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Book The Genie vs Capitalism

Download or read book The Genie vs Capitalism written by Susan James and published by Susan James / Vast Five. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barkle Series Barkle #3 The Genie vs Capitalism (The Game Changer or What To Do When The Numbers Don’t Add Up) (by Susan James) Themes The Formula Was Broken • It’s Just Money • Capitalism, A Game We Made Up • When And Why The Numbers Break Down • The 1% as The 100% • The Balance of Trade Bumping The Ideal • The One Law Says • Capitalism As A Stuck Loop • No One Talks About The Golden Goose • Richard Bach and Neville Have This To Say... All Rights Reserved ©Susan James / Vast Five 2013-14 Barkle Summary In this 10 page Barkle, 4 pages Primary Content + 6 pages Resources, (Barkle is defined by the author as a combination of Article and Book) is a perspective on how and why as more of us study, understand and apply things of a higher nature, things often dismissed as only fairy tales, but which contain higher truths, can expand us into our true natures of abundance and wealth. We become the solution to human natures mis-steps by applying ‘thoughts of fancy’. This Barkle may appeal to those readers who feel they are chained to the same looping level of life experience, and have no clue how to change things. The Study of The One Law, The Ideal Law provides a clue, to those willing to entertain the possibilities and probabilities of the study. Included ♦ Biblical References along with Richard Bach and Neville quotes on the matter. ♦ How to bring ourselves out of the consistent down-spiral in our financial world. ♦ Why we don’t need a new idea, we need to apply what we’ve been given. Also Included: Resources and Chapter Outline of The Done Deal by Susan James This is A ©BARKLE (Combination of Article/Book) Full Definition of Barkle At The End of This Barkle. Number of Pages (Full Doc) 10 (Includes The Done Deal Excerpt) Word Count (Full Doc) 3346 Number of Pages (Primary Content) 4 Word Count (Primary Content) 1939 Susan James Books, a Division of Vast Five features books for personal development, stirred but not shaken, using James’ User Friendly Physics and Susan James Methods of Manifestation. Author of 8 plus books, including The Barkle Series and winner of an Editor's Choice Award . Susan writes and consults on personal development themes, 'stirred but not shaken'. Most of Susan's books are also available in Paperback as well as Kindle and may be found on Amazon and ordered through retail bookstores. Castle's Advanced Newsletter is available by paid subscription. Reviews on Susan's writing may be found on her primary websites and blogs, found through SusanJames.org and VastFive.com and SusanJamesBooks.com

Book Conceptualizing Capitalism

Download or read book Conceptualizing Capitalism written by Geoffrey M. Hodgson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism is the dominant economic framework in modern history, but it s unclear how it really works. Relying on the free movement and spontaneous coordination of seemingly infinitesimal market forces, its very essence is remarkably complex. Geoffrey M. Hodgson offers a more precise conceptual framework, defines the concepts involved, and illustrates that what is most important, and what has been most often overlooked, are institutions and contractsthe law. Chapter by chapter, Hodgson focuses in on how capitalism works at its very core to develop his own definitive theory of capitalism. By employing economic history and comparative analysis toward explanatory and analytical ends, Hodgson shows how capitalism is not an eternal or natural order, but indeed a relatively recent institution. If anyone were qualified to venture such a comprehensive and definitive analysis of such an important economic, legal, and social phenomenon, it is Geoffrey Hodgson. "Conceptualizing Capitalism" will significantly alter and carry forward our understanding of markets and how they work."

Book Rethinking Capitalist Development

Download or read book Rethinking Capitalist Development written by Kalyan Sanyal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context. In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail. Analyzing critical questions from a third world perspective such as: Will the integration into the global capitalist network bring to the third world new economic opportunities? Will this capitalist network make the third world countries an easy prey for predatory multinational corporations? The end result is a discourse, drawing on Marx and Foucault, which envisages the post-colonial capitalist formation, albeit in an entirely different light, in the era of globalization.

