Download or read book My Heart is a Golden Buddha written by Seon Master Daehaeng and published by Hanmaum Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of inspiration and wisdom, seen through the tales of housewives and kings, monks and bandits, and the deep mountains of Korea. In this new collection of thirty-three stories, one of Korea’s foremost Seon(Zen) masters introduces the richness and depth of Korea’s Buddhist tradition. With humor and insight, Seon Master Daehaeng shows us our inherent potential and demonstrates how we can face the challenges of life with wisdom and vigor. (DRM free) Praise for Seon Master Daehaeng’s No River to Cross No River to Cross speaks directly and simply from the heart, much in the manner of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Master Daehaeng's ability to penetrate the skin with plain and pointed words should give this work the same longevity.—Francisca Cho, Georgetown University, translator of Everything Yearned For “This first taste of a fresh female voice leaves you hungry for more." —Shambhala Sun

Download or read book Buddhism of the Heart written by Jeff Wilson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a foreword by Mark Unno and Taitetsu Unno. Jeff Wilson started his walk on the Buddha's Path as a Zen practitioner-taking up a tradition of vigorous self-effort, intensive meditation, and meticulous attention to rectitude in every action. But in Jeff's case, rather than freeing him from his suffering, he found those Zen practices made him nothing short of insufferable. And so he turned to Shin Buddhism-a path that is easily the most popular in Zen's native land of Japan but is largely unknown in the West. Shin emphasizes an ''entrusting heart,'' a heart that is able to receive with gratitude every moment of our mistake-filled and busy lives. Moreover, through walking the Shin path, Jeff comes see that each of us (himself especially included) are truly ''foolish beings,'' people so filled with endlessly arising ''blind passions'' and ingrained habits that we so easily cause harm even with our best intentions. And even so, Shin holds out the tantalizing possibility that, by truly entrusting our foolish selves to the compassionate universe, we can learn to see how this foolish life, just as it is, is nonetheless also a life of grace. Buddhism of the Heart is a wide-ranging book of essays and open-hearted stories, reflections that run the gamut from intensely personal to broadly philosophical, introducing the reader to a remarkable religious tradition of compassionate acceptance.

Download or read book The Wise Heart written by Jack Kornfield and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the transformative power of Buddhist psychology—for meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to Buddhist psychology ever published in the West. Here is a vision of radiant human dignity, a journey to the highest expression of human possibility—and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.

Download or read book Trusting the Gold written by Tara Brach and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated gift book to help us uncover and trust the innate goodness in ourselves and others. We receive so many messages from our culture meant to divide us from one another or turn us against ourselves. Yet when we stop judging, stop avoiding, stop trying to resist that which makes us afraid or ashamed, we open to our true nature—a boundless field of awareness that is innately fearless and loving. This recognition of our essential human goodness may be the most radical act of healing we can take. “The gold of our true nature can never be tarnished,” says Tara Brach. “In the moments of remembering and trusting this basic goodness of our Being, we open to happiness, peace, and freedom.” In Trusting the Gold, Tara draws from more than four decades of experience as a meditation teacher and psychologist to share her most valuable practices for reconnecting with the beauty of our humanity—from timeless Buddhist wisdom to techniques adapted to the specific challenges of our modern age. Here you’ll explore three pathways of remembering and living from your full aliveness: • Opening to the Truth of the present moment • Turning toward Love in any situation • Resting in the Freedom of our natural, radiant awareness “Even in the midst of our deepest emotional suffering, self-compassion is the pathway that will carry us home,” Dr. Brach writes. “What a joy to pause and behold our basic goodness, and to see how it shines through each of us. Seeing that secret beauty, we fall in love with all of life.”

Download or read book Initiations of the Heart written by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Our Hearts Not Burn Within Us... The mystics have always known that the heart is the most important center of consciousness. We can gain visions through the third eye, enlightenment through the crown. But the true fount of cosmic consciousness is always in the heart. How do we develop our heart-the chakra of Divine Love? How can we be increase the fire of the heart? How can we expand the threefold flame, the very source of life within us? Within Initiations of the Heart, the ascended masters reveal the mysteries of the heart. Most importantly, as we enter into their Word, each one offers a transfer of light-a unique initiation of the heart. The apostles felt the fire of the heart in their encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus. May you also experience that fire through your encounter with the masters in this age.

