Stephen Batchelor





Stephen Batchelor

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April 07, 1953

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Average rating: 4.02 · 3,426 ratings · 337 reviews · 14 distinct works · Similar authors
Buddhism without Beliefs: A...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,985 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions
Confession of a Buddhist At...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 807 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
Living with the Devil
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
Alone with Others: An Exist...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of...
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1990
The Awakening of the West: ...
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
Confessions of a Buddhist A...
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010
Medieval History for Dummies
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
The Ancient Greeks for Dummies
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
Flight: An Existential Conc...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1984
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“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)”
Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“Great works of art in all cultures succeed in capturing within the constraints of their form both the pathos of anguish and a vision of its resolution. Take, for example, the languorous sentences of Proust or the haiku of Basho, the late quartets and sonatas of Beethoven, the tragicomic brushwork of Sengai or the daunting canvases of Rothko, the luminous self-portraits of Rembrandt and Hakuin. Such works achieve their resolution not through consoling or romantic images whereby anguish is transcended. They accept anguish without being overwhelmed by it. They reveal anguish as that which gives beauty its dignity and depth.”
Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

“The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)”
Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

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