Buddhism asserts that we each have the potential to free ourselves from the prison of our problems. As practiced for more than twenty-six hundred years, the process involves working with, rather than against, our depression, anxiety, and compulsions. We do this by recognizing the habitual ways our minds perceive and react – the way they mislead. The lively exercises and inspiring real-world examples Cayton provides can help you transform intract ...
Autumn Light : My Fifty Years in Zen is one woman’s witness to the half-century when Zen Buddhism took root in the West. Told in the intimate voice of a dharma friend, Autumn Light weaves Norton’s life experiences with the Zen teachings and practice that sustained her through many life challenges. ...
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse’s ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the first part of it to Romain Rolland and the second part to Wilhelm Gundert, his cousin. The word Siddhartha i ...
When Jack Karouac wrote about Zen in Dharma Bums he was echoing the sentiments of the Beat generation, who found in Zen credence for a way of life unencumbered by the limits of «square» society. And it was Alan Watts who first wrote and spoke about Zen and Eastern culture in terms accessible to mainstream Western audiences.Through his popular radio series Way Beyond the West Alan Watts brought listeners a delightful and practical side of Zen, wh ...
In seinem Appell an die Welt entwirft der Dalai Lama eine neue sakulare Ethik als Basis fur ein friedliches Jahrhundert. Nicht Religionen werden die Antwort geben, sondern die Verwurzelung des Menschen in einer Unterschiede uberwindenden Ethik. Ein herausfordernder wie mutmachender Text eines bescheidenen wie bedeutenden Mannes unserer Zeit. ...
• One of CCP’s bestselling books-over 5000 copies sold • A new, more attractive edition (with a barcode this time around!). • Great reviews on the book. • Irreverent poetry. • One of the cornerstones of our Asian poetry series. • Zen, zen, zen, zen, zen, ohh-hhmmmmmm.... ...
Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich N'hat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in «climbing out of th ...
In the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment. The Dharma, the name given to Buddhist teachings by Buddhists, states that all things are interconnected. Therefore, Buddhists are perceived as extending compassion beyond people and animals to include plants and the earth itself out of a concern for the total living environment. In The Buddha's Footprint , Johan ...
«Тибетская книга мертвых» – наиболее распространенное на Западе название тибетского буддийского трактата «Бардо Тхёдол».
Этот текст был написан великим учителем Падмасамбхавой в VII или IX веке. Он основан на особой концепции смерти и буддийских идеях просветления и спасения. Содержит описание состояний-этапов через которые проходит сознание человека начиная с процесса физического умирания и до момента следующего воплощения. «Бардо Тхёдол» рас ...
