Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path write by Takamaro Shigaraki. This book was released on 2013-02-18. Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Buddhism of the Heart
Buddhism of the Heart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism of the Heart write by Jeff Wilson. This book was released on 2010-10-08. Buddhism of the Heart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Life of Awakening
A Life of Awakening - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Life of Awakening write by Takamaro Shigaraki. This book was released on 2005. A Life of Awakening available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Buddha of Infinite Light
Buddha of Infinite Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddha of Infinite Light write by D. T. Suzuki. This book was released on 2002-02-12. Buddha of Infinite Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shin is the uniquely Japanese flowering of the type of Buddhism known as "Pure Land." It originated in the thirteenth century with the charismatic and prophetic figure Shinran (1172–1263), whose interpretation of the traditional Pure Land teachings was extremely influential in his own lifetime and remain so today. In a period when Japanese Buddhism was dominated by an elitist monastic establishment, Shinran's Shin teaching became a way of liberation for all people, regardless of age, class, or gender. Although Shin is one of Japan's greatest religious contributions—and is still the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan—it remains little known in the West. In this book, based on several lectures he gave in the 1950s, D. T. Suzuki illuminates the deep meaning of Shin and its rich archetypal imagery, providing a scholarly and affectionate introduction to this sometimes misunderstood tradition of Buddhist practice.
Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path
Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path write by Takamaro Shigaraki. This book was released on 2013-03-26. Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The present text developed out of the notes of lectures that Dr. Shigaraki delivered at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in 1999. Those notes were originally published in Japanese as Shinshu no taii [The Essence of Shin Buddhism] in 2000."
