The Three-Petalled Rose
How the Synthesis of Judaism, Buddhism, and Stoicism Can Create a Healthy, Fulfilled and Flourishing Life
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In my own spiritual journey, over the past 50 or so years, I have found a good deal of wisdom in all the major religious and spiritual traditions—and also in the writings of individuals who have no religious or spiritual inclinations at all. (There are, after all, many wise and humane agnostics and atheists—some of whom have more helpful things to say about “the good life” than many theologians!). That great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud, asks, “Who is wise?” and answers, “The one who learns from all people.” I have tried to keep this in mind, even as I have focused on three particular spiritual traditions: Judaism, Buddhism, and Stoicism--what I refer to somewhat facetiously as "JuBuSto."
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This is a book for anyone who wants to live “the good life,” but who has not yet found a clear path to that goal.
By examining the common threads that unite three, great spiritual traditions--Judaism, Buddhism, and Stoicism--the author provides a framework for achieving a fulfilled and ethically responsible life. The author helps the reader take the spiritual “nutrients” from these three ancient traditions and transform them into a life of beauty, order, and purpose. No scholarly expertise or special knowledge of religion is required to understand this book, nor need the reader believe in a “supreme being” or owe allegiance to a particular religion. All that's needed is an open mind and a sincere desire to create an awakened and flourishing life.
About the Author
Ronald Pies MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts in Boston. He is author or editor of a number of psychiatric textbooks, as well several collections of fiction and poetry.