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The Legendary Life Of Shakyamuni Buddha
A Psychotherapist's Journey Through the Buddha's Life Story
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36897425
EAN: 9798185093535
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Zustellung: Mi, 04.11.2026
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Beschreibung
Psychology taught us to explain. suffering. The Buddha taught us to pierce through. it. This book bridges the gap between knowing with the mind and living with the heart. Written from the unique perspective of a psychotherapist, this book rereads the legendary life of Siddhārtha Gautama - known to the world as Shakyamuni Buddha. From his birth beneath the Ashoka tree in Lumbini, to the Four Sights that shattered his illusions of permanence, to the defeat of Māra and his awakening beneath the Bodhi tree, to forty-five years of tireless teaching, to his serene passing between the twin Sala trees - you will walk alongside an awakened being who lived twenty-five hundred years ago through every chapter of his life's journey. Where does suffering take root. How does attachment arise. What traps us in the web of desire, fear, judgment, and self-created illusion - and how do we begin, little by little, to wake from it all. No prior knowledge of Buddhism is required. This is not an academic treatise, not a religious text, and not a call to conversion. It is the contemplation of an ancient sage and thinker by a psychotherapist who traveled in person to the Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini and retraced his entire life on foot - through the palace ruins of Kapilavastu, along the ascetic groves beside the Nairañjanā River, to the Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, to the Deer Park in Sarnath where the Dharma wheel first turned, to the ancient grounds of Jetavana, and finally to the twin Sala trees in Kuśinagara. She writes in the plainest language and the most poetic voice, showing you how the Buddha moved from suffering to complete and utter awakening. Throughout this book, she translates the Buddha's wisdom into the language of psychotherapy. The Four Noble Truths become a framework of diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, and treatment. The Middle Way becomes the therapeutic principle of avoiding extremes. This is no forced analogy - it is how she herself came to understand him: as one who saw deeper into the nature of human suffering than any psychologist before or since. If you have ever understood every truth there is to understand and still not lived well - if you have ever analyzed yourself with painful honesty and still found yourself wounded in the same place - if you are tired of empty consolation and want, at last, to see clearly why you suffer -. Then welcome. Walk with me through his birth, his bewilderment, his renunciation, his years of asceticism, his awakening, his decades of teaching, and his final release into nirvāṇa. You will see a man of flesh and blood, no different from you, who found a way out of the deepest suffering - not for himself alone, but for all beings.