Download or read book Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall written by Wayne C. Allen and published by The Phoenix Centre Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall is a light-hearted guide to living life fully and deeply. Using Zen stories old and new, illustrations and exercises, Wayne C. Allen takes you on a walk through the workings of your mind, heart, and soul. For those who love Eastern thought, and equally for those who are fearless explorers of their internal space, Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall is an eye-opening jaunt through the ages-while always bringing you into direct contact with yourself-in this moment.

Download or read book This Endless Moment 2nd edition written by Wayne C. Allen and published by The Phoenix Centre. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised, This Endless Moment is a book for people on a serious quest for their identity. This book clears away the myths, half-truths and misconceptions that keep us from living fulfilling, clear and meaningful lives. Using stories, illustrations and common sense advice, Wayne C.Allen guides his readers to increasing levels of understanding and self-responsibility. From page 56: "Blind luck is a stupid thing to trust your lifeto. Having the life you want requires focus, dedication, and, first and foremost, an understanding of what, specifically, you want." "Wayne C. Allen has taken important complex concepts and ha expressed them in an accessible and practical way. His very personal approach is remarkable. This is an excellent, readable book. We're impressed!" Bennet Wong, M.D., F.R.C.P.(c) Jock McKeen, M.D., Lic.Ac. (UK) Co-Founders, The Haven Institute

Download or read book Find Your Perfect Partner written by Wayne C. Allen and published by The Phoenix Centre Press . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've likely realized that the screwy relationships you have been in were the direct result of you not thinking about how to create an excellent one. Pretending the important, life-altering decision to relate is “a matter of the heart” is not only stupid, it doesn't work! Many moons ago, psychotherapist Wayne C. Allen made a clear decision about his “next” relationship. He decided that his brain (not just his heart) needed to be in charge of the process. He came up with a strategy for finding the person he wanted -- He called it...The List of 50. His strategy worked. He met his perfect partner (in 2017, they've been together 34 years!) Wayne began sharing the process with his clients -- soon, they demanded a book... and Find Your Perfect Partner is the result. Written by a therapist with over 30 years of experience, this book gives you the tools you need to actually think through what kind of person you want to be with. His clients have tested this process for the last 30 years, and now it's available to you! Here's a quote from a client: “When I showed my List of 50 to one friend he said, “Do you have a short list that us mere mortals could aspire to?” My answer was, “I had a short list and it got me my ex-husband. I'm being more particular now.” Find Your Perfect Partner is a guide to figuring out the whole attraction / dating / relationship thing. You'll discover: ~reasons for failed relationships and the high divorce rate ~how hormones get in the way ~how past relationships are great guides to getting the next one right ~why you need to think about what works in your successful friendships ~which traits must be a match between you and your perfect partner This book examines what doesn't work, then helps you to map out what's been missing from your past relationships. It gives you an easy to follow strategy for re-setting your mental filters, so that the next person you meet is a much better fit. You'll have a better sense of why compatibility is so important, and have a time tested method for both opening your eyes to new possibilities, and for finding your perfect partner. Follow along with the text, work through the exercises, and put the book's insights into practice. You'll be amazed with the results. One more quote! "My list has been an active part of my relationship building since I drafted it. I have modified the list several times, based on how relationships worked out. It was also interesting to note, how few elements of my list my ex-wife matched, similar to what you said about your first marriage. I feel that using the process you recommend does improve the quality of the choices you make. Of course, building the other relating skills will complement this as well."

