Download or read book From Gluttony to Enlightenment written by Viktoria von Hoffmann and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrée to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world. Viktoria von Hoffmann explores four kinds of early modern texts--culinary, medical, religious, and philosophical--to follow taste's ascent from the sinful to the beautiful. Combining food studies and sensory history, she takes readers on an odyssey that redefined a fundamental human experience. Scholars and cooks rediscovered a vast array of ways to prepare and present foods. Far-sailing fleets returned to Europe bursting with new vegetables, exotic fruits, and pungent spices. Hosts refined notions of hospitality in the home while philosophers pondered the body and its perceptions. As von Hoffmann shows, these labors produced a sea change in perception and thought, one that moved taste from the base realm of the tongue to the ethereal heights of aesthetics.
Download or read book A TASTE OF ENLIGHTENMENT written by 법륜스님 Ven. Pomnyun Sunim and published by Jungto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't confine enlightenment within Buddhist sutras! Live happily here and now! Young man, when a person sits on a ridge between rice paddies and keeps one's mind pure, that person is a practitioner. And the place where that person sits is a temple. That is Buddhism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents PREFACE Your Awakening Beyond the Awakening of Seon Masters Part 01 Where Are You Right Now? Someone Said So Where Did You Come From and Where Are You Going? Can You Attain Enlightenment Through Sitting Meditation? “Chang-Cheong Chang-Cheong” There Are No Blessings to Be Attained Bring Forth Your Uneasy Mind Grave Sin What Is This Thing That Came? How to Change Your Fate Part 02 Do You Know Yourself? How Can There Be Relics from a Wooden Buddha? Who Made God? Making Rice with Sand Is Cow Dung Sacred or Dirty? When Caught Up in Our Own Thoughts How a Teacher and a Disciple Became Sworn Enemies Holding the Bucket Upside Down Saying “Yes” When You Really Don’t Want To Part 03 Reflect Upon Yourself The Story of Lady Bodeok In the End, It’s Your Decision Husband Buddha, Wife Buddha Go to Another Temple Awakening in Everyday Life You’ve Been Deceived but You Don’t Even Know It Part 04 Develop Strength Through Practice You Don’t Have to Believe It Does a Dog Have Buddha-Nature? What Is This? A Question That Comes Like a Bolt Out of the Blue Beyond This World Do You Know That You Don’t Know? Part 05 Practice in Your Daily Life Realizing That Dirtiness and Cleanliness Are Not Two Different Things Turning Away from Sentient Beings Who Are the Sentient Beings? A Life Not Obstructed by Anything Awakening Can Happen the Moment the Mind Arises A Golden Opportunity The Moment Love Turns into Hate Part 06 Be Awake to the Here and Now Be a Pine Tree in Front of the Pagoda Holding onto Myself Are You Awake? United We Fall, Divided We Stand Start by Accepting Reality No Reason to Blame Others Part 07 Turn Things That Have Already Happened into Something Useful in Your Life The Pain of Death and Abstaining from Killing True Understanding The World as It Is The Present Is the Sum of Past Causes and Conditions Choice and Responsibility The Principle of Acceptance The Path to Loving Yourself as Well as Others EPILOGUE How to Live Happily and Freely
Download or read book Styles of Enlightenment written by Elena Russo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-01-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Enlightenment Appetizers A Taste of Enlightenment in Everyday Life written by Phd Hc Vetere, Victoria A. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we do work that is more gratifying? How could we have more peaceful and loving relationships? And could we live lives of greater health and longevity? These are just a few of the real-life topics addressed in Enlightenment Appetizers! This book is for avid students of energy science and also for their bewildered friends and family members! These writings and images are intended to inspire and encourage those who are already familiar with the concepts to actually live them. Written in a practical and light-hearted way, this book is also the perfect introduction for those who are unfamiliar with the powerful principles of energy science. As a life coach, I help my clients live with greater ease and joy. This is also my intention in offering you this gift of Enlightenment. May we all contribute to a more enlightened world!
Download or read book The Sensational Past How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses written by Carolyn Purnell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more surprisingly, she shows how many of our own ways of life are a legacy of this earlier time. The Sensational Past focuses on the ways in which small, peculiar, and seemingly unimportant facts open up new ways of thinking about the past. You will explore the sensory worlds of the Enlightenment, learning how people in the past used their senses, understood their bodies, and experienced the rapidly shifting world around them. In this smart and witty work, Purnell reminds us of the value of daily life and the power of the smallest aspects of existence using culinary history, fashion, medicine, music, and many other aspects of Enlightenment life.
Download or read book Book of Enlightenment written by Anadi and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique manual of spiritual insight and revelation which takes the reader beyond accepted boundaries of non-duality and enlightenment. Book of Enlightenment is a revolutionary compendium of spiritual knowledge addressed to those commencing their inner journey, as well as those who have already reached higher levels of spiritual realization. The purpose of this book is to reveal the multidimensional evolution of human potential. It is a book of spiritual guidance directed to uncompromising seekers of truth. Anadi presents a living teaching which continues to evolve, with a wealth of material available that expands further on the foundations laid here.
