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Book Synopsis Invoking Reality by : John Daido Loori
Download or read book Invoking Reality written by John Daido Loori and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development. The Buddhist teachings on morality—the precepts—predate Zen, going all the way back to the Buddha himself. They describe, in essence, how a buddha, or awakened person, lives his or her life in the world. Loori provides a modern interpretation of the precepts and discusses the ethical significance of these vows as guidelines for living. "Zen is a practice that takes place within the world," he says, "based on moral and ethical teachings that have been handed down from generation to generation." In his view, the Buddhist precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice.
Book Synopsis Invoking Reality by : John Daido Loori
Download or read book Invoking Reality written by John Daido Loori and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development. The Buddhist teachings on morality—the precepts—predate Zen, going all the way back to the Buddha himself. They describe, in essence, how a buddha, or awakened person, lives his or her life in the world. Loori provides a modern interpretation of the precepts and discusses the ethical significance of these vows as guidelines for living. “Zen is a practice that takes place within the world,” he says, “based on moral and ethical teachings that have been handed down from generation to generation.” In his view, the Buddhist precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice.
Book Synopsis Using Reality Therapy by : Robert E. Wubbolding
Download or read book Using Reality Therapy written by Robert E. Wubbolding and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1988-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical book on counseling that contains down-to-earth ideas on how to apply the principles of reality therapy in specific situations such as marriage, family, and individual counseling as well as the work environment.
Book Synopsis Riding the Ox Home by : John Daido Loori
Download or read book Riding the Ox Home written by John Daido Loori and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maps and guideposts are helpful when we undertake a journey. The ten Ox-Herding Pictures, the accompanying ancient poems, and a modern commentary by John Daido Loori, sketch the spiritual path encountered in Zen training, a path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate nature of reality. The Ox-Herding Pictures can be our companion on the Way of self-discovery, our compass and perspective when we need one. They are a bottomless source of mysterious wisdom to which we can return again and again for inspiration, and they translate easily into the gritty reality of spiritual practice that emerges from and grounds us in the inescapable relevance of our daily lives.
Book Synopsis Opening to Oneness by : Nancy Mujo Baker
Download or read book Opening to Oneness written by Nancy Mujo Baker and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop trying to become “better” by suppressing or hiding parts of yourself, and learn what it means to be fully human with this accessible guide to the core ethical teachings of Zen Buddhism. In Opening to Oneness, Zen teacher Nancy Baker offers a detailed path of practice for Zen students planning to take the precepts and for anyone, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, interested in deepening their personal study of ethical living. She reveals that there are three levels of each precept: a literal level (don’t kill, not even a bug), a relative level that takes moral ambiguity into account (what if it’s a malaria-spreading mosquito?), and an ultimate level—the paradoxical level of nonduality, in which the precepts are naturally expressed from a state of oneness. Full of nuance, intelligence, and compassion, the first half of the book addresses the ten grave precepts mostly from the relative level, including instructions for how to practice these precepts individually and in pairs or groups. The second half of the book takes a deep dive into looking at the precepts from the ultimate perspective, largely through an exploration of the writings of Dogen, the thirteenth-century religious genius who founded the Soto Zen school. At once comprehensive and innovative, Opening to Oneness will take its place alongside classics like The Mind of Clover, The Heart of Being, and Being Upright as a cherished guide to Zen Buddhist ethics.
Book Synopsis Bringing the Sacred to Life by : John Daido Loori
Download or read book Bringing the Sacred to Life written by John Daido Loori and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen rituals—such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue—are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life. A ritual is simply a deliberate and focused moment that symbolizes the care with which we should be approaching all of life, and practicing the Zen liturgy is a way of cultivating this quality of attention in order to bring it to everything we do. Here, John Daido Loori demystifies the details of the Zen rituals and highlights their deeper meaning and purpose. We humans are all creatures of ritual, he teaches, whether we recognize it or not. Even if we don’t make ritual part of some religious observance, we still fall into ritual behavior, whether it be our daily grooming sequence or the way we have our morning coffee and paper. We run through our personal rituals unconsciously most of the time, but there is great value to introducing meaningful symbolic rituals into our lives and to performing them deliberately and mindfully—because the way we do ritual affects the way we live the rest of our lives. The book includes instructions for a simple Zen home liturgy, as it is practiced by students of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen.
Book Synopsis The Shadow of Unfairness by : Jeffrey Edward Green
Download or read book The Shadow of Unfairness written by Jeffrey Edward Green and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic engagement and career advancement. Under this shadow of unfairness, Green argues that the most advantaged class are rightly subjected to compulsory public burdens. And just as provocatively, he urges ordinary citizens living in polities permanently darkened by plutocracy to acknowledge their second-class status and the uncomfortable civic ethics that come with it -- specifically an ethics whereby the pursuit of egalitarianism is informed, at least in part, by indignation, envy, uncivil modes of discourse, and even the occasional suspension of political care. Deeply engaged in the history of political thought, The Shadow of Unfairness is still first and foremost an effort to illuminate present-day politics. With the plebeians of ancient Rome as his muse, Green develops a plebeian conception of contemporary liberal democracy, at once disenchanted yet idealistic in its insistence that the Few-Many distinction might be enlisted for progressive purpose. Green's analysis is likely to unsettle all sides of the political spectrum, but its focus looks beyond narrow partisan concerns and aims instead to understand what the ongoing quest for free and equal citizenship might require once it is accepted that our political and educational systems will always be tainted by socioeconomic inequality.
