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Staring Into the Void: The Resolution of Nihilism Through Buddhist Practice

Free audiobook: https://archive.org/details/staring-into-the-void-audiobook Podcast RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/c2db2140/podcast/rss YouTube: https://youtu.be/dRj6F3G8KCE Since the death of God was proclaimed by Nietzsche, the spirituality of the West has been trapped in a nihilistic death spiral. Philosophers like Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Sartre exposed the fundamentally limited, "all too human" nature of metaphysics, as well as the groundless insecurity and anxiety that lies at the heart of the human condition. The ensuing banalization of nihilism within postmodernism has now so saturated the West's intellectual culture that—a century-and-a-half later—even those outside the ivory tower of academia are starting to smell the miasma surrounding God's rotting carcass. Staring Into the Void brings an unexpected force to bear on the West's seemingly intractable spiritual and intellectual predicament: the existential and phenomenological wisdom contained in the earliest teachings of the Buddha. By putting these truths into conversation with existentialism, Staring Into the Void pulls no punches as it explores the fundamental nature of belief, meaning, security, and futility—expounding

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