Download or read book Enlightenment Appetizers written by Victoria A. Vetere PhD HC and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique full-color, 8 x11 inch, magazine style Enlightenment book! Thirty-six articles covering Work, Relationships, Health, Spirituality, Consciousness, and much more. This book is as powerfully practical as it is beautiful. For both avid students of energy science and also for their bewildered friends and family! These pages will inspire and also explain how life really works, and how to enhance yours! As an added bonus, you receive a FREE online course entitled, Energy Science 101: How Life Really Works!
Download or read book Taste of Enlightenment written by Mahesh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-01-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever noticed that the thought about a problem creates more distress than the problem itself? It is the thoughts about a matter that creates fear in oneself, than the actuality of that matter. This book guides the readers to free themselves from the clutches of illusive thoughts and attain freedom from fear and sorrow. Further, it gives an insight into the nature of mind and shows the way in attaining the Divine Being within, that exists behind one's mind. The readers will for sure see the true value of spiritualism from a completely different perspective.
Download or read book The Sociology of Taste in the Scottish Enlightenment written by Andrew Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France written by Sean Takats and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of these cooks as they sought to improve their position in society and reinvent themselves as expert, skilled professionals. Much has been written about the cuisine of the period, but Takats takes readers down into the kitchen and introduces them to the men and women behind the food. It is only in that way, Takats argues, that we can fully recover the scientific and cultural significance of the meals they created, and, more important, the contributions of ordinary workers to eighteenth-century intellectual life. He shows how cooks, along with decorators, architects, and fashion merchants, drove France’s consumer revolution, and how cooks' knowledge about a healthy diet and the medicinal properties of food advanced their professional status by capitalizing on the Enlightenment’s new concern for bodily and material happiness. The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France explores a unique intersection of cultural history, labor history, and the history of science and medicine. Relying on an unprecedented range of sources, from printed cookbooks and medical texts to building plans and commercial advertisements, Takats reconstructs the evolving role of the cook in Enlightenment France. Academics and students alike will enjoy this fascinating study of the invention of the professional chef, of how ordinary workers influenced emerging trends of scientific knowledge, culture-creation, and taste in eighteenth-century France.
Download or read book Dreaming Me written by Jan Willis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, as a child growing up in the Jim Crow South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming involved with the Black Panther Party. But it wasn't until meeting Lama Yeshe, a Tibetan Buddhist monk living in the mountains of Nepal, that she realized who the real Jan Willis was, and how to make the most of the life she was living.
Download or read book Reading the Scottish Enlightenment written by Mark Towsey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of methodologies associated with the history of reading, this book explores the reception of the Scottish Enlightenment, assessing the impact that major texts had on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of contemporary readers.
Download or read book Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment written by Jed McKenna and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Isn't One Kind of Enlightenment - It's the Only Kind THE MARK OF A TRUE MASTER is that he can express a subject of the utmost complexity with uncanny simplicity. Jed McKenna is such a master, and spiritual enlightenment is his subject. His first book, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, was an instant classic and established him as a spiritual teacher of startling depth and clarity. Now, his second book, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, takes us on a fascinating tour of the enlightened state - what it is and what it's not, who's there and who's not, how to get there and how to get somewhere better. Delightful surprises abound, including the dramatic unveiling of perhaps the greatest spiritual masterpiece of all time - long hidden in plain view and well known to all. Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain and U.G. Krishnamurti all appear, and a student from the first book returns to share her Spiritual Autolysis journals. Also surprising are the author's gentle efforts to guide the reader away from enlightenment toward a more desirable and accessible state. Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged, Missing me one place, search another, I stop somewhere, waiting for you. - Walt Whitman Jed McKenna's books aren't for everyone. They're for people who are tired of the spiritual merry-go-round and ready to confront the unadorned reality of the awakening process. If you like your teachers with all the spiritual trimmings and trappings, Jed may not be right for you, but when you're ready to jump off the merry-go-round and begin your journey, Jed McKenna is the guy you want to see standing there, waiting for you.
Download or read book The Power of Now written by Eckhart Tolle and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating 25 Years as a New York Times Bestseller — Over 16 Million Copies Sold It’s no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, “the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there Enlightenment.
Download or read book Accounting for Taste written by Kimberly D. Bartel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Enlightenment written by James Anderson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to enlightenment is a step by step book of easy, practical exercises which trigger the various stages of realisation that amount to full enlightenment and liberation from all suffering, and essays on enlightenment in everyday life. Whether you are searching for enlightenment, teaching others, or simply interested in the subject, this book contains all that you need.
Download or read book Eating the Enlightenment written by E.C. Spary and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners—from physicians and poets to philosophes and playwrights—E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating and drinking were used to articulate concerns about the state of civilization versus that of nature, about the effects of consumption upon the identities of individuals and nations, and about the proper form and practice of scholarship. En route, Spary devotes extensive attention to the manufacture, trade, and eating of foods, focusing upon coffee and liqueurs in particular, and also considers controversies over specific issues such as the chemistry of digestion and the nature of alcohol. Familiar figures such as Fontenelle, Diderot, and Rousseau appear alongside little-known individuals from the margins of the world of letters: the draughts-playing café owner Charles Manoury, the “Turkish envoy” Soliman Aga, and the natural philosopher Jacques Gautier d’Agoty. Equally entertaining and enlightening, Eating the Enlightenment will be an original contribution to discussions of the dissemination of knowledge and the nature of scientific authority.
