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A TREATISE ON SECULAR BUDDHISM Volume I of III: Philosophy, Practice, Psychology, Ethics, and the Art of Living without Metaphysical Certainty

A TREATISE ON SECULAR BUDDHISM Volume I of III: Philosophy, Practice, Psychology, Ethics, and the Art of Living without Metaphysical Certainty

Montgomery, Richard Murdoch

Paperback

Series: The Scottish Science Companion Books

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ISBN13: 9798192363225
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This edition presents A Treatise on Secular Buddhism in three physical volumes. The division is an act of bookmaking, not an intellectual partition. The treatise was written as one continuous argument, and nothing in its structure suggests that history ends where a binding ends. A single-volume print edition, however, would require typographic compression severe enough to injure readability and would exceed the practical limits of the bindings for which this edition is prepared. The three-volume form therefore preserves rather than reduces the work. Volume I contains Chapters 1-24. It begins with the human problem and the historical world before the Buddha, moves through awakening, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, dependent origination, impermanence, not-self, nirvāṇa, karma, rebirth, naturalism, faith and doubt, and then develops the book's account of Buddhist psychology. It concludes by entering the discipline of meditation and establishing posture, place, time, method, and sustainable practice. Volume II contains Chapters 25-47 and carries the argument from formal meditation into contemplative safety, ethics, livelihood, relationships, moral repair, the principal Buddhist traditions, Buddhist modernism, and comparison with Western philosophy. Volume III contains Chapters 48-70 together with the conclusion and index; it brings the treatise into direct conversation with cognitive science, neuroscience, psychotherapy, evolution, politics, violence, social exclusion, ecology, technology, institutional criticism, emptiness, non-duality, time, language, compassion, and awakening as process. The original continuous pagination is retained across the set so that references remain stable. Readers may therefore move between volumes without changing the book's internal coordinates. These are three bindings, but one treatise.

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