Stephen Batchelor





Stephen Batchelor

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Average rating: 3.97 · 1,922 ratings · 226 reviews · 25 distinct works
Buddhism without Beliefs: A...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions
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Confession of a Buddhist At...
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Living with the Devil
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Alone with Others: An Exist...
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Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of...
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The Ancient Greeks for Dummies
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Medieval History for Dummies
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The Tibet Guide: Central an...
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The Mind And Its Functions
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“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

“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, Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist

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