Buddha's Core Teachings In One Place
BONUS: How to Make Spiritual Progress, included at the end of the book.
A young man once asked Buddha to explain the essence of the Teaching.
“If you cling, you are bound. If you do not cling, you are free,†Buddha replied.
In the spirit of Stephen Mitchell's Tao Te Ching, The Essential Buddha is a free-flowing and a lucid collection of Buddha's core teachings on:
- Enlightenment
- Karma
- Freedom
- Suffering
- Non-self
- Happiness
- ...and others.