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Loading... The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Science, and Our Day-to-Day Lives (edition 2000)by Gay Watson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. While a good book, it's somewhat disapointing. There's a fairly large amount of direct experimental research out there touching, or directly on, aspects of Buddhism. I was hoping that this book would be a nice collection, and commentary on them. Instead, I get the impression of people without much scientific background who tossed some terms into pubmed. Not all, but a lot of the articles here felt tacked on. I'd rate them as hovering around a C in a second year research oriented class. Pasable, but with enough flaws that one should approach them with heavy skepticism. In particular, I was amazed at how often I found authors using meta-analysis, relying on secondary sources, or only using a single study or single researcher as the cornerstone of their point. All mistakes that I'd find understandable in a first year student, but, again, I was hoping for more here. The vast majority of articles are also coming more from social sciences, the kind of soft outer shell that makes the hard researchers in that field cringe. I don't want to sound too hard on this book. It actually is worth buying for the good articles, and even the worst are enjoyable and thought provoking, but this book had the potential to be so much more. ( ) no reviews | add a review
The Buddhist view of the mind - how it works, how it goes wrong, how to put it right - is increasingly being recognised as profound and highly practical by scientists, counsellors and other professionals. In The Psychology of Awakening, this powerful vision of human nature, and its implications for personal and social life, are for the first time brought to a wider audience by some of those most influential in exploring its potential for the way we live today. These include- David Brazier Jon Kabat Zinn Francisco Varela Joy Manne Geshe Thubten Jinpa Mark Epstein Gay Watson Maura Sills Guy Claxton Stephen Batchelor Deeply relevant, accessible and authoritative, The Psychology of Awakening will be of interest to all those who wish to understand the workings of their minds a little better and who are also seeking new ways of mastering the challenges - personal, professional and cultural with which modern life confronts us all. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)294.3375Religions Other Religions Religions of Indic origin Buddhism Buddhism - social aspects Theology With Respect to Social Issues ScienceLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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