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Author: Harvey Aronson Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 9780834823525 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 272
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This is the first book to offer Buddhist meditators a comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Asian and Western cultural and spiritual values. Harvey B. Aronson presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experienced by Westerners who look to Eastern spiritual traditions for guidance and support—and find themselves confused or disappointed. Issues addressed include: • Our cultural belief that anger should not be suppressed versus the Buddhist teaching to counter anger and hatred • Our psychotherapists' advice that attachment is the basis for healthy personal development and supportive relationships versus the Buddhist condemnation of attachments as the source of suffering • Our culture's emphasis on individuality versus the Asian emphasis on interdependence and fulfillment of duties, and the Buddhist teachings on no-self, or egolessness
Author: Harvey Aronson Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 9780834823525 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
This is the first book to offer Buddhist meditators a comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Asian and Western cultural and spiritual values. Harvey B. Aronson presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experienced by Westerners who look to Eastern spiritual traditions for guidance and support—and find themselves confused or disappointed. Issues addressed include: • Our cultural belief that anger should not be suppressed versus the Buddhist teaching to counter anger and hatred • Our psychotherapists' advice that attachment is the basis for healthy personal development and supportive relationships versus the Buddhist condemnation of attachments as the source of suffering • Our culture's emphasis on individuality versus the Asian emphasis on interdependence and fulfillment of duties, and the Buddhist teachings on no-self, or egolessness
Author: Harvey B. Aronson Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 9781590300930 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 253
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A comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Eastern spiritual ideals and Western cultural values explores the expectations that Westerners bring to Buddhism, common problems they experience, and helpful methods of identifying and working with difficulties that arise from this culture conflict. Original.
Author: Paramananda Publisher: Windhorse Publications ISBN: 1911407228 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 168
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Paramananda guides us in grounding meditative experience in the body, turning towards experience in a kindly and intelligent way, and seeing through to another way of understanding and being in the world.
Author: Gelong Thubten Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials ISBN: 1250266831 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 152
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A Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness for the Modern Day In our never-ending search for happiness we often find ourselves looking to external things for fulfillment, thinking that happiness can be unlocked by buying a bigger house, getting the next promotion, or building a perfect family. In this profound and inspiring book, Gelong Thubten shares a practical and sustainable approach to happiness. Thubten, a Buddhist monk and meditation expert who has worked with everyone from school kids to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Benedict Cumberbatch, explains how meditation and mindfulness can create a direct path to happiness. A Monk’s Guide to Happiness explores the nature of happiness and helps bust the myth that our lives and minds are too busy for meditation. The book can show you how to: - Learn practical methods to help you choose happiness - Develop greater compassion for yourself and others - Learn to meditate in micro-moments during a busy day - Discover that you are naturally ‘hard-wired’ for happiness Reading A Monk’s Guide to Happiness could revolutionize your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, and help you create a life of true happiness and contentment.
Author: B. Alan Wallace Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0861710754 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 224
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TIBETAN BUDDHISM FROM THE GROUND UP offers a clear & complete presentation of the main teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, beginning with the basic themes & concluding with the esoteric concepts & advanced practices of Tantra.
Author: Christopher S. Queen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0861718410 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 560
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Engaged Buddhism is founded on the belief that genuine spiritual practice requires an active involvement in society. Engaged Buddhism in the West illuminates the evolution of this new chapter in the Buddhist tradition - including its history, leadership, and teachings - and addresses issues such as violence and peace, race and gender, homelessness, prisons, and the environment. Eighteen new studies explore the activism of renowned leaders and organizations, such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Bernard Glassman, Joanna Macy, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and the Free Tibet Movement, and the emergence of a new Buddhism in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia.
Author: Ratnaguna Publisher: Windhorse Publications ISBN: 1909314765 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
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Drawing on his own experience, and on Buddhist teachings, Western philosophy, psychology and literature, Ratnaguna provides a practical guide to reflection in its many forms. This is a book about reflection as a spiritual practice, about its importance, and about "e;what we think and how we think about it."e;
Author: David L. McMahan Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199884781 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 320
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A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects, and indeed constructs, a historically unique modern Buddhism, even while purporting to represent ancient tradition, timeless teaching, or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature, Asian as well as Western, weaves together the strands of different traditions to create a novel hybrid that brings Buddhism into alignment with many of the ideologies and sensibilities of the post-Enlightenment West. In this book, David McMahan charts the development of this "Buddhist modernism." McMahan examines and analyzes a wide range of popular and scholarly writings produced by Buddhists around the globe. He focuses on ideological and imaginative encounters between Buddhism and modernity, for example in the realms of science, mythology, literature, art, psychology, and religious pluralism. He shows how certain themes cut across cultural and geographical contexts, and how this form of Buddhism has been created by multiple agents in a variety of times and places. His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents Buddhist modernism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or fabrication. Rather, he presents it as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses -- sometimes trivial, often profound -- to some of the most important concerns of the modern era.
Author: Peter N. Gregory Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 086171539X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 258
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This book grew out of the conference, Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, held at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2005. The conference brought together students, scholars, Buddhist teachers, practitioners, artists, activists, and healers to explore the diverse experiences of women practising Buddhism in contemporary America. The pieces here centre on issues of practice, bringing to bear women's particular experiences of Buddhism as it is spreading to North America and taking root in new contexts. They celebrate the ways in which women are changing Buddhism and explore the array of issues that women as Buddhists face today. Contributors include those recognizable as Buddhist teachers, as well as well-known (and even famous) practitioners.
Author: Harvey Aronson
Author: Harvey Aronson
Author: Harvey B. Aronson
Author: Seth Robert Segall
Author: Paramananda
Author: Gelong Thubten
Author: B. Alan Wallace
Author: Christopher S. Queen
Author: Ratnaguna
Author: David L. McMahan
Author: Peter N. Gregory