Download or read book The Preliminary Practice of Prostrations eBook written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and published by FPMT. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostrations to the Thirty-five (35) Confession Buddhas with recitation of the "Bodhisattva's Confession of Moral Downfalls" from the Sutra of Three Heaps, is one of the most powerful methods available to purify harmful actions we have done in the past. By doing this practice mindfully, we can prevent unwanted sufferings from occurring in the future. In addition, this practice clears away obstacles to our practice and opens the mind to gain realizations on the path. It is said that if you do this practice first thing in the morning, all your other prayers and activities of the day will be empowered. This recently revised version contains new extensive commentary on the practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche (from the Lama Tsongkhapa retreat in 2004), as well as teachings on karma, options for extended practice, and instructions on how to complete a 100,000 prostration retreat. Contents Include: - The Practice of Prostrations to the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas - Putting and End to Suffering: A Teaching on Karma by Lama Zopa Rinpoche - The Benefits of Making Prostrations - Commentary on the Practice of Prostrations to the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas by Lama Zopa Rinpoche - Options for Practice - Guidelines for Completing the Preliminary Practice of 100,000 Prostrations to the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas - Appendix: How to make Prostrations - Helpful Resources "There is so much hope in our lives. Our lives are so full of opportunity. It is so easy to purify, so easy to become free from samsara and achieve enlightenment. Even with just prostration, we can achieve all of this." - Lama Zopa Rinpoche 97 Pages. 2011 Edition.
Download or read book Passion Prostrations A Sensual Pride Prejudice Variation written by Abbey North and published by AbbeyJAFF. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puppies, illness, and confusion might lead to a passionate HEA for ODC. An impromptu puppy rescue followed by a drenching rainstorm marks Lizzy?s first meeting with Mr. Darcy and his sweet sister. Quickly followed by his boorish remarks at the Assembly ball, she is left with a negative opinion of the prideful man. A bout of illness strands her at Netherfield, and a high fever leads her to the wrong room. When they are discovered the next morning, everyone ignores Lizzy?s insistence that nothing happened, and Darcy offers for her. It is with pure reluctance, and he clearly believes she manipulated him into being forced to marry her. With his good opinion of her seemingly lost forever, how can there be happiness in their union? This started out as a sweet JAFF (?Puppies & Prostrations?), but Abbey has since updated it to include an intimate scene. It is now SENSUAL, but the story remains the same otherwise. The original sweet version is still available at one retailer.
Download or read book Passion Prostrations written by Abbey North and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puppies, illness, and confusion might lead to a passionate HEA for ODC. An impromptu puppy rescue followed by a drenching rainstorm marks Lizzy's first meeting with Mr. Darcy and his sweet sister. Quickly followed by his boorish remarks at the Assembly ball, she is left with a negative opinion of the prideful man. A bout of illness strands her at Netherfield, and a high fever leads her to the wrong room. When they are discovered the next morning, everyone ignores Lizzy's insistence that nothing happened, and Darcy offers for her. It is with pure reluctance, and he clearly believes she manipulated him into being forced to marry her. With his good opinion of her seemingly lost forever, how can there be happiness in their union? This started out as a sweet JAFF ("Puppies & Prostrations"), but Abbey has since updated it to include an intimate scene. It is now SENSUAL, but the story remains the same otherwise. The sweet version is also available: https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B085RT8FTY
Download or read book 101 Rasht Geet written by B.V.N. Swami and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs 900 1700 written by Eve Levin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering book, Eve Levin explores sexual behavior among the peoples of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Russia from their conversion to Christianity in the ninth and tenth centuries until the end of the seventeenth century. By ranging across all these societies, Levin is able to fulfill three basic aims: to delineate the general character of sexuality among the Orthodox Slavs, to enrich that account by drawing our attention to regional variations in the sexual mores of these peoples, and to draw suggestive comparisons between the world of the medieval Orthodox Slavs and their contemporaries in the Latin West. Levin begins with a study of the ecclesiastical image of sexuality as expressed in didactic and literary texts, showing that the Orthodox Church was deeply suspicious of sexuality. Her second chapter, on canon law and marfiage, examines the conditions for marriage, divorce, and remarriage, the obligation of the conjugal relationship, and the impact of these rules on social order. Levin looks at church regulations concerning sexual relations among relatives by blood, marriage, spiritual kinship, and adoption in Chapter Three, and she devotes Chapter Four to prohibited sexual practices, both inside and outside of marriage. In the fifth chapter she studies Russian and South Slavic responses to rape, and demonstrates that these societies simultaneously censured violence against women and sanctioned the attitudes and social structures that justified it. Chapter Six deals with the rules on sexual conduct for the clergy, whose job it was to enforce sexual precepts. Throughout her work, Levin argues that, despite its conviction that sexual expression was diabolical, the medieval Orthodox Church approached sexual matters in a surprisingly practical way; its official sexual ethic corresponded to a great degree with popular views. Historians of the Slavic world, both medieval and modern, will welcome this accessible study. It should also attract comparativists who work in such fields as church history, the history of women and the family, and the history of sexuality.
