{"id":37,"date":"2017-04-30T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/home\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:58:55","slug":"facebuddha-transcendence-age-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebuddha:  Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>A journey through the wilds of relationships, from a rooftop in Hanoi to a village in India, from the streets of San Francisco and Japan to the blue Wall of Facebook, culminating in a transformative<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>experience of interdependence.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Facebuddha will make you smile, laugh<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>and think differently about the world we share.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/home\/trailer-and-purchase-links\/\">FACEBUDDHA IS\u00a0AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE NOW!<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Also in stock at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestbooks.net\">Forest Books<\/a> in SF Japantown<br \/>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiabookcenter.com\">Eastwind Books<\/a> in Berkeley!<br \/>\nSupport your local bookstore!<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are who happens to us, and what we make of the happening.<\/strong> Who do we become when we relate online? What happens to our minds and hearts? Ravi Chandra is a psychiatrist and Buddhist who values conversation, relationship and their ultimate goals: love and the feeling of society. And he thinks we are in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Online, we seek belonging, self-expression and meaning, essential to our humanity. Social media can be a curio for the exploration of the self. Social networks might be an empowering means to address our social ills. But the online world has traps for our habitually and unconsciously self-centered egos, cause of so much of our suffering in life. Our transcendent spirits and our social beings are challenged and even imperiled by the realms we enter through our screens.<\/p>\n<p>Chandra writes, only partially tongue-in-cheek, \u201cSocial media is not just a medium. It is a new religion. The Tweet is our Call to Prayers. We thumb our Phones like Rosaries. We take Food Pics instead of Saying Grace. The Status Update is our Sermon on the Mount. The Selfie our personal Anointment and Beatification. Facebook Messenger is our Messiah. The Apple Store is our modern Cathedral, our Silicon Sanctuary. New Emoji are released to the fanfare of a new Pope.\u201d Where is this religion taking us?<\/p>\n<p>Thoughtful, humorous, engaging and enlightening, <strong><em>Facebuddha <\/em><\/strong>will be a conversation starter for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Facebuddha<\/i><\/b> is a rich memoir of relationships, online and off, and an exploration of the psychology of social networks through a Buddhist lens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/home\/trailer-and-purchase-links\/\">AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE NOW!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravichandramd.com\/dadalist\/mail.cgi\/list\/rchandrawriter\/\">Sign up for a newsletter!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ravichandramd.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Leave a comment on my guestbook!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Book cover image: \u00a0<em>Hollywood Buddha<br \/>\n<\/em>courtesy of the artist, Tenzing Rigdol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Book photos and prop styling by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonizernik.com\">Toni Zernik<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journey through the wilds of relationships, from a rooftop in Hanoi to a village in India, from the streets of San Francisco and Japan to the blue Wall of Facebook, culminating in a transformative experience of interdependence. 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