{"product_id":"b0hfffgcxq","title":"Buddha: The Middle Way and The Life and Philosophy of the Buddha (The Philosophers Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe was a prince who had everything. One night, he walked away from all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five centuries ago, a young man slipped out of his palace, cut off his hair, and vanished into the dark to answer a single question: why do we suffer — and can it end? What he found would shape the inner lives of half a billion people, with no god, no holy book, and no promise of heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Middle Way , Book Four of the Sages series, is the true life and clear-eyed philosophy of the Buddha — the man behind the golden statues, and the startlingly practical method he actually taught.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll discover:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe four sights that shattered a sheltered prince's world The six years of brutal self-denial that nearly killed him — and why he abandoned them What the Middle Way really means, and why it is neither indulgence nor punishment Why mindfulness is  not  relaxation — and what it was actually built to do How a 2,500-year-old diagnosis of the human mind lines up with modern psychology This is not a book of incense and vague calm. It's the story of a specific man in a specific time, and a method he swore anyone could learn — because he had been ordinary, and learned it himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou don't have to be a Buddhist to find it useful. You only have to have felt the restlessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed Karen Armstrong's  Buddha , or the clarity of the Sages series (Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Aristotle), this belongs on your shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScroll up, click Buy Now, and walk the road the Buddha actually took.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52817278632152,"sku":"YSL30183","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/71IvWGmxgJL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793083619","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0hfffgcxq","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}