Download or read book Untangling Karma written by Judith Ragir and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is at once a love letter to Zen practice and a critique of late twentieth century American Zen. Judith inspires us to investigate our own karmic knots, and in the middle of this suffering, she invites us to walk quietly down to the neighborhood pond and take a cooling dip in the moonlight." —Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones, and many other books Untangling Karma is a memoir of accepting and healing personal trauma, both on and off the meditation cushion. Author Judith Ragir, an American Zen teacher, has used her spiritual practice to overcome anger and self-imposed isolation and become more loving. In Buddhism, the personal and the systemic are interwoven. If we are to heal from trauma, we need to find and face our deeply held, often hidden pain. Because we have been raised in a society of greed, aggression, and confused values, this is something we all must do, regardless of our ethnic or racial background. Ragir lets fall the stereotypical cool, calm Zen teacher’s demeanor to reveal her complicated, emotional self. She discusses what she has done to find greater inner peace as well as the personal impacts of transferring an Eastern philosophy onto her Western mind and applying a male-inspired monastic model to herself as an American woman, Jew, and mother. Untangling Karma is at once a love letter to Zen Buddhism and a critique of turn-of-the-century American Zen. If we can be bold when facing our personal pain and traumatic experiences, says Ragir, and curious about our own karmic histories, then we can help build a more inclusive, healing-focused, 21st-century Buddhism.
Download or read book Untangling the USA written by Etienne Deffarges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Brady and the “tuck rule”; “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”; “The financial world has become way too complicated and very secretive.” What could Tom Brady, Donald Trump, and Michael Lewis possibly have in common? Complexity. Lewis has analyzed it; Trump has discovered it; Brady has benefited from it. And the USA is entangled in it. Complex systems are an inevitable part of business and socio-economic structures. We reach a breaking point, however, when social and organizational structures become cumbersome and unintelligible. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. The outcome is high costs, poor results, deepening social inequality, and the erosion of public trust. Wholesale changes must be contemplated. This is particularly true in the USA today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. The author takes a common sense, broad-based, and analytical approach to some of the most complicated issues facing the US today. He examines the costs of complexity through a wide-angle lens, provides analysis of the root causes involved, and explains what is necessary to improve results and lower costs. The ever-increasing level of complexity in the US is compared to that in other developed economies. History is referenced as a guide to show that in many areas, America’s success has relied on simple and elegant solutions. These contrasting paths are used to propose alternative approaches and new solutions. Beyond analyzing how incredibly complex socio-economic systems have emerged in recent years in the US, the author steps back, reflects on the fundamental values of this country, and offers a number of actionable proposals to improve the lives of all American citizens. Etienne Deffarges has enjoyed a successful career, first as a senior strategy consultant to many leading global companies, then as a heath care technology entrepreneur in the US. He is perfectly positioned to observe how complex systems are stifling socio-economic progress. He brings a unique insider view of the issues involved and examines a number of key sectors that impact American society at large, including health care, energy, finance, regulations, taxation, utilities, and welfare.?
Download or read book ECKANKAR Key to Past Lives written by Harold Klemp and published by ECKANKAR. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Klemp, the leading authority on past lives, dreams, and Soul Travel, brings you startling insights in this book. Learn to recall memories of past lives! Lessons of long ago can be recaptured now to help your life today. Our character is made up of virtues and shortcomings, and all are a development from past lives.
Download or read book A Modern Prophet Answers Your Key Questions about Life Book 3 written by Harold Klemp and published by ECKANKAR. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are times in our lives when we're faced with insurmountable challenges. We stand at a crossroads, where our choice of which road to take decides not only the course of our future, but our very survival. In ages past, mankind could turn to a prophet whose wisdom was captured in scripture. Today, the words of those prophets may not hold the answers you're looking for. It is fortunate, then, that we have in our midst a modern prophet we can connect with directly for help in finding answers that work for us today. Sri Harold Klemp, award-winning author and spiritual leader of the worldwide teaching of Eckankar, has answered hundreds of heartfelt questions from people looking for spiritual guidance on: • Relationships • Parenting • Fear and worry • Health • Resolving karma • And much more The questions and wisdom contained in A Modern Prophet Answers Your Key Questions about Life, Book 3, can help you at your crossroads too!
