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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Samsara means the continuous flow of births, lives, deaths, and rebirths. Buddhist teachings assert that all sentient beings are trapped in a recurring cycle and that suffering is a universal characteristic of them. The ultimate aim of dharma, the truth about what remains below the appearance of reality, is to allow human beings to evade Samsara and reach Nirvana, the final liberation from illusion and suffering. Among the tools for achieving this goal, Buddhism prescribes meditation, compassion, and the cultivation of wisdom to overcome ignorance. We, humans, have an inexhaustible craving for justification, and words, thoughts, and reasoning are the tools we have to communicate. That's why we create philosophies as intellectual substitutes for experience. Yet this is a poor substitution because we attempt to speak about the unspeakable and to intellectually grasp what can only be achieved through an uncommunicable experience. That's not an intellectual endeavor, even though the repeated attempts by many Buddhist masters to justify their teachings culminated in a sophisticated philosophical construction whose understanding is far from trivial. It harbors a paradox: if reality as we perceive it is unreal, everything we may know is flawed by an intrinsic imperfection, and even we ourselves, the knowers, are not what we may imagine to be. That subtlety explains why engaging with the tenets of Buddhist teachings may appear convoluted, paradoxical, or nonsensical: they seek to convey something that must be experienced rather than described. Then, metaphorical narratives, or paradoxical questions, are often the best way to convey a kind of knowledge that, being reasonable, looks irrational. This book is a tentative offering of some reflections on and around these issues. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Opinion is the quietest of human freedoms, and the first to disappear. Long before a censor silences a press or a mob cancels a name, something more intimate collapses: the ordinary confidence that one may be wrong out loud, in front of others, without forfeiting one's place among them.The Demise of Opinion follows that freedom from its origins in the dialogical exchange between speakers who trust each other enough to disagree, through the print revolution that first made a plurality of belief survivable, to the mass-media age in which opinion could be manufactured as readily as it was expressed. It traces how ideology grounds belief, how the public conversation is set and shaped, and how the very tools that built the modern public sphere have learned to unbuild it.The final chapters descend into the record itself: the blasphemy statutes that still carry the death penalty in eight countries; the total states - Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Cuba - that made the mere holding of a view a capital matter; and, closer to home, the newer and quieter mechanism by which opinion now dies in societies that never passed a law against it at all - a lost job, a canceled lecture, a doxxing campaign, an arrest for a tweet. Two histories, one grammar: wherever a person may no longer safely be wrong, opinion - fallible, plural, correctable by definition - has already ceased to exist in anything but name.Written across several years and drawing on phenomenology, the sociology of knowledge, and a consensualist theory of truth built out of and beyond Habermas, this is a philosophical argument pursued with a historian's appetite for the concrete case. It asks a single question with an urgency that will only grow: what, exactly, are we prepared to do to keep the space in which we may be wrong from closing any further.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Samsara é o fluxo contínuo de nascimentos, vidas, mortes e renascimentos. O ensinamento budista diz que todos os seres sencientes estão presos nele, em um ciclo recorrente, e que o sofrimento é sua característica universal. A finalidade última do dharma, a verdade subjacente à aparência da realidade, é capacitar os seres humanos a escapar do Samsara e alcançar o Nirvana, a libertação final da ilusão e do sofrimento. O budismo prescreve a meditação, a prática da compaixão e o cultivo da sabedoria como instrumentos para alcançar esse fim.Nós, seres humanos, temos um anseio inexaurível por explicações, e palavras, pensamentos e raciocínios são os instrumentos que temos para nos comunicarmos. Por isso, criamos filosofias como substitutas intelectuais da experiência. Porém, essa é uma substituição insatisfatória, pois tentamos falar do que não pode ser dito e, intelectualmente, captar o que só se alcança por meio de uma experiência incomunicável.Isso não é uma empreitada intelectual, embora numerosos mestres budistas tenham reiteradamente tentado justificar seus ensinamentos, o que culminou em sofisticada construção filosófica cuja compreensão está longe de ser trivial. Ela implica um paradoxo: se a realidade percebida é irreal, tudo o que sabemos padece de uma imperfeição intrínseca, e até nós mesmos, os conhecedores, não somos o que imaginamos.Tal sutileza explica por que os princípios do budismo podem parecer complicados, paradoxais ou um contrassenso: eles procuram transmitir algo que pode ser experimentado, mas não pode ser descrito. Então, o melhor modo de transmitir essas ideias é por meio de metáforas ou imagens paradoxais. Esse conhecimento, embora razoável, pode parecer irracional.Este livro é uma tentativa de apresentar algumas reflexões em torno dessas questões.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Samsara e o fluxo continuo de nascimentos, vidas, mortes e renascimentos. O ensinamento budista diz que todos os seres sencientes estao presos nele, em um ciclo recorrente, e que o sofrimento e sua caracteristica universal. A finalidade ultima do dharma, a verdade subjacente a aparencia da realidade, e capacitar os seres humanos a escapar do Samsara e alcancar o Nirvana, a libertacao final da ilusao e do sofrimento. O budismo prescreve a meditacao, a pratica da compaixao e o cultivo da sabedoria como instrumentos para alcancar esse fim.Nos, seres humanos, temos um anseio inexaurivel por explicacoes, e palavras, pensamentos e raciocinios sao os instrumentos que temos para nos comunicarmos. Por isso, criamos filosofias como substitutas intelectuais da experiencia. Porem, essa e uma substituicao insatisfatoria, pois tentamos falar do que nao pode ser dito e, intelectualmente, captar o que so se alcanca por meio de uma experiencia incomunicavel.Isso nao e uma empreitada intelectual, embora numerosos mestres budistas tenham reiteradamente tentado justificar seus ensinamentos, o que culminou em sofisticada construcao filosofica cuja compreensao esta longe de ser trivial. Ela implica um paradoxo: se a realidade percebida e irreal, tudo o que sabemos padece de uma imperfeicao intrinseca, e ate nos mesmos, os conhecedores, nao somos o que imaginamos.Tal sutileza explica por que os principios do budismo podem parecer complicados, paradoxais ou um contrassenso: eles procuram transmitir algo que pode ser experimentado, mas nao pode ser descrito. Entao, o melhor modo de transmitir essas ideias e por meio de metaforas ou imagens paradoxais. Esse conhecimento, embora razoavel, pode parecer irracional.Este livro e uma tentativa de apresentar algumas reflexoes em torno dessas questoes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…