Buddhism Without Beliefs
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A national bestseller and acclaimed guide to Buddhism for beginners and practitioners alike In this simple but important volume, Stephen Batchelor reminds us that the Buddha was not a mystic who claimed privileged, esoteric knowledge of the universe, but a man who challenged us to understand the nature of anguish, let go of its origins, and bring into being a way of life that is available to us all. The concepts and practices of Buddhism, says Batchelor, are not something to believe in but something to do—and as he explains clearly and compellingly, it is a practice that we can engage in, regardless of our background or beliefs, as we live every day on the path to spiritual enlightenment.
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This book was really incredible. It really made me contemplate things that I had assumed to be true and forced me to evaluate the world based on what is known rather than what is indoctrinated. That said, some things in this book are in themselves assumptions. It's important to criticize every word in a book such as this and understand that what should be taken as advice (because there is a lot of wisdom in these pages) and what is unnecessary (it's hard to sell a book unless you have certainty that you're right and in a subject such as this, there can never really be certainty).
