Download or read book Passage to Nirvana written by Lee Carlson and published by Henry Chapin & Sons LLC. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a beautiful spring day in 2002, Lee Carlson's life was transformed forever when he was hit by a careless, speeding driver. Father, husband, writer, son all that was about to change. Several days later he woke up in a hospital with a new identity: Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor. Unfortunately he knew all about Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI. Just months before, his mother had fallen down a flight of basement stairs, crushing her brain and leaving her unable to walk, speak or feed herself. Passage to Nirvana tells the story of one person's descent into the hell of losing everything: family, home, health, even the ability to think and the slow climb back to a normal life. Told in a unique creative style brought on by the author's brain injury, combining short poems and essays in an interwoven, exuberant narrative, Passage to Nirvana recounts one person s struggle and ultimate joy at building a new life. The story takes the reader through Intensive Care Units, doctors offices and a profusion of therapy centers, eventually winding its way to sunlit oceans, quiet Zen meditation halls, white beaches, azure skies and a sailboat named Nirvana. Passage to Nirvana is a memoir, a treasury of Zen teachings and a sailor s yarn all rolled into one. Passage to Nirvana is an illustrative tale about finding a path to happiness after a traumatic life event, a book that will teach you about the Poetry of Living.
Download or read book Vegetarian Nirvana written by Santosh Jain and published by 1st Book Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the verses all in rhyme, and remember to have a good time. When getting serious with what is intense, relax and sit back for the next line suspense. When the issues get serious and deep, these verses were not intended to make you weep. The very realm goes into trust of kind, it is interesting what violations of trust we might find. Your voyage into this rhyme and verse may have you divert encounters of much worse. It is your choice to venture beyond, but some ideas may become fond. Enjoy this little taste of ones plight, although it may not all seem right. The biggest event that seems wrong, is abusive authority's law to provoke for too long. Those who accuse a person of hostility, need to face their own sense of humility. As their accused target is no threat, they want whatever attention they can get. The sorrow is in observing such hate, when they provoke and manipulate. Determined to watch and observe, it is obvious they have a poor self-respecting nerve. When watching a large framed agile being, their inner fear surfaces we are seeing. To tarnish that seeming honored reputation state, is their goal driven by hate. When they stake their reputation on this fact, they manipulate others to react. Their opinion and directives upheld, so desperate character attacks compelled. The war waged of ones reputations respect, faced contradiction insults they detect. These wonderful people hate to be wrong, as they want their direct opinions to remain strong. Everyone having the goal, must honor the interpretations of those in control. To dignify their respectful appointed governance place, we work hard so they appear competent to save face. The following issues are embellished in rhyme, the verse, lyric, and rap intends to chime.
Download or read book Come As You Are written by Michael Azerrad and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination” “Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard “Just tell the truth. That’ll be better than anything else that’s been written about me.”—Kurt Cobain Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging Generation X. Come As You Are is the close-up, intimate story of Nirvana—the only book with exclusive in-depth interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic, and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives, former bandmembers, and associates—now updated to include a final chapter detailing the last year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide in April 1994. Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, Come As You Are is an essential document not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the 1990s.
