Download or read book A Blueprint of Enlightenment written by Inoue Gien and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment is the most important work in each one's life. Enlightenment is the only way to verify awakening to the true nature of the self without the least bit of deviation. Gien Roshi explains the Blueprint of Enlightenment that Dogen Zenji gave us in his writing of the Guidelines for Studying the Way. Gien Roshi writes: The Bodhi-mind is the mind that wants to attain unsurpassed, complete, and perfect enlightenment. This term looks difficult, but the Bodhi-mind means the mind that seeks the Way. This Way is how you are right now. First, you need to ask, "What is my essential nature? What is the true nature of my mind?" To want to find out these things is very important. In other words, "What is the self?" You need to have the desire to be a person who can answer those questions and who can say, "This is what a human being is." Gien Roshi had that burning desire and now is able to elucidate Dogen's teachings. When Gien Roshi at last experienced complete, perfect enlightenment, he said, "In the midst of several thousand people, there was no one, no place, no me ... absolutely nothing. While there was nothing and no one who knows that, some condition touched this [body] and consciousness arose. Until then, the conscious experience was absent and then it suddenly rose up. And so, at that moment, "Oh!" From that time on, there was not the slightest doubt." Certainly, now is the time for Dogen Zenji's teaching, to get a new lease on life through Gien Roshi's commentary, the means to find the Way.
Download or read book Knowledge Consent and Liberty written by Steve G. Sweetman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The angst of modernity is that of powerlessness, disenfranchisement, and alienation. People everywhere are experiencing helplessness in a world where the few rule, and leaders and legislators run roughshod over the masses with a deluge of laws, and where technology encroaches upon their daily lives and privacy, and an economic inequality never before seen in history. The concepts of self-determination; destroying superstition; government by the people; questioning all authority; and the power of knowledge, reason, and the authority of the individual is on the verge of dying. However, as Thomas Paine said, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Today’s world cries out for a new breed of thinker—rational, brave, bold, innovative, intuitive, and artistic. We all need to re-evaluate—to become questioners, explorers, and seekers. Knowledge, Consent, and Liberty is about the power of knowledge; the supremacy of the consent of the governed; the legal and Constitutional right of the people of the globe to form their definitions of liberty, freedom, and government; and their obligation to create their collective destiny. Its lofty goal is to challenge, empower, and enlighten the reader. In a logical progression from premises to conclusions, it lays out a philosophical, historical, and scientific argument that humans create their world for good or bad. It expounds on current social, political, and cultural issues that deserve consideration for reform or change. And it maps out a constitutional strategy and method for “the people” to create America, and the world, in their own image rather than that of a few oligarchs.
Download or read book Awaken written by Erriel Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Enlightened Path to Success Fulfillment A Holistic Blueprint for Experiencing Unparalleled Growth Achievement in Every Area of Your Life written by Kevin Mpambou Do Dang and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's a critical time... your ability to elevate to a greater fulfilled existence will provide the unique solutions needed to help shift the collective to higher consciousness. We need you and your realized gifts."-KMDD DO YOU: - Want help overcoming fear and limiting beliefs? - Need a total mindset shift and help with planning your life's pivot? - Struggle with building strong personal and professional relationships? - Want to grow in influence and accelerate your career success? - Need help overcoming self-sabotaging behaviors? If You Answered "YES" To Any Of These Questions, Then You Need...THE ENLIGHTENED PATH TO SUCCESS & FULFILLMENT In this insightful and straight-forward guide, accomplished global business leader, Kevin Mpambou Do Dang takes you on a journey to discover your best and highest Self NOW. His philosophy shows you how to align with your purpose, improve your communication and leadership skills, build influence, and overcome any obstacles standing in your way. You'll learn easy-to-implement strategies and proven techniques that transcend individualistic consciousness, focusing on holistic, collective alignment, mindfulness, self-mastery, and total well-being. Don't sacrifice happiness or your mental and physical health for material success. You deserve to have it ALL! Happiness, fulfillment, a successful career, and prosperity can be yours. Why wait another day?
