Download or read book The Formless Self written by Joan Stambaugh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamarsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay "The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness," and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.
Download or read book The Formless Self written by Joan Stambaugh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the depth insights of eastern & western traditions, this book places the topic of the self in a new context.
Download or read book Now That You Are Formless written by Helen Hamilton and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many beings have revelations of our true Self and yet few come to live and move in the world as the Sage does. We must deeply assimilate what it means to be formless and allow that knowledge to pervade our entire consciousness. Questions such as “How can I come to know that I cannot die?” and “How do I live from this place of Truth?” begin to become very important to us. In this book we will look at specific points of contemplation that are designed to help come to know beyond doubt that to be formless means we cannot die, we cannot suffer and we are infinite. This book embodies the process that every awakened being has gone through and will allow you to let go of all doubt and fear. Think of this book as a road map to the awakened state of Being. It is the essence of every Sage’s journey and it will allow you to bring forth the Sage that is in you right now. This book is the answer to every student’s question of “How do I live as this?”
Download or read book Into the Formless written by Brian Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Now That You Are Formless written by Helen Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you had a realisation of your true nature? Have you seen yourself to be the formless awareness? Many of us are having such revelations of our true Self and yet few come to live and move in the world as the Sage does. We must deeply assimilate what it means to be formless and allow that knowledge to pervade our entire consciousness. Questions such as "How can I come to know that I cannot die?" and "How do I live from this place of truth?" begin to become very important to us. In this book we will look at specific points of contemplation that are designed to help us come to know beyond doubt that to be formless means we cannot die, we cannot suffer and we are infinite. It is one thing to have seen what we truly are and another thing altogether to have totally transcended any doubts, fears and challenges to living as this formlessness. This book embodies the process that every awakened being has gone through and will direct you to contemplate important questions that will allow you to let go of all doubt and fear. Many Saints, Teachers and Sages advise us to "stay as the Self" or "be the awareness" but this teaching can be vague when we need it most. Think of this book as a road map or signpost to the fully lived awakened state of Being. It is the distilled down essence of every Sages journey and it will allow you to bring forth the Sage that is in you right now. This book is the answer to every students question of "How do I live as this?"
Download or read book The Formless Substance written by Rev. Michael A. Long and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike brings us back to our inherited spiritual powers and helps us to ignite the miracle of the Holy Ghost and the Christ consciousness in our lives. The book shows us how to recover from our alliance on the lack of spiritual comfort from the law of attraction, or past mental sciences, to discovering the healing power of Gods water, and our ability to achieve spiritual greatness. I have read metaphysical literature for the past twenty-five years, but Mike Longs book quite literally breaks the mold and offers something totally unique for readers who are interested in using manifestation to change their lives. Longs cutting-edge blend of metaphysics and Christianity produces an eye-opening explanation of why so many people are frustrated with what has come to be known as the Law of Attraction. In a world filled with both dark forces and spiritual opportunity, The Formless Substance demonstrates how Mike Longs life coaching cuts through worn-out New Age rhetoric to bring the explosive, life-changing power of God into a persons life. Mikes spiritual workouts will begin to change your outlook in a matter of weeks and enable you to achieve true spiritual growth and a more rewarding life in general. This book has my highest recommendation. William Hammett, novelist, poet, and critic
Download or read book Forming the Formless written by Jason Shurka and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is meant to be used as a guide to help you realize what already exists within. It will shed Light where darkness may reside. It will assist you in revealing and awakening the wisdom and knowledge that you already possess in your soul. After all, wisdom cannot be taught; it can only be attained through the medium of knowledge and experience if transmuted correctly. You cannot learn wisdom; you may only reveal it. The following ideas and concepts are not meant to give you conclusions and answers about how the universe works; rather, they are meant to simply open your doors of thought for you to explore further and perceive the world in your own unique way. What will follow is a life in which you have complete control, a higher level of consciousness, and a stronger connection to your inner true self. Take your time and read each sentence carefully. Consider reading some chapters more than once, perhaps even multiple times. Allow your soul to digest the information it is receiving and the wisdom it is revealing. Where you take it is up to you!
Download or read book Be Formless written by Rashad Young and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Be Formless means to become something without a form. It's to live a life without limits, without validation from others, and become fearless. Too often, we lived in a world where we're boxed in and blocked off. We block ourselves of our full potential because of fear within, and fear of what others may think about us. We live in a world where people are too afraid to step out of their comfort zones and become the person they're designed to be. We instead, live life through illusions and filters to block the true essence of who we are. We rather live life seeking validation and acceptance of others to feel self-fulfilled. In the end, we're all human, we have flaws, we suffer, we strive, and we live. You matter through it all. Don't change who you are because you don't know who you can become until you stretch out and reach the sky.
