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Eat Sleep Sit
completed: 20 Oct 2018view meta | in 1 collections | 25 highlights | 0 responses
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The Monk and the Philosopher
completed: 25 Feb 2018view meta | in 1 collections | 4 highlights | 0 responses“Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism — not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters.
Meeting in an inn overlooking Katmandu, these two profoundly thoughtful men explored the questions that have occupied humankind throughout its history.”
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After Buddhism
completed: 06 Dec 2020view meta | in 1 collections | 12 highlights | 0 responsesOne of the core questions that I seek to answer in this book is whether it is still possible to recover the dharma that existed prior to the emergence of Buddhist orthodoxies and then build upon that foundation an adequate ethical, contemplative, and philosophical practice that optimizes human flourishing in a post-credal age. Paradoxically, to imagine what might emerge after Buddhism, we need to go back to the time before Buddhism began.
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The Buddhist on Death Row
completed: 08 Oct 2020view meta | in 1 collections | 31 highlights | 0 responsesWe’re all doing time. We’re all in prison. We’re all on death row. And we can all free ourselves.
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How to Sit
completed: 30 Mar 2016view meta | in 1 collections | 1 highlights | 0 responses
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How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
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