Download or read book The Way to Nirvana written by Louis de la Vallée Poussin and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids Poussin provides deep thoughts on the Indian philosophy of rebirth and the Nirvana. Contents: Chapter I - Indian Disciplines Of Salvation Chapter II - The Buddhist Soul Chapter III - Buddhist Definition Of Karman Chapter IV - The Doctrine Of Karman And Transmigration, Cosmogony, Theogony Chapter V - NirvāṆa Chapter VI - The Path To NirvāṆa
Download or read book Nirvana written by Susunaga Weeraperuma and published by Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NIRVANA THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS is the fruit of a lifetime of meditation, and contemplation of Buddhist questions. Written in a lucid style, this book covers all the major aspects of Buddhism such as karma, meditation, the illusion of 'I', the belief in a Creator-God, the personality of the Buddha, Ambapali, Angulimala, sincere friendship, the power of paritta chanting, our debt of gratitude to our parents and Nirvana.Did the Buddha condone or condemn meat eating ? There is abundant evidence that the Buddha, when he was a man of advanced years, denounced the practice of meat eating. That is the message for posterity from the Mahaparinirvana Sutra and the Lankavatara Sutra (a Mahayana text). Vegetarianism springs from the purified inner states of loving-kindness (Metta) and compassion (Karuna).Weeraperuma has beautifully restated in his own words the 41 verses of the Khaggavisanasutta wherein the Buddha stressed the importance of leading a solitary life --- "One must be alone, like the horn of a rhinoceros".Freed from all attachments, the highest happiness of Nirvana is attainable right here and now, in this very life itself.
Download or read book Buddhism written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trip to Nirvana written by Loh Tse and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ,,He who seeks shall not stop seeking until he finds; and when he finds, he will be frightened, and after he is frightened, he will be astonished, and he will reign over the cosmos." These words of Jesus in the Thomas Gospel verse 2 describe a Nirvana experience. Other verses of the Gospel of Thomas contain even more detailed descriptions of Nirvana, but even these can only be understood by someone who has experienced Nirvana. Thus it is a special honor for Loh Tse to decipher them and thereby contribute to the restoration of the original teachings of Jesus Christ.Nirvana (moksha) is the highest achievable spiritual objective for a human: it is the reunification with his spiritual origin in Cosmic Consciousness. ,,Reunification" is also the meaning of the word ,,religion", which goes back to the Latin ,,religare" (reunification). All world religions have the same origin and thus in their original form also the same objective, which is called Nirvana in Buddhism and Moksha in Hinduism. Cosmic Consciousness is a virtual and autonomous intelligence (Brahman) already described in the Vedas many thousands of years ago, that manifests and materializes in infinite universes as the Universal Consciousness (Paramatman). In Buddhism it is called Tathagatagarbha, and in Christianity Holy Spirit.There is also Nirvana (eternal life in the Kingdom of God, in Cosmic Consciousness) in Christianity, there is a Bodhisattva (Buddha-like Savior Jesus Christ), there is the law of Karma (seed and harvest), and there was the doctrine of reincarnation (until 543 A.D.).Even in the past pyramid cultures, the highest spiritual objective was to engage the individual consciousness of the human being with the fractal structure of the material world by generating the resonance frequency of the OM, in order to transport it to the Brahmajyoti (interface of the Universal Consciousness), from where a reunification with the Cosmic Consciousness (Nirvana) can be done.Nirvana is not just a religious process of consciousness. Within the material world the individual human consciousness is accompanied by the subtle body on his journey to Nirvana, following the rules of spiritual technology, which is presented here in a slightly comprehensible form.The report describes in detail each phase of Loh Tse's Nirvana experience, underlines them with the corresponding descriptions from the Vedic, Buddhist, and Christian scriptures, highlights their connections with modern quantum physics and astrophysics, and deciphers with that the phenomenon of wave/particle dualism, which is inextricably linked to the existence of the Universal Consciousness. It's a whole firework of enlightenment being burned here!
Download or read book Buddhism written by Thomas W. Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddhism written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin written by Soka Gakkai and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 1567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative translation of 172 of Nichiren's writings presented in chronological order. The collection includes Nichiren's five major works as well as other treatises setting forth his doctrine, writings remonstrating with government officials, and letters offering advice, encouragement, or consolation to believers. The translations are based on those of Burton Watson, formerly of Columbia University and an award-winning translator of Chinese and Japanese literature. Edited by the Soka Gakkai's Gosho Translation Committee, these are the translations used by English-speaking Soka Gakkai members the world over.
