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Standing at the Edge 站在邊緣之境

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Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and as a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom—and how we can transform our experience of suffering into the power of compassion for the benefit of others.

Halifax has identified five psychological territories she calls Edge States—altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement—that epitomize strength of character. Yet each of these states can also be the cause of personal and social suffering. In this way, these five psychological experiences form edges, and it is only when we stand at these edges that we become open to the full range of our human experience and discover who we really are.

Recounting the experiences of caregivers, activists, humanitarians, politicians, parents, and teachers, incorporating the wisdom of Zen traditions and mindfulness practices, and rooted in Halifax’s groundbreaking research on compassion, Standing at the Edge is destined to become a contemporary classic. A powerful guide on how to find the freedom we seek for others and ourselves, it is a book that will serve us all.

 

瓊恩•荷里法斯身兼人道主義者、社會活動家、人類學家和佛學老師幾種角色,她豐富了全世界數千人的生命。幾十年來,她還與神經科學家、臨床醫生和心理學家合作,以了解冥想靜坐如何能成為改變社會的工具。通過她的特殊背景,她發展出一種理論:我們生命中所遭逢的挑戰可以轉化成珍貴的智慧,還有我們應如何將痛苦轉變成慈悲的力量,來造福他人。
 
荷里法斯提出了她稱為「邊緣狀態」的五個心理範疇--利他、同理心、正直、尊重和參與--這些特質正是人類善良品格的縮影。不過,這些特質也可能造成個人和社會的苦難。如此一來,這五種心理經驗就形成了「邊緣」,只有當我們站在這些「邊緣」時,我們才能對人生的全部經驗敞開心胸,並真實地觀照自己。
 
《站在邊緣之境》講述照護者、活動家、人道主義者、政治人物、父母和教師的經歷,結合禪宗傳統和正念修行的智慧,並植根於荷里法斯關於慈悲的開創研究,本書必將成為當代經典。本書對所有的人都有助益,它可以指引我們找到自己和他人的心靈自由。

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