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An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
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bookshelves: uplifting, spiritual-adventure
Aug 21, 2017
bookshelves: uplifting, spiritual-adventure
Read 2 times. Last read August 4, 2017 to August 15, 2017.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
(Paperback Edition)
August 4, 2017
–
Started Reading
August 4, 2017
– Shelved
August 4, 2017
– Shelved as:
uplifting
August 4, 2017
– Shelved as:
spiritual-adventure
August 5, 2017
–
25.69%
"...the 'I' was not a stable and autonomous entity and indeed was no more than a convenient label for the provisional relations among its constantly changing physical and mental parts. p27"
page
111
August 6, 2017
–
35.42%
"...karma seemed too much like a prop for a social structure that was supposedly part of the cosmic order but was actually an elites attempt to rationalize oppression and injustice.
p112"
page
153
p112"
August 7, 2017
–
43.29%
"Nietzsche wasn't interested in making theogical arguments against God. It was that men by their own actions had rendered God superfluous. p116"
page
187
August 8, 2017
–
49.54%
"For him, (the Buddha) neither God nor anything else had created the world; rather, the world was continually created by the actions, good or bad, of human beings. p207"
page
214
August 9, 2017
–
58.56%
"What the Buddha identified as the source of suffering- greed, hatred, and delusion- and wished to extirpate, was also the source of life, and it's pleasures, however temporary. p236"
page
253
August 10, 2017
–
64.81%
"The Buddha...went on to assert that the human personality was unstable; a complex flow of phenomena; a set of processes rather than a substance; A becoming rather than a being. p257"
page
280
August 11, 2017
–
71.76%
"As Marcus Aurelias put it:
Everywhere and at all times, it is up to you to rejoice piously at what is occurring at the present moment, to conduct yourself with justice towards the people who are present here and now.
287"
page
310
Everywhere and at all times, it is up to you to rejoice piously at what is occurring at the present moment, to conduct yourself with justice towards the people who are present here and now.
287"
August 13, 2017
–
79.86%
"The same delusion that made men suppose themselves to be solid and independent individual selves could also make them see such changing, insubstantial entities as state and society as real and enduring, and subordinate themselves to them.
p333"
page
345
p333"
August 14, 2017
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86.11%
"The unwholesomeminded must be included in our loving-kindness because they are the ones who need loving-kindness the most. p336"
page
372
August 15, 2017
–
90.05%
"In India, the past never went away, or, being ever present, never became the past. p351"
page
389
August 15, 2017
–
Finished Reading
November 8, 2017
– Shelved
(Paperback Edition)
November 8, 2017
– Shelved as:
inner-work
(Paperback Edition)
November 8, 2017
– Shelved as:
theo-logical-que...
(Paperback Edition)
