Zen and the Psychology of Transformation: The Supreme Doctrine - torrent

This book is a truly masterful piece of literature and is a must read for anybody interested in Zen or the study of human consciousness. Most Zen masters refuse to discuss the discipline or explain it. Hubert Benoit takes the opposite, and for the intellectually-inclined seeker, the more accessible path, and discusses Zen in exhaustive detail in terms of psychology and philosophy
Benoit writes at an extremely high level of abstraction (something quite alien to traditional Zen, which deals mainly in parables) and practically every word he writes rings with utter truth and fidelity to the workings of consciousness. He is clearly a man who has absorbed the Zen teachings and then examined the workings of his own mind with unfailing rigor and perceptiveness; he has taken those findings and translated them into language with a care and accuracy that nobody else, to my knowledge, has ever matched. The results are utterly profound. I urge you to take a look at this book for yourself. It is a unique and amazing work which gives solid practical meaning to Zen philosophy, and to the mysteries of the mind.


Table of Contents:

Foreword by Aldous Huxley
Author\'s Preface
Chapter 1: On the General Sense of Zen Thought
Chapter 2: \'Good\' and \'Evil\'
Chapter 3: The Idolatry of \'Salvation\'
Chapter 4: The Existentialism of Zen
Chapter 5: The Mechanism of Anxiety
Chapter 6: The Five Modes of Thought of the Natural Man--Psychological Conditions of Satori
Chapter 7: Liberty as \'Total Determinism\'
Chapter 8: The Egotistical States
Chapter 9: The Zen Unconscious
Chapter 10: Metaphysical Distress
Chapter 11: Seeing Into One\'s Own Nature--The Spectator of the Spectacle
Chapter 12: How to Conceive the Inner Task According to Zen
Chapter 13: Obedience to the Nature of Things
Chapter 14: Emotion and the Emotive State
Chapter 15: Sensation and Sentiment
Chapter 16: On Affectivity
Chapter 17: The Horseman and the Horse
Chapter 18: The Primordial Error or \'Original Sin\'
Chapter 19: The Immediate Presence of Satori
Chapter 20: Passivity of the Mind and Disintegration of Our Energy
Chapter 21: On the Idea of \'Discipline\'
Chapter 22: The Compensations
Chapter 23: The Inner Alchemy
Chapter 24: On Humility
Epilogue