Eastern Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Robert W. Smith & Allen Pittman

HISTORY AND MASTERS The origin of Pa-kua is unknown. The first specific reference to it is 1796, when it was recorded that a boxer in Shantung named Wang Hsiang taught ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 20,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Treiger, Alexander.

Appendix A The Pen and the Tablet The Pen (al-qalam, Q. 68:1, 96:4) and the Preserved Tablet (al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ, Q. 85:22) are important concepts of al-Ghazālī’s theory of prophecy and ...
( Category: Human Geography March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Samuel Johnson [Johnson, Samuel]

CHAPTER XXVII DISQUISITION UPON GREATNESS. The conversation had a short pause. The Prince, having considered his sister’s observation, told her that she had surveyed life with prejudice and supposed misery ...
( Category: European March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark V. Wiley

Controlling Distance Aside from strong fundamentals, one of the most important things an escrimador must develop is the ability to control distance and movement—both his and his opponent’s. In terms ...
( Category: Wrestling March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reynaldo S. Galang

Drill: Execute the Baguhan technique as detailed above. Once familiarity with the technique has been achieved, practice the technique against a target (bag, post, or tree trunk) until the correct ...
( Category: Boxing March 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Padmasiri de Silva

Fromm, E. (1976). To Be or Not to Be. London: Abacus. Fromm, E. (1994). The Art of Listening. London: Constable. Goldstein, J. (1954). Insight Meditation. Boston: Shambala. May, R. (1950). ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-20 | Author:Gary Snyder

Dōgen, writing at midnight, “mountains flow water is the palace of the dragon it does not flow away.” We beach up at China Camp between piles of stone stacked there ...
( Category: Nature March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Idries Shah

If you are told, or if it is hinted to you, that “something important is going to happen soon”, know that you should abandon that group and seek the alternative. ...
( Category: Sufism March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Idries Shah

The Time, the Place and the People INANCIENT TIMES there was a king who called a dervish to him and said: “The dervish Path, through a succession of masters reaching ...
( Category: Sufism March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Schuman, Michael [Schuman, Michael]

CONFUCIUS PERSONALLY SET the standard for studiousness in East Asia. He took immense pride in his lifelong search for knowledge and considered his undying love of learning to be his ...
( Category: Religious March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]

49 Warning Nasrudin entered the Land of Fools. ‘O people,’ he cried, ‘sin and evil are hateful!’ He did the same thing every day for some weeks. One day as ...
( Category: Sufism March 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Martina Sprague

Let us not hear of Generals who conquer without bloodshed. If a bloody slaughter is a horrible sight, then that is a ground for paying more respect to War, but ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Idries Shah

Prayer Is Better than Sleep... AS SOON AS he had intoned the Call to Prayer from his minaret, the Mulla was seen rushing away from the mosque. Someone shouted: ‘Where ...
( Category: Sufism March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Deborah Adele

Reviewing the Yamas Not long ago I was traveling with a friend who had just purchased a new Prius with a GPS (global positioning system). I enjoyed the adventure of ...
( Category: Yoga March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donn F. Draeger

◆ PREPARATION FOR ENGAGEMENT Standing at their engagement positions, Uke and Tori pause momentarily with composure and quiet alertness, making visual contact. Then in ayumi ashi, beginning with their left ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 16,2020 )