Download or read book The Watches of the Sacred Passion with Before and After written by Peter Gallwey and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Watches of the Sacred Passion written by Peter Gallwey and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nerve Prostration and Other Functional Disorders of Daily Life written by Robson Roose and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prostration before God for our sins our becoming attitude as a people A sermon etc written by Francis THORNBURGH and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passionate Enlightenment written by Miranda Shaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual bliss. Historians of religion have long held that this attempted enlightenment was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinated and at worst degraded and exploited. In Passionate Enlightenment, Miranda Shaw argues to the contrary and presents extensive evidence of the outspoken and independent female founders of the Tantric movement and their creative role in shaping its distinctive vision of gender relations and sacred sexuality. Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition makes an essential work available for new audiences.
Download or read book The Indo Tibetan Buddhist Consecration Ritual for st pas Images Books and Temples written by Yael Bentor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Philosophical Treatise on the Passions written by Thomas Cogan and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues written by Sandra Maitri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the mysterious nine-pointed symbol of the enneagram illuminates the worst pitfalls and highest virtues of our psyches. The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues elucidates human experience beyond the personality structure. In the tradition of the enneagram, the Virtues are said to be the affective atmosphere that replaces the compulsive and reactive emotional patterns-called the Passions-as one becomes freer of the ego. Sandra Maitri shows how the shift in our consciousness, or soul, from being informed by the Passions to being informed by the Virtues, is one of the hallmarks of inner development. In this book, Maitri explores how our awareness of the Passions, in turn, leads to the manifestation of the Virtues. This shift supports rowth on the level of personality as well as on the level of what is beyond-Being, or True Nature. Maitri is widely known as one of the most literate and indepth writers and teachers on the uses of the enneagram as a tool of inner development. In this book she provides what can be for some an entry into inner work, and for others, who have been engaged in the journey for a longer time, a uniquely incisive explication of concepts they may have missed.
Download or read book Philosophical Treatise on the Passions written by Thomas Cogan and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays on the Passions written by Joanna Baillie and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2001-02-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baillie’s eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women’s rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including “The Introductory Discourse,” Baillie’s own brand of feminist literary criticism. The three plays included here are “Count Basil: A Tragedy,” and “The Tryal: A Comedy,” which show love from opposing perspectives; and “De Monfort: A Tragedy,” which explores the drama of hate. Among other appendices, the Broadview edition includes materials on the contemporary philosophical understanding of the passions, and contemporary reviews. Baillie’s work is enjoying a revival of interest. She lived a long life, (1762-1851), and had a wide circle of literary friends including Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter Scott (who termed her a “female Shakespeare”). Scottish born, she moved to England in her twenties where she then resided. Her Plays on the Passions, alternatively known as A Series of Plays in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and Comedy was produced in three volumes between 1798 and 1812. The first volume created quite a stir amongst the literary circles of London and Edinburgh when introduced anonymously. The speculation into the authorship concluded two years later when Baillie came forward as the writer of the collection, thereby causing a subsequent sensation since no one had considered the shy spinster a candidate in the mystery.
Download or read book The Oceans of Cruelty Twenty Five Tales of a Corpse Spirit written by Douglas J. Penick and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the oldest books in the world, The Oceans of Cruelty is a sequence of twenty-five tales from India whose central theme is the dark power of storytelling. At the start, a young king falls into the hands of a wicked sorcerer, who orders him to find a vetala, or corpse spirit, to serve him; the young king must do as he is told, and soon enough he is also under the sway of the no less malevolent spirit. Like a bat, the spirit hangs from the branches of a tree, and the king is condemned to bear it on his back through a dark forest as it whispers a riddling story in his ear. These are tales of suicidal passion, clever deceit, patriarchal oppression, and narrow escapes from death, and as long as the king can resolve the problems they pose, his bondage continues; the vampiric creature goes on commanding his attention in the dark. Only when the king is out of answers will he at last be free, though when that comes to pass—well, that’s when the whole story takes a new turn. Douglas Penick’s re-creation of this ancient work brings out all its humor and horror and vitality, as well its unmistakable relevance in a world of stories gone viral.
Download or read book This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made written by Nicholas Denysenko and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Orthodox Christians celebrate Pascha (Easter) and Christmas? What is the purpose of the blessing of waters? How does the Orthodox liturgical year compare with Western Christianity? Through an analysis of the feasts within the Orthodox Liturgical year, Denysenko explores how rituals, Bible readings and hymns form part of common festivals, such as Lent, Holy Week, Pascha, Christmas, and the feasts of Mary. He also discusses feasts particular to Orthodox Christianity, allowing readers to explore occasions such as the Exaltation of the Cross and the Baptism of Rus', and discover the importance of domestic traditions like the Vasilopita and the Sviata Vechera (Holy Supper). Ideal for interested readers at college-level or above, This is the Day that the Lord has Made is an excellent guide for all seeking to understand the significance of Orthodox liturgy.
