Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil

Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil

Stephen Batchelor'sÂ seminal work onÂ humanity's struggle between good and evil

In the national bestsellerÂ Living with the Devil,Â 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 compassionâ‚¬"rather than habitual self-interest and fear.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2005-06-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594480874