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The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
Steve Hagen: Buddhism Plain and Simple Steve Hagen: Buddhism Plain and Simple Steve Hagen: Buddhism Plain and Simple

“This is the clearest and most precise exposition of Buddhism I have ever read. If you’re looking for enlightenment rather than just scholarly knowledge, you’d better read this.”—Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

This is a book about awareness. It’s about being “awake” and in touch with what is going on here and now. Practical and down-to-earth, it deals exclusively with the present, not with speculation, theory, or belief in some far off time and place. The teachings of the Buddha are plain and straightforward, and because they remain focused on the moment, they are just as relevant now as they have ever been. Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day is the book for anyone wanting to discover, or rediscover, the essence of Buddhism.

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Tuttle, Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
196 oldal · ISBN: 9780804830966 · ASIN: B005CVTTWM
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160 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780767903325 · ASIN: 0767903323

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Pick up a flower – a beautiful, living, fresh rose. It smells wonderful. It reveals a lovely rhythm in the swirl of its petals, a rich yet dazzling color, a soft velvety texture. It moves and delights us.

The problem with the rose is that it dies. Its petals fall; it shrivels up; it turns brown and returns to the earth.

One solution to this problem is to ignore the real rose and substitute a plastic one, one that never dies (and never lives). But is a plastic rose what we want? No, of course not. We want the real rose. We want the one that dies. We want it because it dies, because it’s fleeting, because it fades. It’s this very quality that makes it precious. This is what we want, what each of us is: a living thing that dies.

Steve Hagen: Buddhism Plain and Simple The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day

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We've all heard the expression “seeing is believing.” But the fact is that believing is not true seeing. In fact, they're opposites. Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. In contrast, seeing —raw, direct, unadulterated experience—is the direct perception of Reality Itself.

Steve Hagen: Buddhism Plain and Simple The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day


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