and find new ways to flourish. Grounded in the Buddhist tradition yet completely free from the formulas of traditional, tired presentations, Unlearning the Basics has an informal, straightforward style that will immediately captivate the reader.
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Eastern PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE - Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO - When the Need for Love Meets the Great Unfixables
- CHAPTER THREE - The Flight from Pain into Fantasy
- CHAPTER FOUR - Home Is Where We Flourish
- CHAPTER FIVE - Self-Possession and Mature Spirituality
- CHAPTER SIX - Dependent Origination, Personal Agency, and the Silent Watcher
- CHAPTER SEVEN - The Path as Spiritual Discipline
- CHAPTER EIGHT - The Eight Disciplines of the Path
- CHAPTER NINE - The Primacy of Wisdom and the Root of Virtue
- CHAPTER TEN - The Disciplines of Training in Virtue
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - The Disciplines of Training in Meditative Awareness
- CHAPTER TWELVE - Conditioned and Unconditioned Levels of the Path
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Taking Spiritual RefugeāA Ritual of Commitment to the Path
- Index
- About the Author
- About Wisdom Publications
- Copyright
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