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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin
"All that I am, I am because of my mind."
Paavo Nurmi, Olympic runner with nine gold medals in track &
field
All runners strive to get in the ?zone, ? but here they?ll learn
to enter the ZEN ?zone?! By adopting Buddha's mindful approach, you
will discover you can run longer, faster, and harder. This book
shows how to align body and mind for success on?and off?the track!
Iron Man triathlete and philosophy professor Larry Shapiro coaches
you to:
- Walk the talk: Get out and run
- Practice mindfulness: Train harder
- Visualize success: Race the Zen way
- Accept and let go: Cope peacefully with injuries and aging
Complete with case studies, testimonials, and training techniques,
this guide inspires seasoned runners and first timers alike to
pound the path to enlightenment?one stride at a time!
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors
was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the
political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh,
whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India into
Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal shines fresh light on this
long-lost kingdom, looking beyond its founding father to restore
the queens and princes to the story of this empire's spectacular
rise and fall. She brings to life a self-made ruling family,
inventively fusing Sikh, Mughal and European ideas of power, but
eventually succumbing to gendered family politics, as the Sikh
Empire fell to its great rival in the new India: the British.
Royals and Rebels is a fascinating tale of family, royalty and the
fluidity of power, set in a dramatic global era when new stars rose
and upstart empires clashed.
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into
the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from
dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic,
homogenous category-thus rendering them invisible within the
broader religious discourse-this monograph examines their sustained
role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms
their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as
patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within
Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences
of the members, and their equations and relationships at different
levels-with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhiksu
or Bhiksuni Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same
gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and
reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new
understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it
developed and flourished. Bringing together archaeological,
epigraphic, art historical, literary as well as ethnographic data,
this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of
Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, and
South Asian studies.
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Applies Dogen Kigen's religious philosophy and the philosophy of
Nishida Kitaro to the philosophical problem of personal identity,
probing the applicability of the concept of non-self to the
philosophical problems of selfhood, otherness, and temporality
which culminate in the conundrum of personal identity.
This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. Containing detailed descriptions and analyses of monastic ritual, the work builds up a picture of Tibetan tantric traditions as they interact with more localised understandings of bodily identity and territorial cosmology, to produce a substantial re-interpretation of the place of monks as ritual performers and peripheral householders in Ladakh. The work also examines the central and indispensable role of incarnate lamas, such as the Dalai Lama, in the religious life of Tibetan Buddhists.
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How To Love
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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How to Love is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master,
Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful
meditation and practise. How to Love shows that when we feel closer
to our loved ones, we are also more connected to the world as a
whole. Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion and
humour to the thorny question of how to love and distils one of our
strongest emotions down to four essentials: you can only love
another when you feel true love for yourself; love is
understanding; understanding brings compassion; and deep listening
and loving speech are key ways of showing our love.
Following Alan Watts' acclaimed book on Zen Buddhism The Way of
Zen, he tackles the Chinese philosophy of Tao. The Tao is the way
of man's cooperation with the natural course of the natural world.
Alan Watts takes the reader through the history of Tao and its
interpretations by key thinkers such as Lao-Tzu, author of the Tao
Te Ching. Watts goes on to demonstrate how the ancient and timeless
Chinese wisdom of Tao promotes the idea of following a life lived
according to the natural world and goes against our goal-oriented
ideas by allowing time to quiet our minds and observe the world
rather than imposing ourselves on it. By taking in some of the
lessons of Tao, we can change our attitude to the way we live.
Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese
philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in
his classic The Way of Zen. Including an introduction to the
Chinese culture that is the foundation of the Tao, this is one of
Alan Watts' best-loved works.
* Provides the only practical resource available to teach Buddhism
as a complete counselling model. * The book will benefit western
students by offering a non-western approach to counselling, raising
their multicultural sensitivity to different assumptions about
mental health. * Includes contemplative exercises, practise
exercises, a list of Buddhist and psychological techniques for the
Buddhist counselling model, plus additional reading suggestions.
