Download or read book The Light A Book of Wisdom written by Keidi Keating and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful book contains chapters by 22 of the world’s leading luminaries in the field of personal development and spiritual transformation, including bestselling authors Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations With God) and Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements). Covering topics from co-creating a peaceful world, forgiveness, healing, and finding purpose and happiness, to chapters about health, well-being, destiny, and the mysteries of kundalini, The Light also includes practical exercises and guidance, empowering readers to achieve their greatest potential.
Download or read book Enlightened Wisdom written by Prasanna M S and published by Prasanna M S. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world brimming with knowledge and spiritual seekers, there are few luminaries who continue to guide and inspire generations. Swami Vivekananda, a revered Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, and disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, stands tall as a beacon of wisdom and enlightenment. His profound teachings have touched the hearts and minds of millions, transcending time and boundaries. “Enlightened Wisdom: Unveiling Swami Vivekananda’s Profound Quotes” is a captivating book that delves deep into the treasure trove of Swami Vivekananda’s powerful words. It serves as a guiding light, shedding light on his timeless wisdom, and offering profound insights into various aspects of life, spirituality, and human existence. In this thought-provoking collection, each page unveils a carefully curated selection of Swami Vivekananda’s quotes, capturing the essence of his teachings. From his emphasis on self-realization and the power of positive thinking to his profound understanding of the human mind and the path to liberation, the book presents a comprehensive compilation of his most inspirational and transformative words.
Download or read book Awakening the Buddha Within written by Lama Surya Das and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker. The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced life. It illuminates the guidelines and key principles embodied in the noble Eight-Fold Path and the traditional Three Enlightenment Trainings common to all schools of Buddhism: Wisdom Training: Developing clear vision, insight, and inner understanding—seeing reality and ourselves as we really are. Ethics Training: Cultivating virtue, self-discipline, and compassion in what we say and do. Meditation Training: Practicing mindfulness, concentration, and awareness of the present moment. With lively stories, meditations, and spiritual practices, Awakening the Buddha Within is an invaluable text for the novice and experienced student of Buddhism alike.
Download or read book Enlightenment Now written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
Download or read book The Only Real Way to Enlightenment written by James J. Fairlie and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in this book is backed up by incredible quotes from Jesus, Buddha, and Lao Tzu - who is the central figure of Taoism- as well as other ancient sages, demonstrating that these figures from all around the world were teaching of the same enlightenment. This book is designed to teach you the most vital life-changing lessons which you need to know to live well and attain wisdom, it serves as a guide as well as a catalyst for awakening your mind to raw truths, and it doesn't hold anything back, even when it goes against the conditioned story of materialism that modern society wants you to believe. Open your mind to astonishing truths taught by the sages, such as that life is really an eternal mind-based experience, and listen to teachings on how you should really be dealing with meditation, relationships, laziness, arguments, problems, depression, loneliness, modern culture and its insane beliefs, memory, karma, enlightenment, the ultimate truth of life and more. The author stands apart from other teachers as he dives more deeply into the inner workings of your spiritual essence than you have ever seen before. Using penetrative insight he covers topics which many shy away from discussing, such as taking a look at the delusional beliefs spread throughout the modern world, and he does so authentically without a hint of ego attached to his words. Here is finally an easy to read book which brings you straight to the answers and the truths of enlightened wisdom.
Download or read book The Book of Dharma written by Simon Haas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewels of Enlightenment written by Erik Pema Kunsang and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into Tibet’s rich religious heritage with this compilation of Buddhist prayers, poems, and teachings from all the various schools. A perfect companion for meditation and contemplation, Jewels of Enlightenment represents over a millennium of wisdom from masters such as Milarepa, Gampopa, Machig Labdrön, Jigmey Lingpa, Shabkar, Jamgön Kongtrül, and more on how to live a meaningful life.
Download or read book The Only Way to Real Enlightenment written by James J. Fairlie and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in this book is backed up by incredible quotes from Jesus, Buddha, and Lao Tzu who is the central figure of Taoism, as well as other ancient sages, demonstrating that these figures were all teaching of the exact same spiritual enlightenment. Over 3.5 billion people today follow the teachings of these three figures, but most of these followers do not realize that the wisdom these sages taught is almost identical. This book is designed to teach you the most vital life-changing lessons which you need to know to live well and attain wisdom, it serves as a guide as well as a catalyst for awakening your mind to raw truths, and it doesn't hold anything back, even when it goes against the conditioned conformist way of life modern culture wants you to follow. Open your mind to astonishing truths taught by the wisest men who ever lived, such as that life is really an eternal mind-based experience, and listen to teachings on how you should really be dealing with meditation, relationships, laziness, arguments, problems, depression, loneliness, modern culture and its insane beliefs, memory, karma, enlightenment, the ultimate truth of life and more. The author stands apart from other teachers as he covers topics which many shy away from discussing, and he does so authentically without a hint of ego attached to his words. Here is finally an easy to read book which brings you straight to the answers and the truths of enlightened wisdom.
