Download or read book Passage Meditation written by Eknath Easwaran and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneered by spiritual master Eknath Easwaran, passage meditation consists of memorizing an inspirational spiritual passage and then sending it deep into consciousness through slow, sustained attention. It keeps meditation fresh and varied because readers can select the passages - from one tradition or many - that embody their chosen ideals. Many readers also enjoy the passages for their poetic and intellectual appeal. This form of meditation offers all the richness and depth of traditional wisdom, together with a practical method for bringing that wisdom into daily life. The book situates passage meditation as part of Easwaran's eight-point program that, based on traditional spiritual practices but adjusted for modern lifestyles, shows readers how to stay calm and focused at work and home. This edition includes a new preface of previously unpublished material by Easwaran and an epilogue that explains the story behind the book and invites new readers to join the author on this adventure in the ''world within.''
Download or read book Meditation written by Eknath Easwaran and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditation outlines a unique approach to tapping inner resources by training concentration on inspirational passages. Eknath Easwaran’s practical Eight Point Program offers specific, systematic tools to sharpen concentration, deal effectively with stress, release deep reserves of energy, and transform anger and other destructive emotions. This book offers tested techniques for strengthening our ability to meditate. It is a complete guide to a program of meditation that fits naturally into your life, even complementing an active religious practice.
Download or read book Timeless Wisdom written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion volume to Easwaran's "Passage Meditation" brings the world's timeless wisdom within reach of the modern seeker. The author chooses texts that are positive, practical, and meaningful for readers today, making them suitable for study and meditation.
Download or read book How to Meditate written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like better concentration, more vitality and creativity, more patience and inner strength? Daily meditation can help you develop these qualities. Easwaran taught meditation for over forty years, and his instructions are practical and clear. He shows you how to choose a spiritual text, or passage, from the world’s great traditions that embodies your highest ideals. With regular practice, meditation becomes your lifeline, taking you to the source of wisdom deep within and guiding you through all the challenges of daily life. Easwaran is one of the twentieth century's great spiritual teachers and an authentic guide to timeless wisdom. His class at the University of California, Berkeley was the first accredited course on meditation at any Western university. He is the author of the best-selling translation in English of the Bhagavad Gita, India’s best-known scripture. This short ebook is the first chapter "Meditation on a Passage" from the book Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice by Eknath Easwaran.
Download or read book Meditation written by Eknath Easwaran and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eknath Easwaran believed that meditating on words from the mystics and spiritual traditions of the world drives them deep into one's consciousness, where they take root and create positive life change. Featuring personal examples from daily life and resonant with Easwaran's characteristic humor, these talks show how to transform thinking and acting to harness natural capabilities for kindness, joy, and wisdom; offer step-by-step instructions on every aspect of meditation; and explain how to use these time-tested tools to support meditation and bring one's highest principles into daily life. Free of dogma or any particular religious tradition, these talks lovingly guide the seeker toward self-realization.
Download or read book Conquest of Mind written by Eknath Easwaran and published by General Books. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for people who want to understand how the mind works, and how to change it. If we want to grow to our fullest human potential, Easwaran says, we have to train the mind. If we follow his eight-point program, we can begin to choose the way we think and become the kind of person we want to be. Drawing on the teachings of the Buddha, Easwaran's approach is universal and practical, putting our destiny in our own hands. And since it's hard to understand the hidden workings of the mind with the mind, Easwaran selects anecdotes to throw a spotlight on our thinking processes and to point the way to mastering them. For readers who have enjoyed Easwaran's Passage Meditation, Conquest of Mind gives another, intriguing perspective on his eight-point program.
Download or read book Conquest of Mind written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines meditation practice with day-to-day mindfulness to help readers conquer unwanted thoughts and choose more wisely. By the author of Meditation and Timeless Wisdom. Original.
Download or read book Words to Live By written by Eknath Easwaran and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start your day or end it with this warmly encouraging collection of inspirational quotations for each day, accompanied by Easwaran's wise and practical commentaries. These quotes come from some of history's most brilliant philosophers, poets, and sages from all traditions. Easwaran takes these timeless truths and illustrates them with relevant, meaningful examples, inspiring us to face our own challenges with courage, good humor, and wisdom. Some of Easwaran's commentaries are very practical, showing how we can become more patient, more loving, and more resilient by making small steps every day. Others give us soaring inspiration, lifting our hearts and spirits, reminding us of the higher purpose of our lives. You can read Words to Live By in the morning to point your day in the right direction, or read it in the evening to prepare for a peaceful night of renewal. Features This gem of a book makes a perfect gift and is an ideal introduction to Easwaran for new readers. And for seasoned Easwaran readers whose current copies are getting battered, the new look and new material will keep these teachings fresh and foremost in the midst of busy schedules.
