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The Buddha was a psychologist : a rational approach to Buddhist teachings / Arnold Kozak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kozak, Arnold, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--Psychology.
- Buddhism.
- Psychology--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Psychology.
- Well-being--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Well-being.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- In The Buddha Was a Psychologist: A Rational Approach to Buddhist Teachings, Arnold Kozak argues for a secular and psychological interpretation of the Buddha's teachings.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Why I am Leaving the Mindfulness Movement
- Notes
- Introduction: The Psychological Buddha
- The Buddha As Psychologist
- Not Self: The Case against Essentialism
- The Fire Problem: "The Way of Putting Things as Being on Fire"
- Taking Existential Responsibility by Relinquishing Dogma
- Call Me By My Name: What to Call the Buddha
- Overview
- Part I: Reclaiming the Buddha from Buddhism
- Chapter 1: The Legend of the Buddha: History, Myth, and Hagiography
- Historical Considerations
- Transmigration of Buddhism
- Reading the Canon
- The Buddha's Myth
- Summary of the Myth
- Myth: Four Signs
- Myth: The Buddha's Alleged Crisis
- Myth: Going Forth
- Mara as the Representation of Self
- Myth Post-Enlightenment
- A Life of Service
- An Ignoble End to a Noble Life
- Making Sense of the Buddha's Mythology
- Chapter 2: The Hermeneutical Buddha: What He Taught, What He Thought (Maybe)
- The Buddha Eschewed Metaphysics: Epistemology over Ontology
- The Buddha before Buddhism
- The "Great One's" Ordinary Life
- Part II: The Buddha's Pedagogical Project
- A Great Doctor
- Chapter 3: The First Ennobling Praxis: What is the Problem?
- Chapter 4: The Second Ennobling Praxis: Getting to the Root of the Problem
- Chapter 5: The Third Ennobling Praxis: Can the Problem Be Resolved?
- Enlightenment as Wellbeing: Metaphysical Assumption or Natural Finding
- Chapter 6: The Fourth Ennobling Praxis: Resolving the Problem
- Integral Mindfulness
- Reflections on the Fourfold Teaching in Context
- Part III: Mind on Fire
- Mind on Fire
- The Five Fire Sites (Aggregates): Features, Functions, Adaptations, Liabilities, and Antidotes
- Form (Rupa)
- Perception (Sanna).
- Feeling (Vedana)
- Fabrication (Sankhara)
- Consciousness (vinnana)
- The Aggregates in Action
- Chapter 7: Form: Brain Architecture and the Neuroplastic Forest of Self
- Form is Not Self
- The Beautiful Brain: Trees of the Brain, Roots of the Mind
- Chapter 8: Perception: Categorization
- Perception is Not Self
- Deconstructing Categories through Present Moment Awareness
- Chapter 9: Feeling: Pain and Pleasure Drive Evolution's Primary Agendas (and Give Rise to a Sense of the One Having Pleasure and Pain)
- Feeling is Not Self
- Natural Desire: Master Manipulator
- Sensuality and Renunciation: The Challenge of Permissible Pleasures
- Chapter 10: Mental Fabrication and the Modular Self
- Fabrications are Not Self
- Metaphorical Implications
- Self and Not Self from the Modular Perspective
- The Self Is Not in Control
- The Self is Biased
- Getting Beyond Essentialism
- Chapter 11: Consciousness: Apparently Ubiquitous, Certainly Overestimated
- Consciousness is Not Self and the Possibility of Participatory Determinism
- Dampening Emotions
- Conclusion
- Recapturing the Primordial Moment from the Metaphorical Self
- Final Considerations
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3142-6
- 1-4985-3543-7
- OCLC:
- 1243907521
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