《Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self》PDF+mobi+epub高清完整电子版

In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist
philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that
at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and
improve our lives, our relationships, and the world. Drawing on Indian
and East Asian Buddhism, Daoism, Western philosophy, and cognitive
neuroscience, Garfield shows why it is perfectly natural to think you
have a self—and why it actually makes no sense at all and is even
dangerous. Most importantly, he explains why shedding the illusion that
you have a self can make you a better person.
Examining a wide range of arguments for and against the existence of the self, Losing Ourselves
makes the case that there are not only good philosophical and
scientific reasons to deny the reality of the self, but that we can lead
healthier social and moral lives if we understand that we are selfless
persons. The book describes why the Buddhist idea of no-self is so
powerful and why it has immense practical benefits, helping us to
abandon egoism, act more morally and ethically, be more spontaneous,
perform more expertly, and navigate ordinary life more skillfully.
Getting over the self-illusion also means escaping the isolation of
self-identity and becoming a person who participates with others in the
shared enterprise of life.
The result is a transformative book about why we have nothing to lose—and everything to gain—by losing our selves.

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