When Thinking Is a Problem by Eigen, Charles;

About and Beyond Thinking

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Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Date of Publication 15 April 2025
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9798881800581
Binding Paperback
No. of pages198 pages
Size 228.6x152.4 mm
Weight 331 g
Language English
Illustrations 1 b/w illustration;

Short description:

This book brings together leading figures who study the role of thinking in living and in the practice of meditation. It addresses questions of what thinking is, what is beyond cognitive thought, and what its roles are for the individual and society in mitigating suffering.

Long description:

When Thinking is a Problem examines the activity of thinking and how it is a primary factor in suffering at the individual as well as at the collective level, while at the same time, a necessary function that is often taken for granted and misused.
When Thinking is a Problem is unique in helping the reader to see the activity of thinking from a variety of different perspectives provided by writers representing diverse backgrounds. It contains essays, contemplations, and dialogues by eighteen teachers, all of them leaders in their fields. In these chapters, the mechanics and dynamics of thinking are discussed by well-known teachers from the Buddhist and Advaita traditions, as well as from noted neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, academics, and prominent writers. In its focus on thinking as it relates to suffering, whether by its presence or absence, the writers discuss the need to honor both thinking as well as the dimension or reality beyond conscious thought.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Charles Eigen
Part I: About Thinking
Chapter 1: Every Kind of Seed, from Understanding our Mind by Thich Nhat Hanh
Chapter 2: Thinking Problems and Jung's Typology by Frederick R. Gustafson
Chapter 3: How My Mind Works and Visualizes the World by Temple Grandin
Chapter 4: SEEKING Thinking: Greed and Need in Affective Neuroscience by Lucy Biven
Chapter 5: Thinking About Thinking by Raymond Tallis
Chapter 6: Introduction to Thinking at the Edge by Eugene T. Gendlin
Chapter 7: Mental Health and Normality: Toward a New Process oriented Perspective by Pierre Morin
Chapter 8: In Thought We Trust: A Podcast Conversation by Gangaji with Hillary Larson
Chapter 9: Mind Only, Beyond Thought by Rev. Ben Connelly
Part II: Beyond Thinking
Chapter 10: Going Beyond Thinking: Thinking, Attachment, and Interdependent Origination by Rev. Shohaku Okumura
Chapter 11: Introduction to J. Krishnamurti by David Bohm
Chapter 12: Banaras 5th Public Talk (Sunday, 6 February 1955) by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Chapter 13: Beyond Thinking by Jac O'Keeffe
Chapter 14: Dialogues in Delphi, November 6, 1990, from Open to the Unknown by Jean Klein
Chapter 15: John Doe, the Actor, from Eternity Now by Francis Lucille
Chapter 16: Putting an End to Discriminating Mind and To Study the Way is to Study the Self, from The Essence of Zen by Sekkei Harada
Chapter 17: An Interview from The Fire of Freedom by H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji)
Chapter 18: On Dying to Self, from Life as Teacher by Vimala Thakar
Chapter 19: No Trace, from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Rev. Shunryu Suzuki
Appendix: Shohaku Okumura's Translation of Dog's Buddha-Nature Part of Busho
Index
About the Contributors