Book Synopsis Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase by : Artemis Alexiadou
Download or read book Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of ‘Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the ongoing debate over older and more recent approaches to the syntax of DPs in particular in the wake of the minimalist program (Chomsky 1995) and Kayne’s antisymmetry hypothesis (Kayne 1994). The relative theoretical coherence among the contributions permits detailed comparison of specific syntactic proposals, providing a solid basis for further debate. Several of the papers address the syntactic questions in parallel with related semantic or morphological issues. The value of this collection to the study of Universal Grammar is also underlined by its comparative bias. Analyses of Germanic, Romance and Balkan languages figure prominently, and a number of new empirical generalizations within and between languages are discussed.
Book Synopsis Being Upright by : Tenshin Reb Anderson
Download or read book Being Upright written by Tenshin Reb Anderson and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Upright takes us beyond the conventional interpretation of ethical precepts to the ultimate meaning that informs them. Reb Anderson first introduces us to the fundamental ideas of Zen Buddhist practice. Who was Shakyamuni Buddha and what was his central teaching? What does it mean to be a bodhisattva and take the bodhisattva vow? Why should we confess and acknowledge our ancient twisted karma? What is the significance of taking refuge in Buddha, dharma, and sangha? The author explores the ten basic precepts, including not killing, not stealing, not lying, not misusing sexuality, and not using intoxicants. A gifted storyteller, Anderson takes us to the heart of situations, where moral judgments are not easy and we do not have all the answers. With wisdom and compassion, he teaches us how to confront the emotional and ethical turmoil of our lives.
Book Synopsis The American Tragedy of COVID-19 by : Naomi Zack
Download or read book The American Tragedy of COVID-19 written by Naomi Zack and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a classic tragedy of destruction following errors in judgment. Naomi Zack presents social and political aspects of this disaster as it unfolded in public health through federal and local government structures, society, culture, and the economy. Federalism combined with politics in facing and denying the SARS-CoV2 pandemic has revealed both weaknesses and strengths. Preparation was woefully inadequate for the 2020 tidal wave of COVID-19 that broke over the medical system, the educational system, the lives of the poor, essential workers, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and women, especially. Rhetoric and conspiracy theories flourished, as Red and Blue Americans politicized the pandemic. Police reform became urgent after billions witnessed George Floyd’s death. The war of the statues evoked new conflicts over free speech. The X-ray nature of COVID-19 has revealed the United States to itself, in character, incompetence, superstition, and injustice, but also in dedication to caring for others and abiding resilience. The core of democracy held after the 2020 election but vigilance is newly important and required. As a record of this US Plague Year and an argument for why we need to prepare for Climate Change, as well as the next pandemic, this book is an essential resource for every student, scholar, and citizen.
Download or read book Reality Hunger written by David Shields and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience.
Book Synopsis The Noatic Crossing by : David R. Brown
Download or read book The Noatic Crossing written by David R. Brown and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creationism versus evolution. As persistent as it is tiring, this war has torn families and even nations apart. The passions driving these camps to battle have been violent, virulent, and sadly, completely wasted. Scientists have examined this world for evidence to assert their theory, while creationists have believed the Bible speaks of this same world. This is an error that caused a war that needn't have ever been. The account of Noah speaks to another world in another time. Basked in the shadow of an ultradense gravity, Noah's world died in the crib, while this one rolled through a billion years or more. Here, nonhuman life crawled through stages, as plates shifted the world we now know congealed into the stage for Yeshua's master play. As Noah built his ark in the last few years of his world, he prepared for a journey that he could not have conceived-one in which Yahweh would not only save him from an apocalypse but through which He would transport Noah to another world altogether. Thus, The Noatic Crossing, the event through which the godly line of the Messiah was comported from afar to our world. This treatise examines the lattice of facts available through scientific review and reposits the lens of the Scripture to theorize the extraterrestrial nature of Noah and, indeed, of human life itself. Where once science and religion dueled to the death, here, instead, they will form an alliance to heal the past and to illuminate the present.
Author :A. K. Raina Publisher :Inter-University Centre Indian Institute of Advanced Study ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Science and Tradition by : A. K. Raina
Download or read book Science and Tradition written by A. K. Raina and published by Inter-University Centre Indian Institute of Advanced Study. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Book Synopsis Call Center by : Gwen Foster Oglesby
Download or read book Call Center written by Gwen Foster Oglesby and published by BrownBooks.ORM. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A customer service expert offers practical strategies for call center managers who want to inspire their employees to be there best. Gwendolyn Oglesby has built her entire career working in customer service, creating environments and experiences that are as positive for employees as they are for customers. Now Oglesby shares the tools and strategies she has developed for improving customer service skills, managing employees, and building a successful team culture. In Call Center, Oglesby teaches managers how to train, motivate, and encourage employees to reach their full potential. Each chapter features insightful personality profiles and thought-provoking questions about call center dynamics. At the end of the day, customer service is not just about serving the customer; it’s about serving your team as well.
Book Synopsis Foucault and Politics by : Mark G. E Kelly
Download or read book Foucault and Politics written by Mark G. E Kelly and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically explains Michel Foucault's thought: the political implications of each phase of his work, how his thought has been used in the political sphere and the importance of his work for politics today.
Book Synopsis Progress in Self Psychology by : Arnold Goldberg
Download or read book Progress in Self Psychology written by Arnold Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Ego written by Cy Wakeman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and leadership trainer says: Getting your employees to do their work shouldn't have to be so much, well, work!
