Download or read book A Buddhist Journal written by Beth Jacobs, Ph.D. and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided journal that uniquely combines personal writing and meditation—two of the most beneficial self-help processes available In this book, Beth Jacobs—who has taught and written extensively on both Buddhist psychology and therapeutic writing—provides a variety of writing techniques and exercises that are matched with specific Buddhist meditation instructions and teachings. She describes meditation practices and Buddhist concepts along with writing exercises that bring the material to life. Writers will find exercises that deepen their experiences in general and writing in particular. Meditators will find Buddhist concepts clarified and techniques expanded. All readers will discover a laboratory of writing as experimentation, with structures that open ideas, break habits, and combine experience in novel ways.

Download or read book Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions written by Bhikkhu Analayo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned scholar-monk writes accessibly on some of the most contentious topics in Buddhism—guaranteed to ruffle some feathers. Armed with his rigorous examination of the canonical records, respected scholar-monk Bhikkhu Analayo explores—and sharply criticizes—four examples of what he terms “superiority conceit” in Buddhism: the androcentric tendency to prevent women from occupying leadership roles, be these as fully ordained monastics or as advanced bodhisattvas the Mahayana notion that those who don’t aspire to become bodhisattvas are inferior practitioners the Theravada belief that theirs is the most original expression of the Buddha’s teaching the Secular Buddhist claim to understand the teachings of the Buddha more accurately than traditionally practicing Buddhists Ven. Analayo challenges the scriptural basis for these conceits and points out that adhering to such notions of superiority is not, after all, conducive to practice. “It is by diminishing ego, letting go of arrogance, and abandoning conceit that one becomes a better Buddhist,” he reminds us, “no matter what tradition one may follow.” Thoroughly researched, Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions provides an accessible approach to these conceits as academic subjects. Readers will find it not only challenges their own intellectual understandings but also improves their personal practice.

Download or read book A Buddhist Journal written by Fern Larocca and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Buddhist journal that you can write in your daily meditation or mindfulness practice. Add contemplations or guided practices to awaken you to your basic goodness. A great gift for someone on the path to an awakened life. Interior features wide ruled pages.

Download or read book The Buddha Pill written by Miguel Farias and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people meditate daily but can meditative practices really make us ‘better’ people? In The Buddha Pill, pioneering psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm put meditation and mindfulness under the microscope. Separating fact from fiction, they reveal what scientific research – including their groundbreaking study on yoga and meditation with prisoners – tells us about the benefits and limitations of these techniques for improving our lives. As well as illuminating the potential, the authors argue that these practices may have unexpected consequences, and that peace and happiness may not always be the end result. Offering a compelling examination of research on transcendental meditation to recent brain-imaging studies on the effects of mindfulness and yoga, and with fascinating contributions from spiritual teachers and therapists, Farias and Wikholm weave together a unique story about the science and the delusions of personal change.

Download or read book The Buddha Meets Socrates written by Harrison J. Pemberton and published by Rabsel Editions. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddha Meets Socrates: A Philosopher' s Journal is a first-person account of teaching and learning. In 2004, Harrison J. Pemberton embarked on a journey to teach Western philosophy to a group of young Buddhist monks in India. One scholar in particular was poised to study: His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje. Together these great thinkers generated a dialogue of teaching and learning, looking at the work of Western philosophers and comparing it to Buddhist philosophy, questioning how the Buddha and Socrates might meet. The Buddha Meets Socrates chronicles this process of inquiry and exchange.

Download or read book Magnolia Nichiren Buddhism written by Twisted City Notebooks and Journals and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnolia Nichiren Buddhism 6x9" - 15.24x22.86cm 150 lined pages High quality white lined paperback. Nam myoho rengue kyo. This cool elegant notebook gratitude and writing journal has 150 ruled pages and a convenient 6x9 size. Show your love for buddhism designs. A beautiful magnolia flowers buddhist nichiren notebook gift. The best on japanese buddhism gifts. Great gift for women and girls who love meditation. Notebook perfect for note taking, journaling, class notes, writing poetry, daily planner, lists, making to do lists, ideas, travel journal, organizer, diary, notepad or gratitude. It makes a great Christmas or Birthday gift, for girls, boys, women, men, teens & kids. A cool gift for girlfriend and boyfriend.

