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Book On Right Livelihood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
  • Release : 2023-04-25
  • ISBN : 8196150792
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book On Right Livelihood written by Jiddu Krishnamurti and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Right Livelihood explores ways for us to be engaged in, but not engulfed by, our work. In a world frantic to produce, possess, and consume, few of us have time to wonder if our work damages the environment; if we are making the most of our talents or simply making a living; if we truly savor our leisure time. Krishnamurti presents sage and eloquent teachings on these issues of vital concern to us all. Krishnamurti has said: “Is it not necessary for each to know for oneself what is the right means of livelihood? If we are avaricious, envious, seeking power, then our means of livelihood will correspond to our inward demands and so produce a world of competition, ruthlessness, oppression, ultimately ending in war.”

Book Mindfulness and Meaningful Work

Download or read book Mindfulness and Meaningful Work written by Claude Whitmyer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included are essays by Shunryu Suzuki, Beginner's Mind; Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly; E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful; Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self; Gary Snyder, Pultzer Prize-winning poet and author of The Practice of the Wild, and many others.

Book Neale Donald Walsch on Abundance and Right Livelihood

Download or read book Neale Donald Walsch on Abundance and Right Livelihood written by Neale Donald Walsch and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the true meaning of abundance and explains how a connection to God can help to bring prosperity into life

Book Creativity  Spirituality  and Making a Buck

Download or read book Creativity Spirituality and Making a Buck written by David Nichtern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A friendly, funny, practical guide for creatives and entrepreneurs, written by a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer who has worked with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, and Krishna Das, among many others. Also a beloved and highly regarded Buddhist teacher, David teaches readers how to integrate their creative process with their spiritual practice and livelihood. “How do I make a living doing what I love?” “Am I a sellout as an artist if I want to be successful?” “How do I integrate my spiritual principles with the art of running a business? And actually, um, how do I run a business?” Wondering how to reconcile your calling with your need to make a living wage, or what to do once your art starts selling, or how to achieve success in your field, or what it even means to be successful? David Nichtern offers his lived, learned experience as an entrepreneur, musician, and Buddhist teacher to first help you figure out what “success” means to you and then show you how to get there. He offers advice on the creative process and principles of business and ethics—everything from “listen to the muse!” to “protect your intellectual property!”—and provides mindfulness exercises to help you integrate inspiration and aspiration, vocation and avocation—to go from surviving to thriving. Whether you’re a baker trying to grow from the farmer’s market to a brick-and-mortar or a CEO exploring how taking care of your employees can be the same as taking care of your business—if you’re trying to align your spiritual, creative, and financial pursuits and discover what it means to truly live well, this book is for you.

Book Teaching Right Livelihood  Eine Handreichung f  r Lehrkr  fte und Lehrerbildner  Mit englischsprachigen Unterrichtsmaterialien

Download or read book Teaching Right Livelihood Eine Handreichung f r Lehrkr fte und Lehrerbildner Mit englischsprachigen Unterrichtsmaterialien written by Ellen Christoforatou and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diese Handreichung richtet sich an Lehrkraefte und Lehrerbildner:innen, die die internationale Dimension von Schule und Unterricht staeker in den Blick nehmen und Anregungen fuer eigene Vorhaben gewinnen moechten. Sie dokumentiert den Ablauf und die Ergebnisse einer transnationalen Lehrveranstaltung, die im Wintersemester 2011/2012 anlaesslich der Verleihung des Alternativen Nobelpreises gemeinsam mit Lehramtsstudierenden der Universitaeten Kassel und Stockholm stattfand. Aufgrund ihres Modellcharakters wurde sie vom Deutschen Akademischen Austausch Dienst (DAAD) gefoerdert. Die englischsprachigen Unterrichtsmaterialien wurden von den Teilnehmer:innen gemeinsam entwickelt und im Unterricht erprobt. Sie beziehen sich auf den faecheruebergreifenden Themenkomplex right livelihood - die "richtige Art zu leben", der unmittelbar an den Lernbereich Globale Entwicklung anknuepft. Die Arbeitsblaetter sind sowohl im Fremdsprachenunterricht als auch im bilingualen Sachfachunterricht einsetzbar. Fuer die universitaere Lehrerbildung greift das Buch Fragen der Internationalisierung auf: Wie lassen sich laenderuebergreifende Projekte fuer die Ausbildung berufsrelevanter Kompetenzen und Einstellungen von angehenden Lehrer:innen nutzen? Welche Moeglichkeiten ergeben sich hieraus fuer die Vermittlung globaler Entwicklungsthemen an Schulen?