Download or read book The Best Relationship Ever written by Wayne C. Allen and published by The Phoenix Centre Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is The Bedrock of Great Relationships? It's the willingness to communicate who you are, where you are, and what's up for you... all the time! And especially when you don't want to! The. Best. Relationship. Ever. is both a learning tool, and a step-by-step guide - a plan you will implement - to chart the new direction in your life and relationship. ~ Are You Ready For A Meaningful Relationship? ~ Do You Want to Know How to Keep Your Relationship Fresh and Alive? ~ Wondering How to Develop and Nourish a Deep and Meaningful Relationship? If you are confused about your relationship, just follow this detailed, step-by-step guide for creating The. Best. Relationship. Ever. Read this comprehensive guide and learn how to reconnect, strengthen your relationship, improve communication, deepen intimacy, and more. You'll find easy-to-do exercises designed to get your relationship on track! The. Best. Relationship. Ever. has the perfect mix of theory and practice. ~You'll learn to implement the 9 essential tools for elegant, intimate relating. ~You'll learn how to communicate effectively and deeply. ~You'll be introduced to sensuality exercises designed to get you in touch with your deepest passions. Do what is suggested, and you'll see results! A user friendly guide to cure your relationship - The. Best. Relationship. Ever. is a valuable tool for those who want to improve their relationship. Full of tips and useful information, you'll learn to make your relationship exactly as you want it to be. Learning the principles described in this book will help you to keep your relationship alive, meaningful, fulfilling, and exciting. This book teaches the nuts and bolts of building and maintaining a great relationship. ~You'll learn to stop looking outside of yourself, either for rescue, or to blame. ~You'll learn to take responsibility and ownership for your part, and only your part, of what happens in the relationship. ~You'll discover how to communicate with clarity and curiosity, and how to continue deepening your relationship over time. Most helpful reader reviews: "Reading this book is like having a private session... The book is practical, straightforward and clear... An excellent introduction to a life of personal development and meaning." - Bennet Wong, MD, Jock McKeen, MD "Wayne draws upon elegance, self-responsibility and unabashed honesty as the cornerstones for powerful and intimate relationships... Written with stories, case examples and suggestions." - Debashis Dutta, MSW As you read, you will: ~learn 8 reasons you’ve failed at relating — we examine what goes wrong. ~discover 3 problems people have with communication — once you know what doesn’t work, you’re ready for what does! ~meet Sam and Sally, and learn how to really mess up a relationship! — you see their mis-steps, and learn from them. ~find out how “labelling” your partner gets in the way of Elegant, Intimate Relating. You’ll see that Elegant, Intimate Relating means no judging and blaming. ~learn a brand new model for being in relationship. I call this Elegant, Intimate Relating. ~discover the rules and practice of dialogue. Each conversation is worthy of doing well! ~find out what to do, and when. You’ll have the tools you need, right in front of you.

Download or read book Living Life in Growing Orbits written by Wayne C. Allen and published by The Phoenix Centre Press . This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Life in Growing Orbits is a Workbook for people seeking clarity and focus. In an often confusing world, pure, simple, and focused guidance is required. Living Life in Growing Orbits is a guidebook for discovering who you are, and more, importantly, the tool you need to become fully yourself. • If you are wondering what, specifically, to do to learn more about who you are, who you might be, and about your place in the world, this book is for you. • If you have read books on wholeness, personal responsibility, or spiritual insight, and then have wondered, “What’s next?” — this book is for you. • If you seek wholeness, but are unclear on how to begin , this book is for you. • If you want elegant, day-by-day guidance to maintain a practice designed to open your eyes, your heart, your mind and Spirit, this book is for you! In 52 weeks, you will have found direction and purpose, as you explore the meaning of centered, meaning-filled, and “present” living. With weekly thoughts, and daily meditations and projects, Living Life in Growing Orbits: 52 Weeks to Wholeness will change your life.

Download or read book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha written by Daniel Ingram and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in self-absorbed mind-noise. Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. Its easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram's assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide, and to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.In this new edition of the bestselling book, the author rearranges, revises and expands upon the original material, as well as adding new sections that bring further clarity to his ideas.

Download or read book Zen Baggage written by Bill Porter and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. Zen Baggage is an account of that journey. He weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, and translations of the earliest known records of Zen, along with personal vignettes. Porter's account captures the transformations taking place at religious centers in China but also the abiding legacy they have somehow managed to preserve. Porter brings wisdom and humor to every situation, whether visiting ancient caves containing the most complete collection of Buddhist texts ever uncovered, enduring a six–hour Buddhist ceremony, searching in vain for the ghost in his room, waking up the monk in charge of martial arts at Shaolin Temple, or meeting the abbess of China's first Zen nunnery. Porter's previously published Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits has become recommended reading at Zen centers and universities throughout America and even in China (in its Chinese translation), and Zen Baggage is sure to follow suit.

