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The Oldest Cure for Your Suffering: Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Socrates & Confucius
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ISBN13: 9781067280185
Publisher: Vihanga Senadeera
Pages: 448
Weight: 2.18
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Four ancient minds. Four human failures. One practical philosophy for modern life.
We have new tools, new technologies, and more access to information than any generation before us. Yet the oldest human problems remain: anxiety, resentment, self-deception, loneliness, moral drift, and the restless feeling that life is not quite enough.
The Oldest Cure for Your Suffering brings together Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Socrates, and Confucius as practical guides rather than distant icons. Each thinker diagnoses a different form of human failure: Buddha reveals how the mind creates unnecessary suffering; Jesus exposes how pain turns outward and damages relationships; Socrates shows why certainty so often hides ignorance; and Confucius explains why good lives and societies require habit, duty, respect, and structure.
This is not religious apologetics, academic history, or conventional self-help. It is philosophy in the oldest sense: wisdom applied to the problem of living. Through clear explanation, modern examples, reflection questions, and practical exercises, the book translates ancient insight into tools for ordinary life - the difficult conversation, the anxious morning, the professional failure, the family wound, the season of grief, and the quiet work of beginning again.
For readers interested in practical philosophy, ancient wisdom, mindfulness, ethics, psychology, and personal transformation, this book offers a grounded, humane guide to suffering less, seeing more clearly, and living with greater attention, mercy, honesty, and character.
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