
By Dalai Lama,Thupten Jinpa
ISBN-10: 1559393211
ISBN-13: 9781559393218
By Dalai Lama,Thupten Jinpa
ISBN-10: 1559393211
ISBN-13: 9781559393218
By Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
ISBN-10: 0195320999
ISBN-13: 9780195320992
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke explores those traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism within the early Christian period as much as their reverberations in state-of-the-art medical paradigms. whereas the learn of Western esotericism is generally constrained to the historical past of rules, Goodrick-Clarke examines the phenomenon even more widely. He demonstrates that, faraway from being a strictly highbrow flow, the unfold of esotericism owes very much to geopolitics and globalization. In Hellenistic tradition, for instance, the empire of Alexander the nice, which stretched throughout Egypt and Western Asia to provinces in India, facilitated a blending of japanese and Western cultures. because the Greeks absorbed rules from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia, they gave upward push to the 1st esoteric movements.
From the past due 16th to the eighteenth centuries, post-Reformation spirituality came across expression in theosophy, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. equally, within the sleek period, dissatisfaction with the hegemony of technology in Western tradition and a scarcity of religion in conventional Christianity led thinkers like Madame Blavatsky to seem East for non secular idea. Goodrick-Clarke additional examines sleek esoteric notion within the mild of latest clinical and scientific paradigms in addition to the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. This booklet lines the entire heritage of those hobbies and is the definitive account of Western esotericism.
By John Raymaker
ISBN-10: 0761860304
ISBN-13: 9780761860303
By Julie Gifford
ISBN-10: 0415780985
ISBN-13: 9780415780988
Providing an total interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this booklet seems to be at Mahayana Buddhist spiritual rules and practices that may have expert Borobudur, together with either the narrative reliefs and the Buddha images.
The writer explores a model of the classical Mahayana that foregrounds the significance of the visible when it comes to Buddhist philosophy, meditation, devotion, and formality. The booklet is going directly to exhibit that the architects of Borobudur designed a visible international during which the Buddha seemed in numerous kinds and will be interpreted in 3 ways: by way of figuring out the genuine nature of his instructing, via visionary adventure, and by means of encountering his numinous presence in pictures.
Furthermore, the publication analyses a very complete and programmatic expression of Mahayana Buddhist visible tradition so one can improve the theoretical dialogue of the monument. It argues that the relaxation panels of Borobudur don't passively illustrate, yet fairly creatively "picture" chosen passages from texts. providing new fabric, the ebook contributes immensely to a brand new and higher figuring out of the importance of the Borobudur for the sector of Buddhist and spiritual Studies.
By Loti
ISBN-10: 1115890662
ISBN-13: 9781115890663
ISBN-10: 8120610598
ISBN-13: 9788120610590
By Ken Wilber
ISBN-10: 1543626572
ISBN-13: 9781543626575
ISBN-10: 1611803004
ISBN-13: 9781611803006
ISBN-10: 1611805724
ISBN-13: 9781611805727
A unmarried function lies on the center of all of the nice spiritual traditions: awakening to the outstanding fact of the genuine nature of ourselves and the universe. even as, via centuries of cultural accretion and concentrate on fable and formality as leads to themselves, this middle perception has develop into obscured. the following Ken Wilber offers a course for reenvisioning a faith of the longer term that recognizes the evolution of humanity in each realm whereas closing devoted to that unique religious imaginative and prescient. For the traditions to draw sleek women and men, Wilber asserts, they need to comprise the intense variety of clinical truths realized approximately human nature in exactly the previous hundred years—for instance, concerning the brain and mind, feelings, and the expansion of consciousness—that the ancients have been easily ignorant of and hence have been not able to incorporate of their meditative platforms. Taking Buddhism for example, Wilber demonstrates how his accomplished quintessential Approach—which is already being utilized to numerous global religions by means of a few of their adherents—can avoid a “cultural catastrophe of extraordinary proportions”: the utter overlook of the fantastic top reaches of human strength through the materialistic postmodern worldview. in addition, he indicates how we will practice this method of our personal religious perform. This, his such a lot sweeping paintings when you consider that Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, is an exciting demand wholeness, inclusiveness, and harmony within the religions of tomorrow.
By Albert Low
ISBN-10: 1590303776
ISBN-13: 9781590303771
Hakuin’s brief textual content on kensho, "Four methods of understanding of an woke up Person," is a little-known Zen vintage. The "four methods" he describes contain the best way of figuring out of the nice excellent reflect, the way in which of realizing equality, the best way of realizing via differentiation, and how of the perfection of motion. instead of easily being equipment for "checking" for enlightenment in oneself, those methods eventually exemplify Zen perform. Albert Low has supplied cautious, line-by-line remark for the textual content that illuminates its profound knowledge and makes it an idea for deeper religious practice.
By ishitobi michiko
ISBN-10: 4905425964
ISBN-13: 9784905425960
【本書の構成】
第1部 「空」の世界へ ブッダと龍樹にみる実践の論理「空」 ---------
●第1章 幸せになるための「ことばの使い方」 ブッダの教えと龍樹の語法
I ブッダの法であること
●第2章 喩えて語る人なれば―対機説法は「空」の裏技
●第3章 無常の法は無常である―消えていく仏説は「空」
II 論争を避けること
●第4章 龍樹菩薩の気持ち―「空」に対立なし
●第5章 四悉檀説について―一切智者は「空」の使い手
III 法(ことば)にこだわりをもたないこと
●第6章 中身のないお話 「空」はからっぽ
●第7章 「悟り」は証明できるのか? 「空」は永久の証明
IV 他を縁とせず、 あるがままに見ること
●第8章 般若心経は間違いでない? ただあるだけのもの、それが「空」
●第9章 菩薩のお話 「空」は菩薩の「願い」の中に
第2部 無我の世界へ 古代インド思想界とブッダの法「無我」 ---------
●第10章 瞑想と学説を乗り越えて
I 自己の探究 無我へ!
●第11章 食べられて、食べる者は食べる ●第12章 目覚めのことばは、目覚めた人からやってくる
II 輪廻の探究 解脱へ!
●第13章 「死なない存在(不死)」を求めて
●第14章 輪廻転生と業のお話
第3部 そして、現代世界へ 世界の思想と仏教の倫理「利他」 ---------
I 西洋の哲人とブッダ
●第15章 幸福に生きる! アランとブッダ
●第16章 仏教と西洋思想による「怒り」へのアプローチ
II 世界の宗教と仏教
●第17章 五戒の考察
●第18章 「隣人愛」と「愛しいもの」 キリスト教の愛、仏教の愛
By Daniel Cozort
ISBN-10: 155939059X
ISBN-13: 9781559390590
ISBN-10: 1559390778
ISBN-13: 9781559390774
By J.C. Cleary
ISBN-10: 1590303180
ISBN-13: 9781590303184
J. C. Cleary's translation is as noteworthy for its dependent simplicity as for its accuracy. He has culled from the voluminous writings of Ta Hui Tsung Kao within the Chi Yeuh Lu this feature of letters, sermons, and lectures, a few operating now not than a web page, which conceal quite a few matters starting from problem over the ailment of a friend's son to the tending of an ox. Ta Hui addresses his feedback in general to humans in lay lifestyles and never to his fellow clergymen. therefore the emphasis all through is on ways that these immersed in worldly occupations can however examine Zen and attain the liberation promised by means of the Buddha. those texts, on hand in English in simple terms during this translation, come as a revelation for his or her lucid pondering and startling knowledge. The translator's essay on Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism and his brief biography of Ta Hui position the texts of their right ancient perspective.