A Path Beyond Suffering: Working the Buddhist Method
by John Cunyus
Searchlight Press Who Are You Looking For? 144 pages ISBN: 978-0-9644609-6-6
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A Path Beyond Suffering:
Working the Buddhist Method
Table of Contents
Why Would a Christian Minister
Write a Book about Buddhism . . . 8
An Introduction to Buddhism 14
A Key Text
Overview
Beliefs
Later Developments
What Is the Buddhist Method?
Meditation: What It Is and
How to Do It
Simple Meditation Exercises
The Method in Outline 30
The Four Noble Truths
The Eightfold Path
The Ten Perfections
The Five Skandhas
Three Elements of
Buddhist Practice
The Five Precepts
Five Buddhist Precepts,
Slightly Updated
The Wheel of Existence
Death from a
Buddhist
Perspective
How Long Is a World Cycle
Three Marks of Existence
Four Attachments
What Is Wisdom
The Advantage of Wisdom
The Advantage of Meditation
How to Develop Spiritual Power
The Four Trances
The Four Sublime States
A Meditation on Beauty
A Meditation on Death
The Four Intent Contemplations
Confidence in the Doctrine
Proper Motivation for
Teaching the Method
A Refuge in a World of
Constant Change
Five Nots
The Danger of Belief
Summary of the Human Condition
Deeper Reflections 64
Life Hurts
A Non-Personal Understanding
of Life
A Meditation on the
Three Marks of Existence
What Is Nirvana
A Willingness to Face Death
Indian Psychology
Ten Perfections of a Bodhisattva
A Radical Negation
Why Do Bad Things
Happen, Period
Salvation in Hindu
and Buddhist Thought
God in Buddhism
What in Tarnation
Is Reincarnation?
Applications 116
Five Steps to a Happier Life
Five Ways Our Thoughts
Can Make Us Sick
Even Gandhi Had Karma
Death on the Wheel of Existence
How to Use the Skandhas
for Peace of Mind
The Anger-Eating Demon
Miscellaneous 138
Bibliography
About the Author
Also by the Author
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John Cunyus is a freelance philosopher working in North Texas. www.johncunyus.com
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