Download or read book The Buddhist Tradition written by William Theodore de Bary and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1972-02-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, compiled from basic Buddhist writings, presents a survey of Buddhist thought in India, China, and Japan, covering the central doctrines and practices that has profoundly influenced human life in Asia. Developments in practical ethics, social attitudes, philosophical speculation, and religious and aesthetic contemplation are represented by selected excerpts from basic writings with succinct introductions and commentary. From these one may observe not only the remarkable vitality of Buddhism in its spread through Asia, but also the essential links between widely diverse forms, showing how the spiritual message of the Buddha found expression in different historical and cultural circumstances. Thus both its continuity in time and its wide range of influence mark Buddhism as a major spiritual force in the world. Buddha, as the Awakened One, has exemplified to millions of followers throughout the ages a living Truth, a dynamic wisdom and an active compassion. It is these qualities that have inspired hope and courage in men who were asked to face to the stark reality of man's condition: the inevitable involvement in suffering which arises from his persistent egoism and refusal to recognize his finitude.

Download or read book The Wound of Love In the Spiritual Fire of the Ruchira Buddha Adi Da written by Momo Pete and published by epubli. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a childhood characterised by mystical experiences under the most difficult life circumstances, the Master "unrecognised" accompanies His disciple's spiritual search to India, who takes refuge in meditation and retreat, until the brightly radiating, transcendental spiritual revelations of the Heart-Master, as the Divine Person, the Maha Purusha, the promised God-Man, in the Old University of Freiburg im Breisgau. The search ends from one moment to the next and the disciple's life takes an unexpected turn and undergoes a profound transformation. In the eternal relationship between Heart-Master Avatar Adi Da and His devotee, the path of Avatar Adi Da's 7th stage of Perfect Realisation is revealed step by step. After many years of waiting and countless visions, the author finally reaches the longed-for island of Naitauba. All his expectations and ideas about the ashram of a Maha Siddha and the island community are disappointed on all levels. He is confronted with an insider cult of the first generation of devotees. The wisdom teaching of the Heart Master has fallen prey to a revision and a "monarchist" insider cult, behind which the first generation of disciples hides with high priestly words and empty proclamations. Despite this difficult and unexpected circumstance, the disciple receives the Transcendental Spiritual Revelations and teachings of his Heart-Master. The Transcendental Spiritual Reality emerges as the source of all beings and things in the face of the greatest possible failure, confrontation with the fatal insider cult of a spiritual community, exile and banishment.

Download or read book Nirvana The Last Nightmare written by Osho and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is not any ideology. Religion does not believe in any ideals. Religion is to become aware of the impossibility of idealism – of all idealism. Religion is to live here and now, and idealism goes on conditioning your mind to live somewhere else. And only the now exists. There is no other way to live. The only way is to be here. You cannot be there. The tomorrow is non-existent, it never comes, and idealism believes in the tomorrow. It sacrifices the today at the altar of the tomorrow. It goes on saying to you, ’Do something – improve yourself. Do something – change yourself. Do something – become perfect.’ It appeals to the ego. Idealism belongs to the world of the ego. It appeals to the ego that you can be more perfect than you are; in fact you should be more perfect than you are. But each moment is perfect, and it cannot be more perfect than it is.

Download or read book Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise Volumes 1 3 written by Andrew M. Crusoe and published by Andrew M. Crusoe. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, own all 3 volumes in one convenient ebook! What happens when you hear the call to fly to the most remote population center on Earth, home base for ecovillages, black sand beaches, and a volcano goddess living in a molten lake of lava? You GO! Upon landing, Andrew feels instantly welcome. On his first night, a new friend asks him if he’d like to go on a volcano adventure with her. “Are you serious?” he says. “Yes, of course!” After picking up some gas masks the following day, they head to Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, hiking down a secret road toward a massive red glow in the distance. By nightfall, Andrew and his new friends are standing on the edge of a huge lake of bubbling lava, radiating a warmth that feels like the sun on a cloudless day. Its beauty leaves him speechless, and they've brought food. His friends call it “extreme picnicking,” but his adventure has only just begun. Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise is a 3-volume true story about the consciousness shift that happens when you embrace Hawaii: Volume 1: Arrival soars with pure adventure, unrequited love, deadly lava, mysterious UFOs, ecotourism, and fascinating characters that you’ll never forget. In Volume 2: Tribulations, Andrew dives deep into a life-changing Vipassana meditation course, gains a new perspective on unrequited love, and is wished “Happy Birthday” from a man beyond the grave. Volume 3: Reckoning takes flight with earthshaking changes, powerful healing, a new lava flow, and a hurricane, resulting in a reckoning that changes Andrew forever.

