PSYCHOLOGY OF BUDDHISM (VIDEO) the Four Noble Truths by Rob NairnFormat: VHS 100 minutes full colour
Footage from a course of two lectures presented at the Centre for the Book, Cape Town, 2000.
Interwoven with an interview by Gorry Bowes Taylor.
Price: R130.00
ISBN: 0-958-4166-8-0
To purchase: http://www.yourbooks.co.za/detail.asp?id_Book=1623
Of interest
- Buddhism made simple and accessible in everyday language
- 100 minutes of excellent teaching from a master instructor
- Divided into bite-size chunks with headings
- An interview weaves through teaching highlighting key points
The essence of the Buddhist worldview is contained in the Four Noble Truths. As introduction Rob Nairn explores basic Buddhist concepts such as samsara (relative, conventional), nirvana (ultimate) and no-self. Then with his eloquent clarity Rob guides us through the Truths:
- First Noble Truth: How to identify the causes of our difficulties and suffering in life (dukkha).
- Second Noble Truth: How the process of confusion and delusion arises in our minds and is unwittingly sustained.
- Third Noble Truth: The teaching on cessation of egocentric suffering (nirodha) which leads to nirvana
- Fourth Noble Truth: The path to freedom—the Middle Way.
If we apply these truths we start working with the world in a spacious, expansive way. We start seeing how we keep ourselves on the treadmill of samsara and how a change of view reveals nirvana, the totality of our true nature.
Reviews
A clear comprehensive discussion of essential Budhist tecahings. Rob Nairn’s experience and understanding shine through,”
—JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, author and founder Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts.
