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41) Love Whispers
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Great poets and mystics throughout history have written about their visions and personal experiences of the Divine. Love Whispers is a collection of such writings, including poems, prose, and dialogues that exude the aroma of spiritual beauty through their words. For many years, Sri Swami Rama kept diaries in which he reflected on life and nature and recorded his dialogues with the Divine Mother. He kept these reflections secret, not wanting these...
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La reencarnación es una creencia que causa controversias desde hace mucho tiempo: rechazada por la religión cristiana y aceptada por las orientales, siempre ha suscitado gran interés. Hoy, hasta la ciencia profundiza en este tema. En ocasiones, a través de impresiones fugaces o sueños, se experimenta la sensación de recordar una vida anterior. En esta obra, Roger Luc Mary, especialista en fenómenos paranormales, nos invita a que reconozcamos...
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This guide to a complex system of Buddhism is so authoritative that it has been employed in the instruction of Buddhist priests. Translated by a distinguished scholar, the text discusses the essentials of Mahayana Buddhism, including how humans can transcend their finite state, practices and techniques to assist in the awakening and growth of faith.
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Learn from the Master Sri Ramana Maharshi is regarded as one of the most important Indian sages of all time. At the age of sixteen, he experienced a spiritual awakening and travelled to the holy mountain of Arunachala, where a community grew up around him. From there, he touched the lives of influential writers, artists, and seekers such as Carl Jung, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Somerset Maugham. Today, millions around the world continue to be inspired...
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Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis."
Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of speech and naming cannot be properly understood if viewed through the dominant Western philosophical tradition in which language is framed through dualisms that are based on hierarchies of speech and writing, such as reality/appearance and one/many. Instead, early Chinese texts...
46) The Key to Peace
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One of Swami Satchidananda's greatest, compact works, Key to Peace shows clearly that peace is what really matters in life and explains how to be in that peace always by not disturbing our real nature. When our supreme inner peace is undisturbed we are automatically in joy, in love, in light. Inspires us to lead a life of balance, contentment, above likes and dislikes, a life where "everything comes to you." Topics include The Forbidden Fruit, Selflessness,...
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In an eclectic tour de force culled from a wide variety of sources - the great eastern and western philosophical traditions to relativity and quantum mechanics, the author of "The King's Question" engages us in a demonstration of how we actually convince ourselves that the world is real; a "ding an sich". The essays and dialogues range from terse and sometimes humorous metaphysical investigations in the spirit of the great Buddhist and Vedantin masters...
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A new translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali for our present paradigm. Threads uses the lenses of contemporary philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to "remix" the original stillness and insight of the old book with the best that our age has to offer. The author interweaves the refashioned verses with critical commentary and personal reflections from years of practice.
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This book presents, for the first time, a collection of ancient Japanese Shinto prayers in a format where English speaking readers can both understand the deep meaning of the translated text and can also pronounce the original Japanese words. Shinto is an ancient spiritual tradition, primarily practiced in Japan, which is now spreading its traditions to the western world. Its primordial rituals and traditions touch a deep chord within one's spiritual...
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Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.
This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919—1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics,...
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El arte de la guerra data del siglo VI antes de J.C., y se debe al maestro SunTzu, un general al servicio del rey Wu en la época de los "Reinos Combatientes".
Este libro ha sido durante los últimos años una obra de referencia imprescindible para el mundo de la política y de la empresa por el profundo conocimiento que muestra sobre la naturaleza humana, la estrategia y la resolución de conflictos. Por ello, su lectura es prácticamente obligatoria...
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Das Buch "Zhuangzi", auch bekannt unter dem Ehrentitel "Das wahre Buch vom südlichen Blütenland", ist zusammen mit Laozi (Laotse) der wichtigste Text des chinesischen Daoismus. Zhuangzi (Dschuang Dsi) soll im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. gelebt, sich allen Ämtern verweigert und als Gärtner gearbeitet haben. Ihm geht es darum, zurückzulenken auf das Eigentliche, das Einfache: die Freiheit, nichts Besonderes zu tun, die Freiheit, sich selbst zu folgen,...
53) Reflections
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Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah's Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are. As the book's foreword states, 'Do you imagine that fables exist only to amuse or to instruct, and are based upon fiction? The best ones are delineations of...
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The purpose of the way of Self-knowledge is to remind us of our higher destiny and help us to realize the immortality and freedom of our true Self.All human beings are destined to evolve spiritually as we learn our lessons from experience and adjust our lives accordingly. The turning point is when this spiritual evolution becomes a conscious process. This can only happen when we understand and strive for the high goal revealed by the knowers of ultimate...
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Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax delves into "the fruitful darkness" the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation. In The Fruitful Darkness, a highly personal and insightful odyssey of the heart and mind, she encounters Tibetan Buddhist mediators, Mexican shamans, and Native American elders, among others. In rapt prose, she recounts her explorations...
58) Nothing to Grasp
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This book points relentlessly to what is most obvious and impossible to avoid: the ever-present, ever-changing, nonconceptual actuality of the present moment that is effortlessly presenting itself right now. This book is an invitation to wake up from commonplace misconceptions and to see through the imaginary separate self at the root of our human suffering and confusion. Nothing to Grasp is a celebration of what is, exactly as it is.
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A Farmhouse in the Rain is a novel of war and peace, crime and punishment, love and loss, and eventually hope. It's a saga of three American soldiers and the women they love, before, during, and after World War II. During the war, the three are, given shelter by a French woman. The next morning she is, found dead and the trio realize they were the only ones in the house. While the three survive the war, the questions remain, Who will survive the peace?...
60) Bushido
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Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up specimen of an antique virtue preserved in the herbarium of our history. It is still a living object of power and beauty among us; and if it assumes no tangible shape or form, it not the less scents the moral atmosphere, and makes us aware that we are still under its potent spell. The conditions of society which brought it forth and...
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