Download or read book Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise written by Andrew M. Crusoe and published by Andrew M. Crusoe. This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even five months on the Big Island can change you forever. Being invited to visit the fiery home of Madame Pele, getting scared half-to-death by a UFO hovering over a lava field, and manifesting a blue feather out of thin air has that effect. Yet Andrew’s most powerful transformation was still ahead. A routine hitchhiking trip into town brings a new person into Andrew’s life that just might have the perfect opportunity for him. His new friend is a volunteer at a Vipassana meditation center. She invites him to join her on a 10-day silent meditation course and then live near the meditation center afterward, doing a very different kind of work-trade than he’s ever done. Andrew accepts and plunges into an intense experience, delving deeper into his mind and body than ever before, unearthing trauma that he thought he had healed long ago. In the process, a profound realization hits him and propels him into a new chapter of his life. Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise is a 3-volume true story about the consciousness shift that happens when you embrace Hawaii. In Volume 2: Tribulations, Andrew dives deep into a life-changing Vipassana meditation course, gains a new perspective on unrequited love, and is wished “Happy Birthday” from a man beyond the grave.

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Download or read book Delicate Frequencies written by Tobias Edelberg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of what it is like growing up in a Commune, traveling the world and living life in a different way. Through the eyes of child and then later as boy we move into this new reality in a rich individual writing style. From zen to the military it’s all in there. Read about it, that’s the only way! “Fantastic”-say people who have read it! “You must publish this!” say others, beaming with passion. “There is something to learn from this man” explain some. Find out what it is like in Central Asia after the Berlin wall came down and how the Trance Music scene has had to move from Goa to all over the world! This is a gift to the world!

Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism written by Helen J. Baroni, Ph.D. and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,700 alphabetically-arranged entries cover the beliefs, practices, significant movements, organizations, and personalities associated with Zen Buddhism.

Download or read book Touching Ground written by Tim Testu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid story of a hippie, a carpenter, a Vietnam vet, an alcoholic, a marine engineer, and a great dad who battled his demons on the Buddhist path. From October 16, 1973, to August 17, 1974, Tim Testu walked all the way from San Francisco to Seattle, bowing his head to the ground every three steps. And that’s not even the best part of his story. Tim Testu was one of the very first Americans to take ordination in Chinese Zen Buddhism. His path—from getting kicked out of school to joyriding in stolen boats in the Navy to squatting in an anarchist commune to wholehearted spiritual engagment in a strict Buddhist monastery—is equal parts rollicking adventure and profound spiritual memoir. Touching Ground is simultaneously larger than life and entirely relatable; even as Tim finds his spiritual home with his teacher, the legendary Chan master Hsuan Hua, he nonetheless continues to struggle to overcome his addictions and his very human shortcomings. Tim never did anything halfway, including both drinking and striving for liberation. He died of leukemia in 1998 after packing ten lifetimes into fifty-two years.

Download or read book Buddha s Bad Boys written by Alan Chin and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many reason why Western men turn to Eastern religion—searching for inner truth, lost love, loneliness, fleeing the law, hopelessness, alcoholism. Some travel halfway around the world in an attempt to overcome their particular dissoluteness, only to realize that improving yourself is like polishing air. What they eventually discover, nevertheless, is one of the Buddha’s most significant lessons: enlightenment comes to those whose singular focus is on helping others less fortunate. Six stories, six gay men trudging down the road to enlightenment. What they each find is the last thing in the world they expected.