Metamagical Themas

Metamagical Themas
Author: Douglas R Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2008-08-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0786723866

Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

Stilling the Mind

Stilling the Mind
Author: B. Alan Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0861716493

In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind. In Stilling the Mind, he uses the wisdom of Dzogchen--the highest of all the meditation traditions--to open up the shamatha practice into a space of vast freedom. Here, Wallace introduces us to Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence, one of the most cherished works of the Nyingma school from which Dzogchen stems. With his trademark enthusiasm and keen intelligence, Wallace makes obscure concepts intelligible to contemporary readers and allows us to glimpse the profound realizations of a great nineteenth-century spiritual adept.

Open Heart, Open Mind

Open Heart, Open Mind
Author: Swami Chetanananda
Publisher: Rudra Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780806935652

Stop listening to the voice of the ego—desire, ambition, greed, selfishness—and instead open your heart, realize your interrelatedness with the world, and surrender to the stillness that exists inside you. Decide what kind of person you want to be and how to arrive at a place of satisfaction and joy.

The Essence of Success

The Essence of Success
Author: Earl Nightingale
Publisher: WWW.Therichestmaninbabylon.Org
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN: 9789562915731

This is a collection of Earl Nightingale's writings, broadcasts, and conversations on various aspects of personal development.

Open Heart, Open Mind

Open Heart, Open Mind
Author: Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307888207

Offers advice for using meditative practices from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to achieve a life of openness and freedom from negative emotions by tapping into the essential love that is part of our basic nature.

Reflections on Reality

Reflections on Reality
Author: Jeffrey Hopkins
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2007
Genre: Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)
ISBN: 9788120826106

This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins' valuable series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism and a focal description of it in Dzong-Ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence. Dzong-Ka-ba (1357-1419) is generally regarded as one of the greatest Tibetan philosophers, and his Mind-Only discourse on emptiness is considered a landmark in Buddhist philosophy. In Volume I, Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism, Hopkins provided a translation of the introduction and the section on the Mind-Only School in The Essence of Eloquence. The present volume places this enigmatic and influential exposition in its historical and philosophical contexts. Reflections on Reality conveys the intellectual vibrancy of the different cultural interpretations of this text and expands the key philosophical issues it addresses. Hopkins, one of the leading scholarly voices in Tibetan studies, begins this volume with two introductory chapters contextualizing Tibetan scholarship in general. He then goes on to discuss in detail the religious significance of the central topic of the three natures in the Mind-Only School. He also considers various views on the status of reality, including the doctrine of other-emptiness promulgated by the fourteenth century Jo-nang savant Shay-rap-gyel-tsen. Presenting accurate and insightful translations of a large amount of material that has never been available in English before, he shows how these topics have been debated among scholars in Tibet over six centuries. Comparing these with presentations in Europe, Japan, and the United States today, he created a lively conversation between normally disparate voices.

Surfaces and Essences

Surfaces and Essences
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0465018475

Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination.

The Essence of Wisdom

The Essence of Wisdom
Author: Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: Broadway
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Spiritual life
ISBN: 9780767903059

A renowned writer and translator presents an anthology of essential quotations from the masters of spiritual wisdom, including The Buddha, Lao-tzu, Heraclitus, the Zen and Sufi masters, Spinoza, Blake, Emerson, Rilke, and other timeless sages.

Raw Feeling

Raw Feeling
Author: Robert Kirk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780198236795

Robert Kirk attempts to answer the problem of consciousness that derives from the notorious gap between our knowledge of ourselves as matter and our subjective knowledge of what we experience.

Deep Healing

Deep Healing
Author: Emmett E. Miller, M.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1996-12-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1401929753

Deep Healing brings new hope to every reader. It awakens even the most skeptical among us to the miraculous inborn, self-healing capacities of our mind-body. Emmett Miller, M.D., practicing as a traditional family doctor for 20 years, discovered that when a part of your body is sick, the whole body system is out of balance. He saw that how his patients thought about and saw life, affected and seemed to create whatever their current state of health was. He has stated that it is not enough to heal the particular illness without understanding the emotional and psychological basis for the ailment or problem. We must heal the entire person...not just a specific part. Dr. Miller has had great success with guided imagery to promote physical health and emotional well-being. He has even been successful using guided imagery to do minor surgery without any anesthetic, again proving the mind/body connection, and the control of our bodies by our thoughts. Through the presentation of stories, reflections, and case studies, Dr. Miller presents his wonderful, deep healing theories that will instill a new sense of hope and optimism into all who read this book.