Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil Paperback - 2005
by Batchelor, Stephen
- New
- Paperback
In bestselling author and former monk Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on our greatest struggle-to become good-he traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction of Kafka, and the findings of modern physics and evolutionary biology-to examine who we really are, and to rest in the uncertainty that we may never know.
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Details
- Title Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil
- Author Batchelor, Stephen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date 2005-06-07
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1594480877_new
- ISBN 9781594480874 / 1594480877
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.14 x 5.84 x 0.64 in (20.68 x 14.83 x 1.63 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress subjects Good and evil, Spiritual life - Buddhism
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.35
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Summary
Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil
In the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction of Kafka, and the findings of modern physics and evolutionary biology to examine who we really are, and to rest in the uncertainty that we may never know. Like his previous bestseller, Buddhism without Beliefs, Living with the Devil is also an introduction to Buddhism that encourages readers to nourish their "buddha nature" and make peace with the devils that haunt human life. He tells a poetic and provocative tale about living with life's contradictions that will challenge you to live your life as an existence imbued with purpose, freedom, and compassion—rather than habitual self-interest and fear.
