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Book Description  
India's great sage emerges as passionate human being in this guide to the Buddha's basic teachings. With astonishing simplicity, David Brazier distills the essence of the Buddha's message from "Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dharma," the talk he gave after he attained enlightenment. Here the Buddha spelled out the path of the Four Noble Truths as the basis of his teachings. In a refreshingly unorthodox approach to what the Buddha was really saying to us across the centuries, Brazier... 
With astonishing simplicity, David Brazier has distilled in The Feeling Buddha the essence of the Buddha's message from a talk the Buddha gave after he attained enlightenment. Here the Buddha spelled out a practical approach to the problems of life, defining spirituality as the art of converting base passion into noble engagement. The Feeling Buddha makes the teachings of India's greatest sage, who finally emerges here as a very human figure full of passion, ultimately accessible. It also serves... 

About the Author  
David Brazier is a practicing psychotherapist and Zen Buddhist. His previous books include Zen Therapy and Beyond Carl Rogers: Towards a Psychotherapy for the Twenty-First Century. He lives in London.