Download or read book Essence of the Upanishads written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to – the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality. But the insights of the Katha are scattered, hard to understand. Easwaran presents them systematically, and practically, as a way to explore deeper and deeper levels of personality, and to answer the age-old question, “Who am I?” Easwaran grew up in India, learned Sanskrit from a young age, and became a professor of English literature before coming to the West. His translation of The Upanishads is the best-selling edition in English. For students of philosophy and of Indian spirituality, and readers of wisdom literature everywhere, Easwaran’s interpretation of this classic helps us in our own quest into the meaning of our lives. (Previously published as: Dialogue With Death)
Download or read book The Mantram Handbook written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Take Your Time written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through stories and step-by-step advice, a respected meditation teacher shows how to calm our minds in the midst of the busiest schedule, opening the door to a wiser, happier lifeComplements time management books by tackling the root problem: how to control the speeded-up mind
Download or read book Strength in the Storm written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to find peace of mind during stressful times, describing how to slow down and stay in the present, shed anxieties and resentments, strengthen relationships, and stay kind and strong when faced with conflicts.
Download or read book Original Goodness written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Patience, mercy, peacemaking, simplicity, humility. When we cultivate these qualities our life will become immensely rich. Beneath all our layers of ignorance, we can uncover our essential nature: our Original Goodness. According to the ""Perennial Philosophy"" found in all religions, this divine essence can be realized, and is the supreme goal in life. This unbroken awareness of the presence of God in all creatures is the mark of the mystic. For one who grasps these principles with an open heart, life takes fire with purpose."
Download or read book Your Life Is Your Message written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your life a message of hope, love, and purpose. No matter what crises may threaten the world, you can live in harmony with your highest ideals - and help others to do the same. This practical and inspiring book, a classic from a much-loved spiritual teacher, shows how. You can find harmony with yourself by gaining mastery of your internal environment, a world within of thoughts, desires, and feelings as real as the world outside. You can build harmony in your relationships with family, colleagues, and your community by learning to love more fully than you had thought possible. You can establish harmony with the physical environment by living your life to ensure, in every way, a brighter future for all our children. By making small changes, day by day, you can support the health, happiness, and well-being of everyone around you.
Download or read book Essence of the Bhagavad Gita written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to his best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran explores the essential themes of this much-loved Indian scripture. Placing the Gita in a modern context, Easwaran shows how this classic text sheds light on the nature of reality, the illusion of separateness, the search for identity, and the meaning of yoga. The key message of the Gita is how to resolve our conflicts and live in harmony with the deep unity of life, through the principles of yoga and the practice of meditation. Easwaran grew up in the Hindu tradition and learned Sanskrit from an early age. A foremost translator and interpreter of the Gita, he taught classes on it for forty years, while living out the principles of the Gita in the midst of a busy family and community life. In the Gita, Sri Krishna, the Lord, doesn’t tell the warrior prince Arjuna what to do: he shows Arjuna his choices and then leaves it to Arjuna to decide. Easwaran, too, shows us clearly how these teachings still apply to us – and how, like Arjuna, we must take courage and act wisely if we want our world to thrive.
Download or read book The Path of Direct Awakening written by Stephen H. Ruppenthal and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike similar works, The Path of Direct Awakening references an impersonal divine expressed as Nature or Mind for meditators or seekers who resist the notion of a personalized divinity such as God, Krishna, or Yahweh. Selections in this illustrated collection are drawn from the Buddhist literature of India and China, and the Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist traditions of China. They include 70 poems and 10 prose pieces -- writings by such legendary figures as Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha, Han Shan, Huang Po, and Wang Wei. Brief essays and annotations provide context, and four Chinese-style brush-stroke drawings enhance the text and help the reader address the Absolute directly.
Download or read book Dialogue with Death written by Eknath Easwaran and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
