Kindle Edition Amazon callisto green Category:  Psychology Publisher: Callisto Green ISBN-10:  1909985198 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 294 Copyright: July 19, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781909985193 Price: $6.23 (eBook) My aim in writing this book is to explore, from a modern psychological and biological perspective, what the Buddha was telling us. The ancient text and the modern point of view both complement and clarify each other. In my over 30 years of study, reflection and meditation experience in Buddhism, I have noticed that the teachings of the Buddha are often shrouded in a mystical or theistic point of view which, I believe, obscures the original intention of the Buddha. This book will show that the Buddha’s teachings are best understood as a psychology in which the mind is the prime mover for the transformation and wisdom needed for the culmination of insight development – Awakening or Enlightenment. Buddha maintained that the experience of Enlightenment was the ultimate phenomenological foundation of both the self and the world, while dening that an authentic self existed. Once we stop focusing on our illusionary virtual reality of a self, an amazingly complex, dynamic and interrelated world appears to us ‘as it is’. The Buddha’s systematic Eightfold Path is a concise and clear plan showing how to proceed to reach the goal of Nibbāna, or Enlightenment, returning us to knowing our ‘original mind’. This book will explain in a psychological perspective how we can understand better the Buddha’s doctrine and succiently apply it into our contemporary culture.  Excerpt The Buddha's teachings are, at heart, a way of life based on a revolutionary psychology which emphasises the cultivation of wisdom and compassion. Through an exploration of significant, recent findings and thought in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physics, linguistics, ecology and culture, this book shows how the Buddha's teachings are at the cutting edge of the new direction that psychology must take to reflect and apply the latest trends in science.

Fascinating Read!
At first I thought this book would be too technical for me as the author freely cites current research in science that supports his discussion about the Buddha's teachings significance for today's world but I was wrong. Instead, the author has crafted a fascinating non-fiction story that took me through all of the important doctrines of the Buddha with the support of many of the newest cutting edge ideas in science which are fascinating in and of themselves. Indeed, the implications for our happiness and ecology for the world are profound and the ending of the book shows that clearly. I highly recommend this book if you want to explore the hoped for future that could be fantastic for all.

Excellent Book
An excellent and important book in the study of Buddhist thought especially interpreting it with modern psychology and science. This subject as presented in this pleasantly surprising book will have far reaching postive effects in the lives of all sentient beings on earth.