Download or read book Ordinary Women Extraordinary Wisdom written by Rita Marie Robinson and published by Mantra Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom is a collection of intimate, heartfelt conversations with women spiritual teachers who live and look like ordinary people. They have kids, husbands, jobs, and bills to pay. What makes them extraordinary is that each woman has awakened to her true nature. And while that sounds like enlightenment, it doesn't look like the old stereotype of transcendence, detachment, and bliss. Quite the contrary. This is the feminine half of the spiritual journey--bringing it down to earth and embracing all of what it means to be human.
Download or read book Steps on the Path to Enlightenment written by Lhundub Sopa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geshe Sopa continues his elucidation of Lama Tsongkhapa's masterwork on the Buddhist path with an explanation of superior insight (vipaśyanā), or wisdom, the pinnacle of the bodhisattva's perfections.
Download or read book How to Attain Enlightenment written by James Swartz and published by Sentient+ORM. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Goes through the entire gamut of topics covered by the Vedas, making use of yoga, detachment, the ego, karma, dharma, love, meditation and much more.” —East and West Magazine This complete guide to enlightenment presents the wisdom of the ancient science of self-inquiry, a time-tested means for achieving spiritual freedom. The author discusses the purpose of self-inquiry, the quest for lasting happiness, issues of identity and transcendence, the role of wisdom and action, and the subconscious obstacles to freedom. He convincingly refutes the popular view that enlightenment is a unique state of consciousness and debunks a host of other enlightenment myths. In his straightforward style he reveals proven methods for purifying the mind, and includes chapters on love, the science of energy transformation and meditation. He takes the reader from the beginning to the end of the spiritual path, patiently unfolding the logic of self-inquiry. “Vedanta is the original systemized enlightenment teaching, and James does an extraordinary job of extracting the essential nectar of the teachings from its dusty, ancient, Sanskrit origins and elucidating it with utmost clarity. One review cannot do this teaching, with its rich history and depth, even a modicum of justice. James’s book is the best introduction there is to this subject.” —Consciousness Junkie “Explains methods of Vedanta in his survey of spiritual techniques, pairing theory with practice and explaining the myths and realities behind an enlightened state. From reflections on moving to a larger living space and clutter to assimilating experiences, How to Attain Enlightenment is a powerful survey any new age library needs.” —The Bookwatch
Download or read book Enlightened Knowledge written by Sohan Raj Tater and published by Readworthy Publications. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge is specific to human beings and self-reflection is an important step towards self realization. Such reflection or knowledge is enlightenment. Various philosophical traditions of the world have tried to understand the nature of knowledge and its power of enlightenment. This book discusses at length the nature of knowledge and its enlightening power as explained by different schools of Indian philosophy, with special reference to the tenets and teachings of Jainism.
Download or read book Live More Like Buddha written by Summersdale and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddha's wisdom has been handed down through the centuries, teaching us mindfulness, patience and care. This beautiful little book collects his wisest teachings on how best to balance our lives and love our fellow man.
Download or read book Enlightenment Orientalism written by Srinivas Aravamudan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, Enlightenment Orientalism is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.
Download or read book Love Dharma written by Geri Larkin and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Dharma offers compassionate guidance and advice, looking at contemporary relationship dilemmas from a Buddhist perspective as expressed in traditional stories of enlightened Buddhist women who lived and loved during the Buddha's lifetime. We all experience the ups and downs of relationships—the fun of dating, the pain of breaking up, the demands of serious partnerships, and the ache of loneliness. But we often forget that they affect not only our love lives, but our spirits as well. With Love Dharma you will discover how to use your romantic triumphs and tragedies to achieve personal peace and happiness, develop more satisfying connections with others, and share yourself without losing yourself. Author Geri Larkin teaches that the difficult and joyous moments of our love lives are truly opportunities to continue our spiritual journey
Download or read book Eastern Wisdom written by Confucius and published by Wilder Publications Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Wisdom: Five Paths to Enlightenment explores Buddhism, Taoism, Hindu Mysticism, Confucianism, and Shinto. Here are spiritual paths that most Westerners have no real understanding of, but the wisdom here is both timeless and liberating. These five classics-The Creed of Buddha; The Sayings of Lao Tzu; The Yengishiki; The Great Learning, and Hindu Mysticism-are valuable introductions of the religions of the East.
Download or read book Enlightened by Design written by Helen Berliner and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1999-06-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how to use our homes to realign ourselves with the basic forces of nature: heaven and earth, the four directions, and the elemental energies that arise from them. Based on Tibetan Buddhist teachings on energy mandalas and the practice of space awareness, it includes playful quotes, provocative illustrations, and practical exercises for discovering the inspiration and delight hidden in our homes. And it explains the role of wakefulness in contemplative arts and design. Berliner proceeds from living room to bedroom to kitchen to home office, illustrating with rigorous practicality how we can join space, color, function, harmony, and our senses to create functional, welcoming rooms. She draws on traditional geomantic systems from Celtic wisdom to feng-shui to show that home design and ecology are one and the same, and that intuition and our senses are our most effective decorating tools. Working with wakefulness and natural patterns of energy, we can create enlightened environments—and in this case enlightenment begins at home!