Download or read book Our New Path of Self Discovery written by Terry Sands and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who am I, and Why am I here?' This question is perhaps the only thought that occurs to every one of us at some time during our life. For some, this question is merely a passing thought; for others, the question is answered by religious teachings; for still others, the question is so serious that it prompts a search of paramount importance. We are calling for a way to help us understand the nature of our identity and the meaning of our life. If you have asked this question with more than a passing interest, you have probably explored various avenues that appeared to off er an answer. You may have looked at various religions; you may have read the odd treatise or book, you may have journeyed to far off lands and you may have been attracted to various forms of so called "new-age" philosophies. Most of us have read a book or an article or seen a program about some of the modern gurus and cults that claim to give an answer to those who will follow their teachings. Some of us have even followed one or two of them. Many of us have all but exhausted the various avenues and attractions that off er an answer and have found the answers wanting. Many of those paths contain some truth and many of them are genuine. That is not the question that remains when they have been explored. The emptiness that hangs in the mind seems to ask for something to fill the void that makes that truth apply to "me". It may say, "This path may be fine for you, but what about me? Where is the answer that makes my heart sing?" If you relate to what I have described, you may relate to the Material in this book.
Download or read book The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge written by Peter B. Kaufman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we create a universe of truthful and verifiable information, available to everyone? In The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, MIT Open Learning’s Peter B. Kaufman describes the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely. Popes and their inquisitors, emperors and their hangmen, commissars and their secret police—throughout history, all have sought to stanch the free flow of information. Kaufman writes of times when the Bible could not be translated—you’d be burned for trying; when dictionaries and encyclopedias were forbidden; when literature and science and history books were trashed and pulped—sometimes along with their authors; and when efforts to develop public television and radio networks were quashed by private industry. In the 21st century, the enemies of free thought have taken on new and different guises—giant corporate behemoths, sprawling national security agencies, gutted regulatory commissions. Bereft of any real moral compass or sense of social responsibility, their work to surveil and control us are no less nefarious than their 16th- and 18th- and 20th- century predecessors. They are all part of what Kaufman calls the Monsterverse. The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge maps out the opportunities to mobilize for the fight ahead of us. With the Internet and other means of media production and distribution—video especially—at hand, knowledge institutions like universities, libraries, museums, and archives have a special responsibility now to counter misinformation, disinformation, and fake news—and especially efforts to control the free flow of information. A film and video producer and former book publisher, Kaufman begins to draft a new social contract for our networked video age. He draws his inspiration from those who fought tooth and nail against earlier incarnations of the Monsterverse—including William Tyndale in the 16th century; Denis Diderot in the 18th; untold numbers of Soviet and Central and East European dissidents in the 20th—many of whom paid the ultimate price. Their successors? Advocates of free knowledge like Aaron Swartz, of free software like Richard Stallman, of an enlightened public television and radio network like James Killian, of a freer Internet like Tim Berners-Lee, of fuller rights and freedoms like Edward Snowden. All have been striving to secure for us a better world, marked by the right balance between state, society, and private gain. The concluding section of the book, its largest piece, builds on their work, drawing up a progressive agenda for how today’s free thinkers can band together now to fight and win. With everything shut and everyone going online, The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge is a rousing call to action that expands the definition of what it means to be a citizen in the 21st century.
Download or read book Enlightenment Defined and Blueprint for Change written by Stan Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blueprint of Oneness Large Print 16pt written by Ashmarae McNamara and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring and interactive' this manual demonstrates how to effortlessly release negative belief patterns and to respond positively to any situation by following the guidance of Ascended Master' Saint Germain. Providing the tools to connect to higher frequencies' this handbook encourages that individuals seeking spiritual enlightenment breathe' feel' and allow the energy of Saint Germain into their beings in order to realize his teachings. This remarkable meditation argues that integration and self - transformation can occur not only through the mind but also through the heart itself.
Download or read book Ordinary Enlightenment written by John C. Robinson and published by Unity Books (Unity School of Christianity). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on mysticism are written through the author's religious lens and describe the divine only indirectly. Ordinary Enlightenment sees through the lens of everyday life and shows how developing the ability to see with the mystical eye -- to have a direct perception of the divine -- is the key to transforming our lives.This is a mystic's handbook, written from personal experience. It transcends theology and prescribed beliefs and cuts right to direct experience.John C. Robinson treats the mystical experience of God as natural and ordinary. There are no miracles here -- just humans learning to recognize and experience our divine nature.
