A Pure Mind In A Clean Body

Author : Ann Heirman,Mathieu Torck
Publisher : Academia PressScientific Pub
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9038220146

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A Pure Mind in a Clean Body by Ann Heirman,Mathieu Torck Pdf

"Buddhist monasteries, in both Ancient India and China, have played a crucial social role, for religious as well as for lay people. They rightfully attract the attention of many scholars, discussing historical backgrounds, institutional networks, or influential maters. Still, some aspects of monastic life have not yet received the attention they deserve. This book therefore aims to study some of the most essential, but often overlooked, issues of Buddhist life: namely, practices and objects of bodily care. For monastic authors, bodily care primarily involves bathing, washing, cleaning, shaving and triming the nails, activities of everyday life that are performed by lay people and moastics alike. In this sense, they are all highly recognizable and, while structuring monastic life, equally provide a potential bridge between two worlds that are constantly interacting with each other: monastic people and their lay followers. Bodily practices might by viewed as relatiely simple and elementary, but it is exactly through their triviality that they give us a clear insight into the structure and development of Buddhist monasteries. Over time, Buddhist monks and nuns have, through their painstaking effort into regulating bodily care, defined the identity of Buddhist saòmgha, overtly displaying it to the laity"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Ann Heirman,Mathieu Torck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Buddhist monks
ISBN : LCCN:2020426102

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Pure Mind in a Clean Body by Ann Heirman,Mathieu Torck Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004544925

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Buddhism and the Body by Anonim Pdf

Mahayana, Theravada, ancient, modern? Even at the most basic level, the diversity of Buddhism makes a comprehensive approach daunting. This book is a first step in solving the problem. In foregrounding the bodies of practitioners, a solid platform for analysing the philosophy of Buddhism begins to become apparent. Building upon somaesthetics Buddhism is seen for its ameliorative effect, which spans the range of how the mind integrates with the body. This exploration of positive effect spans from dreams to medicine. Beyond the historical side of these questions, a contemporary analysis includes its intersection with art, philosophy, and ethnography.

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631498060

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The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jamie Kreiner Pdf

A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later. The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God—to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements—were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending. Delving into the experiences of early Christian monks living in the Middle East, around the Mediterranean, and throughout Europe from 300 to 900 CE, Kreiner shows that these men and women were obsessed with distraction in ways that seem remarkably modern. At the same time, she suggests that our own obsession is remarkably medieval. Ancient Greek and Roman intellectuals had sometimes complained about distraction, but it was early Christian monks who waged an all-out war against it. The stakes could not have been higher: they saw distraction as a matter of life and death. Even though the world today is vastly different from the world of the early Middle Ages, we can still learn something about our own distractedness by looking closely at monks’ strenuous efforts to concentrate. Drawing on a trove of sources that the monks left behind, Kreiner reconstructs the techniques they devised in their lifelong quest to master their minds—from regimented work schedules and elaborative metacognitive exercises to physical regimens for hygiene, sleep, sex, and diet. She captures the fleeting moments of pure attentiveness that some monks managed to grasp, and the many times when monks struggled and failed and went back to the drawing board. Blending history and psychology, The Wandering Mind is a witty, illuminating account of human fallibility and ingenuity that bridges a distant era and our own.

Author : William Washington EVANS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026849340

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A Pure Mind in a Pure Body. A New System of Health and Medicine by William Washington EVANS Pdf

Author : William Washington EVANS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018389760

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A Pure Mind in a Pure Body, that is Health. A new system of health and medicine. The antiseptic treatment ... The thirty-fifth thousand. With other essays and testimonials by William Washington EVANS Pdf

Author : Donald Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304368126

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The Anthology of Ceremonial and Transcendental Occult Magic Volume 2 by Donald Jones Pdf

This collection of works expand over several centuries of Magi and Sorcerers throughout the history of Ceremonial and Transcendental Occult Magic. This work is an anthology of all the source materials used to create today's updated spellbooks and reference journals.

Author : Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9783748768180

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Three Books Of Occult Philosophy+Of Magical Ceremonies+Of Geomancy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa Pdf

There are five books by Henry Cornelius Agrippa - 1.Three Books Of Occult Philosophy 2.Of Magical Ceremonies 3.Of Geomancy on occultism and magical practices.

Author : C. Pierce Salguero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231546072

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A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine by C. Pierce Salguero Pdf

Medicine, health, and healing have been central to Buddhism since its origins. Long before the global popularity of mindfulness and meditation, Buddhism provided cultures around the world with conceptual tools to understand illness as well as a range of therapies and interventions for care of the sick. Today, Buddhist traditions, healers, and institutions continue to exert a tangible influence on medical care in societies both inside and outside Asia, including in the areas of mental health, biomedicine, and even in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the global history of the relationship between Buddhism and medicine remains largely untold. This book is a wide-ranging and accessible account of the interplay between Buddhism and medicine over the past two and a half millennia. C. Pierce Salguero traces the intertwining threads linking ideas, practices, and texts from many different times and places. He shows that Buddhism has played a crucial role in cross-cultural medical exchange globally and that Buddhist knowledge formed the nucleus for many types of traditional practices that still thrive today throughout Asia. Although Buddhist medicine has always been embedded in local contexts and differs markedly across cultures, Salguero identifies key patterns that have persisted throughout this long history. This book will be informative and invaluable for scholars, students, and practitioners of both Buddhism and complementary and alternative medicine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712343707

