Buddhism
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Duncan Oliver

A clear mind is essential for progressing along the Buddhist path. Alcohol and drugs can cloud our thinking and compromise our ability to concentrate. For this reason, many Buddhist practitioners ...
( Category: Religious April 30,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Ostaseski

[10] THE RAGING RIVER What is to give light must endure burning. —VIKTOR FRANKL How do we cultivate our essential nature without sidestepping our human nature? This is at the ...
( Category: Love & Loss April 29,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Jonathan Landaw [Landaw, Jonathan]

If you’re a serious Zen student but can’t practice at the center, because you’re sick, you live too far away, or you can’t arrange your calendar to include it, you ...
( Category: Dalai Lama April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-21 | Author:Kim Boykin

Real Differences There are, of course, many real and significant differences between Zen teachings and Christian teachings. Although it isn’t fair to compare the good news of one tradition with ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth April 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

In the Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters, the Buddha says, “My practice is non-action, non-practice, and non-realization.”4 It means that what we seek does not lie outside of ourselves. Any teaching ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice April 20,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Halifax, Joan [Halifax, Joan]

1. Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction,” in Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951), 64. 12 Wounded Healers The Shadow Side ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement April 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Edward Conze [Conze, Edward]

Non-duality 160. The Lord: A Bodhisattva, Sariputra, who practises perfect wisdom produces an even state of mind towards all beings. As a result he acquires insight into the sameness of ...
( Category: Buddhism March 23,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-06-22 | Author:Damien Keown [Keown, Damien]

Chapter 5 War and terrorism The last century proved to be one of the bloodiest in history. War on a scale never before seen caused untold destruction and loss of ...
( Category: Ethics March 23,2019 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2001-06-07 | Author:Michael Carrithers [Carrithers, Michael]

But this is not to say that impulses to respond to such calls disappear, for they do not, or at least not permanently. In the meditator such impulses simply do ...
( Category: Philosophy March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eva Wong

17 Lu Xiujing’s Compilation of the Taoist Scriptures DURING THE SIX DYNASTIES (fifth to sixth century), in the kingdom of Song,1 there lived a Taoist scholar and sage named Lu ...
( Category: Taoism March 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Stephanie Kaza

12 Ethics Matter Following the Green Practice Path WITHDRAWING FROM THE PARIS AGREEMENT, CANCELLING clean-water regulations, stalling on clean-energy projects—the recent years under a climate-change-denying political administration have been very ...
( Category: Ecology March 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Dakpo Tashi Namgyal & Elizabeth Callahan

The mahāsiddha Zhang teaches: When, on your own, you are proficient with the oral instructions, are unaffected by the hordes of external and internal māras, and can maintain pure ethical ...
( Category: Sacred Writings March 12,2019 )
epub |por | 2012-01-24 | Author:Osho [Osho]

Mulla Nasruddin stood quietly at the bedside of his dying father. “Please, my boy,” whispered the old man, “always remember that wealth does not bring happiness.” “Yes father,” said Nasruddin, ...
( Category: Meditation March 12,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Connelly

14. Blind Spots Have you ever seen King Lear? As the play opens the king is aging, losing his strength and faculties, but he just can’t see it. Everyone around ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice March 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Helderman, Ira;

Flipping the Script: Field Observations from “The Most Completely Secularized Culture in Human History” Fromm proposed not only a redefinition of the category of religion, but of the secular as ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice March 1,2019 )