Buddha Takes No Prisoners
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| Author | : Patrick Ophuls |
| Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2012-05-29 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1583945911 |
This insightful, easy-to-read handbook offers a non-traditional perspective on meditation. Written primarily for American insight meditation students, it delivers the Buddha's essential teachings clearly, straightforwardly, and without spiritual jargon, and helps make sense of practices often laden with traditional terminology. Practical explanations of the meditation process, its benefits and applicability to daily life, and warmly humorous advice and encouragement give new practitioners the help necessary to continue practicing meditation on a regular basis.
| Author | : Evan Thompson |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2020-01-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0300226551 |
"A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, "a science of the mind." In this provocative book, Evan Thompson argues that this representation of Buddhism is false. In lucid and entertaining prose, Thompson dives deep into both Western and Buddhist philosophy to explain how the goals of science and religion are fundamentally different. Efforts to seek their unification are wrongheaded and promote mistaken ideas of both. He suggests cosmopolitanism instead, a worldview with deep roots in both Eastern and Western traditions. Smart, sympathetic, and intellectually ambitious, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Buddhism's place in our world today."--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : David Sheff |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2020-08-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0008395454 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places.
| Author | : Miguel Farias |
| Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2019-02-19 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1786782863 |
Millions of people meditate daily but can meditative practices really make us ‘better’ people? In The Buddha Pill, pioneering psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm put meditation and mindfulness under the microscope. Separating fact from fiction, they reveal what scientific research – including their groundbreaking study on yoga and meditation with prisoners – tells us about the benefits and limitations of these techniques for improving our lives. As well as illuminating the potential, the authors argue that these practices may have unexpected consequences, and that peace and happiness may not always be the end result. Offering a compelling examination of research on transcendental meditation to recent brain-imaging studies on the effects of mindfulness and yoga, and with fascinating contributions from spiritual teachers and therapists, Farias and Wikholm weave together a unique story about the science and the delusions of personal change.
| Author | : Calvin Malone |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2008-10-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0861719549 |
Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how one man found Buddhism—and real, transformative meaning for his life—despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.
| Author | : Jenny Phillips |
| Publisher | : Pariyatti Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2012-03-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 192870641X |
The thoughts, struggles, dreams, and triumphs of inmates who took part in a voluntary meditation program at Alabama's Donaldson Prison in 2002.
| Author | : Stephen T. Asma |
| Publisher | : Hampton Roads Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1612830412 |
Profound and amusing, this book provides a viable approach to answering the perennial questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I live a meaningful life? For Asma, the answers are to be found in Buddhism. There have been a lot of books that have made the case for Buddhism. What makes this book fresh and exciting is Asma’s iconoclasm, irreverence, and hardheaded approach to the subject. He is distressed that much of what passes for Buddhism is really little more than “New Age mush.” He asserts that it is time to “take the California out of Buddhism.” He presents a spiritual practice that does not require a belief in creeds or dogma. It is a practice that is psychologically sound, intellectually credible, and esthetically appealing. It is a practice that does not require a diet of brown rice, burning incense, and putting both your mind and your culture in deep storage. In seven chapters, Asma builds the case for a spiritual practice that is authentic, and inclusive. This is Buddhism for everyone, especially for people who are uncomfortable with religion but yearn for a spiritual practice.
| Author | : Cuong Lu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9781949017137 |
52 vignettes contain stories and teachings about Cuong Lu's six years as a prison chaplain in the Netherlands.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Buddhism |
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| Author | : Dainin Katagiri |
| Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2008-12-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0834822105 |
A Japanese master offers a Zen perspective on the nature of time and being, further exploring the concepts of impermanence, living in the present moment, and more It’s easy to regard time as a commodity—we even speak of “saving” or “spending” it. We often regard it as an enemy, when we feel it slipping away before we’re ready for time to be up. The Zen view of time is radically different than that: time is not something separate from our life; rather, our life is time. Understand this, says Dainin Katagiri Roshi, and you can live fully and freely right where you are in each moment. Katagiri bases his teaching on Being Time, a text by the most famous of all Zen masters, Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), to show that time is a creative, dynamic process that continuously produces the universe and everything in it—and that to understand this is to discover a gateway to freedom from the dissatisfactions of everyday life. He guides us in contemplating impermanence, the present moment, and the ungraspable nature of past and future. He discusses time as part of our inner being, made manifest through constant change in ourselves and our surroundings. And these ideas are by no means metaphysical abstractions: they can be directly perceived by any of us through meditation.