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Values Unfolding 6' 2006 Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231544085

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Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" by Steven Heine Pdf

The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist collections, composed during a period of remarkable religious diversity and experimentation. The text is complex and compelling, famed for its eloquent yet perplexing manner of expressing the core precepts of Zen teachings and practice. This book is a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise. Steven Heine explores the religious and cultural context in which the Treasury was composed and provides a detailed study of the various versions of the medieval text that have been compiled over the centuries. He includes nuanced readings of Dōgen’s use of inventive rhetorical flourishes and the range of East Asian Buddhist textual and cultural influences that shaped the work. Heine explicates the philosophical implications of Dōgen’s views on contemplative experience and attaining and sustaining enlightenment, showing the depth of his distinctive understanding of spiritual awakening. Readings of Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye will give students and other readers a full understanding of this fundamental work of world religious literature.

Author : ROBY JOSE CIJU
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781482820744

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The Art of Perfect Living by ROBY JOSE CIJU Pdf

'The Art of Perfect Living' is an inspirational, self help book written in a simple language so that even a layman can absorb the wisdom presented in it. This book presents the concept of ' the 7 Personal Powers' which is actually a remodelling of the Scriptural wisdom behind personal perfection. In this book you will learn how to define your lifes purpose and unleash the potential of your mind and spirit, and in doing so, to achieve your life purpose. As you go through the book, you rediscover your personal powers of perfection that are latent within you and get renewed in spirit, mind and body.

Author : Geeta S. Iyengar
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789387997844

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Yoga—A Gem For Women (Third thoroughly revised edition, 2019), Reprint 2022 by Geeta S. Iyengar Pdf

YOGA is considered uniquely instrumental in the search for self realisation, and through it the realisation of God. The author, who has mastered the subtle techniques of this art, has presented it in book form, showing a variety of āsanas known for their physical and curative values, Prānāyāma with its Bandhas and Dhyāna or meditation. The āsanas in the book are divided into various sections dealing with simple standing positions, forward bends, lateral movements backward extensions of the spine, correct breathing techniques during the performance of the āsanas and also the effects of the āsanas on the body, nerves and mind. The author has included simple steps for advancing from a purely physical plane to a higher level of consciousness. Almost all the illustrations in the book are her own.

Author : Pathikonda Viswambara Nath
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 8120815858

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Tat Tvam Asi by Pathikonda Viswambara Nath Pdf

The Bhagavad Gita, a great poem attributed to Rsi Vedavyasa, expounds Vedanta philosophy in the dynamic setting of a battlefield where Lord Krsna reveals the teaching of Vedanta to the warrior prince Arjuna. The essence of the Gita is to make one realise tat tvam asi. We are really the atman or Divinity with an outer covering of the physical body inside which is subtle body consisting of the mind and the intellect. Unfortunately we get attached to the body and develop the ego which is the 'I' or 'My' -ness in us. It makes us believe that our physical body is real. We forget that we are living because of the life-force inside us. The life-force is the spiritual energy and is known commonly as 'soul' or Atman. Tat Tvam Asi is a 'great Upanisadic sentence' exhorting us to realise our own divine identity. To realise one's own divine status, to realise the same divine status in all forms manifest in the universe is to realise the oneness of all beings. Contents (Vol. 1) Forword, Message from Swami Hari Har Ji, Note & Acknowledgements from the Author, Introduction, Arjuna-Visada-Yoga, Samkhya-Yoga, Karma-Yoga, Jnana-Yoga, Karma-Samnyasa-yoga, Atmasamyama-Yoga, Jnana-Vijnana-Yoga, Rajavidya-Rajaguhya-Yoga, Vibhuti-Yoga. (Vol. 2) Visvarupa-Darsana-Yoga, Bhakti-Yoga, Ksetra-Ksetrajna-Yoga, Gunatraya-Vibhaga-Yoga, Purusottama-Prapti-Yoga, Daivasura-Sampad-Vibhaga-Yoga, Sraddhatraya-Vibhaga-Yoga, Moksa-Samnyasa-Yoga.

Author : Malcolm Voyce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317133780

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Foucault, Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules by Malcolm Voyce Pdf

This book suggests that previous critiques of the rules of Buddhist monks (Vinaya) may now be reconsidered in order to deal with some of the assumptions concerning the legal nature of these rules and to provide a focus on how Vinaya texts may have actually operated in practice. Malcolm Voyce utilizes the work of Foucault and his notions of 'power' and 'subjectivity' in three ways. First, he examines The Buddha's role as a lawmaker to show how Buddhist texts were a form of lawmaking that had a diffused and lateral conception of authority. While lawmakers in some religious groups may be seen as authoritative, in the sense that leaders or founders were coercive or charismatic, the Buddhist concept of authority allows for a degree of freedom for the individual to shape or form themselves. Second, he shows that the confession ritual acted as a disciplinary measure to develop a unique sense of collective governance based on self regulation, self-governance and self-discipline. Third, he argues that while the Vinaya has been seen by some as a code or form of regulation that required obedience, the Vinaya had a double nature in that its rules could be transgressed and that offenders could be dealt with appropriately in particular situations. Voyce shows that the Vinaya was not an independent legal system, but that it was dependent on the Dharmaśāstra for some of its jurisprudential needs, and that it was not a form of customary law in the strict sense, but a wider system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmaśāstra principles and precepts.