In fresh and inviting language and making frequent use of strikingly clear diagrams and illustrations, this book challenges many of our common-sense understandings about ourselves and the world. The author, a former Theravada Buddhist monk and psychologist, lays out a new way of seeing that enables us to live more serenely, more compassionately,and more free of the slings and arrows of our busy lives.
Along the way, Sativihari looks at love and grasping, at "the great unfixables", and at how vulnerability and pain feed the "evolution of character" - all in the service of helping us return to our true home and find new ways to flourish.
Grounded in the Buddhist tradition yet completely free from the formulas of traditional presentations, Unlearning the Basics has an informal, straightforward style that will immediately captivate the reader.
