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Book Humble Table  Wise Fare  1

Download or read book Humble Table Wise Fare 1 written by Xingyun and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humble Table  Wise Fare

Download or read book Humble Table Wise Fare written by Hsing Yun and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a collection of sayings by Venerable Master Hsing Yun. The master compiled over one thousand verses from his lectures, speeches, diary entries and Dharma talks. These sayings are dedicated to the society of today, to serve as mottoes for us in dealing with our daily affairs and interaction with each other.

Book Pearls of Wisdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hsing Yun
  • Publisher : Buddha's Light Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0971749558
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Pearls of Wisdom written by Hsing Yun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a twelve-year-old novice monk, Venerable Master Hsing Yun discovered that personal prayer increased his strength and enhanced his faith. However, the long, profound monastic prayers recited publicly at the monastery were difficult for a beginner to understand. He made a vow then, over sixty years ago, to compose a set of accessible prayers through which Buddhists could express their hopes, celebrate achievements, and fulfill the needs of society. A lifetime of devotion to the Buddha and service to humanity has cultivated the Master's understanding of the importance, the usefulness, and the power of prayer. This book of prayers is the fruit of that cultivation, and the Master offers it to the world to help us in our daily practice. Prayer is not just a catch phrase; it is a practice to be integrated into one's life. With these prayers, readers can express hopes and needs about themselves, their families, their communities, their nations, and the world. The Master expresses his hope that we will recite one prayer each day, to "raise our faith to a higher lever, advance our compassionate virtues, be able to communicate with all Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and comprehend the needs of the masses of society." Book jacket.

Book Studies on Humanistic Buddhism IV  Human Life

Download or read book Studies on Humanistic Buddhism IV Human Life written by and published by Fo Guang Shan Institute of Humanistic Buddhism. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on Humanistic Buddhism IV: Human Life contains eight translated articles, two original articles, two commentaries, and a perspective piece all relating to human life. Human life is a topic with a vast scope. It was chosen because it is central to Humanistic Buddhism. As several articles in this volume and previous volumes discuss, Humanistic Buddhism developed as a response to the perception that Buddhism no longer related directly to human life. By the nineteenth century in China, Buddhism was seen to provide what came to be mainly perfunctory rituals to be performed upon the death of a family member. Humanistic Buddhism revived Buddhism as an intrinsic part of daily life.

Book The Mind of a Practitioner

Download or read book The Mind of a Practitioner written by Hsing Yun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dharma Words represents the launching of a new vehicle for transmitting the Dharma. Addressing a wide array of concerns, Venerable Master Hsing Yun imparts his wisdom in a pithy and incisive manner. Like a diagnosis that precisely identifies a malady and a prescription that effectively cures it, Dharma Words penetrates the core of life's problems, while offering us practical solutions to overcome them. As such, it serves as a useful manual for our conduct, because after all as Venerable Master Hsing Yun puts it, ?Rivers need the proper channel to flow into the ocean. Our lives require maxims to tread on the right path.'

Book Lotus in a Stream

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xingyun
  • Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780834804418
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Lotus in a Stream written by Xingyun and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, Buddhism has produced an enormous quantity of teachings, doctrines, and highly complex systems of thought, making it very difficult to obtain a grasp of the full range of Buddhist philosophy and practice. In Lotus in a Stream , Chinese Buddhist Master Hsing Yun offers a Buddhist primer to organizes the major ideas and practices of Buddhism, from the most basic to the most complex, and presents them in concise, accessible, yet highly insightful mini-essays. An accomplished scholar of Buddhism, Master Hsing Yun also illuminates Buddhist doctrines with the light of decades of practice. Whether read straight through or flipped through as a handy encyclopedia, Lotus in a Stream is the perfect reference for beginners and advanced students of Buddhism alike.

Book Helping

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edgar H. Schein
  • Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • Release : 2011-02-07
  • ISBN : 1605098809
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Helping written by Edgar H. Schein and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Strategy+Business Best Leadership Book of the Year: An “uncommonly wise” analysis of the psychological and social dynamics of helping relationships (Warren Bennis, author of On Becoming a Leader). Helping is a fundamental human activity, but it can also be a frustrating one. All too often, to our bewilderment, our sincere offers of help are resented, resisted, or refused—and we often react the same way when people try to help us. Why is it so difficult to provide or accept help? How can we make the whole process easier? Many words are used for helping: assisting, aiding, advising, caregiving, coaching, consulting, counseling, guiding, mentoring, supporting, teaching, and more. In this seminal book on the topic, corporate culture and organizational development guru Ed Schein analyzes the social and psychological dynamics common to all types of helping relationships, explains why help is often not helpful, and shows what any would-be helpers must do to ensure that their assistance is both welcomed and genuinely useful. He shows how to navigate the delicate acts of asking for or offering help; avoid pitfalls; mitigate power imbalances; and establish a solid foundation of trust—and how these techniques can be applied to teamwork and organizational leadership. From the bestselling author of Organizational Culture and Leadership, and illustrated with examples from many types of relationships—husbands and wives, doctors and patients, consultants and clients—Helping is a concise, definitive analysis of what it takes to establish successful, mutually satisfying helping relationships.

Book Keys to Living Well

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  • Author : Xingyun
  • Publisher : Buddha's Light Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781932293135
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Keys to Living Well written by Xingyun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the launching of a new vehicle for transmitting the Dharma. Arranged in an accessible style, this selection addresses moral, spiritual, and social questions that are central to one's day-to-day existence.

