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Get the Summary of Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: This book is the culmination of a personal journey that began with Wright's landmark book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, and deepened as he immersed himself in meditative practice and conversed with some of the world's most skilled meditators.
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#1 The Buddha's teachings can be broken down into the Four Noble Truths: the truth of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering and its causes, and the path to that cessation. The path is to realize reality and increase your good qualities.
#2 The three principal aspects of the Buddhist path are the determination to be free, the altruistic intention...
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#1 The brain is also dynamic in a personal, subjective, interactive sense. When you gaze at a waterfall, for example, something amazing happens perceptually. The perceptual apparatus has adapted itself so as to slow down the motion of the falling water, which allows it to be more precisely observed.
#2 The brain's potentialities are so large that we must be in awe of...
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#1 The Buddha was a man who lived around 500 BCE in northern India and Nepal. He taught a method of living that was intended to be practiced, rather than a set of ideas he asked his followers to believe.
#2 The Buddha spoke Māgadhī Prākrit, the spoken language of the ancient Māgadha kingdom in northern India. But we can't say for certain that he did, as there is...
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#1 We try to encapsulate our experience in frozen, changeless form: this means that. But Truth is not like this. It's beyond the spin of paradox that Truth and Reality are glimpsed. If we would simply not try to pin Reality down, confusion would no longer turn us away.
#2 We can free ourselves from paradox and confusion only when we set ourselves in an open and inquiring...
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Get the Summary of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Eric Swanson's Joyful Wisdom in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Yongey Mingyur is one of the most celebrated among the new generation of Tibetan meditation masters, whose teachings have touched people of all faiths around the world. His first book, The Joy of Living, was a New York Times best seller hailed as "compelling, readable, and informed" (Buddhadharma) and...
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Get the Summary of Erik Jampa Andersson's Unseen Beings in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Unseen Beings" by Erik Jampa Andersson is a profound exploration of the human-centric perspective that has led to detrimental effects on Earth's quality of life. The book encourages a shift from this anthropocentric view to better our future by acknowledging the errors of our past and altering our outlook to reinforce our...
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Get the Summary of Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart-when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate...
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Get the Summary of Rick Hanson with Richard Mendius's Buddha's Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: If you change your brain, you can change your life.
Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else's—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world. Science is now revealing how the...
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#1 Zen Buddhism is a form of Buddhism that emphasizes meditation. It was started by a group of Buddhists who wanted to get back to the basics of what the Buddha had taught, dropping most of the dogmas and rituals.
#2 Zen Buddhism is not a set of beliefs and dogmas, but a way to learn to see what reality actually is beyond all beliefs and dogmas. We can't see the true...
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Get the Summary of Christopher Goscha's Vietnam in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Vietnam" by Christopher Goscha presents a comprehensive history of Vietnam, tracing its evolution from a region influenced by Chinese culture and Buddhism to a nation grappling with colonialism, internal strife, and modern statecraft. The book recounts the resistance against Chinese rule, the rise of the independent state of Dai...
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Get the Summary of Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Silk Roads" by Peter Frankopan explores the historical significance of the trade routes connecting Asia, Europe, and Africa. It begins with the early civilizations of Babylon and Mohenjo-Daro, highlighting the Persian Empire's influence and the spread of trade during the Han dynasty. The book details the exchange of goods,...
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Get the Summary of Douglas Harding's On Having No Head in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Douglas Harding's "On Having No Head" recounts a profound realization during a walk in the Himalayas, where he discovered his lack of a head, replaced by a boundless void that encompassed everything. This insight led to a sense of peace and unity, as he no longer perceived a separation between himself and the world. Harding...
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#1 Anxiety is the emotion at the core of uncertainty, and it's unavoidable. We need to learn how to work with it, not against it.
#2 We're overly confident about our ability to predict the future. The ancient teachings of Buddhism center on this fundamental problem. We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability, but we can never...
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Get the Summary of Boy George's Karma My Autobiography in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Karma My Autobiography" by Boy George is a candid memoir that delves into the artist's life, from his challenging upbringing in south-east London to his rise to fame with Culture Club and beyond. George candidly discusses his early life as a gay youth, his transformative experiences with music and fashion, and his first romantic...
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Get the Summary of Thick Nhat Hanh's The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, now revised with added material and insights, Nhat Hanh introduces us to the core teachings of Buddhism and shows us that the Buddha's teachings are accessible and applicable to our daily lives.
Covering such significant teachings as the Four...
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Get the Summary of The Dalai Lama with Sofia Stril-Rever's My Spiritual Journey in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this elegant self-portrait, the world's most outspoken and influential spiritual leader recounts his epic and engaging life story. The Dalai Lama's most accessible and intimate book, My Spiritual Journey is an excellent introduction to the larger-than-life leader of Tibetan...
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#1 The central question of how we can make the wonderful developments of science into something that offers altruistic and compassionate service for the needs of humanity and the other sentient beings with whom we share this earth is how we can make science into something that is governed by compassion.
#2 The most important point is to ensure that science never becomes...
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#1 Altruism is a step beyond ordinary generosity. It entails self-sacrifice or physical risk. It is when our impulse to serve others overrides our fear and our instincts of self-preservation.
#2 Around the world, people are constantly acting out of unadulterated altruism to help one another.
#3 Altruism is defined as an act of selflessness that is about benefiting others,...
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#1 Emotions cannot be permanent. They are called emotions because they are constantly changing. This goes on from one moment to the next.
#2 The heart is the source of emotions like love and hate, and it is the center of your being. Buddhism believes that everything arises out of your mind, and it is your mind that controls everything.
#3 The mind is a big...