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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist Stephen Batchelor
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor. May have to crank up the snow blower. Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist. €�In Pali, Mara means “the killer”. In the Fall 2012 edition of Tricycle magazine, Stephen Batchelor writes about being a secular Buddhist. I, too, do not believe in reincarnation. The two topics here remind me, I really need to read Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist! (my main resource for this information comes from my interpretation and paraphrasing of Appendix I: The Pali Canon in Stephen Batchelor's Confession of a Buddhist Atheist). Stephen Batchelor wrote “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist” in which he says, frankly, he's dumped a good bit of Buddhist doctrine, too, including rebirth/reincarnation. Stephen Batchelor, author of "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist" joins us for the first installment of a three part series on Buddhism. This week, The Marketplace of Ideas presents a conversation with Stephen Batchelor, author on, scholar of and educator about Buddhist topics. Stephen Batchelor is a brilliant and elegant writer in Buddhism Without Beliefs, Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil, and his most recent Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. I just finished Stephen Batchelor's "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist" and am impressed by his writing style. This approach is presented in Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs and Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Collected Poems by Michael McClure. At the end of his book Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, Stephen Batchelor speaks about a secular religion, a beliefless practice, although he understands the contradictory nature of the terms. In Confession of a Buddhist Atheist Stephen tells the story of how he began his spiritual journey first by reading classic Indian texts such as the Rig Veda and the Bhagavad Gita, while experimenting with drugs such as LSD. I think Batchelor's argument is worth discussing here because it succinctly frames what I take to be the fundamental theological issue: the nature of suffering (and, thus, the nature of grace).