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Don't Foolish Yourself: Impermanence as the Key to Wisdom

Author : Robert Colacurcio
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Don't Foolish Yourself: Impermanence as the Key to Wisdom written by Robert Colacurcio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subtitle of this book is “Impermanence as the Key to Wisdom.” Actually the word “wisdom” occurs only infrequently as in the expression “the arc of evolution leads to the goal of wisdom-compassion non dual” for every sentient being. In days gone by, Catholic universities especially used to feature wisdom as one of the primary goals of their curriculum. Wisdom as a feature of higher education seems to have fallen out of favor. I’m not clear on why that is, except that once upon a time, philosophy & theology used to be enthroned as the Queen of the Sciences. Not beheaded quite, but certainly dethroned, she now serves more like the scullery maid in the Castle of Technology. Whatever the case may be, I’m not talking about “wisdom” as the West has typically understood it. My explication of impermanence is about one of the many folds the universe takes to crease the fabric of its infinitely varied manifestations. I have adopted the spiritual technology of the Buddha to do this. Therefore, my approach is the rather eastern, specifically Tibetan, viewpoint of what “wisdom” means. Nevertheless, I try my best to explain the methodology from the Buddha’s toolkit in terms a contemporary western reader will not find foreign.

READINESS IS ALL

Author : Robert Colacurcio
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book READINESS IS ALL written by Robert Colacurcio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-10-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once one has become truly friendly and familiar with the naturally occurring timeless and spacious dimension of mind, there is an all-embracing readiness. And why is that? Because one cannot achieve that competence and readiness without having been schooled in a profound discernment process. That process teaches in exquisitely equanimous detail (that is, balanced) why the conceptual dimension of mind needs to be balanced by the non-conceptual, otherwise it often acts like a rogue warhorse. Civility, civil equity, civil equilibrium freed of the hateful perception that our differences are divisive, rather than a source of our democratic strength--these ideals so eloquently stated in the Declaration of Independence--cannot be achieved until and unless we approach our failures to achieve them with open equanimous minds. If the mental tools are imbalanced, the application of those tools will be also. Not maybe. Necessarily. If the ship of state lacks equilibrium and lists because of egregious imbalance, it will never make a safe and secure passage to the Port of Equality. Straightening this boat’s deck chairs with geometric precision won’t make a damn bit of difference to its sea worthiness. Until a majority of us are prepped with an all-embracing readiness from a balanced mental equanimity, willy-nilly we will continue to be awash with civil discord, civil contentiousness and malicious civil confrontation.

Applied Spirituality

Author : Robert Colacurcio
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Applied Spirituality written by Robert Colacurcio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three self-contained works in this compilation are: No Urgency: or How We Fiddle with Eternity Complete, Not Completed Why This Ignorance? These works build on the earlier books in Volume I, and they are more challenging. They provoke--at least I hope they do--a more energetic pursuit of soul depth for the sake of spiritual depth. Like all my books, they openly rely on the spiritual technology of the Buddha. However, they can be on confrontationally read. Because they are non sectarian in the sense that they don’t require or promote a “conversion” to a religious viewpoint, they can be practically incorporated by anyone practicing a sectarian or non sectarian path. That’s the nature of this “spiritual technology”--Tibetan Buddhism doesn’t even have a word for “religion” in its lexicon! The reader is cautioned to take their time and read these books slowly, not hesitating to “stay where there’s fruit.” In fact, if one reads more than one chapter a day, that pace will miss much. As the pithy Latin expression (“non multa sed multum”) has it: “It’s not knowing many things that satisfies the soul, but knowing a few quality things deeply.”

When Things Fall Apart

Author : Pema Chödrön
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590302265
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book When Things Fall Apart written by Pema Chödrön and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a traditional Buddhist approach to suffering and how embracing the painful situation and using communication, negative habits, and challenging experiences leads to emotional growth and happiness.

What Makes You Not a Buddhist

Author : Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834823160
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book What Makes You Not a Buddhist written by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative meditation master cuts through common misconceptions about Buddhism, revealing what it truly means to walk the path of the Buddha So you think you’re a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies. In What Makes You Not a Buddhist, Khyentse reviews the four core truths of the tradition, using them as a lens through which readers can examine their everyday lives. With wit and irony, he urges readers to move beyond the superficial trappings of Buddhism—beyond the romance with beads, incense, or exotic robes—straight to the heart of what the Buddha taught. Khyentse’s provocative, non-traditional approach to Buddhism will resonate with students of all stripes and anyone eager to bring this ancient religious tradition into their twenty-first-century lives.