Book We Don   t Have to Believe It Before We See It   Why

Download or read book We Don t Have to Believe It Before We See It Why written by Susan James and published by Susan James / Vast Five. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Don’t Have to Believe It Before We See It & Why (Understanding ‘The Calling of The Taxi' PDF (Susan James) We Don’t Have to Believe It Before We See It and Why (Understanding ‘The Calling of The Taxi' Concept, When We Don’t Know If It Will Come) Barkle 7 (by Susan James) Barkle Summary Barkle 7 in The Barkle Series, contains approximately 15 pages Primary Content based on the Barkle Title: -We Don't Have to Believe It Before We See It and Why; -Understanding 'The Calling of The Taxi' Concept When We Don't Know If It Will Come. Barkle is defined by the author as a combination of Article and Book and offers a perspective on how and why as more of us study, understand and apply things of a higher nature, things often dismissed as only fairy tales, but which contain higher truths, can expand us into our true natures of abundance and wealth. We become the solution to human natures mis-steps by applying ‘thoughts of fancy’. This Barkle 7 with approximately 15 pages of primary content explores answers to questions posed by Susan James in regard to desire fulfilment and further expanded use of higher law. Themes Covered in This Barkle 7 -Why We Don’t Have to Believe It First Before We ‘See’ It. (What is That Something That Makes It So?) -That Something of How The Universe Works -How to Know We Can Get What We Want w/o Believing it First. -It Does Not Have to Feel Familiar For Us to Manifest It and Why -Why and How Our Intentions Will Manifest Simply By Calling Them Forth (What is That Something, That Provides The Action/Activity?) -Further Understanding of the Unknown Space and How To Use it for Desire Fulfillment -The Least Understood Irrational Higher Law’s Use of Desire Fulfillment -Comparing ‘Calling of a Taxi’ to Our Unknown-Uncertain Desires & Their Fulfillment. Susan James

Book Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way  Book Three  Susan James

Download or read book Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way Book Three Susan James written by Susan James and published by Susan James / Vast Five. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book Three) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book Three) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book Three -How to Trust That You Won't See The Moves Ahead of Time -How Do We Begin Having Our Castles And Not Settling for The Buttons? -2 Easy Ways ToExpand, Open Your Mind for MORE ! -From Mental Images to Material Form -Intention vs Decision: The Slight Difference Makes a Big Difference -Desire Drives Fulfillment With The Help of Words -Expanding Information Overload to A Better Place -How to Fix The Conflict Between What We Choose and What We Actually Experience -The Job of Our Projects Is To Keep Us In The Enjoyment Phase and Vibration. Why - How? -New Money Notions for More Money! -MORE on....Let The Words Do The Work -This Happens When We Pretend to Have Celebrity Friends -Wishing Is More Than Enough for Desire -People Are Great and The Dice Are Loaded In Our Favor! -How Graham Crackers Helped Me With Desire -‘Take a Letter Maria, Gotta Start a New Life' (Letting The Words Do The Work This Happens) -Using The Invisible Space for a Little Bit More -Finding That Play Place Opens Our Doors, -The Non-Conformist Self and The Law of Opulence -Remember Those Gets, You Got ? -Understanding The Law of Opulence Changes Our POV -When We Want The Details of How Our Desires Will Be Fulfilled -The Easiest and Best Way to Do It Your Way -Opulence is Limitless -Desire Fulfillment-Automatic Mechanism -How I Applied Higher Themes to My Life -The Non-Conformist Self and The Law of Opulence

Book Capitalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Saunders
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780816627998
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Capitalism written by Peter Saunders and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of socialism, capitalism is now poised to become a truly global system. Three major questions arise from this success: Can capitalism revolutionize the living standards of the poor nations in the way it has done in the West? Can the global ecosystem survive such a massive expansion of industrial output? And if capitalism prevails, will human beings be any happier as a result? After explaining how the capitalist system works, Peter Saunders draws on the latest evidence from around the world to provide a "social audit" of contemporary capitalism. He concludes with a review of capitalism's status in the countries where it originated.

Book Against the Dead Hand

Download or read book Against the Dead Hand written by Brink Lindsey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshing, insightful look into the political and economicdynamics driving globalization today Globalization: it's earlier than you think. That's the provocativemessage of Against the Dead Hand, which traces the rise and fall ofthe century-long dream of central planning and top-down control andits impact on globalization-revealing the extent to which the "deadhand" of the old collectivist dream still shapes the contours oftoday's world economy. Mixing historical narrative,thought-provoking arguments, and on-the-scene reporting andinterviews, Brink Lindsey shows how the economy has grown up amidstthe wreckage of the old regime-detailing how that wreckageconstrains the present and obscures the future. He conveys aclearer picture of globalization's current state than the currentconventional wisdom, providing a framework for anticipating thefuture direction of the world economy.