Download or read book Awakening My Heart written by Andrea Miller and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informative interviews and profiles of the likes of Ram Dass, Tina Turner, Jane Goodall, and more, plus other writings offer insight on the Buddhist life. From Andrea Miller—an editor and staff writer at Lion’s Roar, the leading Buddhist magazine in the English-speaking world—comes a diverse and timeless collection of essays, articles, and interviews. Miller talks to Buddhist teachers, thinkers, writers, and celebrities about the things that matter most and she frames their wisdom with her own lived experience. In Awakening My Heart, we hear Tina Turner on the power of song, Ram Dass on the importance of service, Jane Goodall on the compassion that exists in the natural world, and Robert Jay Lifton on the darkest deeds of humanity—and how to prevent such things from ever happening again. Moreover, Miller—with her gently probing questions—gets to the bottom of the friendship between Zen master Bernie Glassman and Hollywood’s Jeff Bridges, and she also takes a playful look at the difference between Michael Imperioli, the serious Buddhist practitioner, and the unhinged mobster character he played in The Sopranos. Insight teacher Gina Sharpe coaches Miller on how to start facing the racism that exists even in the most liberal communities, while Robert Waldinger, a Zen priest and the leader of the world’s longest running study of human happiness, teaches her the key to being truly happy. Miller also brings the wisdom of a thirteenth-century Zen text into her very own galley kitchen and takes a look at animals through a quirky dharma lens. Finally, she goes on retreat with two of the world’s most beloved contemporary Buddhist teachers, Pema Chödrön and Thich Nhat Hanh, and travels to India to follow in the footsteps of the Buddha himself. Praise for Awakening My Heart “A lovely repast of stories and inspiring conversations with Buddhist masters and celebrities, reminding us to relax and smile. The good medicine of the dharma comes in a thousand forms.” ―Jack Kornfield “This book is a concise, witty, and intelligible way to understand Buddhism.” ―bell hooks, author of All About Love “Andrea Miller is one of contemporary Buddhism’s most original and arresting voices. Awakening My Heart has that rare combination of insight and empathy that distinguishes the very best spiritual literature. It is an inspiring, expansive, and probing exploration of what it means to be alive and practicing the dharma today.” —Shozan Jack Haubner, author of Zen Confidential “These lovely pieces span a huge, eclectic range from rock stars and actors to gurus and birds. There is joy in these pages, and the stories here will cause you to love life, and people, all the more.” ―Barry Boyce, Editor-in-Chief, Mindful magazine

Download or read book The Golden Buddha written by Andrew McDearmid and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mark Mayfield's business fails he remembers a solid gold Buddha that he saw in Thailand while on leave from the Vietnam conflict. He presuades himself that to steal a hunderd pounds of gold from the statures back would really hurt no-one. He enlists three life long friends to join the adventure. Mark spemds severasl months in Thailand building a yacht. The others arrive, the temple is breached, the gold is secured and secreted in the keel of the yacht. Mark falls in love, his sweetheat is kidnapped by drug smugglers and he goes to the rescue. Sailing home they are attacked by Thai pirates and they meet intrigue in Kuwait where there is a plot to steal the gold. Finally the four adventurers are on a plane that is hijacked and headed for the middle east. The story is full of action and as near factual as research can make it.

Download or read book Roaming Free Like a Deer written by Daniel Capper and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring lived ecological experiences across seven Buddhist worlds from ancient India to the contemporary West, Roaming Free Like a Deer provides a comprehensive, critical, and innovative examination of the theories, practices, and real-world results of Buddhist environmental ethics. Daniel Capper clarifies crucial contours of Buddhist vegetarianism or meat eating, nature mysticism, and cultural speculations about spirituality in nonhuman animals. Buddhist environmental ethics often are touted as useful weapons in the fight against climate change. However, two formidable but often overlooked problems with this perspective exist. First, much of the literature on Buddhist environmental ethics uncritically embraces Buddhist ideals without examining the real-world impacts of those ideals, thereby sometimes ignoring difficulties in terms of practical applications. Moreover, for some understandable but still troublesome reasons, Buddhists from different schools follow their own environmental ideals without conversing with other Buddhists, thereby minimizing the abilities of Buddhists to act in concert on issues such as climate change that demand coordinated large-scale human responses. With its accessible style and personhood ethics orientation, Roaming Free Like a Deer should appeal to anyone who is concerned with how human beings interact with the nonhuman environment.

