Download or read book SHUGEND The Way of the Mountain Monks written by Shokai Koshikidake and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white-clad wandering Japanese Yamabushi monks are mysterious, mystical figures, Known for their magical abilities and contact with supernatural spirits and deities. Far away from civilization they practice their methods of training called Shugendo (magical powers through trial). These secret methods of spiritual attainment involves meditation training, sutras, pilgrimage and hardships that most mortals couldn't bear. Standing under freezing waterfalls, walking on hot coals, fasting for days on end, learning to overcome the pain of chili and mustard smoke in confined spaces. The monks are known for amazing feats such as being able to sit in a cauldron of boiling water, run up ladders made of sword blades and being able to spend up to 7 days without food or water, or walk for 1000 days without a rest. They are said to be able to travel in the spirit to different realms. The Yamabushi live in total harmony with nature and with the spirits of nature called Kami.
Download or read book Finding the True Self written by Jinje and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Dharma talks, Q&A, essays on practice, and conversations with leading scholars, Master Jinje speaks with urgency and compassion about the central work of his life: finding one's true self. In a style at once encouraging and uncompromising, he shares his stories and stories of past masters, revealing again and again that realization is possible. We cannot but question whether or not we are ready to embark on this arduous journey. Most vitally important for us to walk this path is having the correct attitude. Infinitely deep faith and ferocious courage reaching the sky are the keys. If you possess these qualities, attaining enlightenment is as easy as touching your nose while washing this face.A lifetime monastic and now the Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist order in Korea, Master Jinje guides tens of thousands of monks and millions of laypeople on the path to enlightenment. His work is an expression of his commitment to spread Dharma through Seon practice and to collaborate with religious leaders for world peace.
Download or read book Monk in the Mountain written by Sumanō (Phikkhu.) and published by Bhikkhu and Friends. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: :Monk in the Mountain provides direct access to the Spiritual Heart of genuine Samana (One who is walking the Path to the end of the world). The reader can access the Insight immediately and directly as Ajahn Sumano is someone just like you. The only difference is that he no longer believes that the pleasures of the world are all there is to this life. His process is everyone's process: the obligation to know who we are, to get one's priorities right, to sacrifice a little for the possibility of a lot. Ajahn Sumano took himself to where there was only he and his mind and challenged the mind to continue to deceive him, if it dared. The deception ended.
Download or read book The Monastic Life written by Gerald Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monks of Mount Athos written by M. Basil Pennington, OSCO and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-10-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the rich spirituality of monastic life on Mount Athos a place like no other on earth. Twenty-five years ago, M. Basil Pennington, OCSO, was the first Western monk to live on Mount Athos for more than the usually permitted overnight visit. The Monks of Mount Athos chronicles his extraordinary stay, his experiences of the East, and lively conversations with his hosts about theological differences and unfamiliar spiritual practices. Listen in as Abbot Basil wrestles with historical differences between Christianitys East and West, learns the Orthodox practice of the prayer of the heart, and explores the landscape, the monastic communities, and the food of Athosa monastic republic like no other place on earth. New to this edition, Archimandrite Dionysios, a monk from the Holy Mountain, reflects on the ecumenical openness fostered as a result of, and since, Abbot Basils stay. The abbots experiences on Mount Athos motivated him to re-examine his role as a monk and his relationship to God. His inspiring meditations will help you to explore your own relationship to God and to others.
Download or read book The Mountain Peak Is Where I Am written by Zen Monk Gensho and published by Rima. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true journey is not done with the feet, but with the heart and the soul. For millenniums, men and women have crossed boarders, navigated the seas and climbed mountains, and many of them have sought not only the adventure of different and exciting landscapes, but also have been interested in what they would discover about themselves. The internal journey should be long, profound, and subject to uncertainty. (...) Petrúcio Chalegre, renowned consultant to companies, knows very well the eye of the ordinary man, having actively participated, for decades, in the business world, with all of its passions and ambitions, competition and suffering; and then later as a consultant, he has been responsible for bringing a new state of needed equilibrium. Gensho, the monk of Zen Buddhism, has practiced the path of Buddhism also for decades and led a community devoted to the discipline and beauty of this Japanese form of Buddhism. Now the two join to write a book about a common man, Ido, someone just like any one of us, evolved in the paths of the world, with its joys and difficulties, but who, one day, decides to leave it. (...) We will walk along with him, living with him in the Zen Buddhist environment of tranquility and challenge, participating in his new daily activities as he attempts to change his life. Along the way, we will have the opportunity to know the daily activities of a Buddhist community, from dawn to the hour of going to sleep. We will hear guidance and wise statements from the superiors of the monastery, and we will know how Ido will be able to overcome difficulties. Even more importantly, we will be able to journey with Ido to our own interior and take the first steps toward transcendence."
Download or read book Unsui written by Eshin Nishimura and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the lines of the palm of the hand are barely visible in the early light, the monks of the Tofukuji monastery have been about their familiar rounds of daily tasks for several hours. Their routine is simple but faithfully practiced. Within its repetition lies the key to the self and the Buddha who resides within. The daily life of the monastery is portrayed here in ninety-seven watercolor sketches. Drawn during his last years by the Zen monk Giei Sato, these sketches recollect his days as an unsui, an apprentice monk. With humor and steadfast warmth Sato depicts the day of leaving home and the day of returning; the rainy season and the snowy season; the chores, the celebrations, the days of cleaning, and the days of begging. Each of the charming drawings is enhanced by a brief description of the event portrayed, a touch of Zen teaching, or a note on monastic life.
Download or read book The Monks of the West written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei written by John Stevens and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Shambhala, 1988.
Download or read book Living Together Alone written by Charles A. Fracchia and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seven Storey Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by new American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1970 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mirror for Monks written by Franciscus Ludovicus Blosius and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mad Monk of the Mountain written by John Slater and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Monk in the World written by Wayne Teasdale and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teasdale combines Chirstian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions in his life as a monk outside the monastary.
Download or read book A Mirror for Monks written by Louis de Blois and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soto Zen in Meiji Japan The Life and Times of Nishiari Bokusan written by Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mirror for Monks written by Franciscus Ludvicus Blosius and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
