A Handful of Leaves

Jeeves introduces sir to BuddhismBy Jeeves for Paul Milovanov, Esq
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Length6h 56m

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Ten evenings of about forty minutes on what the Buddha actually claimed and what became of the claim. The man, told straight, legend and history kept apart; the diagnosis and the physician's format; the anatomy of a self and the argument that there is none to find; the wheel of dependent origination, karma, and rebirth; the treatment, with the practice taught once and honestly; the order and the word, from the last meal to the canon and Ashoka; then the teaching crossing its borders — the Great Vehicle and emptiness, China and Zen, Tibet and the roof of the world, and at last the West, the mindfulness industry, the evidence, and a verdict. Written to be heard on the run or with an infant in one's arms: one idea per evening, said twice.

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GenrePhilosophy
Length6 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Episode One -- The Physician of Kapilavastu
2A Fetter Is Born
3Part One -- What Can Be Known
4Part Two -- The Four Sights, and the Man’s Own Words
5Part Three -- The Starving Man, and the Rose-Apple Tree
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6Part Four -- The Night
7Part Five -- The Hesitation, and the Road to the Deer Park
8The Raft, So Far
9Episode Two -- The Diagnosis
10Five Sceptics and a Physician
11Part One -- The Physician’s Format
12Part Two -- The First Truth, and the Trouble With the Word Suffering
13Part Three -- The Second Truth, or Thirst
14Part Four -- The Third Truth, or the Cool
15Part Five -- The Fourth Truth, and the Man Who Understood
16The Raft, So Far
17Episode Three -- The Anatomy of a Self
18The King and the Chariot
19Part One -- The Second Sermon, and the Five Heaps
20Part Two -- The Argument
21Part Three -- The Mustard Seed
22Part Four -- What Not-Self Does Not Say
23Part Five -- Who, Then, Is Reborn?
24The Raft, So Far
25Episode Four -- The Wheel
26Do Not Say So, Ananda
27Part One -- This Being, That Is
28Part Two -- The Twelve Links, Walked
29Part Three -- Karma, Which Is Intention
30Part Four -- Rebirth, Honestly
31Part Five -- Where the Knife Goes
32The Raft, So Far
33Episode Five -- The Treatment
34A Dipper of Water
35Part One -- Three Trainings, Eight Factors
36Part Two -- Ethics First, and Mostly
37Part Three -- The Mind Trained
38Part Four -- The Practice, Once
39Part Five -- The Warnings
40The Raft, So Far
41Episode Six -- The Order and the Word
42The Last Meal
43Part One -- The Order
44Part Two -- The Councils, and the Reciting
45Part Three -- The Emperor
46Part Four -- The Word Written Down
47Part Five -- The First Border
48The Raft, So Far
49Episode Seven -- The Great Vehicle
50A Book from a Cave
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