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How to Lose Yourself
An Ancient Guide to Letting Go
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Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion and why giving it up can free us from suffering. From self-realisation and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that...
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How to Lose Yourself
Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion and why giving it up can free us from suffering
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Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion and why giving it up can free us from suffering.
From self-realisation and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself!
More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha argued that the self is an illusion and that our belief in it is the cause of most, if not all, of our suffering. How to Lose Yourself presents lively, accessible, and expert new translations of ancient Buddhist writings about the central, unique, and powerful Buddhist teaching of 'no-self'.
Drawn from three important Buddhist traditions, these essential Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese writings provide a rich sampling of the ways Buddhist philosophers have understood the idea that we are selfless persons and why this insight is so therapeutic. When we let go of the self, we are awakened to the presence of all things as they truly are, and we let go of the anxiety, fear, greed, and hatred that are the source of all suffering.
Complete with an introduction and headnotes to each selection, and the original texts on facing pages, How to Lose Yourself is a concise guide to a transformative idea.
Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780691252636
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 January 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Contributors:
- Translated with commentary by Jay L. Garfield
- Translated with commentary by Maria Heim
- Translated with commentary by Robert H. Sharf
- Edited and translated by Jay L. Garfield
- Edited and translated by Robert H. Sharf
- Edited and translated by Maria Heim
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 114.0mm
Height: 171.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 216
About the Author
Jay L. Garfield is the Doris Silbert Professor of Philosophy and Buddhist Studies at Smith College and a visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self (Princeton). Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College. She is the author of Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India (Princeton). Robert H. Sharf is the D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, where he chairs the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies. He is the author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism.
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