Download or read book SOS Twinflame Awakening The Hero s Journey of Your Life Your Awakening Process Your Mastery written by Romi SanTina and published by epubli. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide on the topic of the spiritual awakening process, triggered/forced by encountering the twin flame. The meeting resp. seperation from this special person shakes you to your core, propelling you seemingly out of nowhere into an extreme intensely tumultous rollercoaster of emotions and pain. Nothing that worked before seems to hold true in this situation. This marks the beginning of your spiritual awakening process.
Download or read book Karma S Assistant written by Angel Quintanilla and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all hope Karma can get the ones who have harmed us, but Karma is not the one who does the dirty work. The sex addict Gabriel Watson, owner of Watson Hotel, has a double life. He works for Karma. However, his new assignment, Lorenzo Cartano, is different from his previous assignments. Every step closer he gets to Lorenzo makes it a step harder to neglect what he believes could be true love. How will he choose between the job Karma has assigned and the attraction for the man he knows so little about? Will he give his cover up for love and let Lorenzo know he is Karmas assistant or protect it at all costs till the end?
Download or read book Wise Up written by Soni Shalini and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My debut book Wise Up is a bringing together of all worldliness and wisdom that heaped upon my soul, as I walked, hand in hand with life, breathing, feeling and touching it, moment by moment. It is not a biography, but whispers of wisdom by handpicked living souls that crossed my path and touched my life. Here, I have tried to paint my experiences into lessons of learning in three compartments, primarily, my childhood, secondly mothers illness and ultimately my soul mate who has been a life coach, in a vibrant, entertaining, amusing but intriguing and inspirational manner. The book is a complete walk through of captivating, alluring and spellbinding stories of value and wisdom; articles of worthiness that showcases gospel of learning, these stories are real life experiences as well as grandmother fables. I believe these gems and jewels will touch the core of your heart, soul and spirit, encouraging you to live an ecstatic, hearty and blissful life.
Download or read book Working with Karma written by Gill Farrer-Halls and published by Godsfield. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karma is the spiritual philosophy at the heart of Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions of the Indian subcontinent and it can be a confusing concept. It is, simply put, the totality of everything we have done, are doing, and will do, in this life, and in past and future existences. Written for those just beginning their exploration of karmic thought, this deeply contemplative guide explodes the myths and explains karma's true influence upon relationships, career, prosperity and health. Also, there are rituals to put ideas into practice, along with suggested meditations, a discussion of the 10 Positive Actions, and The Buddha's eight-step guide to spiritual awakening.
Download or read book Cat on a Blue Monday written by Carole Nelson Douglas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight Louie and his human companion, Temple Barr try to discover who is trying to wreck the annual las Vegas cat show, and prevent mass cat murder.
Download or read book A Million Random Words written by John Vorhaus and published by Bafflegab Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 2529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you do with a million random words? Crikey, what can’t you do? Create “exquisite corpse” poetry. Seed your creativity by using some random number of random words as the basis for your next short story. Invent delightful party games. Tell fortunes. Give as a gift to your wise-ass Scrabble friends. Or just read aloud and laugh yourself stupid. The possibilities are endless (well, no, actually, they end at a million) when you buy and own your own copy of A Million Random Words. With this ebook on your smart phone or dumb phone or device, you’re never more than a tap away from an astounding new collection of uniquely assembled words and phrases. Can you say, “Waving plateglass forename salp, duckwalked supertonic guilty librettists?” You couldn’t before, but now you can! A Million Random Words was created using a proprietary algorithm and has been meticulously copy-edited and vetted by the finest linguistic scholars. Attractively priced at just $4.99 – less than $0.000005 per word – it offers a better cost-to-word than any book in the history of print, so order your copy today. The sooner you do, the sooner you can say, “Cathartic thrill columbic superwives pushrods” with the full courage of your conviction.
