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Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

Author : Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136766472
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts. The book discusses how subtle-body practices assume a quasi-material level of human existence that is intermediate between conventional concepts of body and mind. Often, this level is conceived of in terms of an invisible structure of channels, associated with the human body, through which flows of quasi-material substance take place. Contributors look at how subtle-body concepts form the basic explanatory structure for a wide range of practices. These include forms of healing, modes of exercise and martial arts as well as religious practices aimed at the refinement and transformation of the human mindbody complex. By highlighting how subtle-body practices of many kinds have been introduced into Western societies in recent years, the book explores the possibilities for new models of understanding which these concepts open up. It is a useful contribution to studies on Asian Religion and Philosophy.

The Battle for the Mind

Author : Tim F. LaHaye
Publisher : Fleming H Revell Company
ISBN 13 : 9780800711122
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for the Mind written by Tim F. LaHaye and published by Fleming H Revell Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is dedicated to explaining humanism in simple terms, so that the man on the street can both understand its danger and be motivated to opposite it at the place it can be defeated - the ballot box....This is not a book of gloom, doom, and despair, but a clarion call to "saltless" Christians to fulfill Dr. Francis Schaeffer's challenge to: [1] Continue being lights in the world, but also... [2] Be a savoring moral influence in our culture." -- Introduction (p.10).

The Mind Illuminated

Author : Culadasa
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1781808791
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Illuminated written by Culadasa and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mind Illuminated is a comprehensive, accessible and - above all - effective book on meditation, providing a nuts-and-bolts stage-based system that helps all levels of meditators establish and deepen their practice. Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive guide for a Western audience combines the wisdom from the teachings of the Buddha with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Clear and friendly, this in-depth practice manual builds on the nine-stage model of meditation originally articulated by the ancient Indian sage Asanga, crystallizing the entire meditative journey into 10 clearly-defined stages. The book also introduces a new and fascinating model of how the mind works, and uses illustrations and charts to help the reader work through each stage. This manual is an essential read for the beginner to the seasoned veteran of meditation.

Many Subtle Channels

Author : Daniel Levin Becker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065271
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Many Subtle Channels written by Daniel Levin Becker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main description: What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau-and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature's quirkiest movements. An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature's possibilities, the Oulipo (the French acronym stands for 0workshop for potential literature0) is perhaps best known as the cradle of Georges Perec's novel A Void, which does not contain the letter e. Drawn to the Oulipo's mystique, Levin Becker secured a Fulbright grant to study the organization and traveled to Paris. He was eventually offered membership, becoming only the second American to be admitted to the group. From the perspective of a young initiate, the Oulipians and their projects are at once bizarre and utterly compelling. Levin Becker's love for games, puzzles, and language play is infectious, calling to mind Elif Batuman's delight in Russian literature in The Possessed. In recent years, the Oulipo has inspired the creation of numerous other collectives: the OuMuPo (a collective of DJs), the OuMaPo (marionette players), the OuBaPo (comic strip artists), the OuFlarfPo (poets who generate poetry with the aid of search engines), and a menagerie of other Ou-X-Pos (workshops for potential something). Levin Becker discusses these and other intriguing developments in this history and personal appreciation of an iconic-and iconoclastic-group.

Tantric Grounds and Paths

Author : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120817265
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Tantric Grounds and Paths written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days there is great interest in the practice of Tantra, and an urgent need for a comprehensive guide to its practice written by a fully qualified Tantric Master. Based on a completely pure lineage of instruction and practice that dates back to Buddha himself, Tantric Grounds and Paths meets this need by providing a definitive manual for Tantric practitioners. With remarkable clarity and authority Geshe Kelsand presents a comprehensive guide to the four classes of Tantra, including an extensive explanation of the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra. All the stages of the Tantric path to full enlightenment are described in breathtaking detail, making the publication of this book an event of major contemporary importance in the history of Buddhist literature. Contents Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, The Lower Tantras, Highest yoga Tantra, Generation Stage, Isolated Body, Isolated Speech and Isolated Mind, Illusory Body, Clear Light, and Union, The Final Results, Dedication, Appendix I-The Condensed Meaning of the text, Appendix II - The Preliminary Practices, Great Liberation of the Mother, Great Liberation of the Father, An Explanation of the Practice, Glossary, Bibliography, Study Programmes, Index.