Download or read book Esoteric Theravada written by Kate Crosby and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on Buddhism—there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravada meditation practices. This once-dominant traditional meditation system, known as borān kammatthāna, is related to—yet remarkably distinct from—Vipassana and other Buddhist and secular mindfulness practices that would become the hallmark of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. Drawing on a quarter century of research, scholar Kate Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kammatthāna, illuminating the historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era.

Download or read book A Buddhist Theory of Privacy written by Soraj Hongladarom and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights. It uses insights obtained from the Buddhist teachings on Non-Self to create an alternative theory of privacy. In doing so, the author first spells out the inherent differences between the Buddhist insights and the beliefs underlying conventional theories of privacy. While Buddhism views the self as existing conventionally through interactions with others, as well as through interrelations with other basic components, non-Buddhist ideas of self are understood as being grounded upon autonomous subjects, commonly understood to be entitled to rights and dignity. In light of this, the book offers ways in which these seemingly disparate concepts can be reconciled, while keeping in mind the need for protecting citizens’ privacy in a modern information society. It also argues that the new way of conceptualizing privacy, as presented in this book, would go a long way in helping unravel the difficult concept of group privacy.

Download or read book American Dharma written by Ann Gleig and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past couple of decades have witnessed Buddhist communities both continuing the modernization of Buddhism and questioning some of its limitations. In this fascinating portrait of a rapidly changing religious landscape, Ann Gleig illuminates the aspirations and struggles of younger North American Buddhists during a period she identifies as a distinct stage in the assimilation of Buddhism to the West. She observes both the emergence of new innovative forms of deinstitutionalized Buddhism that blur the boundaries between the religious and secular, and a revalorization of traditional elements of Buddhism such as ethics and community that were discarded in the modernization process. Based on extensive ethnographic and textual research, the book ranges from mindfulness debates in the Vipassana network to the sex scandals in American Zen, while exploring issues around racial diversity and social justice, the impact of new technologies, and generational differences between baby boomer, Gen X, and millennial teachers.

Download or read book The Zen of Therapy written by Mark Epstein, M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and sympathetic book’s lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories."—Oliver Burkeman, New York Times Book Review A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year’s worth of therapy sessions with his patients to observe how his training in Western psychotherapy and his equally long investigation into Buddhism, in tandem, led to greater awareness—for his patients, and for himself For years, Dr. Mark Epstein kept his beliefs as a Buddhist separate from his work as a psychiatrist. Content to use his training in mindfulness as a private resource, he trusted that the Buddhist influence could, and should, remain invisible. But as he became more forthcoming with his patients about his personal spiritual leanings, he was surprised to learn how many were eager to learn more. The divisions between the psychological, emotional, and the spiritual, he soon realized, were not as distinct as one might think. In The Zen of Therapy, Dr. Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental details of a given hour, his Buddhist background influences the way he works. Meditation and psychotherapy each encourage a willingness to face life's difficulties with courage that can be hard to otherwise muster, and in this cross-section of life in his office, he emphasizes how therapy, an element of Western medicine, can in fact be considered a two-person meditation. Mindfulness, too, much like a good therapist, can “hold” our awareness for us—and allow us to come to our senses and find inner peace. Throughout this deeply personal inquiry, one which weaves together the wisdom of two worlds, Dr. Epstein illuminates the therapy relationship as spiritual friendship, and reveals how a therapist can help patients cultivate the sense that there is something magical, something wonderful, and something to trust running through our lives, no matter how fraught they have been or might become. For when we realize how readily we have misinterpreted our selves, when we stop clinging to our falsely conceived constructs, when we touch the ground of being, we come home.