Book Castles   Buttons  Introduction to The Castles Series  How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing

Download or read book Castles Buttons Introduction to The Castles Series How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing written by Susan James and published by Susan James / Vast Five. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castles & Buttons (Introduction to The Castles Series) How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing: The Introduction to The Series, Featuring Castle Speed Castle Speed (An Introduction to the Castles & Buttons Series) How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing Understanding How Creating Castles or Buttons is The Same Advanced Higher Mechanics Castle Speed is an Introduction to the main book series, Castles and Buttons 1,2,3 This Introduction will let you know if you are interested or curious about what lies ahead in the series. Castle Speed & The Castle & Buttons Series are based on the Susan James philosophy of‘The Truth does not bend, but our use of it allows us to bend everything (sj)’ Throughout the series discover and understand some of the themes which begin with Castles- The Introduction to The Series: • How creating Castles or Buttons is the same • Creating w/o work or effort • creating miracles and magic easily • void of work or effort in desire fulfillment • implementing higher levels of energy manipulation • wealth, prosperity and abundance is a given vs having to work for it • flipping the ‘do something to have something’ attitude • How riches and wealth were once poured out unconditionally and getting back to it • Dismantling the all between doing to have and simply being given • The Trigger of Automatic Manifestation (Getting Without Doing) • How Spoken Word Overpowers Our Incorrect Thoughts • Eleven Words For Manifestation Success • Dissolving The Loop of Limitation • Feeling vs Emotion For Desire Fulfillment • How To Know It’s Coming And Minus Work Or Effort • The Dime Tree • Christmas and Money • Reaching The Unreachable (How-To)A Question to Speed Things Up • Help to Unlock The Mysteries of Our Own Thinking • Getting Past Potential Into Unlimitedness • Choice vs Desire In Manifestation-When Trying IS Enough! •(Knowing the Difference, Makes All THE Difference!) • The Magic Wall + The Magic Wall List = The Done Deal •(Castles: The Reason We Can Get What We Want Void of Work or Effort) • From Ease to Easier to Automatic: The 3 Phases (The System for Castles and Buttons) • Proclivity and Done Deal Timing •(How to Run Into Your Fulfilled Desire/Money Idea, More Sooner Than Later) • The Magic Pill of Limitless (The Recipe for Grandeur) •(Success and Vibratory Lock Beyond The Law of Attraction) • A Billionaire’s Magic Pill The entire Castles series was Susan writing it out, showing how her own evolving has shown up for her. She was able to get clear in understanding and could see how, as in the Biblical story, you can ‘make bricks without straw’. (In those days, you needed straw to make bricks, but the Pharaohs denied the straw as a punishment. But in using higher nature, they were told from ‘on high’ that they would make bricks without straw. Enjoy the entire Castle’s and Buttons Series and you too may then understand how creating Castles or Buttons is the same and everything you want is already there for you!

Book Capitalism Unleashed

Download or read book Capitalism Unleashed written by The Late Andrew Glyn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change, Capitalism has emerged as the dominant ideology and model for economic growth in the richest, most developed countries. But only thirty years ago economic growth was faltering, inflation rising and the Left were arguing for greater state intervention in industry. How did this remarkable transformation happen? And what price have we paid in the process? This accessible and persuasive book challenges the notion of our capitalist destiny. It provides a clear and concise history of the problems facing the economies of Europe, Japan and the US during the latter half of the twentieth century and questions whether capitalism has really brought the levels of economic growth and prosperity that were hoped for. Andrew Glyn then looks at the impact the rapidly developing economies of China and the South are likely to have on the older economies of the North. As the race is on to maintain growth and protect competitive advantage, Glyn asks: is the 'race-to-the bottom' inevitable as the anti-globalisers predict, with welfare states being dismantled to meet competitive demands? Or is there an alternative model which sees a strong commitment to welfare provision as essential to economic growth? Can we afford not to tackle inequality at home as well as abroad?

Book Capitalists against Markets

Download or read book Capitalists against Markets written by Peter A. Swenson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized extremes of welfare, the US and Sweden, Swenson shows that employer interests played a role in welfare state development in both countries.

Book Susan James Manifesting Games  Book 1

Download or read book Susan James Manifesting Games Book 1 written by Susan James and published by Susan James / Vast Five. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a moment, years ago, when I knew there had to be a better way, an easier way to have the life, the peace, the harmony, the lifestyle I knew was there for me. It was one of those moments when you reach down inside yourself to find the real answers. I began studying things of a deeper and higher nature, but this study was going to need some practice if I was to be successful at it. I had to make it easy and fun for me, and The Manifesting Games of Susan James was the beginning of many Games and Courses, which began to change my life for the better. This first in the SJMG series has continued to assist me in many ways. For more detail on this 31 page, 1st in the SJMG series, please download the ‘Sampler’ which gives and overall summary of all three in the series of Susan James Manifesting Games. The SJMG Sampler may be found in pdf epub Nook, Kobo and Kindle