Book Right Livelihood Awards to Activists in East and West  Background

Download or read book Right Livelihood Awards to Activists in East and West Background written by Right Livelihood Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships

Download or read book Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships written by Neale Donald Walsch and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of the Conversations with God series discusses the purpose of relationships in our lives, and how we can improve them and ourselves. We are all involved in relationships. Indeed we are all in relationships with everything and everyone, all of the time. We have a relationship with ourselves, with our family, with our environment, with our work, with each other. Everything that we know and experience about ourselves, we understand within the context created by our relationships. For this reason, relationships are sacred—all relationships. And somewhere within the deepest reaches of our hearts and soul, we know it. That is why we yearn so for relationships—and for relationships of meaning. It is also, no doubt, why we have such trouble with them. At some level, we must be very clear how much is at stake. Yet it is possible to have joyful relationships. In Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships, the author examines the patterns that hinder our ability to build and maintain successful relationships. He teaches us to move beyond restrictive ways of relating. He also explores different types of relationships—with God, with self, with others—demonstrating how they all affect and enhance each other. If you want help in understanding relationships, here is a usable, powerful—and entertaining—key to opening the door to awareness.

Book The Noble Eightfold Path

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
  • Release : 2010-12-01
  • ISBN : 955240116X
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book The Noble Eightfold Path written by Bhikkhu Bodhi and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddha's teachings center around two basic principles. One is the Four Noble Truths, in which the Buddha diagnoses the problem of suffering and indicates the treatment necessary to remedy this problem. The other is the Noble Eightfold Path, the practical discipline he prescribes to uproot and eliminate the deep underlying causes of suffering. The present book offers, in simple and clear language, a concise yet thorough explanation of the Eightfold Path. Basing himself solidly upon the Buddha's own words, the author examines each factor of the path to determine exactly what it implies in the way of practical training. Finally, in the concluding chapter, he shows how all eight factors of the path function in unison to bring about the realization of the Buddhist goal: enlightenment and liberation.

Book Gender  Mobilities  and Livelihood Transformations

Download or read book Gender Mobilities and Livelihood Transformations written by Ragnhild Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent part of such changes. The book demonstrates how current neoliberal policies are making people increasingly on the move – whether voluntarily or forced, and whether individually, as family, or as whole communities – and how such mobility is changing the livelihoods of indigenous people, with particular focus on how these transformations are gendered. It queries how state policies and cross-border and cross-regional connections have shaped and redefined the livelihood patterns, rights and citizenship, identities, and gender relations of indigenous peoples. It also identifies the dynamic changes that indigenous men and women are facing, given rapid infrastructure improvements and commercialization and/or industrialization in their places of Environment. With a focus on mobility, this innovative book gives students and researchers in development studies, gender studies, human geography, anthropology and Asian studies a more realistic assessment of peoples livelihood choices under a time of rapid transformation, and the knowledge produced may add value to present development policies and practices.

Book The Right Livelihood Award for Vision and Work Forming an Essential Contribution to Making Life More Whole  Healing Our Planet and Uplifting Humanity

Download or read book The Right Livelihood Award for Vision and Work Forming an Essential Contribution to Making Life More Whole Healing Our Planet and Uplifting Humanity written by Right Livelihood Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transformative Language Arts in Action

Download or read book Transformative Language Arts in Action written by Ruth Farmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformative Language Arts, an emerging field and profession, calls on us to use writing, storytelling, theater, music, expressive and other arts for social change, personal growth, and culture shift. In this landmark anthology, Transformative Language Artists share their stories, scholarship and practices for a more just and peaceful world, from a Hmong storyteller and spoken word artist weaving traditions with contemporary immigrant challenges in Philadelphia, to a playwright raising awareness of AIDS/HIV prevention. Read the stories, consider the questions raised, and find inspiration and tools in using words as a vehicle for transformation through essays on the challenge of dominant stories, public housing women writing for their lives, histories and communities at the margins, singing as political action, the convergence of theology and poetics, women's self-leadership, embodied writing, and healing the self, others, and nature through TLA. The anthology also includes “snapshots,” short features on transformative language artists who make their livings and lives working with people of all ages and backgrounds to speak their truths, and change their communities.