Clear Light of Bliss

Author : Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120816664
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Clear Light of Bliss written by Kelsang Gyatso and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear light of Bliss is a unique and highly acclaimed explanation of the advanced practices of Vajrayana Buddhism - the supreme path to enlightenment taught by Buddha. The book provides a detailed and practical explanation of the complection stage practices of Tantric Mahamudra, from the initial meditation on our subtle body, through the stages of inner fire meditation and the four joys, to the final attainment. Geshe kelsang also gives extraordinarily clear explanations of the nature of the mind, how to develop meditative concentration, and how to meditate on emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality. This book will be an invaluable guide to those travelling the Tantric swift path to full enlightenment.

The Opacity of Mind

Author : Peter Carruthers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199685142
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Opacity of Mind written by Peter Carruthers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we have introspective access to our own thoughts? Peter Carruthers challenges the consensus that we do: he argues that access to our own thoughts is always interpretive, grounded in perceptual awareness and sensory imagery. He proposes a bold new theory of self-knowledge, with radical implications for understanding of consciousness and agency.

Great Treasury of Merit

Author : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120818699
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Great Treasury of Merit written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Is A Great Wealth Of Spiritual Guidance And An Indispensable Resource For Those Wishing To Integrate All Their Spiritual Practices Into The Tantric Swift Path To Full Enlightenment.

Transform Your Life

Author : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Tharpa Publications US
ISBN 13 : 0978906748
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Transform Your Life written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and published by Tharpa Publications US. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide clearly explains the fundamentals of Buddhist view, and step-by-step instructions on how to experience more love in our heart and our life to benefit ourself and others. Buddhist principles are explained such as how to attain inner peace, what is the mind, what happens at the time of our death, and karma. Readers can learn simple methods to transform their minds and lives through an exploration of the real meaning of their human life, how to find the source of happiness, and the actual methods to solve our daily problems.

Plunging Through the Clouds

Author : David K. Reynolds
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791413135
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Plunging Through the Clouds written by David K. Reynolds and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructive Living brings together two psychotherapies--Morita and Naikan-- and their associated lifeways. Both therapies were developed in this century, but their roots extend back hundreds of years in East Asian history. Morita was a professor of psychiatry at Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo. Yoshimoto was a successful businessman who retired to become a lay priest in Nara. Morita's method has it origins in Zen Buddhist psychology, and Yoshimoto's Naikan has its origins in Jodo Shinshu Buddhist psychology. Neither of these systems requires that one believe in Buddhism or have faith in anything other than one's experience. They work as well for Christians and Moslems and Jews as for Buddhists. Both are built on the naturalistic observations of humans and careful introspection of their founders. Constructive Living isn't mystical or oriental, but practical and human.

The Easy Path

Author : Gyumed Khensur Lobsang Jampa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614290989
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Easy Path written by Gyumed Khensur Lobsang Jampa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Panchen Lama's Easy Path (de lam), written nearly four hundred years ago, is like a chest of jewels that has, until now, been locked to English speakers. This translation, with Gyumed Khensur Lobsang Jampa's commentary, unlocks that chest and holds each jewel up to the sunlight to reveal its great beauty and value. A number of books in the past have explained how to meditate on the stages of the path, but Geshe Lobsang Jampa's volume is unique in showing the reader how to integrate visualizations from highest yoga tantra, guru yoga, and the instructions of the oral tradition within the contemplations of every single stage. From the initial meditations on the precariousness and immense value of human existence, through the contemplations of how we perpetuate the cycle of suffering, to the highest teachings on the practice of universal compassion and the empty nature of phenomena, The Easy Path leads practitioners step by step through the journey to enlightenment.

Intermediate Scope

Author : Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron
Publisher : Sravasti Abbey Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intermediate Scope written by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron and published by Sravasti Abbey Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early eleventh century the Indian Buddhist master Atisha condensed essential points from the sutras and ordered them into the text Lamp of the Path. These were then expanded upon in the fourteenth century by the Tibetan Buddhist master Lama Tsongkhapa into the text The Great Exposition on the Gradual Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim Chenmo). Venerable Thubten Chodron taught on this text over several years at Dharma Friendship Foundation, and related these practical teachings to our daily lives. These ebooks are lightly-edited transcripts of those teachings. They have been organized and formatted by Lai Wee Chiang. This third volume contains teachings on: - True Suffering - The Origin of Suffering - How the Afflictions Keep Us in Cyclic Existence - The 12 Links of Dependent Arising - The Path to Liberation