Download or read book The Karma Queens Guide to Relationships written by Carmen Harra and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new book "Karma Queen: The Truth About Karma and Relationships," Carmen Harra draws upon her knowledge of psychology and metaphysics, her experience as a therapist and counselor, and her own relationships to help readers untangle the complexities of their relationships and get the most out of them.
Download or read book Karma written by Traleg Kyabgon and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of Tibetan Buddhism cuts through prevalent misconceptions around karma and rebirth to get to the root cause of our suffering—and how we can end it The Buddha’s teaching on karma (literally, “action”) is nothing other than his compassionate explanation of the way things are: our thoughts and actions determine our future, and therefore we ourselves are largely responsible for the way our lives unfold. Yet this supremely useful teaching is often ignored due to the misconceptions found in popular culture, especially oversimplifications that make it seem like something not to be taken seriously. Karma is not simple, as Traleg Kyabgon shows, and it’s to be taken very seriously indeed. In this book, Kyabgon cuts through the persistent illusions we cling to about karma to show what it really is—the mechanics of why we suffer and how we can make the suffering end. He explains how a realistic understanding of karma is indispensable to Buddhist practice, how it provides a foundation for a moral life, and how understanding it can have a transformative effect on the way we relate to our thoughts and feelings and to those around us.
Download or read book Isabel Allende s House of the Spirits Trilogy written by Karen Wooley Martin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories. Allende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and opprobrium, often at the expense of genuine analysis. This sophisticated study explores the narrative architecture of Allende's House of the Spirits [1982], Daughter of Fortune [1999], and Portrait in Sepia [2000] as a trilogy, proposing that the places created in these novels subvert the patriarchal norms that have governed politics, sexuality, and ethnicity. Rooted in the Foucauldian premise that the history of space is essentially the history of power, and supported by Susan Stanford Friedman's cultural geographies of encounter as well as Gloria Anzaldúa's study of borderlands, this study shows that, by rejecting traditional spatial hierarchies, Allende's trilogy systematically deterritorializes the elite while shifting the previously marginalized to the physical and thematic centers of her works. This movement provides the narrative energy which draws the reader into Allende's universe, and sustains the 'good story' for which she has been universally acclaimed. KAREN WOOLEY MARTIN is Associate Professor of Spanish at Union University, Jackson, Tennessee.
Download or read book The Blessings of Bhutan written by Russ Carpenter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A captivating and splendid account of a complex nation on the cusp of tradition and modernity. Bhutan is distinctive--from its social structures to its development philosophy of Gross National Happiness. The Blessings of Bhutan is based on extensive travel and interviews. Written in an accessible style, the authors blend narrative about the country's history, religion, arts, and governance with lively personal anecdotes. It is an excellent contribution to the study of contemporary Bhutan that will appeal to laymen and scholars alike." --Karma Ura, Director of the Centre for Bhutan Studies "The blessings of Bhutan are many, including the appearance of this lyrical account of the country's many unique and fascinating aspects. Because they are among the Westerners most familiar with Bhutanese life, Blyth and Russ are able to penetrate well beyond the Shangri-la myth and show that, while parts of such an otherworldly myth apply, this Himalayan Kingdom is brimful of surprises, contradictions, and modern dilemmas." --K. E. S. Kirby Dorji, writer/editor, United Nations consultant, longtime resident of Bhutan.
Download or read book The End of Karma written by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of Karma presents an easy-to-use 40-day program that will help you become enlightened. By reading and thinking about one chapter a day, you can get a better understanding of all aspects of spirituality and come to know your Higher Power, or God.
Download or read book The Future Is Open written by Chogyam Trungpa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned meditation master Chögyam Trungpa challenges popular misconceptions of the Buddhist doctrines of karma and rebirth, in the process showing how to step beyond karma on the path to awakening. Karma has become a popular term in the West, often connected with somewhat naive or deterministic ideas of rebirth and reincarnation or equated with views of morality and guilt. Chögyam Trungpa unpacks this intriguing but misunderstood topic. He viewed an understanding of karma as good news, showing us that liberation is possible and that the future is never predetermined. His unique approach to presenting the Buddhist teachings lends itself to an insightful and profound view of karma, its cause and effects, and how to cut the root of karma itself.
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