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The Buddha's Path of Peace sets out the basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the so-called "Noble Eightfold Path") wholly in the context of contemporary and everyday life, personal experience, human relationships, work, environmental concern and the human wish for peace. In this book, the core of the Buddha's teaching is comprehensively cast in modern models of thought--borrowed from science and philosophy--and informed by contemporary concerns.
The reader, who may be completely new to Buddhism, is accompanied along the Path with practical exercises that are fully explained. The Path begins with an introductory overview and then proceeds through Right Speech, Right Acting, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Concentration, Right Mindfulness, Right Understanding and Right Resolve, and concludes with a short chapter on the relevance of the Path to the multiple crises facing the world today. The reader is mentored throughout by practical meditational and contemplative exercises, with tables, diagrams, analogies and stories. Gradually the reader who has followed this handbook with commitment will feel the benefits of growing peacefulness, wisdom and compassion.
The Buddha's Path of Peace, Geoffrey Hunt, Equinox Publishing Ltd, Paperback, 266 pp, $24.95
Geoffrey Hunt is Buddhist Chaplain at the University of Surrey and Visiting Professor in Buddhist Ethics at the same university. In 2002 he founded, and continues to lead, the lay movement New Buddha Way www.newbuddhaway.org.
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CONTENTS: Buddha's Path of Peace
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List of Figures, Tables, Exercises, Metaphors and Parables
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vii
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Acknowledgements
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ix
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Foreword
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xi
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Preface
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xiii
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Introduction
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1
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PART ONE: Ethics
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Right Speech: What I Say
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15
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2
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Right Acting: What I Do
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25
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3
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Right Livelihood: How I Live and Work
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33
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PART TWO: Meditation
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4
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Right Effort: Directing the Mind
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43
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5
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Right Concentration: Breathing
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61
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Right Concentration: Objects
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69
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Right Mindfulness: Refining Attention
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75
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Right Mindfulness: Anchor and Buoy Model
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85
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Right Mindfulness: Full Awareness
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100
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Right Mindfulness: Insight
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108
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PART THREE: Wisdom
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Right Understanding: Ignorance an
Nibbana
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123
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Right Understanding: The Horizons Model
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133
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Right Understanding: The Mirror Model
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145
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Right Understanding: The Reflections Model
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155
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Right Understanding: Self and the Waveform Model
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170
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Right Understanding: The Emergence Model
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179
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Right Understanding: Self-Evaluation
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196
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Right Resolve: A Change of Heart
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204
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Right Resolve: Silence
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213
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Conclusion: A Global Awakening?
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221
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Appendix 1: Posture
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225
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Appendix 2: Glossary of Neologisms
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234
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References and Notes
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236
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Bibliography
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242
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Index
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244
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