The Empty Throne and the Open Heart

A Pragmatist's Guide to Buddha for a Catholic Mind

von Matej Kovic, Saisunee Janyim

126 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

I'm not a Buddhist. I'm not really a Catholic either. But I was raised in Catholic socity, and that operating system is still installed in me, the guilt, the reverence, the reflex to look upward when something goes wrong.This book is for people like me. Most books on Buddhism are written for people who already live inside Eastern philosophy, or for atheists with no religious baggage. I'm neither. I spent thirty years in regulatory systems, and finding loopholes. I know how to see the machinery underneath the paperwork. When I started reading the Dhammapada, I wasn't looking to convert. I wanted to understand how it worked.So this is a translation manual. The courtroom becomes a clinic. The soul becomes a river. Grace becomes karma. Confession becomes sitting on a cushion and watching your own mind without flinching.My wife was born and raised in Thailand. She taught me that death isn't a departure, it's a return. A former nun taught me to see the architecture of belief before she died too young.You don't have to burn your Catholic roots. You're learning a second language for a machine you already know how to operate.The Buddha didn't ask to be worshipped. He asked to be tested.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176345650
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 198 x 129 mm
• Verlag: Independently published