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Karma
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Annie Besant
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The Ramayana
(Paperback)
Sunita Shah, Rishi Handa; Illustrated by James Ballance
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R546
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Kali Ma
(Paperback)
Sunita Shah; Illustrated by James Ballance
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R235
Discovery Miles 2 350
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Holi
(Paperback)
Sunita Shah; Illustrated by James Ballance
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R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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With over four million copies in print, Parmahansa Yogananda's
autobiography has been translated into thirty-three languages, and
it still serves as a gateway into yoga and alternative spirituality
for countless North American practitioners. This book examines
Yogananda's life and work to clarify linkages between the seemingly
disparate aspects of modern yoga, and illuminates the intimate
connections between yoga and metaphysically-leaning American
traditions such as Unitarianism, New Thought, and Theosophy.
Instead of treating yoga as a stable practice, Anya P. Foxen
proposes that it is the figure of the Yogi that give the practice
of his followers both form and meaning. Focusing on Yogis rather
than yoga during the period of transnational popularization
highlights the continuities in the concept of the Yogi as
superhuman even as it illuminates the transformation of the
practice itself. Skillfully balancing traditional yogic ritual,
metaphysical spirituality, physical culture, and a flair for the
stage, Foxen shows, Yogananda taught a proto-modern yoga to his
American audiences. His Yogoda program has remained under the radar
of yoga scholarship due to its lack of reliance on recognizable
postures. However, as a regimen of training for the modern Yogi,
Yogananda's method synthesizes the spiritual and superhuman
aspirations of Indian traditions with the metaphysical and
health-oriented sensibilities of Euro-American progressivism in a
way that exactly prefigures present-day transnational yoga culture.
Yet, at the heart of it all, Yogananda retains a sense of what it
means to be a Yogi: his message is that the natural destiny of the
human is the superhuman.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Be Brave
(Paperback)
Dalai Lama; Edited by Renuka Singh
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R279
R256
Discovery Miles 2 560
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Relax your spirit and reconnect to your authentic voice. Discover
the simple magic and mystery that awaits you when you express
yourself within the safe space of a circle. In Creating Personal
Mandalas, you'll see how this most basic of shapes can open your
heart and always leads you back to your center. In each of the 10
chapters, you'll explore two soul-expressing mandala exercises,
facts and history on featured symbols, insights for using the
confines of the circle for personal and visual storytelling, as
well as inspiring art and reflections from contributing guest
artists. * 20 exploratory step-by-step mandala exercises--each an
opportunity for new self-exploration, beginning with tips on
establishing the right mindset * Interesting facts about symbols
and sacred geometry, including suggestions for using them in your
mandala projects * Practical art-making direction on the elements
of design, watercolor tips, composition prompts, seeing color as a
storytelling element and more Use Creating Personal Mandalas to
start expressing your life stories with the infinite possibilities
of the circle.
There is one point that contemporary psychology and centuries old
Eastern Buddhist and Taoist teachings agree on: if you wish to
experience less suffering, you must change the way you see yourself.
But what if the change that is needed is to let go of our selves
entirely? What does this mean for those of us living in an increasingly
self-obsessed and individualistic society? Is our quest for identity
actually sabotaging our own wellbeing?
In this compassionate and galvanizing book, Dr Tom Davies gently
invites you to consider the basic elements that define who you are.
• In Part One, get to know your self. From the ground up, discover what
the self truly is, how it links to identity, and how self-obsession is
central to the human condition and the psychological pain that each of
us experience.
• In Part Two, overcome self-obsession. Free yourself from your
psychological prison, and learn how to live the peaceful and joyful
life that you deserve.
With a fresh and lucid style, Dr Tom Davies combines his knowledge of
the medical, psychological and the philosophical to bring you real
solutions to life’s most challenging problems. Whether you are
searching for meaning, or are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief or
depression, this perspective will provide you with an empowering new
insight that can help you transform your life.
Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action
(karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how
intention and agency were interpreted in all genres of early
Theravada thought. It offers a philosophical exploration of
intention and motivation as they are investigated in Buddhist moral
psychology. At stake is how we understand karma, the nature of
moral experience, and the possibilities for freedom. In contrast to
many studies that assimilate Buddhist moral thinking to Western
theories of ethics, the book attends to distinctively Buddhist ways
of systematizing and theorizing their own categories. Arguing that
meaning is a product of the explanatory systems used to explore it,
the book pays particular attention to genre and to the 5th-century
commentator Buddhaghosa's guidance on how to read Buddhist texts.
The book treats all branches of the Pali canon (the Tipitaka, that
is, the Suttas, the Abhidhamma, and the Vinaya), as well as
narrative sources (the Dhammapada and the Jataka commentaries). In
this sense it offers a comprehensive treatment of intention in the
canonical Theravada sources. But the book goes further than this by
focusing explicitly on the body of commentarial thought represented
by Buddhaghosa. His work is at the center of the book's
investigations, both insofar as he offers interpretative strategies
for reading canonical texts, but also as he advances particular
understandings of agency and moral psychology. The book offers the
first book-length study devoted to Buddhaghosa's thought on ethics
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