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Book The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon

Download or read book The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon written by David Webster and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined. A range of views of desire, as found in Western thought, are presented as well as Hindu and Jain approaches. An exploration of the concept of ditthi(view or opinion) is also provided, exploring the way in which 'holding views' can be seen as analogous to the process of desiring. Other subjects investigated include the mind-body relationship, the range of Pali terms for desire, and desire's positive spiritual value. A comparative exploration of the various approaches completes the work.

Book Anagrams of Desire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte Crofts
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2003-04-19
  • ISBN : 9780719057243
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Anagrams of Desire written by Charlotte Crofts and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book-length study of Carter's work in media, a critically neglected body of work comprising five radio plays, two film adaptions, and a television documentary, as well as two unrealised screenplays, an operatic libretto, and a stage play.

Book Rough Rider in the White House

Download or read book Rough Rider in the White House written by Sarah Watts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Sarah Watts probes this dark side of the Rough Rider, presenting a fascinating psychological portrait of a man whose personal obsession with masculinity profoundly influenced the fate of a nation. Drawing on his own writings and on media representations of him, Watts attributes the wide appeal of Roosevelt's style of manhood to the way it addressed the hopes and anxieties of men of his time. Like many of his contemporaries, Roosevelt struggled with what it meant to be a man in the modern era. He saw two foes within himself: a fragile weakling and a primitive beast. The weakling he punished and toughened with rigorous, manly pursuits such as hunting, horseback riding, and war. The beast he unleashed through brutal criticisms of homosexuals, immigrants, pacifists, and sissies - anyone who might tarnish the nation's veneer of strength and vigor. With his unabashed paeans to violence and aggressive politics, Roosevelt ultimately offered American men a chance to project their longings and fears onto the nation and its policies. In this way he harnessed the primitive energy of men's desires to propel the march of American civilization - over the bodies of anyone who might stand in its way."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Outlook

Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World as Intention

Download or read book The World as Intention written by Louis Pope Gratacap and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perfect Love  Imperfect Relationships

Download or read book Perfect Love Imperfect Relationships written by John Welwood and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nationally known couples therapist reveals the single root cause of all relationship problems—and offers revolutionary advice on what to do about it While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. If love is so great and powerful, why are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives. Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal ‘wound of the heart’ that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This core wound shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove—a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. It shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us. This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace these imperfections—within ourselves and within our relationships—as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves. Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.

Book Detente in Europe  1972 1976

Download or read book Detente in Europe 1972 1976 written by Gill Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this work focuses on Britain's role in the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Vienna, and British policy towards the Soviet Union and its satellites. British reactions to detente between the superpowers are charted.

Book The Westminster Confession of Faith

Download or read book The Westminster Confession of Faith written by Rowland S. Ward and published by Tulip Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowland S. Ward's guide has served as an invaluable resource for many wishing to understand the rich theological tapestry of the Westminster Confession. In this revised and expanded volume, Ward has sought to bring further clarity to, and appreciation for, this great summary of doctrinal truth. If you are looking for an easy to read exposition of the Confession with sharp analysis of its contents and relevant discussion questions -- look no further.

Book From Ancient Shadows

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne Trebbin M.D.
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2022-05-25
  • ISBN : 1669825418
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book From Ancient Shadows written by Wayne Trebbin M.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Janis Michaels is doing a fellowship in cardiology at a major medical center. She is in the emergency room at the same time a mysterious female child is receiving care there. It soon becomes apparent to everyone in the department that something is terrifyingly wrong. The child is violent beyond her apparent capacity, and Janis soon learns that this is no child at all. It is a creature that has survived for millenia. It is strong, and it is hungry. It wants blood and flesh. Human is its favorite, and it has found the perfect place to feed...a hospital. Janis discovers all of this, but no one believes her, not the police, not the Chief of Medicine who is her father, no one. She fears for her life, and the lives of others, but there is no retreat for her. The creature now knows her.

