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How to Solve Our Human Problems: the Four Noble Truths.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
HOW TO SOLVE OUR HUMAN PROBLEMS: The Four Noble Truths GESHE KELSANG GYATSO. Tharpa, $12.95 paper (166p) ISBN 0-948006-37-4
"All our problems ... come from our delusions of attachment," writes Gyatso, a Tibetan-born teacher of Buddhism, and "Buddha's teachings are the supreme ... method to solve human problems." Gyatso puts this thesis to the test by first offering very brief, general outlines of each of the Four Noble Truths. He spends the bulk of the book examining a particular delusion--anger--in chapters that more or less correspond to those Noble Truths. He begins by pointing out the many problems anger can cause, then investigates why we get angry. Gyatso then …