Meeting for long, midnight conversations in Paris, two poets and
prophetic peacemakers -- one an exiled Buddhist monk and Zen
master, the other a Jesuit priest -- explore together the farthest
reaches of truth. East and West flow together in this remarkable
book, transcriptions of their recorded conversations that range
widely over memory, death, and religion; prison and exile; war and
peace; Jesus and Buddha; and communities of faith and resistance.
Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health
professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most
comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the art of integrating
contemplative psychology, ethics, and practices, including
mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques. It brings
together clinicians, scholars, and thought leaders of unprecedented
caliber, featuring some of the most eminent pioneers in the rapidly
growing field of contemplative psychotherapy. The new edition
offers an expanded array of effective contemplative interventions,
contemplative psychotherapies, and contemplative approaches to
clinical practice. New chapters discuss how contemplative work can
effect positive psychosocial change at personal, interpersonal, and
collective levels to address racial, gender, and other forms of
systemic oppression. The new edition also explores the
cross-cultural nuances in the integration of Buddhist psychology
and healing practices by Western researchers and clinicians and
includes the voices of leading Tibetan doctors. Advances in
Contemplative Psychotherapy offers a profound and synoptic overview
of one of psychotherapy's most intriguing and promising fields.
Simply written, and with a view to taking the wisdom of Confucius
out of the hands of the academics and the philosophers and making
it accessible to the general reader, Confucius From the Heart gives
us a contemporary Confucius, one who can teach us how to attain
spiritual happiness, adjust our daily routines and find our place
in modern life. Yu Dan argues that his sayings, or Analects - far
from being merely interesting quotes from ancient lore, of little
use in our hectic, stress-filled world. Instead, they are simple
truths that can speak to each and every one of us and help us lead
better, happier, calmer lives.
Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) integrates
Mindfulness and Wellbeing to realize human flourishing and the
attainment of happiness. This 9-session program, conducted over 8
weeks, enhances wellbeing, happiness and quality of life through
self-understanding and self-awareness. The first part of the book
is devoted to presenting mindfulness, wellbeing, the happiness
paradigm and the curriculum of the Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing
Enhancement (MBWE) program. It presents the foundations of
mindfulness-based programs, and how mindfulness intersects with
wellbeing. The authors argue, with the support of evidence, that
mindfulness is well placed to promote human flourishing rather than
limiting its relevance to stress reduction and preventing
depression relapse. Several chapters are devoted to presenting the
MBWE program comprehensively with weekly agendas, homework,
handouts, facilitation guides and practice scripts. The second part
of the book presents the evidence base of mindfulness, cultural
adaptations for different populations, the therapeutic
effectiveness of group learning inherent in Mindfulness-Based
Programs and the often-untold history of mindfulness. The authors
present the often-neglected Asian roots of Mindfulness and justify
how secular Mindfulness, as taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn, is influenced
by multiple wisdom traditions as opposed to it being a solely
Buddhist practice. This book serves as a hands-on resource for
trained mindfulness teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists,
psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, practitioners,
educators, coaches, and consultants. It is also suitable for anyone
who is interested in the appreciation of mindfulness and human
flourishing.
Offers a comprehensive view of the emerging fields of
secular-scientific mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Teaching and
Learning (MBTL) for professionals for use in a range of educational
and clinical settings, including preK-12, higher education, adult
and community education, social work, workplace education,
medicine, psychology, and counselling. Provides intellectual depth,
including addressing key critiques, while offering constructive
support to practitioners and professionals in the full spectrum of
skills and competencies required of secular-scientific mindfulness
specialists, including an up-to-date competency framework. Presents
a multi-disciplinary approach to secular-scientific mindfulness and
its practices, with implications for teacher preparation and
continuing education for a range of professions. These
multi-disciplinary perspectives provide a fulsome view of
mindfulness as it is unfolding in modern contexts, including the
continuing dialogue with traditional Buddhist and classical Western
philosophical sources; empirical perspectives from psychology and
cognitive science, and practice-oriented scholarship from
education, medicine, and social work.
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