Book The Cowboy Capitalist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles van Onselen
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2018-04-20
  • ISBN : 0813941369
  • Pages : 812 pages

Download or read book The Cowboy Capitalist written by Charles van Onselen and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil Rhodes. Yet, the raid was less a serious attempt to overthrow a Boer government than a wild adventure with transnational roots in American filibustering. In The Cowboy Capitalist, renowned South African historian Charles van Onselen challenges a historiography of over 120 years, locating the raid in American rather than British history and forcing us to rethink the histories of at least three nations. Through a close look at the little-remembered figure of John Hays Hammond, a confidant of both Rhodes and Jameson, he discovers the American Old West on the South African Highveld. This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa’s critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.

Book How to Have Money Show Up As Easily As The Penny On The Sidewalk   Rich E Richest

Download or read book How to Have Money Show Up As Easily As The Penny On The Sidewalk Rich E Richest written by Susan James and published by Susan James / Vast Five. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Have Money Show Up As Easily As The Penny On The Sidewalk - Rich E Richest Rich E Richest continues his introduction of ‘THEM, The Money Givers’ from the ‘Bourgeois Billionaires’ book and shows how our money can show up as easily as The Penny On The Sidewalk. Many of us have had the experience of noticing a Penny on The Sidewalk or Parking Lot and may pick it up. Rich E Richest answers the question posed by Hank Ramsan, ‘The Millionaire Maverick’ in The ‘Bourgeois Billionaires’ book, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could create more money as easily as the penny on the sidewalk?” These Themes are covered in ‘How to Have Money Show Up as Easily As The Penny On The Sidewalk: -How did The Penny Appear On The Parking Lot and Why Did We See It? -Did we work or earn that Penny in order for it to show up, as easily as the Penny on the Sidewalk? -What does the Penny on The Sidewalk have to do with Heaven on Earth and Atlantis? -How or Why can our Money show up as easily as the Penny on The Sidewalk? -The only thing standing between our chosen levels of Money showing up as easily as the Penny on the Sidewalk is this: -Who are The Money Givers and What do they have to do with the Penny on The Sidewalk? Chapter Listing ONE How Did The Penny Appear On The Parking Lot? And Why Did We See It? TWO Question: What Were You Doing When The ‘Penny' On The Parking Lot Showed THREE Money Showing Up According to Higher Principles FOUR Jesus Pulls a Gold Coin From a Fishes Mouth FIVE Understanding The Flow of Unknown Money Flow SIX Could It Be This Easy, And Why, Yes, It Can ! This Is How To See It. SEVEN Proving It To Ourselves Comes As We Understand EIGHT New Level of Cause NINE More and More.....for Your Consideration Regarding More Money. The Hank Ramsan Series -Privately Famous (Hank Ramsan) -The Millionaire Maverick (Susan James) -Bourgeois Billionaires-Write On The Money. Introducing The Money Givers (Rich E Richest) -How to Have Money Show Up As Easily As The Penny On The Sidewalk - (Rich E Richest)

Book World  Class  Britain

Download or read book World Class Britain written by C. Paton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins by tracing the sea-change in British politics from the 1970s to the end of the twentieth century. The dominance of market ideology, the decline of social democracy and the 'marketization' of public policy are related to a widespread acceptance of globalization. Contemporary global capitalism is analyzed, not least as to its likely effect on countries such as Britain. New Labour's 'Third Way' is portrayed as reinforcing the apparent inevitability of globalization. In this environment, political and economic alternatives tend to be dismissed fatalistically. Politics is no longer about real choice. The second part of the book, as well as sketching an economic alternative, investigates how political theory and ethical concepts can help us today to re-establish the search for human freedom and a 'balanced' society. Such a vision can appeal to conservatives, liberals and socialists alike. It argues that a political coalition to further such ends is conceivable, if very difficult to organise or maintain. Finally, the 'postmodern' stance of eschewing ethical and political progress is criticized.