Download or read book Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path written by Takamaro Shigaraki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path, Takamaro Shigaraki examines Shin Buddhism anew as a practical path of spiritual growth and self-transformation, challenging assessments of the tradition as a passive religion of mere faith. Shigaraki presents the core themes of the Shin Buddhist path in fresh, engaging, down-to-earth language, considering each frankly from both secular and religious perspectives. Shigaraki discloses a nondual Pure Land that finds philosophical kinship with Zen but has been little discussed in the West. With its unassuming language and insights drawn from a life of practice, Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path dispels the fog of misconception that has shrouded Western appreciation of Shin traditions to reveal the limitless light of Amida Buddha that reaches all.

Download or read book Find the Treasure Within written by Seon Master Daehaeng and published by Hanmaum Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of frequent questions and answers from the Dharma talks of Seon master Daehaeng. These cover basic issues such as why life feels empty, how to become a more spiritual person, why life seems unfair, and is there such a thing as previous lives. Her answers are very down to earth, and filled with a deep sense of non-duality.

Download or read book From My Heart to Yours written by Asela Hazel Z. Gundaya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From My Heart to Yours is a collection of poems drawn from the authors life experiences and personal observations. The author has a way of making you visualize almost every line of each poem. It is written in a clear language that touches the deepest sensitivity of your being. It gives you an inspiring, peaceful, and comforting effect. It is hoped that the poems will stay with you long after you have read them. This collection includes poems on life and death, love and romance, family and friendships, faith and moral values, nature and travels, career, hobbies and pets.

Download or read book My Heart Is A Golden Buddha Paperback written by Seon Master Daehaeng and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adventure In City written by Ma XiaoHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never thought I'd go to the nightclub! And also entered this line! The year he graduated, he was dumped by his girlfriend, humiliated by the rich and handsome, he lost his job, and his life was at rock bottom ... Unintentionally passing by a KTV, attracted by the high recruitment notice ... And from then on, I embarked on a life that I had never imagined ...

Download or read book Where the Heart Beats written by Kay Larson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture (The New York Times) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Allan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli were among those influenced by his ‘teaching’ and ‘preaching.’ Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.

Download or read book Tending the Fire written by Dale Verkuilen and published by Firethroat Press LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conquering Heroes written by Rick McElroy and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquering Heroes is a story taking place mostly in the jungles of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Caveman, the main character, enjoys his work. He also cares deeply about his colleague Te. Caveman develops into a killing machine, primarily works alone and in the darkness, and loves what he does. This is a war novel with twists and turns that culminate in Caveman learning a secret about his parents. If you have ever wondered about the Vietnam War and the covert missions that many brave men and women undertook, then this is the book for you.

Download or read book Heart Flame Healing written by Karin Inana and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps you are a spiritual seeker of knowledge, looking for the keys to your personal healing. Maybe you wish to know the workings of your aura and chakra system, or you yearn to fulfill the unique purpose of your life and forge a lasting relationship with your spiritual, multidimensional support team. This guide can help. Heart Flame Healing offers you the opportunity for a divine adventure that will help you move from deeply felt longing to the realization of your inner heart’s dream. Author Karin Inana unveils a journey of spiritual healing by sharing her own story and extending an invitation to you to join her along the way. Through her personal narrative, she teaches the workings of auras, chakras, the hara, and the radiant core star dimension. Inana decodes the mystery of spiritual healing, guiding your individual contact with your own multidimensional support team; once you claim your radiant core essence, you can begin to heal from the inside out. This guide and memoir provides a blueprint for a self-healing journey from longing to fulfillment, presenting practical information in a helpful and inspiring way.