The Ceasing of Notions

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614290458
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Ceasing of Notions written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls--ancient texts unknown for centuries. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple, in which the disciple tenaciously pursues the master's pity utterances with follow-up questions that propel the dialogue toward ever more profound insights. And these questions prove to be the reader's very own. Soko Morinaga brings alive this compact and brilliant text with his own vivid commentary. This volume also includes a generous selection from Morinaga's acclaimed autobiography, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of my Own Stupidity.

No Death, No Fear

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781573223331
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book No Death, No Fear written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." --His Holiness The Dalai Lama Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort. With hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years— and a question that has been pondered by almost anyone who has ever lived: What is death? In No Death, No Fear, the acclaimed teacher and poet examines our concepts of death, fear, and the very nature of existence. Through Zen parables, guided meditations, and personal stories, he explodes traditional myths of how we live and die. Thich Nhat Hanh shows us a way to live a life unfettered by fear.

The Wisdom of No Escape

Author : Pema Chödrön
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590307933
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of No Escape written by Pema Chödrön and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Buddhist nun encourages accepting everyday life and the wonders and pains of this world as the gateway to an enhanced spiritual life.

Essays in Idleness

Author : Kenko
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141957875
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Idleness written by Kenko and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains, contemplating the impermanence of human existence. Kenko, however, displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his collection of anecdotes, advice and observations. From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court, Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience. Meredith McKinney's excellent new translation also includes notes and an introduction exploring the spiritual and historical background of the works. Chômei was born into a family of Shinto priests in around 1155, at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up. He became an important though minor poet of his day, and at the age of fifty, withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk. He died in around 1216. Kenkô was born around 1283 in Kyoto. He probably became a monk in his late twenties, and was also noted as a calligrapher. Today he is remembered for his wise and witty aphorisms, 'Essays in Idleness'. Meredith McKinney, who has also translated Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book for Penguin Classics, is a translator of both contemporary and classical Japanese literature. She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently a visitng fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. '[Essays in Idleness is] a most delightful book, and one that has served as a model of Japanese style and taste since the 17th century. These cameo-like vignettes reflect the importance of the little, fleeting futile things, and each essay is Kenko himself' Asian Student

Siddhartha

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siddhartha written by Hermann Hesse and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning.

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 1101905735
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering and its role in creating compassion, love, and joy – all qualities of enlightenment. “Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth.”—His Holiness the Dalai Lama In The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, now revised with added material and new insights, Nhat Hanh introduces us to the core teachings of Buddhism and shows us that the Buddha’s teachings are accessible and applicable to our daily lives. Covering such significant teachings as the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Doors of Liberation, the Three Dharma Seals, and the Seven Factors of Awakening, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching is a radiant beacon on Buddhist thought for the initiated and uninitiated alike.

Creating a Life of Integrity

Author : Gail Andersen Stark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614293031
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Life of Integrity written by Gail Andersen Stark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Joseph Goldstein, one of today’s most renowned meditation teachers who taught ABC news anchor Dan Harris (author of 10% Happier) to meditate, on the topic of integrity. Creating a Life of Integrity is our personal trainer for strengthening our integrity muscles. When we don’t speak or act from our own sense of integrity, we feel lousy. Find out how you can live with more integrity—and subsequently more joy—as you follow these lively conversations between Joseph Goldstein, a founder of the modern mindfulness movement, and Gail Stark, a businesswoman and his student and friend of twenty-five years. As Joseph and Gail unpack the components of integrity—generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, courage, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness, and equanimity—we discover each is a step on a path that transports us to an empowered place of clarity, commitment, and, consequently, more joy. As we strengthen and weave these qualities into our daily lives they become our trusted first response in a world that needs our integrity now. “A lovely, practical, intimate, and wise book. Read and you can enjoy an intimate conversation with a great teacher, and learn how to lovingly refine the study your own mind.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

Only a Great Rain

Author : Xingyun
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861711483
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Only a Great Rain written by Xingyun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the growing links between Eastern and Western spirituality, thisoray into the often underexposed methods of Chinese Buddhist meditationxplores the connections between the Three Higher Trainings--ethical conduct,editation, and wisdom--and reveals how they can be integrated into a modernife. Original. IP.

