Buddhism
azw3 |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:James Ishmael Ford [Ford, James Ishmael]

19 Three Koans from the Gateless Gate MY FAVORITE ANTHOLOGY of Zen’s koans is the Wumenguan, the Gateless Gate. It is the first of the traditional books we encounter in ...
( Category: Buddhism November 20,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ezra Bayda

Shorter Version Here is a shorter version of the above meditation that can be used instantly anytime you are caught in a strong fear: First, think of a friend who ...
( Category: Buddhism November 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-18 | Author:U Silananda, Ruth-Inge Heinze, Larry Rosenberg

( Category: Buddhism November 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-18 | Author:Hee-Jin Kim, Taigen Dan Leighton

( Category: Buddhism November 20,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-14 | Author:Peter G. Fenner [Fenner, Peter G.]

[This contribution to the conversation also references “personal experience.” We clearly have different constructions that are playing out here. We have “people” with different identities (e.g., being a victim of ...
( Category: Buddhism November 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Framarin, Christopher G.

The basic Nyāya-Vedāntin debate The debate between the Naiyāyikas and Vedāntins over whether all action is motivated by rāga occurs within the debate over how to characterize The Vedāntins argue ...
( Category: Philosophy November 18,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Nyima, Thuken Losang Chokyi [Nyima, Thuken Losang Chokyi]

Concluding verses Many very powerful great beings, who prayed To uphold the holy Dharma, brought to the land of China From the Dharma treasury of the Holy Land As many ...
( Category: World November 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:Ralph De La Rosa

THE LIFE CYCLE OF AN EMOTION The emotions we experience in response to stimuli are just like anything else in our world: they have a shelf life; they are impermanent. ...
( Category: Happiness November 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 1974-02-01 | Author:Pirsig, Robert M. [Pirsig, Robert M.]

I was talking about the first wave of crystallization outside of rhetoric that resulted from Phædrus’ refusal to define Quality. He had to answer the question, If you can’t define ...
( Category: Buddhism November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Sarah Messer & Ikkyu Sojun & Kidder Smith [Messer, Sarah & Sojun, Ikkyu & Smith, Kidder]

poem #477 The bed-wetting imp is a man in great distress. Old Ding has the right trick, the power of his blessings is deep. Night rain. Before the lamp, confusion ...
( Category: Poetry November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:U Pandita

CONCENTRATION: THE SIXTH FACTOR Concentration is that factor of mind that lands on the object of observation, that pricks into it, penetrates into it, and stays there. The Pāli word ...
( Category: Buddhism November 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Susan Murphy

This is the final stanza of Ryokan’s poem in praise of his favorite character in his beloved Lotus Sutra, which he knew intimately. Never-Despising-Anyone was, in his eyes, the very ...
( Category: Buddhism November 5,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Matthieu Ricard

Players with hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of cheeks ripped open ...
( Category: Happiness November 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chogyam Trungpa [Chögyam Trungpa]

THREE Fearlessness HAVING ALREADY DISCUSSED the three-kaya principle by way of preparation, we might now consider Padmasambhava as a representative of crazy wisdom as opposed to any other type of ...
( Category: Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts November 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sakyong Mipham [Chogyam Trungpa]

Q: Could you say something more about what you mean by the “blackout”? A: It is nothing particularly profound. It is just that at the level of the first skandha ...
( Category: Buddhism November 2,2018 )