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Dharma messages from 25 years as a Shin Buddhist minister at Orange County Buddhist Church
Author : Kenneth Ken'ichi Tanaka
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780972139595
Dharma messages from 25 years as a Shin Buddhist minister at Orange County Buddhist Church
Author : Jun Hong Lu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2008-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781925798012
Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1439195471
From one of America’s most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer—and the reason we make other people suffer—is that we don’t see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative practice is a radical promise: We can learn to see the world, including ourselves, more clearly and so gain a deep and morally valid happiness. In this “sublime” (The New Yorker), pathbreaking book, Robert Wright shows how taking this promise seriously can change your life—how it can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and how it can deepen your appreciation of beauty and of other people. He also shows why this transformation works, drawing on the latest in neuroscience and psychology, and armed with an acute understanding of human evolution. This book is the culmination of a personal journey that began with Wright’s landmark book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, and deepened as he immersed himself in meditative practice and conversed with some of the world’s most skilled meditators. The result is a story that is “provocative, informative and...deeply rewarding” (The New York Times Book Review), and as entertaining as it is illuminating. Written with the wit, clarity, and grace for which Wright is famous, Why Buddhism Is True lays the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age and shows how, in a time of technological distraction and social division, we can save ourselves from ourselves, both as individuals and as a species.
Author : Jun Hong Lu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2012-06
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ISBN : 9780648230045
Author : Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501737678
With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.
Author : Leigh Brasington
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083480302X
A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus associated with the Buddhist jhānas One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and more, leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering. So how does one achieve Right Concentration? According to the Buddha himself, the jhānas—a series of eight progressive altered states of consciousness—are an essential method. But because the jhānas can usually be achieved only through prolonged meditation retreat, they have been shrouded in mystery for years. Not anymore. In Right Concentration, Leigh Brasington takes away the mystique and gives instructions on how to achieve them in plain, accessible language. He notes the various pitfalls to avoid along the way and provides a wealth of material on the theory of jhāna practice—all geared toward the practitioner rather than the scholar. As Brasington proves, these states of bliss and concentration are attainable by anyone who devotes the time and sincerity of practice necessary to realize them.
Author : Stephen Batchelor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1101663073
A national bestseller and acclaimed guide to Buddhism for beginners and practitioners alike In this simple but important volume, Stephen Batchelor reminds us that the Buddha was not a mystic who claimed privileged, esoteric knowledge of the universe, but a man who challenged us to understand the nature of anguish, let go of its origins, and bring into being a way of life that is available to us all. The concepts and practices of Buddhism, says Batchelor, are not something to believe in but something to do—and as he explains clearly and compellingly, it is a practice that we can engage in, regardless of our background or beliefs, as we live every day on the path to spiritual enlightenment.
Author : Dennis Hirota
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2000-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791445297
Explores the potential significance of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Thought in the contemporary world, and provides a new model of interreligious dialogue as Buddhist thinkers engage with Christian theologians concerned with the present-day significance of their own tradition.
Author : Peter Harvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441147268
This collection of essays examines ten core themes from a comparative perspective and thus provides an integrated introduction to the social and spiritual values at the centre of Buddhist thought. Following an introductory chapter, the themes covered are moral decision making, worship, myth and history, the role of women, attitudes to nature, sacred writings, beliefs about human nature, rites of passage, sacred place and the depiction of the divine. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended further reading.
Author : Ernest J. Eitel
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368173197
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.