BUDDHISM IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK:
Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs

By Steve Hagen

"This is not just another nice book about Buddhism, one telling us what we like to hear and are used to hearing. No—it is a clear and challenging showing of the fundamental truth of our lives. This is an exceptional book. Make good use of it."
—Charlotte Joko Beck, author of Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen

"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."
—Huang Po



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Contents
Prologue-See For Yourself

Part I-Muddy Water

1 Paradox and Confusion
2 Stepping on Reality
3 The Problem with Eradicating Evil
4 We've Got It All Backward
5 The Itch in Your Mind
6 A Mind of Winter
7 No Mystery
8 Rebirth, Not Reincarnation
9 The Deep Secret in Plain View
10 The Warp and Woof of Reality
11 Neither Sacred nor Profane
12 Canyons in a Cup
13 Just Seeing
14 The Revelation of the World
15 Liberation, Not Resignation
16 The Host Within the Host
17 Before Ideas Sprout
18 True Freedom
19 Misguided Meditation
20 Turning Things Around
21 It's Enough to Be Awake
22 Life Without Measure
23 The Most Valuable Thing in the World
24 Before We Say
25 Needle in the Water
26 Why Seek Liberation?

Part II-Pure Mind

27 Pure Mind
28 The Thing Well Made
29 Transforming Heart and Mind
30 Truth Is Nothing in Particular
31 Without Religious Egotism
32 Getting Out of Your Mind
33 Forsaking Understanding
34 How Do We Know?
35 Nothing Else
36 It's Not a Matter of Belief


Part III-Purely Mind

37 How to Be Liberated on the Spot
38 This Will Never Come Again
39 The Elixir of Immortality
40 Ice Forming in Fire
41 Purely Mind
42 Time and Now
43 Enlightenment


Epilogue-Reality Is Not What You Think