How to Lose Yourself
An Ancient Guide to Letting Go
1st Edition
Published on 28. January 2025
216 pages
978-0-691-25309-1 (ISBN)
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01/2025
Princeton University Press
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Persons
Jay L. Garfield is the Doris Silbert Professor of Philosophy and Buddhist Studies at Smith College and a visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self (Princeton). Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College. She is the author of Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India (Princeton). Robert H. Sharf is the D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, where he chairs the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies. He is the author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Early Buddhist Teachings
- Discourses of the Buddha
- The World Is Empty
- This Is Not Mine
- This Is Not What I Am
- This Is Not My Self
- The Wise Agree
- A Lump of Foam
- How to Know and See
- Letting Go of Anxiety
- Related Commentaries
- Why a Person Is Like a Chariot
- Conventional and Ultimate Ways of Talking about This
- Part II: Middle Way Teachings
- What Am I?
- Examination of the Prior Entity
- Another Ride in the Chariot
- Part III: Chan Teachings
- There Is No Mind
- Nothing to Be Attained
- Notes on Sources and Further Reading
