The Possibility of Amazement: Awakening the Five Spiritual Faculties (eBook)
Out in Sept 2026
This book is a reflective, philosophically rich exploration of awakening as a lived, perceptual, and imaginative process, framed through the Buddhist teaching of the five spiritual faculties: faith, vigour, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. These are presented as an interpenetrating mandala – a constellation of capacities that together shape how we perceive, interpret, and inhabit the world.
Drawing on early Buddhist texts, Mahayana sources, phenomenology, poetry, myth, and autobiography, Nagapriya presents awakening as a religious and imaginative opening to depth, value, and transcendence, one that restores a sense of wonder to ordinary experience.
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This book is a reflective, philosophically rich exploration of awakening as a lived, perceptual, and imaginative process, framed through the Buddhist teaching of the five spiritual faculties: faith, vigour, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. These are presented as an interpenetrating mandala – a constellation of capacities that together shape how we perceive, interpret, and inhabit the world.
Drawing on early Buddhist texts, Mahayana sources, phenomenology, poetry, myth, and autobiography, Nagapriya presents awakening as a religious and imaginative opening to depth, value, and transcendence, one that restores a sense of wonder to ordinary experience.
Please consider becoming a Friend of Windhorse Publications and receive a copy of this book, and all our future books, as soon as they are published. By becoming a Friend from just £9 per month, you will give much needed support to independent Dharma publishing!
Endorsements
‘The model of the five spiritual faculties is surely one of the most helpful ways that the Buddha presented his teaching. Now, firmly within the tradition of Dharma teaching established by Sangharakshita, Nagapriya has brought his own fresh and original mind to bear on the subject – prepare to be inspired, challenged, awakened, and above all amazed.’ – Mahamati, Chair of the Triratna Buddhist Order's College of Public Preceptors
‘Bringing a concept from one culture or historical period to another can be risky. Nagapriya takes on this challenge to deftly explain the five spiritual faculties in their Buddhist contexts. Along the way, the reader encounters Borges’ poetry, the art of Van Gogh and Rothko, and the philosophies of Marion, Bachelard, and Chrétien. Throughout, Nagapriya’s own imaginative life of faith comes into view as he persistently pursues fresh insight into the meaning of key teachings.’ – Dr Timothy Stanley, Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, the University of Newcastle, Australia
‘Nagapriya invites us to recover our sense that the sacred is not apart from the world but reveals itself whenever we are awake to it. Here is Buddhism in all its glory!’ – Subhadramati, author of Not About Being Good: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Ethics
'I loved reading The Possibility of Amazement. The vision of life and Buddhist practice that Nagapriya opens out to us in his book is a potent one. It is a vision filled with energy, with curiosity, and with heart. It overflows. His book invokes a vibrant space which shimmers with possibility, and yet at the same time is real, grounded, and true.' – Subhadassi
