1st Edition
Studies in the Middle Way Being Thoughts on Buddhism Applied
By Christmas Humphreys
Copyright 1995
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Emphasizes the inner life as a constant moving on and the mover as a pilgrim travelling along an ancient Way. This Way to ultimate Reality was called by Gautama the Buddha the Middle Way, the path between the introverted life of contemplation and the extrovert life of action in the world of men.
Chapter 1 The Branches of the Tree; Chapter 2 The River of Becoming; Chapter 3 Deny Nothing—Affirm All; Chapter 4 Self as the Lord of Self; Chapter 5 The Use and Abuse of Circumstance; Chapter 6 In Praise of Pain; Chapter 7 The Middle Way; Chapter 8 Dana; Chapter 9 Buddhist Morality; Chapter 10 Why are we Afraid?; Chapter 11 Buddhism and God; Chapter 12 Bhavana—Self-Enlightenment; Chapter 13 The Doctrine of Immediacy; Chapter 14 Theravada and Zen; Chapter 15 The Head and the Heart; Chapter 16 Buddhism and Psychology; Chapter 17 Theosophy and Buddhism;
Biography
Christmas Humphreys