Novice to Master

Author : Soko Morinaga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614290202
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Novice to Master written by Soko Morinaga and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody loves Novice to Master! As you'll see in the glowing endorsements and reviews included below, this modern spiritual classic has been embraced by readers of all types. In his singularly humorous and biitingly direct way, Zen abbot Soko Morinaga tells the story of his rigorous training at a Japanese Zen temple, his spiritual growth and his interactions with his students and others. Morinaga's voice is uniquely tuned to the truth of the condition of the human mind and spirit and his reflections and interpretations are unvarnished and succinct. His great gift is the ability to lift the spirit of the reader all the while exposing the humility and weakness in the lives of people, none more so than his own. Read on to see what everyone from Publishers Weekly to well-known Buddhist figures and even New York Times bestselling author Anthony Swofford have to say about this one of a kind book!

What Buddhism Is

Author : Sayagyi U Ba Khin
Publisher : Pariyatti
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Buddhism Is written by Sayagyi U Ba Khin and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet contains the transcriptions of a series of three lectures given in 1951 by Sayagyi U Ba Khin. The lectures were given at the request of a religious study group headed by two Americans. They contain a summary of the life of the Buddha and his teachings.

Buddhism of Wisdom and Faith

Author : Dharma Master Thfch Thien Tam
Publisher : International Buddhist Monastic Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism of Wisdom and Faith written by Dharma Master Thfch Thien Tam and published by International Buddhist Monastic Institute. This book was released on with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pure Land treatise is, to our knowledge, the first and only compendium of Pure Land teaching and thought currently available in a Western language. In the tradition of the Avatamsaka Sutra (which D.T. Suzuki described as the epitome of Buddhist thought, sentiment and experience), the author sometimes shifts from one plane of meaning to another, at times down-to-earth, at times metaphysical, so as to reach readers at every level and to sever attachment to his very words. It is in this light that certain paradoxes already familiar to students of Zen (illusory but not non-existent, recitation with no thought of recitation, etc.) should be viewed and understood. While the primary focus of this treatise is Pure Land theory and practice, more than half of the book is devoted to questions of concern to all Buddhist schools. Therefore, we suggest the following approach to reading the text, according to the background of the reader: Zen School: Chap. VII to IX first. Tantrism: Chap. VI to X first. Pure La,nd: Chap. I-V first. The bereaved: Chap. X. All others: Note on Pure Land and Epilogue. The reader might also familiarize himself with a number of key concepts explained in the Glossary (Amitabha, Awakening vs. Enlightenment, Buddha Recitation, Merit and Virtue, Noumenon/phenomena,1 Pure Land, etc.). Whatever his approach, he will be forever enriched. Once reborn in the Pure La,nd, like the proverbial seeker of the Way, he will not only discover the treasure trove (Great Awakening), but also, in time, partake at will of its priceless gems (attain Enlightenment) -- for the common benefit of all sentient beings. (Van Hien Study Group I New York, Vesak '94)

A Year of Buddha's Wisdom

Author : Bodhipaksa
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638782415
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book A Year of Buddha's Wisdom written by Bodhipaksa and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster a greater sense of inner peace, one day at a time Discover how the wisdom of the Buddha can help you feel calmer, happier, and more satisfied. Featuring a thoughtful new prompt every day, A Year of Buddha's Wisdom helps you learn essential Buddhist principles and make them a part of your everyday life. What sets this Buddhism guide apart: 365 days of wisdom—Deepen your Buddhism practice every day with an array of meditations, mantras, reflections, and quotes. Short and simple entries—Whether it's taking a minute to be aware of your surroundings or 10 to meditate, these brief prompts encourage you to explore the Buddha's wisdom every day. A path to tranquility—Grow into your best self as you learn to be mindful, find joy in meditation, have compassion for others, and much more. Embody the Buddha's wisdom with this easy and accessible Buddhism book.