Authors: Steve Hagen
ISBN-13: 9780767903325, ISBN-10: 0767903323
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Date Published: December 1998
Edition: REPRINT
This book offers a clear, straightforward approach to Buddhism in general and awareness in particular. It is about being awake and in touch with what is going on here and now. When the Buddha was asked to sum up his teaching in a single word, he said, "Awareness." The Buddha taught how to see directly into the nature of experience. His observations and insights are plain, practical, and down-to-earth, and they deal exclusively with the present. In Buddhism Plain and Simple, Steve Hagen presents these uncluttered, original teachings in everyday, accessible language unencumbered by religious ritual, tradition, or belief.
It doesn't get any plainer or simpler than this. Zen priest Steve Hagen explains it all for you, so you can be a candle unto yourself.
Introduction | 1 | |
The Journey Into Now | 6 | |
Pt. 1 | The Perennial Problem | 13 |
Ch. 1 | The Human Situation | 15 |
Ch. 2 | A Wheel Out of Kilter | 25 |
Ch. 3 | Coming | 33 |
Ch. 4 | Going | 44 |
Ch. 5 | The Art of Seeing | 53 |
Pt. 2 | The Way to Wake Up | 61 |
Ch. 6 | Wisdom | 63 |
Ch. 7 | Morality | 77 |
Ch. 8 | Practice | 95 |
Ch. 9 | Freedom | 110 |
Pt. 3 | Free Mind | 117 |
Ch. 10 | The Way We Are | 119 |
Ch. 11 | Can't Pin "Me" Down | 133 |
Ch. 12 | Interdependence | 139 |
Epilogue: Be a Light Unto Yourself | 151 | |
Appendix | Dependent Arising | 153 |
Two Ways to View the Twelvefold Chain | 161 | |
About the Author | 163 |