Old Wisdom in the New World - 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 Old Wisdom in the New World write by Paul David Numrich. This book was released on 1999-08. Old Wisdom in the New World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interesting examination of two Theravada Buddhist temples in Chicago and Los Angeles highlighting the relationship between historical and traditional practices, and the values of American converts and second generation Asian-American Buddhists. Numrich (religion research associate, U. of Illinois) considers the adaptations and maladaptations of Westerners into temple life, monastic staffs, parallel congregations, and issues of "lay" ordination, and attempts to integrate West and East as the interest in Buddhism in America increases. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
New Self, New World
New Self, New World - 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 New Self, New World write by Philip Shepherd. This book was released on 2011-05-31. New Self, New World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the tradition of Quantum Healing and Guns, Germs and Steel, Philip Shepherd's New Self, New World makes an intellectual inquiry into how we might restore freedom, creativity, and a sense of presence in the moment by rejecting several fundamental myths about being human New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our “shattered reality.” This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and inspiration, New Self, New World reveals that our state of head-consciousness falsely teaches us to see the body as something we possess and to try to take care of it without ever really learning how to inhabit it. Shepherd articulates his vision of a world in which each of us enjoys a direct, unmediated experience of being alive. He petitions against the futile pursuit of the “known self” and instead reveals the simple grace of just being present. In compelling prose, Shepherd asks us to surrender to the reality of “what is” that enables us to reunite with our own being. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises meant to bring Shepherd’s vision into daily life, what the author calls a practice that “facilitates the voluntary sabotage of long-standing patterns.” New Self, New World is at once a philosophical primer, a spiritual handbook, and a roaming inquiry into human history.
The World's Wisdom
The World's Wisdom - 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 The World's Wisdom write by Philip Novak. This book was released on 2011-10-11. The World's Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources! In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and "grace notes."
Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers
Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers - 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 Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers write by Fred Rogers. This book was released on 2006. Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpted from his bestselling book, this gift volume features quotes and anecdotes by Mister Rogers about courage, love, inner discipline, and--of course--being good neighbors as citizens of the world. There is true wisdom in this book. 96 Pages. Ribbon bookmark.
The World's Great Wisdom
The World's Great Wisdom - 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 The World's Great Wisdom write by Roger Walsh. This book was released on 2013-12-20. The World's Great Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life's ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the world's great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The World's Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religions—as well as from Western philosophy and contemporary research—provide summaries of their traditions' understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the world's accumulated wisdom—ancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.
