Author: Cass R. Sunstein File Type: pdf From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really meansand requirestoday In this pathbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isnt nearly enough. To be free, we must also be able to navigate life. People often need something like a GPS device to help them get where they want to gowhether the issue involves health, money, jobs, children, or relationships. In both rich and poor countries, citizens often have no idea how to get to their desired destination. That is why they are unfree. People also face serious problems of self-control, as many of them make decisions today that can make their lives worse tomorrow. And in some cases, we would be just as happy with other choices, whether a different partner, career, or place to livewhich raises the difficult question of which outcome best promotes our well-being. Accessible and lively, and drawing on perspectives from the humanities, religion, and the arts, as well as social science and the law, On Freedom explores a crucial dimension of the human condition that philosophers and economists have long missedand shows what it would take to make freedom real. **Review This slip of a book can be quickly read, but puts forth important concepts. Its ideas will stay with readers a long time. (Publishers Weekly) Real freedom is the freedom to reach your goal, not to get lost at every turn. In this powerful book, Cass Sunstein shows when policy can help us navigate to where we want to go, where policy might overstep by choosing the end point for us, and how to tell the two apart. A delightful masterpiece.Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology On Freedom is an elegant, clear, deceptively simple book about a fiendishly complex problem. How can free societies help citizens to navigate among a perplexing multitude of forking paths, only some of which lead toward desirable ends? How is a nudge in the right direction distinct from coercion? What is the best way to enable people to choose paths that enhance life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Drawing on a wealth of probing examples from social policy, literature, and his own experience, Sunstein brilliantly illuminates the challenges that face governments and individuals and sketches plausible ways forward.Stephen Greenblatt, author of *The Swerve How the World Became Modern* In this eloquent and timely book, Cass Sunstein asks urgent questions relevant to the crisis of democracy in which we find ourselves. As the author has demonstrated in the past, he is a thoughtful navigator of territory we may have prematurely believed we understood.Joyce Carol Oates An important and engaging book on freedom and choice by a top scholar. Sunstein gives us a comprehensive and cutting-edge treatment of his enormously influential work on nudging and well-being.L. A. Paul, author of *Transformative Experience* By redefining freedom, this becomes a book about the meaning of life.Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Prizewinning economist About the Author Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. From 2009 to 2012, he led the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. His many books include the New York Times bestsellers Nudge Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler) and The World According to Star Wars. The 2018 recipient of Norways Holberg Prize, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Twitter @CassSunstein

Author: Boshan File Type: pdf Thegreater the doubt, the greater the awakening. In this brief but remarkably thorough book, Boshan puts into words what it means to truly doubt. Not just to be skepticalbut to push all the way to the very foundations. Anyone interested in Zen can learn a whole lot from this little book. from the foreword by Brad Warner, author ofHardcore Zen Great doubt and great faith are foundations of Zen practice. This great gift of a book provides essential checkpoints along the path. Grace Schireson, author ofZen Women Upbeat, insightful, and inspiring teachingsa rich resource for all Buddhist practitioners.Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, author ofNeither Monk nor Layman Boshan addresses the reader directly with vivid metaphors and stern (sometimes humorous) admonishments. He pulls no punches These concise texts, not previously available in their entirety in English, offer classic wisdom for those exploring the Zen paths.Publishers Weekly A classic Chinese text with clearandinspiringcommentariesThomas Yuho Kirchner, translator ofEntangling Vines**ReviewShort and powerful Translating and commenting on two works by the Chinese master Boshan (15751630), Shore explores how to work with doubt in a modern context, insisting that everything must be questioned until it is confirmed in your bones. (Buddhadharma) A valuable handbook that deserves close study by teachers and practitioners. Savor this bookit is truly a gem. (Guo Gu, author of Passing through the Gateless Barrier ) This important volume conveys a part of traditional Zen that often gets lost in the West great doubt. An excellent translation and commentary. (Christopher Ives, author of Imperial Way Zen ) This book is an enormously valuable contribution to Zen practice. Shore vividly unpacks an essential and characteristic feature of Zen, great doubt, as wonder and curiosity. He not only offers pithing warnings about where we get stuck, but clear advice about how to go beyond the places in which we are free. (Dosho Port, author of Keep Me In Your Heart A While ) About the AuthorBoshan (1575-1630) was one of the leading Chinese masters of the Ming dynasty. Boshan, or Mount Bo, is the name of the mountain where he was active like many masters, he became known as such. He is also known as Wuyi Yuanli and Dayi. Boshan hailed from Shucheng in present-day Anhui Province, west of Nanjing. He left home in his mid-teens, took up Buddhist study and practice, including five years of sustained meditative discipline, and received full ordination. Later he practiced under the Caodong (Japanese Soto) master Wuming Huijing (1548-1618), a severe teacher who persistently rejected Boshans intial insights. One day, while sitting intently in meditation on a rock, Boshan had a sudden realization when he heard a statue nearby fall with a crash. The following year he was greatly awakened when watching a person climb a tree. He was in his late-twenties at the time. Boshan received the Bodhisattva precepts before teaching at several monasteries, finally settling at Mount Bo in present-day Jiangxi Province, south of Anhui. He was one of Wuming Huijings four Dharma heirs, and he himself left behind several Dharma heirs and lay disciples. He passed away in 1630. Jeff Shore (1953) was born in Philadelphia, USA. After 10 years studying and practicing in the United States, he went to Japan in 1981. He first spent a year living with Mumon Yamada, Head Abbot of Myoshinji monastery in Kyoto, and got his toes wet training at the monastery of Shofukuji in Kobe. In 1982 he began practice underZenkei Shibayamas successorKeido Fukushima, then Zen master and later Head Abbot of the major Rinzai complex ofTofukujiin Kyoto. He spent the next 25 years inrigorous Zen training there, completed the training,and became Fukushima Roshislay successor.Jeffs focus is directly pointing out the very core of Zen and the heart of living Buddhism. Jeff is also professor of Zen in the Modern World atHanazono Universityin Kyoto, the sole Rinzai-affiliated university in the world, where he has taught since 1987. He is a husband and a father. He lives in Kyoto where he also has a small place theRokoan hermitage open for those who want to deepen their practice.