Download or read book Zen and the Modern World written by Masao Abe and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of Japan's foremost contemporary thinkers and scholars, Zen and Modern Society is the third in a series of essay collections on Zen Buddhism as seen in the context of Western thought. Throughout his career, Masao Abe has articulated the meaning of Zen thought in a uniquely compelling way - at once, true to the original tradition and appropriately relevant to a variety of comparative standpoints, ranging from Biblical Judeo-Christianity to modern existentialism, phenomenology, and postmodernism. As a leading representative of the Kyoto School, which has sought a critical, comparative linking of Eastern and Western thought, Abe has based his approach on constructive, mutually respectful yet critical intellectual interaction and dialogue with some of the leading figures in the West (including Paul Tillich, Hans Kung, and Eugene Borowitz) as well as dozens of colleagues, students, and disciples. Together with the previous volumes, this work examines and exemplifies some key features of Kyoto School thought. While the essays presented here should be read in light of the socio-political criticism that has since been lodged against the Kyoto School and, more particularly, i
Download or read book The Formless Exploration of Self written by Barb Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1917-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical approach to discovering one's true nature, while living in a physical body. Exploring concepts and conditioning, which created the belief, we are separate individuals and in control of our own life. The reader is being asked to step aside from the notion of being a supposed individual and explore their true nature as Source.
Download or read book The Buddha Christ as the Lord of the True Self written by Fritz Buri and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of a 1982 volume published in Bern (Paul Haupt Verlag) by a Swiss theologian with a longstanding interest in dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity features an examination of the Kyoto school of Japanese philosophers who attempted to engage with both Christianity and secular Wes
Download or read book The Formless Self written by Miwa Neishi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Formless Self" is my M.F.A thesis exhibition that I presented the contradictions that arise while negotiating the encounters between Japanese artistic techniques and forms of expression, which are rooted in its traditions and American artistic techniques and forms of expression, which are more liberal and free from traditions. Using metal, clay, drawing and mixed media, I will seek to create connections between figurative and abstract forms of expression. I intend to make objects out of combining figurative and abstract forms and clay faces that represent the hidden conflict that arises from the multiple intersection(s) of American and Japanese ways of expression in art. The everyday-struggle of comparing definitions of expressions from my home country and from being in a foreign country has inspired me to create a merging point of the negative and the positive. I am driven to connect the language of diverse materials in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms to metaphorically and poetically speak to the ambiguity of definitions in expression.
Download or read book Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition written by Shin'ichi Hisamatsu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together two giants of the history of Zen: Linji (Japanese, Rinzai) and Hisamatsu Shin'ichi. Linji is looked upon as the founder of the Rinzai sect in Japan. Hisamatsu was a leading twentieth century master/thinker who lived in Kyoto and was a tremendous influence on the development of the Kyoto school of Japanese philosophy. The translators and editors have translated and annotated twenty-two of Hisamatsu's Zen teisho (Dharma talks, in effect, sermons for Zen practitioners) of a classical Zen text, the Record of Linji, the recorded sayings of the Chinese founder of Rinzai Zen.
Download or read book Impermanence Is Buddha Nature written by Joan Stambaugh and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D?gen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Ky?to, and the founder of the S?t? school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under the Chinese Caodong lineage there. D?gen is known for his extensive writing including the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma or Sh?b?genz?, a collection of ninety-five fascicles concerning Buddhist practice and enlightenment. The primary concept underlying D?gen's Zen practice is "oneness of practice-enlightenment". In fact, this concept is considered so fundamental to D?gen's variety of Zen-and, consequently, to the S?t? school as a whole-that it formed the basis for the work Shush?-gi, which was compiled in 1890 by Takiya Takush? of Eihei-ji and Azegami Baisen of S?ji-ji as an introductory and prescriptive abstract of D?gen's massive work, the Sh?b?genz? ("Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma"). Dogen is a profoundly original and difficult 13th century Buddhist thinker whose works have begun attracting increasing attention in the West. Admittedly difficult for even the most advanced and sophisticated scholar of Eastern thought, he is bound, initially, to present an almost insurmountable barrier to the Western mind. Yet the task of penetrating that barrier must be undertaken and, in fact, is being carried out by many gifted scholars toiling in the Dogen vineyard.
Download or read book The Self Overcoming of Nihilism written by Keiji Nishitani and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-10-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation (by Graham Parker, with Setsuko Aihara) of a forty-year-old Japanese classic--Nishitani's treatment of the problem of nihilism, with particular reference to Nietzsche's philosophical ideas, and from a perspective influenced by Buddhist thought. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Alexandra Navratil written by Alexandra Navratil and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Formless Thing', published in conjunction with an exhibition of work by Swiss artist Alexandra Navratil at Kunstmuseum Winterthur and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, alludes to the materials and artificial substances from which images are made. Besides enchanting film stills and numerous images appealing to an industrial design aesthetic, the book includes six referential text contributions by Simona Ciuccio, Esther Leslie, Matthew Solomon, Mirjam Varadinis, Jelena Rakin and Natasha Ginwala, which serve to illuminate a series of five thematically complementary works by Navratil. A conversation with the artist by Jennifer Burris completes the volume.