Download or read book Dancing to Nirvana written by Mike Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages, humanity's spiritual endeavors have led thousands to experience enlightenment. Other names for it are celebrated and plentiful: nirvana (extinguish) for Buddhists; the kingdom of God for Jesus; satori (understanding) and kensho (seeing into one's nature) for Zen Buddhists; moksha (liberation) among Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains; al-fana fi al-tawhid (annihilation in Unity) for Muslim Sufis; and theosis (union with God) in the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church. Platonists and Neo-Platonists called it henosis (unity with the One) and alchemists variously referred to this spectacle with the most imaginative and colorful names: philosopher's stone, lapis lazuli, peacock's tail, and treasured gold. No doubt earlier names are now lost to history. These diverse traditions consider enlightenment a significant goal-perhaps even the essential experience-of human existence.Dancing to Nirvana illustrates the shared vision of all religions that can lead to enlightenment as well as the story and views of an American who experienced it. This book is for people who desire to see more clearly the common insights of diverse spiritual traditions as well as techniques of individual transformation for personal growth. The wisest beliefs are not from one creed only, but from many branches of one blessed Tree, linked through the roots with eternity's wellspring. Each branch crafts its own unique fruit so that we marvel-hearts and mouths open, on bowing knee-at the beauty, mystery, variety, outlandishness, and deliciousness of the religious imagination.
Download or read book Maxi the Ultimate Racing Experience written by Preben Nyeland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxi: The Ultimate Racing Experience is the definitive book on maxi boats (the biggest sailboats that race under the maximum IOR Rule).
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Download or read book Enjoying the Ultimate written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Buddhists seeking perfection, the Sanskrit word "nirvana" is held as the unreachable goal. But in this definitive, direct translation of the Chinese Dharmapada by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, nirvana is not what you think it is. "Nirvana is our daily business," Thich Nhat Hanh says. Based on talks given in his home monastery of Plum Village in France at the peak of his long teaching career, The Nirvana Chapter conveys Thich Nhat Hanh's insights on the 36 verses on nirvana in the Chinese Dharmapada. Described there as "the absence of notions that cause suffering," we discover that nirvana can be experienced at any time. Previously unavailable in English, these teachings on the experiential path which can help us touch nirvana are an "instant classic" for Buddhists and meditation practitioners. With his fluency in Classical Chinese and his knowledge of Sanskrit and Pali, Thich Nhat Hanh is the perfect guide to lead the way to a new understanding of nirvana for an international audience. Through his commentary, ranging freely in his vast knowledge of Vietnamese Buddhist history, we gain a master practitioner's view of a tradition of Zen Buddhism that has been, until now, inaccessible to Western students. We also gain insights into the elusive "space outside of space" of nirvana's ultimate dimension.
Download or read book Many Ways to Nirvana written by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can A Common Man With Family Responsibilities Achieve Nirvana Or Buddhahood? What Should Be The Spiritual Limit Of Ambition For A Busy Professional? Are There Different Kinds Of Negative Emotions? How Do You Stay Positive When Confronted With Environmental And Human Injustice? His Holiness The Dalai Lama Answers These And A Host Of Other Questions In This Companion Volume To The Transformed Mind: Reflections On Truth, Love And Happiness, Successfully Published Around The World In 1999. Interpreting The Ancient Wisdom Of Lord Buddha For Today'S Generation, He Speaks To Us About The Paths To Self-Realization And The Need To Overcome Negative Emotions In Order To Develop One'S Inner Consciousness. Wise, Compassionate And Always Pragmatic, He Offers Advice On The Many Issues That Confront The Ordinary Human Being: How To Free Yourself From Emotional Afflictions And Petty Cravings, How To Transform Anxiety And Depression Into Contentment, How To Initiate And Keep Alive Inter-Faith Dialogue In The Troubled Times We Live In. Undeniably One Of The Best Books Of Its Kind, Many Ways To Nirvana Gives Us An Insight Into The Dalai Lama'S Philosophy And Guides Us Along The Path To True Liberation.