Book Fascism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Laqueur
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1997-12-11
  • ISBN : 0198025270
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Fascism written by Walter Laqueur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mussolini's march on Rome; Hitler's speeches before waves of goose-stepping storm troopers; the horrors of the Holocaust; burning crosses and neo-Nazi skinhead hooligans. Few words are as evocative, and even fewer ideologies as pernicious, as fascism. And yet, the world continues to witness the success of political parties in countries such as Italy, France, Austria, Russia, and elsewhere resembling in various ways historical fascism. Why, despite its past, are people still attracted to fascism? Will it ever again be a major political force in the world? Where in the world is it most likely to erupt next? In Fascism: Past, Present, and Future, renowned historian Walter Laqueur illuminates the fascist phenomenon, from the emergence of Hitler and Mussolini, to Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his cohorts, to fascism's not so distant future. Laqueur describes how fascism's early achievements--the rise of Germany and Italy as leading powers in Europe, a reputation for being concerned about the fate of common people, the creation of more leisure for workers--won many converts. But what successes early fascist parties can claim, Laqueur points out, are certainly overwhelmed by its disasters: Hitler may have built the Autobahnen, but he also launched the war that destroyed them. Nevertheless, despite the Axis defeat, fascism was not forgotten: Laqueur tellingly uncovers contemporary adaptations of fascist tactics and strategies in the French ultra-nationalist Le Pen, the rise of skinheads and right-wing extremism, and Holocaust denial. He shows how single issues--such as immigrants and, more remarkably, the environment--have proven fruitful rallying points for neo-fascist protest movements. But he also reveals that European fascism has failed to attract broad and sustained support. Indeed, while skinhead bands like the "Klansman" and magazines such as "Zyklon B" grab headlines, fascism bereft of military force and war is at most fascism on the defense, promising to save Europe from an invasion of foreigners without offering a concrete future. Laqueur warns, however, that an increase in "clerical" fascism--such as the confluence of fascism and radical, Islamic fundamentalism--may come to dominate in parts of the Middle East and North Africa. The reason has little to do with religion: "Underneath the 'Holy Rage' is frustration and old-fashioned class struggle." Fascism was always a movement of protest and discontent, and there is in the contemporary world a great reservoir of protest. Among the likely candidates, Laqueur singles out certain parts of Eastern Europe and the Third World. In carefully plotting fascism's past, present, and future, Walter Laqueur offers a riveting, if sometimes disturbing, account of one of the twentieth century's most baneful political ideas, in a book that is both a masterly survey of the roots, the ideas, and the practices of fascism and an assessment of its prospects in the contemporary world.

Book Visions of Awakening Space and Time   Dogen and the Lotus Sutra

Download or read book Visions of Awakening Space and Time Dogen and the Lotus Sutra written by Institute of Buddhist Studies Graduate Theological Union Taigen Dan Leighton Adjunct Professor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, which currently enjoys increasing popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most important Buddhist scripture in East Asia, contains a famous story about bodhisattvas (enlightening beings) who emerge from under the earth to preserve and expound the Lotus teaching in the distant future. The story reveals that the Buddha only appears to pass away, but actually has been practicing, and will continue to do so, over an inconceivably long life span. Leighton traces commentaries on the Lotus Sutra from a range of key East Asian Buddhist thinkers, including Daosheng, Zhiyi, Zhanran, Saigyo, Myoe, Nichiren, Hakuin, and Ryokan. But his main focus is Eihei Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Soto Zen founder who imported Zen from China, and whose profuse, provocative, and poetic writings are important to the modern expansion of Buddhism to the West. Dogen's use of this sutra expresses the critical role of Mahayana vision and imagination as the context of Zen teaching, and his interpretations of this story furthermore reveal his dynamic worldview of the earth, space, and time themselves as vital agents of spiritual awakening. Leighton argues that Dogen uses the images and metaphors in this story to express his own religious worldview, in which earth, space, and time are lively agents in the bodhisattva project. Broader awareness of Dogen's worldview and its implications, says Leighton, can illuminate the possibilities for contemporary approaches to primary Mahayana concepts and practices.

Book Handbook of Happiness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saamdu Chetri
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9819926378
  • Pages : 523 pages

Download or read book Handbook of Happiness written by Saamdu Chetri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains contributions from diverse perspectives and traditions that focus on reflections and happiness practices. It addresses diversity in happiness and eastern and western thoughts and practices by contributing authors from around the world from varied backgrounds. The book provides ample avenue for readers and researchers to broaden their horizons and deepen their understanding of various aspects of happiness culturally and conceptually. It opens opportunities for exploring and understanding how happiness can be practiced, experienced, taught, and learned in various contexts, thus assisting both educators and interested readers to create opportunities for themselves or their students to engage in diverse and creative happiness explorations. This book is a crucial resource for teachers, educators, students, and researchers involved in the science and practice of happiness. It enables them to find new avenues to understand happiness from different perspectives, understanding inner and outer spaces and other dimensions of happiness. It serves as an essential reference for academicians in related fields of psychology, such as cross-cultural, social, and developmental, as well as in the upcoming field of happiness studies.