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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist Stephen Batchelor ebook
ISBN: 0385527063, 9780385527064
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Page: 421
Format: pdf

I have read Batchelor's “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist” and is none the wiser about faith or the absence of faith. Reading Stephen Batchelor's Confession of a Buddhist Atheist is likely to have an irreversible impact on your image of the historical Buddha. I read "Confessions Of A Buddhist Atheist" and found it very interesting, though I could not agree with all of his conclusions. I, too, do not believe in reincarnation. (Stephen Batchelor, author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist). I think Batchelor's argument is worth discussing here because it succinctly frames what I take to be the fundamental theological issue: the nature of suffering (and, thus, the nature of grace). Stephen Batchelor, a self-proclaimed Buddhist atheist, has written a couple of books on reconciling these two Weltanshauungs: Buddhism Without Beliefs available at Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening and Confession of a Buddhist Atheist available at Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. Can one be a Buddhist without believing in karma, the gods, and the cycle of death and rebirth? The spiritual journey of former Buddhist monk Stephen Batchelor. But I am very uncomfortable with some of the comments here. Perhaps everything is pure semantics. That is the question that Stephen Batchelor sets out to answer. (I highly recommend his “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”.) I do find value in the de-mythologized Buddhism of Batchelor, and I think he argues convincingly Siddhatta Gottama himself. €�Challenging, witty, and erudite. In the Fall 2012 edition of Tricycle magazine, Stephen Batchelor writes about being a secular Buddhist. This week, The Marketplace of Ideas presents a conversation with Stephen Batchelor, author on, scholar of and educator about Buddhist topics. I do not believe that humans are supernaturally elect beings, that some god with special plans for us endowed us with unparalleled consciousness. Stephen Batchelor wrote “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist” in which he says, frankly, he's dumped a good bit of Buddhist doctrine, too, including rebirth/reincarnation. In Buddhism the emphasis is placed on practice. Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist.