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Buddhism & finding meaningbooks

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The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential.

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Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, Jon Kabat-Zinn (preface)
2024
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Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness

For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way.

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Mark Epstein
1999
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The Big Questions: How to Find Your Own Answers to Life’s Essential Mysteries

The best-selling author of Awakening the Buddha Within addresses life's most provocative and tantalizing questions simply, directly, and powerfully. Every life is a journey through the unknown. Along the way, however, we tend to encounter the same perplexing questions again and again.

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Lama Surya Das
2007
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The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt

Faith is a thorny subject these days. Its negative expressions cause many to dismiss it out of hand—but Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel urges us to reconsider, for faith is really nothing but our natural proclivity to find certainty in a world where certainty is hard to come by.

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Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, Thupten Jinpa (foreword), Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche (foreword)
2018
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