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Stephen Batchelor
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in Dundee, Scotland, The United Kingdom
April 07, 1953
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Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
— published 1997 — 8 editions |
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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
— published 2010 — 8 editions |
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Living with the Devil
— published 2004 — 2 editions |
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Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism
by Stephen Batchelor, John Blofeld — published 1983 — 2 editions |
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Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty
— published 1990 |
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The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture
— published 1994 — 4 editions |
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Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist
— published 2010 |
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Medieval History for Dummies
— published 2010 — 7 editions |
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The Ancient Greeks for Dummies
— published 2008 — 7 editions |
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Flight: An Existential Conception of Buddhism
— 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
― 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
― 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
― Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
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| Buddhist: Book Club Nominations | 15 | 36 | Feb 11, 2011 11:32pm | |
| Buddhist: Nominations for April | 18 | 25 | Mar 01, 2011 06:54pm |
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