The Yoga S_tra of Patañjali : Translations and Commentary

Author : Wim van den Dungen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365025721
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Yoga S_tra of Patañjali : Translations and Commentary written by Wim van den Dungen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers translations of the 'Yoga Sūtra' of Patañjali in English, French and Dutch, as well as a commentary from the perspective of a practicing Buddhist. The 'Yoga Sūtra' of Patañjali is a remarkable short text of about 1200 words, codifying the best yoga practices in 195 Sanskrit aphorisms. Yoga became one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy. In contrast to Jainism and Buddhism, it always kept close to the 'Vedas'. These crucial scriptures speak of three paths to freedom from ignorance and the suffering it brings: Ritual, Mystical Devotion and Yoga. The 'Yoga Sūtra' of Patañjali turned Hindu Yoga systematic and close to direct yogic experience. Besides a critique of the eternal substances of seer (the self) and seen (Nature), the commentary also identifies correspondences between Jhāna Yoga and the various types of union (samādhi) mentioned by Patañjali and compares constraint (the application of concentration, contemplation and union) with the Nine Stages of Calm Abiding.

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness

Author : Amanda Ie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118294874
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness written by Amanda Ie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness brings together the latest multi-disciplinary research on mindfulness from a group of international scholars: Examines the origins and key theories of the two dominant Western approaches to mindfulness Compares, contrasts, and integrates insights from the social psychological and Eastern-derived perspectives Discusses the implications for mindfulness across a range of fields, including consciousness and cognition, education, creativity, leadership and organizational behavior, law, medical practice and therapy, well-being, and sports 2 Volumes

Ornament of Stainless Light

Author : Nor-bzaṅ-rgya-mtsho (Mkhas-grub)
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861714520
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Ornament of Stainless Light written by Nor-bzaṅ-rgya-mtsho (Mkhas-grub) and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Kalachakra text develops the highly complex theory of correlation between the internal elements with a living human body and the elements of the external world, and gives a detailed account of Tibetan astrology.

In Exile from the Land of Snows

Author : John Avedon
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804173370
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book In Exile from the Land of Snows written by John Avedon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibet, “the roof of the world,” had been aloof and at peace for most of its 2,100 years. But in 1932, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, in his final testament, warned: “It may happen that here, in the center of Tibet, religion and government will be attacked both from without and from within.” By the time his successor was enthroned in 1950, the Chinese occupation had begun. In this gripping account, John F. Avedon draws on his work and travels with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to bring us the riveting story of Tibet and its temporal and spiritual leader. Included is an extensive interview with the Dalai Lama, who speaks about the conditions in Tibet, the mind of a Buddha, and the events of his life. Rigorously researched, passionately written, the original edition of In Exile from the Land of Snows was instrumental in launching the modern Tibet movement when it was published in 1984. Now, some three decades later, Avedon’s testimony is more wrenching and relevant than ever.

Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying

Author : Dalai Lama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861717651
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying written by Dalai Lama and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an absorbing account of a dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost representative of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet. For modern science, the transitional states of consciousness lie at the forefront of research in many fields. For a Buddhist practitioner these same states present crucial opportunities to explore and transform consciousness itself. This book is the account of a historic dialogue between leading Western scientists and the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Revolving around three key moments of consciousness--sleep, dreams, and death--the conversations recorded here are both engrossing and highly readable. Whether the topic is lucid dreaming, near-death experiences, or the very structure of consciousness itself, the reader is continually surprised and delighted. Narrated by Francisco Varela, an internationally recognized neuroscientist, the book begins with insightful remarks on the notion of personal identity by noted philosopher Charles Taylor, author of the acclaimed Sources of Self. This sets the stage for Dr. Jerome Engel, Dr. Joyce MacDougal, and others to engage in extraordinary exchanges with the Dalai Lama on topics ranging from the neurology of sleep to the yoga of dreams. Remarkable convergences between the Western scientific tradition and the Buddhist contemplative sciences are revealed. Dr. Jayne Gackenbach's discussion of lucid dreaming, for example, prompts a detailed and fascinating response from the Dalai Lama on the manipulation of dreams by Buddhist meditators. The conversations also reveal provocative divergences of opinion, as when the Dalai Lama expresses skepticism about "Near-Death Experiences" as presented by Joan Halifax. The conversations are engrossing and highly readable. Any reader interested in psychology, neuroscience, Buddhism, or the alternative worlds of dreams will surely enjoy Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying.