Read this excerpt from Part Two: "Practices of Self" of WISDOM AS A WAY OF LIFE: THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM REIMAGINED, by Steven Collins. Edited by Justin McDaniel. Preface by Dan Arnold. Afterword by Charles Hallisey. This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act.
This is an excerpt from the uncorrected pages of the book.