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Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very
readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu. Code of the
Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and
expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese Way of the Warrior.
Bushido has played a significant role in shaping the behavior of
modern Japanese government, corporations, society, and individuals,
as well as in developing modern Japanese martial arts within Japan
and internationally. The Japanese original of this book, Bushido
Shoshinshu, (Bushido for Beginners), has been one of the primary
sources on the tenets of Bushido, a way of thought that remains
fascinating and relevant to the modern world, East and West. This
handbook, written after five hundred years of military rule in
Japan, was composed to provide practical and moral instruction for
warriors, correcting wayward tendencies and outlining the personal,
social, and professional standards of conduct characteristic of
Bushido, the Japanese chivalric tradition. With a bright,
conversational narrative by Thomas Clear,y and powerfully evocative
line drawings by master illustrator Oscar Ratti, this book is
indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian Culture,
martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its
people.
For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's
award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South
Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the
mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing
under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in
seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic
poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana
contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas,
or "defilements," that one must overcome to attain enlightenment).
These transfixing works play with traditional religious and
metaphysical themes and include a number of "story" sijo, a longer,
more personal style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun's major innovations.
Kwon Youngmin, a leading scholar of sijo, provides a
contextualizing introduction, and in his afterword, Heinz Insu
Fenkl reflects on the unique challenges of translating the
collection.
Xunzi is traditionally identified as the third philosopher in the
Confucian tradition, after Confucius and Mencius. Unlike the work
of his two predecessors, he wrote complete essays in which he
defends his own interpretation of the Confucian position and
attacks the positions of others. Within the early Chinese
tradition, Xunzi's writings are arguably the most sophisticated and
philosophically developed. This richness of philosophical content
has led to a lively discussion of his philosophy among contemporary
scholars. This volume collects some of the most accessible and
important contemporary essays on the thought of Xunzi, with an
Introduction that provides historical background, philosophical
context, and relates each of the selections to Xunzi's philosophy
as a whole and to the themes of virtue, nature, and moral agency.
These themes are also discussed in relation to Western
philosophical concerns.
By dipping into this little book of simple Zen Buddhist sayings,
you can calm your anxiety and return serenity to your soul. Are you
feeling stress and anxiety from the demands of daily life? Do you
feel overwhelmed by your to-do list and the constant deluge of
information from all quarters? Are you unhappy with your life and
envious of those around you? At times like these it's important to
step back and take a breath. Zen meditation may conjure up images
of sitting in silence for long hours, but according to Buddhist
monk and author Shinsuke Hosokawa, Zen can be summed up as "the
knowledge needed for a person to live life with a positive
outlook." With this in mind, he has produced this charmingly
illustrated collection of thoughts and sayings to help you live
life with less stress and anxiety. The sayings include: Pay
attention to what is right in front of your eyes Nothing happens by
chance. Every encounter has its meaning Be careful not to confuse
the means and the purpose Keep flowing just like water Nothing will
control you Even a bad day is a good day Check the ground beneath
your feet when you're in trouble You'll never walk alone These 52
mindful sayings mirror the 52 steps traditionally taken to achieve
Buddhist enlightenment, and they also coincide with the 52 weeks of
the year--passing through the seasons, both in the natural world
and our lives. Each page has an illustration and a simple,
meditative reflection to help you see into your own heart, accept
your current state of being, reduce anxiety and find peace.
Whatever the time of year, whatever your time of life, by browsing
the pages of this book you are sure to quickly find a piece of
universal wisdom that will resonate with your soul.
Song-Chong Lee's Ham Sok Hon's Ssial Philosophy for a Cosmopolitan
Vision offers an introduction to the philosophy of Ham Sok Hon ( ),
an iconic figure in the intellectual and political history of
modern Korea, and a discussion of the contributions of his ssial (
/seeds, people) philosophy to cosmopolitanism. Known as Gandhi of
Han'guk, Ham (1901-1989) was at the epicenter of a series of
tumultuous political events in Korea and played a pioneering role
in progressive social activism, including the independence
movement, promotion of nationalist education, protests against
military regimes, and pietistic, religious liberalism. According to
Lee, Ham developed his own syncretic, authentic philosophy of ssial
and applied it to his understanding and assessment of theology,
history, politics, and even international relations. His syncretism
culminated at his anthropology of ssial and his expanded notion of
community. Lee argues that Ham's ssial philosophy, which
reconstructed the citizen's identity as an active agent for
political progress, led him to defy the excessively parochial
nationalism, romanticized patriotism, and indoctrinated religiosity
with which he believed the whole society was infatuated during the
mid-twentieth century--and ultimately to advocate for a
cosmopolitan community.
An initiate's guide to the healing practices, spiritual exercises,
and secret rites of the Mother Mantra tradition Hidden at the heart
of nearly all spiritual and esoteric traditions lies the powerful
teachings of the Mother Mantra. Its initiates have preserved its
consciousness-expanding techniques for millennia. Originating in
the ancient practice of shamanic yoga, this tradition allows us to
perceive the full complexity of reality. It helps us see both the
visible and the invisible, moving beyond the consciousness of
duality that limits us to only the material world. Operating in
this heightened state of non-ordinary consciousness, we can see
beyond our subconscious programming and behavior patterns and
understand our possibilities and powers. By removing all fear, it
allows you to love yourself exactly as you are. In this spiritual
and philosophical guide, initiate Selene Calloni Williams shares
the healing practices and spiritual exercises of the Mother Mantra
tradition. She explains how these practices bypass the thinking
mind to access our higher spiritual consciousness, allowing us to
awaken to the dream nature of reality and release us from all fear.
She details the exercises and practices of the four-part Mother
Mantra. The author also describes the practice of the Egyptian
mantra, a soul-making ceremony that unites the initiate with the
Chthonian realms and attracts wealth and abundance, and the
Mystical Marriage Mantra, which opens a path to authentic
transformation and rebirth. Additionally, Williams presents five
spiritual rituals, including yogic poses and exercises, that can be
incorporated into daily life to allow divine communication through
the chakras, awaken the mind and body from the aging process, and
reestablish the universal balance between humanity and the divine.
Shen Gua (1031−1095) is a household name in China, known as a
distinguished renaissance man and the author of Brush Talks from
Dream Brook, an old text whose remarkable “scientific”
discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this
first book-length study of Shen in English, Ya Zuo reveals the
connection between Shen’s life as an active statesman and his
ideas, specifically the empirical stance manifested through his
wide-ranging inquiries. She places Shen on the broad horizon of
premodern Chinese thought, and presents his empiricism within an
extensive narrative of Chinese epistemology. Relying on Shen as a
searchlight, Zuo focuses in on how an individual thinker summoned
conditions and concepts from the vast Chinese intellectual
tradition to build a singular way of knowing. Moreover, her study
of Shen provides insights into the complex dynamics in play at the
dawn of the age of Neo-Confucianism and compels readers to achieve
a deeper appreciation of the diversity in Chinese thinking.
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