A Partial Enlightenment : : What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection / / Avram Alpert.
In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other philosophies feel abstract and disembodied, Buddhism offers meditation as a means to realize this ideal. I...
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