Freedom beyond conditioning : East-West / Jane Wiesner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiesner, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Emotions.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

If we live in the Western world we are said to be free. But are we? To what degree are we bound by our thoughts and emotions? What fuses us to habitual patterns of thinking and behaving? Are we ever really free of conditioning? Freedom Beyond Conditioning: East-West researches the complex world of emotional life. It looks at the multifaceted relationships between body and mind; and the body-mind fusion that is emotion. Using empirical data, this book investigates the correlations between emotional life and mental freedom: analysing the experiential nature of a conditioned existence, while answ

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Abstract

List of Tables

Preface

Part One: Foundations of Freedom from Conditionality

Preliminaries

Chapter One

Part Two: The Five KleĞas and their Afflictions

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Part Three: The Subtleties of Yoga

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Epilogue

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8402-2

OCLC:

924632147