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The most pressing question in these uncertain times may well be, How can we bring healing and protection to the Earth? It was this very question that Cynthia Jurs carried with her in 1990 as she climbed a path high in the Himalayas, to meet an old wise man in a cave a venerated lama from Nepal. In response to her question, the old lama gave her a formidable assignment based on an ancient practice from Tibet: she must procure earth treasure vases made of clay and potent medicines, fill them with prayers and symbolic offerings, and bury them around the world where healing is called for.

The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against the arresting cultural backdrop of the sixties and their legacy, this intimate self-portrait depicts Tworkov's search for a true home but also into the ways each of us can better understand and transform ourselves.

In this entertaining pamphlet, the author, who was an expert on the artistic traditions of China and Japan, examines the effect of Zen Buddhism on popular culture. He provides a perceptive thumbnail view of the development of Buddhism in the Far East, and engaging portraits of its luminary figures.

Jesus Christ was a Zen master? In at least one version of early Christian belief, he sure sounded like one. The Jesus narrative that eventually won out was passed on to future generations while the losers had their books burned and adherents imprisoned, tortured, or put to death. Talk about issues with freedom of religion! Luckily, an early Christian group called the “Gnostics”, in seeing their beloved books burned and adherents mistreated, buried their most important works in hopes of future discovery.

We are now moving forward on completing this series of books that share the lectures of my teacher and the founder of the Enkyoji Buddhist Network, Rev. Kanto Tsukamoto. As with many projects it takes lots of energy and time to bring them to completion. So as you can imagine, it is a great accomplishment to fulfil such a wish that started many years ago. The most powerful reason that I wish to share these lectures with everyone is because of their simplicity and the easy-to-grasp explanations that Tsukamoto Sensei uses to share many very profound teachings. In being his student, he has ...

“Winter Writings” is the fourth and final instalment in a collection of teachings by Tsukamoto Shonin given during his time in Toronto and London which have been arranged into four volumes based on the four seasons. A remarkable Buddhist teacher, Tsukamoto Shonin is known for his keen insight, his emphasis on a practical approach to the Dharma and his ability to share profound teachings in a direct way through the use of simple, easy-to-grasp explanations.

Na era da dispersividade e do descompromisso, os ensaios de Alex Castro investigam as diferentes maneiras de desenvolver nossa atenção e transformá-la em um instrumento de ação política.

Through a mix of personal experience, neuroscience, and accessible language, Loving Kindness for Everyday Life guides you through the ups and downs of an ancient Buddhist practice and its uses for modern life. In this short eBook you will learn not just what Loving Kindness (or Metta) Meditation is but where it comes from, the psychological and real world benefits of what it does for you, as well as when and how to practice. The practice itself is also broken down into concrete practical steps for you to experience. If you are looking for a way to transform how you show up for yourself and ...

Dive into Japanese history—and discover who the samurai really were—in this fascinating study that reveals the flawed human warriors behind the idealistic myths.

A well-known spiritual saying goes, "Enlightenment is an accident. But we can make ourselves more accident-prone." As an authentic American Zen takes shape, enlightenment continues to be misunderstood as a project to be completed, a goal to be achieved, or a prize to be awarded. Tim Burkett's new book unhooks enlightenment from the hot air balloon of ego and brings it back down to earth.

Mindfulness Explained – Learn How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life Today This mindful approach to living will show you everything you need to know for a healthier, happier, more peaceful life. Your mindful solution begins today...Let's be honest. In today's modern world, many of us lose touch with the moment. Fortunately, this is where mindful living comes into play. Through daily mindfulness exercises, we can all regain our footing in life. Master mindfulness by reaching a state that no amount of stress or unhappiness can touch! Have you ever struggled to focus in and feel good? Does ...

Entdecken Sie die neue, überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe des zeitlosen Bestsellers Die 53 Sutras des Buddha! Wir leben in einer turbulenten Welt, die sich ständig verändert. Ein bewusstes Leben zu führen ist nicht einfach, es erfordert eine Anstrengung, aber mit diesem Hörbuch wird diese Aufgabe greifbar und machbar, denn sich der Weisheit zuzuwenden kann erleuchtend sein. Die 53 Sutras des Buddha, präsentiert mit Analysen und modernen Kommentaren, werden zu praktischen Werkzeugen, um durch unsere komplexe Realität zu navigieren.

Exploring Buddha’s core teachings, the author shares his own secular and accessible interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, and the Eightfold Path within the context of his lineage and the teachings of his teacher and the teachers before him. He looks at Buddha’s teachings on our singular reality that appears as a multiplicity of things and on the “self” that perceives reality, translating powerful spiritual experience into the vernacular of modern life.

Why do things happen the way they do in our lives? How do we create the causes for a happy life? The Buddhist practice of mind training gives us the answer to these questions: it involves overcoming our self-centered attitude and replacing it with an attitude that cherishes others. This, in turn, leads us to act in ways that naturally lead away from suffering and toward happiness—in short, to create good karma.

Buddha or Karl Marx is a comparative study of the two philosophies Buddhism and Marxism. It concludes by presenting in plain English that Buddhism through changing man's disposition is a superior way to achieve and most importantly maintain a society sans suffering, greed and fostering Maitri (universal love and brotherhood).

A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally best-selling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An enlightening, inspiring, and comforting manual for life and death that the New York Times calls, “The Tibetan equivalent of [Dante’s] The Divine Comedy,” this is the essential work that moved Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions, to proclaim, “I have encountered no book on the interplay of life and death that is more comprehensive, practical, and wise.”

Children and adults alike will enjoy reading about the Stone Tiger, the Pardoned Prisoner, King Rinda’s White Horses, the Turtle Under the Ocean, the Calligrapher’s Son and the Merchant Who Became a Horse: these captivating stories were originally told in ancient Japan to illustrate the challenging concepts of the Lotus Sutra, yet present enduring relevance even centuries later to a now globalized practice of Buddhism. Today, Nichiren’s stories remain as entertaining and controversial as ever. And in a search for symbolic, mythological and cultural context, six of these stories have ...

Wake up and smell the coffee. Your first cup of coffee in the morning is filled with the promise of a serene and mindful start to your day. Coffee, combined with meditation, is a gateway to sacred moments of peace, reflection, and mindfulness. MEDITATING BY COFFEE offers a peaceful way to start your day. It invites you on a serene journey, where the simple act of enjoying quiet peaceful time with your morning coffee is transformed into moments of tranquility and reflection. Each meditation is a gentle whisper, encouraging you to embrace the quiet tranquility of dawn with your coffee cup in ...

Welcome to “Mindfulness: A ‘How to’ Approach to Instill Peace, Reduce Stress, and Harness the ‘Present’ to Achieve Happiness.” This book is designed specifically for people who go through life feeling depressed, lonely, anxious, and stressed out, and assume that this is the natural way to be. They feel like there is nothing that can be done about this, but most of them are this way due to a state of being that focuses constantly on the past or future. This is not the way things have to be, and there’s a better way to live. Today only, get this Amazon bestseller for just $0.99....

The School for Broken Hearts, founded by bestselling mega-monk Haemin Sunim, provides a safe and caring space for people going through a difficult stage in life. Following on from his first two immensely successful books (where the first was about slowing down, and the second was about accepting imperfection), this time, it's about finding one's path. In this book, which offers ancient wisdom for modern living, he shows how you too can find both inner tranquillity and 'small but certain happiness', whatever burden you are carrying.