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Early Buddhist Hedonism : The Role of Spiritual Pleasure in the Pali Discourses.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Font, Bernat.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecstasy (Buddhism).
- Buddhist philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book presents early Buddhism as a form of refined hedonism that values positive affect and actively uses it to achieve liberation.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on the text
- Foreword by Peter Harvey
- Introduction
- Why does the Buddha smile?
- The varieties of pleasant experience
- Other bits and pieces
- 1 Early Buddhism through the feeling glass
- The Buddha's refined hedonism
- When a finger points up to the sky
- 2 The concept of vedanā and why it matters
- Primary and secondary feelings
- Finding 'emotion' among Buddhist categories
- Buddhist maps of the inner life
- 3 A dance of pain and pleasure
- The paradox of sukha
- Do neutral feelings really exist?
- All feelings are painful - not another paradox!
- On how to climb a staircase
- 4 Is it good to feel bad?
- No pain, no Jain (nor Ājīvaka)
- The Buddhist, the bad and the ugly
- 5 The soteriological value of spiritual pleasure
- Ascetic views on feeling good
- Wandering in Vedic bliss
- Buddhism as a liberation theory of pleasure
- A pleasure made for walking
- 6 The underlying hedonic curve of early Buddhism
- Rising towards pleasantness
- Mellowing into equanimity
- Insight, wobbles and later Pali literature
- 7 An ethical-hedonic training to wake up
- Learning to enjoy skilfulness
- From mastery to play
- Conclusion: Samatha and vipassanā as the wisdoms of pleasure and pain
- Afterword: Buddhism, Epicureanism and pleasure by John Peacock
- Appendices
- Selected discourses
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Font, Bernat Early Buddhist Hedonism
- ISBN:
- 9781350586840
- OCLC:
- 1602016415
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