How we create our own problems and how Buddhist psychology can help us solve them.

Publisher's Description:

Buddhism asserts that we each have the potential to free ourselves from the prison of our problems. As practiced for more than twenty-six hundred years, the process involves working with, rather than against, our depression, anxiety, and compulsions. We do this by recognizing the habitual ways our minds perceive and react — the way they mislead. The lively exercises and inspiring real-world examples Cayton provides can help you transform intractable problems and neutralize suffering by cultivating a radically liberating self-understanding.

Editor's Notes:

This is a wonderful book from the Tibetan Buddhist point of view (sort of). What I like about it is that it is written for the rest of us non Buddhists and gives great information on moving out of our personal chaos into a way of living an empowered life. I like that it is an updated version of the Four NOble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddha without being preachy or "religious."