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Comparative Theories of Nonduality

The Search for a Middle Way

  • Paperback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 17 x 23.2 x 1.4 cm

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For readers interested in philosophy and spirituality

Explores the dualistic mindset that hampers understanding

You will discover a new path to unity and insight

This insightful book explores nondualism from a Western perspective.

It is a commonplace that while Asia is nondualistic, the West, because of its uncritical reliance on Greek-derived intellectual standards, is dualistic. Dualism is a deep-seated habit of thinking and acting in all spheres of life through the prism of binary opposites leads to paralyzing practical and theoretical difficulties. Asia can provide no assistance for the foreseeable future because the West finds Asian nondualism, especially that of Mahayana Buddhism, too alien and nihilistic. On the other hand, postmodern thought, which purports to deliver us from the dualisms embedded in modernity, turns out to be merely a pseudo-postmodernism. This book's novel idea is that the West already contains within one of its more marginalized roots, that of ancient Hebrew culture, a pre-philosophical form of nondualism which makes possible a new form of nondualism, one to which the West can subscribe. This new nondualism, inspired by Buddhism but not identical to it, is an epistemological, ontological, metaphysical, and praxical middle way both for the West and also between East and West.
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Comparative Theories of NondualityComparative Theories of Nonduality

  • Title

    Comparative Theories of Nonduality

  • Author

    Prof Milton Scarborough

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    December 2011

  • Weight

    355g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    17 x 23.2 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441159021

  • ISBN-10

    1441159029

  • Eden Code

    4030000