Download or read book Contemplations on the Beauties of Creation and on All the Principal Truths and Blessings of the Glorious Gospel with the Sins and Graces of Professing Christians written by John Ryland and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Views of Nature Or Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by London : H.G. Bohn. This book was released on 1850 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Views of Nature Or Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation with Scientific Illustrations written by Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Literary Goethe and his influence Wordsworth and his genius Shelley s poetical mysticism Mr Browning The poetry of the Old Testament Arthur Hugh Clough The poetry of Matthew Arnold Tennyson Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Richard Holt Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Staging Contemplation written by Eleanor Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the highest form of devotional prayer, a rarified means of experiencing God practiced only by the most devout of monks, nuns, and mystics. Yet, in this groundbreaking new book, Eleanor Johnson argues instead for the pervasiveness and accessibility of contemplative works to medieval audiences. By drawing together ostensibly diverse literary genres—devotional prose, allegorical poetry, cycle dramas, and morality plays—Staging Contemplation paints late Middle English contemplative writing as a broad genre that operated collectively and experientially as much as through radical individual disengagement from the world. Johnson further argues that the contemplative genre played a crucial role in the exploration of the English vernacular as a literary and theological language in the fifteenth century, tracing how these works engaged modes of disfluency—from strained syntax and aberrant grammar, to puns, slang, code-switching, and laughter—to explore the limits, norms, and potential of English as a devotional language. Full of virtuoso close readings, this book demonstrates a sustained interest in how poetic language can foster a participatory experience of likeness to God among lay and devotional audiences alike.

Download or read book The Universal Gate written by Xingyun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compassionate visage of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, better known as Guanyin in Chinese, has been a source of inspiration and devotion for Buddhists and non-Buddhists for centuries. Offering readers the opportunity to get to know this great practitioner from the Buddhist texts themselves, "The Universal Gate" contains a new translation of Avalokitesvara¿s Universal Gate Sutra, the Buddha¿s scriptural account of this compassionate sage and his power to manifest in whatever form necessary to help sentient beings. This short sutra, chanted and memorized throughout East Asia, is rich with symbolic significance and striking, memorable images. Venerable Master Hsing Yun provides a complete line-by-line commentary to unpack the sutra¿s fantastic descriptions, relating them to personal practice and the wider Buddhist teachings. "The Universal Gate" allows readers to enter Avalokitesvara¿s compassion and to appreciate the bodhisattva¿s special place of reverence in the Buddhist world.

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Download or read book Study And Practice Of Meditation written by Leah Zahler and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study and Practice of Meditation gives a vivid and detailed account of the meditative practices necessary to develop a calm, alert mind that is capable of penetrating the depths of reality. The Buddhist meditative states known as the concentrations and formless absorptions are best known in the West from Theravada scriptures and from Vasubandhu’s Treasury of Manifest Knowledge. In this book the reader is exposed to Tibetan Buddhist views on the mental states attained through meditation as described by three contemporary Tibetan lamas. The book discusses the ways in which certain meditative states act as bases of the spiritual path as well as the nature of meditative calm and the prerequisites for cultivating and attaining it. In addition to reviewing and translating Tibetan sources, the author considers their major Indian antecedents and draws comparisons with Theravadin presentations.

Download or read book Calm Abiding and Special Insight written by Geshe Gedun Lodro and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calm Abiding and Special Insight presents an intimate and detailed picture of the intricacies of meditation so vividly that the reader is drawn into a Tibetan worldview of spiritual development. Geshe Gedün Lodrö, one of the foremost scholars of Tibet, reveals methods for overcoming afflictive states and disorders to create a mind which is stable, calm, and alertly clear. This book illustrates the mind's potential for profound transformation. The dangers of not recognizing states contrary to successful meditation are great, and the possibilities of implementing the wrong antidote, or of overextending an appropriate one until it becomes counterproductive, are many. Through such detail, Geshe Gedün Lodrö makes vividly clear a Tibetan approach to meditative transformation. This is a completely revised new edition of Walking Through Walls.

Download or read book Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments written by Joseph Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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