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The Buddha was a psychologist : a rational approach to Buddhist teachings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kozak, Arnold (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
Subjects:
Buddhism > Psychology.
Psychology > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Well-being > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Why I am Leaving the Mindfulness Movement
  • Notes
  • Introduction: The Psychological Buddha
  • The Buddha As Psychologist
  • Not Self: The Case against Essentialism
  • The Fire Problem: "The Way of Putting Things as Being on Fire"
  • Taking Existential Responsibility by Relinquishing Dogma
  • Call Me By My Name: What to Call the Buddha
  • Overview
  • Notes
  • Part I: Reclaiming the Buddha from Buddhism
  • Chapter 1: The Legend of the Buddha: History, Myth, and Hagiography
  • Historical Considerations
  • Transmigration of Buddhism
  • Reading the Canon
  • The Buddha's Myth
  • Summary of the Myth
  • Myth: Four Signs
  • Myth: The Buddha's Alleged Crisis
  • Myth: Going Forth
  • Mara as the Representation of Self
  • Myth Post-Enlightenment
  • A Life of Service
  • An Ignoble End to a Noble Life
  • Making Sense of the Buddha's Mythology
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: The Hermeneutical Buddha: What He Taught, What He Thought (Maybe)
  • The Buddha Eschewed Metaphysics: Epistemology over Ontology
  • The Buddha before Buddhism
  • The "Great One's" Ordinary Life
  • Notes
  • Part II: The Buddha's Pedagogical Project
  • A Great Doctor
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: The First Ennobling Praxis: What is the Problem?
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4: The Second Ennobling Praxis: Getting to the Root of the Problem
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: The Third Ennobling Praxis: Can the Problem Be Resolved?
  • Enlightenment as Wellbeing: Metaphysical Assumption or Natural Finding
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: The Fourth Ennobling Praxis: Resolving the Problem
  • Integral Mindfulness
  • Reflections on the Fourfold Teaching in Context
  • Notes
  • Part III: Mind on Fire
  • Mind on Fire
  • The Five Fire Sites (Aggregates): Features, Functions, Adaptations, Liabilities, and Antidotes
  • Form (Rupa)
  • Perception (Sanna)
  • Feeling (Vedana)
  • Fabrication (Sankhara)
  • Consciousness (vinnana)
  • The Aggregates in Action
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7: Form: Brain Architecture and the Neuroplastic Forest of Self
  • Overview
  • Form is Not Self
  • The Beautiful Brain: Trees of the Brain, Roots of the Mind
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8: Perception: Categorization
  • Overview
  • Perception is Not Self
  • Deconstructing Categories through Present Moment Awareness
  • Notes
  • Chapter 9: Feeling: Pain and Pleasure Drive Evolution's Primary Agendas (and Give Rise to a Sense of the One Having Pleasure and Pain)
  • Overview
  • Feeling is Not Self
  • Natural Desire: Master Manipulator
  • Sensuality and Renunciation: The Challenge of Permissible Pleasures
  • Notes
  • Chapter 10: Mental Fabrication and the Modular Self
  • Overview
  • Fabrications are Not Self
  • Metaphorical Implications
  • Self and Not Self from the Modular Perspective
  • The Self Is Not in Control
  • The Self is Biased
  • Getting Beyond Essentialism
  • Notes