Book The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South written by Fiona Nunan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South presents a unique, timely, comprehensive overview of livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries. Since their widespread adoption in the 1990s, livelihoods perspectives, frameworks and methods have influenced diverse areas of research, policy and practice. The concept of livelihoods reflects the complexity of strategies and practices used by individuals, households and communities to meet their needs and live their lives. The Handbook brings together insights and critical analysis from diverse approaches and experiences, learning from research and practice over the last 30 years. The Handbook comprises an introductory section on key concepts and frameworks, followed by five parts, on researching livelihoods, negotiating livelihoods, generating livelihoods, enabling livelihoods and contextualising livelihoods. The introduction provides readers with an appreciation of concepts researched and applied in the five parts, including chapters on vulnerability and resilience, social capital and networks, and institutions. Each part reflects the diversity of approaches taken to understanding livelihoods, whilst recognising commonalities, including the centrality of power in shaping, enabling and constraining livelihoods. The book also reflects diversity of context, including conflict, climate change and religion, as well as in generating livelihoods, through agriculture, small-scale mining and pastoralism. The aim of each chapter is to provide a critically informed introduction and overview of key concepts, issues and debates of relevance to the topic, with each chapter concluding with suggestions for further reading. It will be an essential resource to students, researchers and practitioners of international development and related fields. Researchers and practitioners will also benefit from the book's diverse disciplinary contributions and by the wide and contemporary coverage.

Book Rights based Approaches to Development

Download or read book Rights based Approaches to Development written by Samuel Hickey and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Comprehensive summary and case studies of major of rights-based approach to development * Arranged in point/counterpoint format The associations between human rights and the work of development activists didn’t receive widespread attention from international development agencies until the mid to late 1990s. The most visible sign that attitudes were changing occurred when the UN held its World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995. From that point on, rights became a stated objective of most agencies, regardless of the level of effort they actually spent in incorporating these ideas into their activities. Now, over a decade after that crucial turning point, Rights-Based Approaches to Development reflects on the effect of the development community’s major shift in focus from market-based frameworks to a rights-based one. Contributors, both academics and practitioners, reflect on their experience with rights-based development activities. They draw out the current debates, theoretical and practical concerns and achievements, and larger implications about poverty and the relationship between citizens and the state. With powerful insights into where the development community has been and where it needs to go, Rights-Based Approaches to Development is critical to understanding the role of social justice in the context of development.

Book Advice Not Given

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Epstein, M.D.
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-01-16
  • ISBN : 0399564330
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Advice Not Given written by Mark Epstein, M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Advice Not Given is an act of generosity and compassion. The book is a tonic for the ailments of our time.”—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given, renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego free rein, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free. With great insight, and in a deeply personal style, Epstein offers readers a how-to guide that refuses a quick fix, grounded in two traditions devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better life. Using the Eightfold Path, eight areas of self-reflection that Buddhists believe necessary for enlightenment, as his scaffolding, Epstein looks back productively on his own experience and that of his patients. While the ideas of the Eightfold Path are as old as Buddhism itself, when informed by the sensibility of Western psychotherapy, they become something more: a road map for spiritual and psychological growth, a way of dealing with the intractable problem of the ego. Breaking down the wall between East and West, Epstein brings a Buddhist sensibility to therapy and a therapist's practicality to Buddhism. Speaking clearly and directly, he offers a rethinking of mindfulness that encourages people to be more watchful of their ego, an idea with a strong foothold in Buddhism but now for the first time applied in the context of psychotherapy. Our ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can learn to mold it. Completely unique and practical, Epstein's advice can be used by all--each in his or her own way--and will provide wise counsel in a confusing world. After all, as he says, "Our egos can use all the help they can get."

Book A Living Wage

Download or read book A Living Wage written by John Augustine Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Perspectives on Gender and Migration

Download or read book New Perspectives on Gender and Migration written by Nicola Piper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses recent theoretical and empirical developments in international migration from a gender perspective. Its main objective is to analyse the diversification and stratification of gendered migratory streams with regard to skill level, labour market integration, and legal status. In turn a migrant’s position in relation to these axes influences access to entitlements and rights. Conceptually, the book builds upon the recent shift in scholarly research on migration, with women-centred research shifting more toward the analysis of gender. Migration is now viewed as a gendered phenomenon that requires more sophisticated theoretical and analytical tools than sex as a dichotomous variable. Theoretical formulations of gender as relational, and as spatially and temporally contextual have begun to inform gendered analyses of migration. The contributions to this book elaborate in more detail the broader social factors that influence migrating women’s and men’s roles, access to resources, facilities and services. Empirically, all major regions are discussed, pointing to common trends such as the increasing significance of the regionalization of migration flows as well as some noteworthy differences.

Book Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness

Download or read book Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness written by Henepola Gunaratana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to "Mindfulness in Plain English" delivers a simple message: Living a happy life is not a theory or dream, but something eminently practical and achievable through the Buddha's Eightfold Path.