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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him: the pilgrimage of pychotherapy patients

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bantam Books 1972 TorontoDescription: x, 238 pISBN:
  • 9780553278323
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8914 K6I3
Summary: A fresh, realistic approach to altering one’s destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom. No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it. “The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.” Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman’s journey through life. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/95070/if-you-meet-the-buddha-on-the-road-kill-him-by-sheldon-kopp/
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 33-B / Slot 1744 (2nd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 616.8914 K6I3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 200661

A fresh, realistic approach to altering one’s destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom.
No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it.
“The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.”
Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman’s journey through life.


https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/95070/if-you-meet-the-buddha-on-the-road-kill-him-by-sheldon-kopp/

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