Download or read book The Democratic Soul written by Aaron L. Herold and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Democratic Soul, Aaron L. Herold argues that liberal democracy's current crisis—of extreme polarization, rising populism, and disillusionment with political institutions—must be understood as the culmination of a deeper dissatisfaction with the liberal Enlightenment. Major elements of both the Left and the Right now reject the Enlightenment's emphasis on rights as theoretically unfounded and morally undesirable and have sought to recover a contrasting politics of obligation. But this has re-opened questions about the relationship between politics and religion long thought settled. To address our situation, Herold examines the political thought of Spinoza and Tocqueville, two authors united in support of liberal democracy but with differing assessments of the Enlightenment. Through an original reading of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, Herold uncovers the theological foundation of liberal democracy: a comprehensive moral teaching rehabilitating human self-interest, denigrating "devotion" as a relic of "superstition," and cultivating a pride in living, acting, and thinking for oneself. In his political vision, Spinoza articulates our highest hopes for liberalism, for he is confident such an outlook will produce both intellectual flourishing and a paradoxical recovery of community. But Spinoza's project contains tensions which continue to trouble democracy today. As Herold shows via a new interpretation of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, the dissatisfactions now destabilizing democracy can be traced to the Enlightenment's failure to find a place for religious longings whose existence it largely denied. In particular, Tocqueville described a natural human desire for a kind of happiness found, at least partly, in self-sacrifice. Because modernity weakens religion precisely as it makes democracy stronger than liberalism, it permits this desire to find new and dangerous outlets. Tocqueville thus sought to design a "new political science" which could rectify this problem and which therefore remains indispensable today in recovering the moderation lacking in contemporary politics.
Download or read book Good Citizens written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2008-06-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Good Citizens, Thich Nhat Hanh lays out the foundation for an international solidarity movement based on a shared sense of compassion, mindful consumption, and right action. Following these principles, he believes, is the path to world peace. The book is based on our increased global interconnectedness and subsequent need for harmonious communication and a shared ethic to make our increasingly globalized world a more peaceful place. The book will be appreciated by people of all faiths and cultural backgrounds. While based on the basic Buddhist teachings of the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-Fold Path, Thich Nhat Hanh boldly leaves Buddhist terms behind as he offers his contribution to the creation of a truly global and nondenominational blueprint to overcoming deep-seated divisions and a vision of a world in harmony and the preservation of the planet. Key topics include the true root causes of discrimination; the exploration of the various forms of violence; economic, social, and sexual violence. He encourages the reader to practice nonviolence in all daily interactions, elaborates on the practice of generosity, and teaches the art of deep listening and loving speech to help reach a compromise and reestablish communication after misunderstandings have escalated into conflicts. Good Citizens also contains a new wording of the Five Mindfulness Trainings (traditionally called "precepts") for lay practitioners, bringing them in line with modern-day needs and realities. In their new form they are concrete and practical guidelines of ethical conduct that can be accepted by all traditions. Good Citizens also includes the complete text of the UN Manifesto 2000, a declaration of transforming violence and creating a culture of peace for the benefit of the children of the world. It was drafted by numerous Peace Nobel Prize recipients and signed by over 100 million people worldwide. Coinciding with a US presidential election year, Good Citizens reaches across all political backgrounds and faith traditions. It shows that dualistic thinking—Republican/Democrat, Christian/Muslim—creates tension and a false sense of separateness. When we realize that we share a common ethic and moral code, we can create a community that can change the world.
