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- Publisher
- University of Hawai'I Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © University of Hawai'i Press.
- ISSN
- 1529-1898
- DOI
- 10.1353/pew.2022.0066
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
BOOK REVIEW Seeing Clearly: A Buddhist Guide to Life. By Nicolas Bommarito. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 298. Hardcover $19.95, ISBN 978-0-190887-50- Reviewed by Jake H. Davis Vipassana Hawai`i / Karachi Sangha / Stillpoint Martha’s Vineyard jhdavis@vijja.net In Seeing Clearly, Nicolas Bommarito brings together Buddhist theory and practice with a deceptively simple sophistication that few have managed in the contemporary era. Meditation teachers have contributed to the self-help section an abundance of guides to Buddhism and meditation, many of them elegantly worded and sometimes simple and practical. Yet many of these works also stumble unwittingly into philosophical problems discussed with great care and complexity in footnoted academic volumes read mostly by a small circle of scholars. Bommarito’s accomplishment as a philosopher is evident not only in the clarity of his exposition, but also in what he doesn’t say, in the many philosophical blunders he does not fall into. Yet the reasons for not saying what he doesn’t say are, for the most part, left for elsewhere. This allows his exposition to remain straightforward and accessible, aimed unwaveringly at the practical goal of facing up to the troubling aspects of life and living from that truth. Seeing
Journal
Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Sep 30, 2022