The Feeling Buddha Author:David Brazier The Feeling Buddha — A Buddhist Psychology of Character, Adversity and Passion — DAvid Brazier — A lucid account of how the Buddha's path of wisdom and loving kindness grew out of the challenges he encountered in life and how his "Middlw Way" restores the element of character missing from modern psychologies. This book explains enlightenment, nirva... more »na and the Four Noble Truths, free from mystification. The Buddha emerges as a very human figure whose success lay not in his perfection, but in his method of positively utilising the energy generated by personal suffering.
The book gives easy access to the earliest teachings of India's greatest sage and a practical guide for living life fully and deeply today. For students of Buddhism it is a challenge to orthodoxy; for psychotherapists and philosopher, an insight into emotion, existential reality and life purpose; and for the general reader, an inspiration. David Brazier draws on his personal encounters with the vicissitudes of life, his clinical experience as a practising psychotherapist, and a long and extensive practical study of the Buddhist Way.
David Brazier, as a practising psychotherapist and Zen Buddhist, is the director of an independent training programme in the north of England. His previous books include Zen Therapy (1995) and Beyond Carl Rogers: Towards a Psychotherapy for the 21st Century (1993).« less