Download or read book Akashic Enlightenment Akashic Records Book of Truth for Divine Knowledge Healing Ascension written by Sherry Mosley MSOM CSP and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Ascension and self awareness? What are the Akashic Records? What is the Book of Truth? Who are the Council of Light? What is Light Language? Why am I here? What is my soul’s path? What am I supposed to be doing, my purpose? Why does this type of situation keep happening? Why do I feel so drawn to this particular person? We all find ourselves asking at least some of these questions lately, or at some point in our life, wishing and hoping for divine guidance to just help us in these confusing times. The good news is we are not alone and there is a plan and there are ways to get this. It is your soul’s plan that you came into this life and into soul incarnation with. Your Akashic Records have the blueprint to your soul’s plan, the Book of Truth is the gateway out of the illusion of the dream world we’ve been told is the “real world”, and Akashic Enlightenment is the key and gateway to both leading you to your highest true soul self and a life of joy, abundance, freedom, peace and love. Through your own Akashic Records and the Book of Truth via Akashic Enlightenment you will be shown the divine wisdom and knowledge of your past, present, and future lives, alignment with your true soul self and the true laws of the universe as created by Creator / Source / God / All That Is outside of any illusory realities created by you or society. You will be helped to better understand and become self aware of who you really are as your highest true soul self and how your soul is experiencing the Ascension, or self awareness unveiling, underway at this time. You will clear old energy and/or thought patterns, stepping out of fears, traumas, and anxieties on all levels helping you move along and follow your soul’s path of higher awareness. Ultimately, strengthening your soul alignment to be and maintain your highest true self as this is truly the greatest service you can do for yourself and thus for anyone or anything else. Focus on your own self alignment and change your world and life forever! Get started and dive deep into your inner spiritual journey back to your True Self now! (A recommended practice for A Course In Miracles students as a way of receiving personalized and in the moment lessons and guidance on your current situations and current growth areas beyond completing ACIM.)
Download or read book Blueprint written by Nicholas A. Christakis and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity. For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all of our inventions -- our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations -- we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society. In Blueprint, Nicholas A. Christakis introduces the compelling idea that our genes affect not only our bodies and behaviors, but also the ways in which we make societies, ones that are surprisingly similar worldwide. With many vivid examples -- including diverse historical and contemporary cultures, communities formed in the wake of shipwrecks, commune dwellers seeking utopia, online groups thrown together by design or involving artificially intelligent bots, and even the tender and complex social arrangements of elephants and dolphins that so resemble our own -- Christakis shows that, despite a human history replete with violence, we cannot escape our social blueprint for goodness. In a world of increasing political and economic polarization, it's tempting to ignore the positive role of our evolutionary past. But by exploring the ancient roots of goodness in civilization, Blueprint shows that our genes have shaped societies for our welfare and that, in a feedback loop stretching back many thousands of years, societies are still shaping our genes today.
Download or read book Patrons of Enlightenment written by Colum Leckey and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrons of Enlightenment is the first English language study of the St. Petersburg Free Economic Study, one of the most prestigious and influential public associations in Imperial Russian history. Established in 1765 under the personal protection of Catherine the Great, its mission was to enlighten the villages and country estates of the Russian Empire by spreading the gospel of scientific agriculture to noble landowners and the peasants working their land. Emulating the patriotic associations of Western and Central Europe, it also sought to put the finishing touches on the cultural westernization of Russia initiated by the reforming tsar Peter the Great. Within the walls of its meeting house in St. Petersburg, it offered a neutral space where people of different rank, status, and lineage assembled to debate the great issues of the day, above all else the role of a privileged and enlightened nobility in a society anchored in serfdom. For its network of readers and correspondents in the provinces, it provided an opportunity to earn distinction on Russia's public stage through its voluminous publications and its flagship journal, the Transactions of the Free Economic Society. The Society provided the template for public activity and initiative in Imperial Russia, as hundreds of other organizations in the nineteenth century would emulate its example.
Download or read book A Simple Plan for Enlightenment written by Gustav Barnard and published by Gustav Barnard. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How To Live In The Here And Now written by Paul Jones and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Jones rescues enlightenment from the specialists, the superstitious and the pious and makes it available to everyone and anyone through a simple step by step process. ,
Download or read book Age of Enlightenment written by Hourly History and published by Hourly History. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable. Inside you will read about… ✓ The Great Thinkers of the Enlightenment ✓ Engaging With Religion ✓ Morality in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Society in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Science and Political Economy ✓ The Enlightenment and the Public ✓ Print Culture and the Press Philosophies of the Enlightenment gave birth to the disciplines of political science, economic theory, sociology and anthropology, the disciplines that still form the basis of how we understand life in the 21st century. A bold attack on the Church, the State and the Monarchy, the Age of Enlightenment was a direct challenge to the status quo that sought freedom for all.