Book Handing Down the Light

Download or read book Handing Down the Light written by Fu Chi-Ying and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Hsing Yun has transformed the role of Chinese Buddhism in the modern world. Under his leadership large centers have been established in Taiwan, Los Angeles, and Sydney, along with a host of other organized groups throughout the world. Perhaps it is better to abandon the wish to explain greatness and simply look at the life story and delight in the lore and happenings. Like other persons of fame, Master Hsing Yun will never be completely explained. While recognition and support were given in extraordinary amounts, he had to overcome obstacles that would have defeated most people. The forces of history were not favorable for a young Chinese Buddhist monk in the mid-twentieth century. He survived and held to his career as spiritual teacher in the face of formidable odds. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment has been the courage to achieve great success and recognition without retreating from it. It has not been in his way to enjoy a peaceful life in a hermitage after achieving acceptance from a community of disciples. His energy and commitment seem as powerful today as they much have been when he arrived in Taiwan, a strikingly handsome and charismatic young monk. No future histories of Chinese Buddhism will be complete without reference to the influences of this leader. Book jacket.

Book Start with Why

Download or read book Start with Why written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

Book Pearls of Wisdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hsing Yun
  • Publisher : Buddha's Light Publishing
  • Release : 2003-03
  • ISBN : 0971749566
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Pearls of Wisdom written by Hsing Yun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many offerings that Buddhists make to the Buddha are incense, flowers, candles, and fruit. We make these offerings out of respect to the Buddha, not because the Buddha demands such offerings or because we expect to be rewarded by the Buddha for our offerings. We also offer ourselves when we bow and prostrate before the Buddha. To this list of offerings we may also add our words in the form of prayers to the Great Compassionate Buddha. Venerable Master Hsing Yun has written this beautiful and comprehensive collection of Buddhist prayers to help Buddhists of all schools to focus their thoughts and to offer to the Buddha beautiful words of praise, gratitude, and thanksgiving. It is our hope that readers of these prayers will meditate upon the words and how they apply to their lives; will see their situations through the eyes of wisdom; and will act to bring about the changes that they desire in their lives. On the path towards enlightenment we will receive help from many sources, and prayer or praise offerings will play a major role for many practitioners. It is hoped that these special prayers by Venerable Master Hsing Yun will take the reader far along the path towards enlightenment. Book jacket.

Book Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish

Download or read book Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish written by and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great treasures of Buddhist literature, is mDo-mdzangs-blun or the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish as it is known to the Mongols. The text was translated to Mongolian from Tibetan as the Üliger-ün Dalai or Ocean of Narratives. It is one of the most interesting, enjoyable and readable Buddhist scriptures. For centuries, it has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration, instruction and pleasure for all who have been able to read it. The history of this unusual scripture is still uncertain. Legend has it that the tales were heard in Khotan by Chinese monks, who translated them (but from what language?) into Chinese, from which it was translated into Tibetan, then into Mongolian and Oirat. The Narratives are Jatakas, or rebirth stories, tracing the causes of present tragedy in human lives to events which took place in former lifetimes. The theme of each narrative is the same: the tragedy of the human condition, the reason for this tragedy and the possibility of transcending it. But unlike Greek tragedy, Buddhist tragedy is never an end in itself, i.e. a catharsis, but a call to transcend that which can be transcended and need not be endlessly endured. The people we meet in the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish, although supposedly living in the India of the Buddha’s time, might also be living at present in New York City, a small rural town or Leningrad, and the problems they face are the same problems that men have had to face always and everywhere. Herein lies the timeless appeal of this profound Buddhist scripture.

Book The Tender Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yifa
  • Publisher : Lantern Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1590561112
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Tender Heart written by Yifa and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the central Buddhist concepts that life is full of suffering, everything is impermanent, and that everything in existence is connected, Venerable Yifa looks at how and why suffering occurs and how we can learn from tragedies to access even deeper spiritual truths. In the process of this examination, Yifa reveals the Buddhist perspective on the nature of suffering, the meaning of justice, what is evil and what is good, and why some people die and others live.

Book Tricycle

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book Tricycle written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You re Only Human

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 0761174826
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book You re Only Human written by and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The auto insurance mascot dispenses insights and observations on such aspects of daily life as Facebook friend requests, coping with success, thinking about the future, and spray tans.

Book Buddhist Based Universities in the United States

Download or read book Buddhist Based Universities in the United States written by Tanya Storch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education investigates in depth four American Buddhist universities, namely, the Dharma Realm Buddhist University, the University of the West, the Soka University of America, and the Naropa University, all of which offer degrees in liberal arts and professional fields, and at the same time educate their students in the philosophy and practices of Buddhism. Buddhist universities in the United States are unique because there are no comparable universities based on the philosophy and practices of other Asian religions also popular in the United States, such as Hinduism, Confucianism, or Sikhism. Even the Jewish community has created only two universities in which professional skills and liberal arts are taught from the position of the moral-philosophical principles of Judaism. This book presents the institutional history and academic programs of four Buddhist universities in America and analyzes Buddhist-based pedagogical principles, as well as teaching and learning techniques, which can be very useful for other colleges and universities in the United States.

Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xingyun
  • Publisher : Buddha's Light Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780971561236
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book written by Xingyun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name "Buddha" comes from a verb that means "to awake." When asked what sort of creature he was--a man, a god, an angel--the Buddha replied, "I am awake." The life of a Buddhist, then, is a life dedicated to awakening. Whether through intellectual understanding, meditation practice, or both, the Buddhist is continually awakening to the true nature of things--and of himself. In this book, Venerable Master Hsing Yun offers thirty-six brief essays as guides to living the Awakening Life. Most of the essays are divided into four or five main points; as brief as they are, they offer rich opportunities for deep contemplation. Pondering these little gems can lead to greater awakening in every person's life.