Download or read book Coffinman written by Shinmon Aoki and published by Buddhist Education Center (US). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story looks at one man's very personal struggle to engage his Shin Buddhist faith to make sense of his experiences with the dead and dying. Shinmon Aoki is forced by extreme financial circumstances into a job in one of the most despised professions in Japanese society, that of the nokanfu, one who washes and prepares dead bodies for burial. Shunned by family and friends and burdened by his own initial revulsion for his work, Aoki throws himself into the job with a fervour that attracts the attention of the townsfolk and earns him the title of Coffinman. In this spiritual autobiography, Aoki chronicles his progression from repulsion to a gradual realisation of the tranquillity that accompanies death. He assists the uninitiated in gaining an understanding of the basic principles of Shin Buddhism and its concepts of death and dying. Also included are definitions of key terms and phrases and a bibliography.

Download or read book Journal of the Buddhist Text and Anthropological Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book 365 Days of the Buddha s Wisdom written by Cristo López and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could it be that the keys to unlocking unbounded happiness and joy can be accessed right now? Is there a way to live a more fulfilling, loving, and compassionate life starting today? The answer to these questions is YES. 365 Days of the Buddha's Wisdom is a very personal journal of self-discovery. Working with this journal for 20 minutes a day will provides the reader with access to some of the greatest lessons on love, kindness, and compassion that have ever been taught, and will have an immediate impact on relating to everyone, from loved ones to co-workers. Use this journal as a guide for living an inspired life or as inspiration for creating a personal development plan. This book will be a go-to resource when seeking guidance on how to make positive changes in all aspects of life. Here's what you'll find in 365 Days of the Buddha's Wisdom: 365 timeless and inspiring quotes from the Buddha. Insightful commentary from philosopher and author Cristo López. Thought-provoking journal prompts to spur you into reflection and action. A record of your personal growth over time. A daily reminder that you have exactly same potential for achieving enlightenment as the Buddha did. An increase in your level of love, compassion, and patience, even for those who would do you harm. Who was the Buddha? Siddhartha Gautama, a prince born in Nepal more than 2500 years ago, gave up all of his worldly possessions at the age of 29 and went on a journey to understand the true nature of human existence. After almost seven years of intense concentration and self-deprivation, Gautama found the answers while sitting in deep meditation beneath a Bodhi tree. At that moment, Gautama became "The Enlightened One" - the Buddha. He spent the next 45 years traveling throughout northern India and Nepal, teaching thousands upon thousands of disciples the way to end suffering and to achieve enlightenment. Importantly, the Buddha insisted that the Truth led away from him, and instead towards our inner selves. This is why the Buddha is not worshipped like a god. Rather, he is revered as a great teacher. He was just a man who became enlightened, and who showed the world that each of us could become enlightened too. Today, over 500 million people in every corner of the world call themselves Buddhists. Why? Because millions of people have discovered for themselves how the Buddha's teachings can bring relief from suffering and fill their beings with joy. This is the beauty and simplicity of Buddhism: The keys to unlocking unbounded happiness and joy are inside of you right now, and there is a simple but powerful way to access these keys and begin to live a more fulfilling, loving, and compassionate life immediately. Start each day with wisdom from one of history's greatest teachers - the Buddha himself. Let his words inspire action so that every day becomes better than the last. With 365 days worth of wisdom at your fingertips, it's never been easier to start becoming who you were meant to be all along. Discover how the wisdom of the Buddha can make a profound difference in your life starting today by scrolling up and clicking on the "Add to Cart" button at the top of the page now!

Download or read book What the Buddha Thought written by Richard Francis Gombrich and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. This book intends to serve as an introduction to the Buddha's thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself. It also argues that we can know far more about the Buddha than it is fashionable among scholars to admit.

Download or read book Om Mani Padme Hum written by The Mindful Word and published by Mindful Word. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal features a beautiful picture of a Buddhist statue on a gold background. The name of this book "Om Mani Padme Hum" is one of the most sacred mantras to Buddhists. You can say this mantra out loud or silently to invoke the blessings of Avalokiteshvara (also known as Kuan Yin or Chenrezig), the Bodhisattva of Compassion. 150 lined pages (75 sheets) 6 x 9 inches 60 pound white-colored paper Perfect bound 10 pt glossy cover