Stephen Batchelor talks about his book, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. This program was recorded in collaboration with Book Passage bookstore, on March 19, 2010.According to Batchelor, the outlook of the Buddha was far removed from the religiosity that has come to define much of Buddhism as we know it today. He argues that the Buddha was a man more focused on life in this world than the afterlife. Stephen Batchelor is an author and Buddhist scholar whose works include Living with the Devil, Meditation for Life, and Buddhism without Beliefs.