Each time the teachings of the Buddha have entered a new culture outside their Indian birthplace, they have to undergo renewal and reinterpretation so as to gain traction in the new host society. Stephen Batchelor’s work represents a landmark in Buddhism’s sinking roots in the modern west, and his After Buddhism is his most systematic contribution to the process. What is being left behind by the ‘after’ in the title are conventional accounts of the teachings, not their true beating heart.
After Buddhism: a workbook is the consummate guide to this thought-provoking work. It provides a basis for periodic group and individual study of Batchelor’s text. Winton Higgins’s humorous, easy-to-read book offers a fresh and accessible commentary on After Buddhism without compromising the depth of Batchelor’s experience, scholarship and ideas. Jim Champion’s astute questions encourage readers to use Batchelor’s reissue of the Buddha’s teachings to reflect more deeply on the lives they’re leading, the individuals they’re becoming and the world we inhabit.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by Stephen Batchelor
Preface
Session one – What is After Buddhism all about?
Session two – After Buddhism
Session three – Mahānāma the convert
Session four – A fourfold task
Session five – A fourfold task, sections 7 & 8
Session six – Pasenadi, the king
Session seven – Letting go of truth
Session eight – Sunakkhatta the traitor
Session nine – On experience
Session ten – Jīvaka the doctor
Session eleven – The everyday sublime
Session twelve – Doubt and imagination
Session thirteen – Ānanda the attendant
Session fourteen – A culture of awakening (part 1)
Session fifteen – A culture of awakening (part 2)
Session sixteen – Ten theses of secular dharma
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Circa l’autore
A senior teacher for Sydney Insight Meditators and three of its constituent local sanghas, and for Secular Buddhism in Aotearoa New Zealand, Winton Higgins began practising the dharma in 1987, and has taught insight meditation since 1995, including leading residential retreats. Since 2005, his teaching has increasingly focused on non-formulaic forms of insight meditation, and secular Buddhism.
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