Book Just Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jayne Ozanne
  • Publisher : Augsburg Books
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 150646744X
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Just Love written by Jayne Ozanne and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the UK's most widely respected gay Christians comes a powerful faith memoir of overcoming inner conflict and taking a stand against one of the greatest institutional injustices of our time. Just Love is the autobiography of Jayne Ozanne, a prominent gay Anglican, who struggled for over 40 years to reconcile her faith with her sexuality before becoming one of the leading figures that is ushering in a new era of LGBTI acceptance in the Church. Her journey incorporates a range of powerful faith encounters with people across the world, from Argentina to Moscow and from the jungles of Burma to the White House. She gives an inside view of what it was to be a founding member of the Church of England's Archbishops' Council to working alongside international figures such as Tony Blair and the Vicar of Baghdad. At times both raw and shocking, she explains what led her to be hospitalized after seeking healing for her sexuality before becoming ostracized by many Christians after she finally deciding she had no choice but to come out. Jayne's story serves as a lifeline for LGBTI Christians struggling to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and forces the Church to reflect on the impact of its current teaching.

Book Desire s Prize

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. S. Laurens
  • Publisher : Savdek Management Proprietary Limited
  • Release : 2023-10-28
  • ISBN : 0992278902
  • Pages : 515 pages

Download or read book Desire s Prize written by M. S. Laurens and published by Savdek Management Proprietary Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1347. Calais has finally fallen and Alaun de Montisfryth, first Earl of Montisfryn, powerful Marcher lord and companion of Edward III, is dispatched back to England with orders to secure the Welsh border. Halfway home, pride tempts Montisfryn to attend a tournament held by his family's old foes at Versallet Castle. Eloise de Versallet, the widowed Lady de Cannar, rules her father's castle with a tongue sharper than any sword. She has no great opinion of men in general and of knights in particular. Montisfryn and Eloise meet and sparks fly. He is intrigued. She is irritated. He is under royal edict to wed. An experienced lady, well-born, still young, and exceedingly well-endowed with both wealth and beauty, Eloise is a matrimonial prize beyond compare--and has vowed to remain unwed. Potent and powerful, will Montisfryn be able to breach her walls, storm her castle, and succeed where all others have failed? Or will Eloise, haughty and defiant to the last, prevail? The gauntlet is flung, the challenge accepted. And desire enters the fray. A Novel of 140,000 words. A medieval historical romance in the classic style, this work contains multiple explicit love scenes. "When it comes to dishing up lusciously sensual, relentlessly readable historical romances, Laurens is unrivalled." Booklist "Laurens's writing shines." Publishers Weekly"One of the most talented authors on the scene today...Laurens has a real talent for writing sensuous and compelling love scenes." Romance Reviews "Stephanie Laurens never fails to entertain and charm her readers with vibrant plots, snappy dialogue, and unforgettable characters." Historical Romance Reviews "Stephanie Laurens plays into readers' fantasies like a master and claims their hearts time and again." Romantic Times Magazine

Book Disgust and Desire

Download or read book Disgust and Desire written by Kristen Wright and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in both history and fiction reveals humanity’s desire to see and experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters, therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about human culture.

Book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commssion on Local Government

Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commssion on Local Government written by Great Britain. Commission on Local Goverment and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harlequin Desire June 2019   Box Set 2 of 2

Download or read book Harlequin Desire June 2019 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Joanne Rock and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! RANCHER IN HER BED Texas Cattleman’s Club: Houston by Joanne Rock Rich rancher Xander Currin isn’t looking for a relationship. Cowgirl Frankie Walsh won’t settle for anything less. When combustible desire consumes them both just as secrets from Frankie’s past come to light, will their passion survive? TAKEN BY STORM Dynasties: Secrets of the A-List by Cat Schield Isabel Withers knows her boss, hotel executive Shane Adams, should be off-limits—but the chances he’ll notice her are zilch. Until they’re stranded together in a storm and let passion rule. Can their forbidden love overcome the scandals waiting for them? STAR-CROSSED SCANDAL Plunder Cove by Kimberley Troutte When Chloe Harper left Hollywood to reunite with her family, she vowed to heal herself before hooking up with anyone. But now sexy star-maker Nicolas Medeiros is at her resort, offering her the night of her dreams. She takes it…and more. But how will she let him go? Look for Harlequin® Desire’s June 2019 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.

Book Motorcycle Illustrated

Download or read book Motorcycle Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rubber Journal

Download or read book Rubber Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

Download or read book Report written by Nevada. Office of State Inspector of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: