By By Arthur C. Brooks
Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over.
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CLEAR ALL
Meditation wasn’t the great panacea Susan Piver had hoped for, because fear and the other negative emotions didn’t just go away. But it did lead her to a surprising discovery—to fear less you’ve got to open more.
In his new book, Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions, Bhikkhu Analayo investigates some of the ways we as Buddhists have deluded ourselves about the “other”—from ongoing discrimination against women to the idea that Theravada practitioners have special access to the “pure” teachings.
The ultimate goal of Buddhist practice isn’t about achieving mental health.