Fingers Pointing To The Moon

Author : Wei Wu Wei
Publisher : Sentient+ORM
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591812029

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Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon by Wei Wu Wei Pdf

Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon was the first of a series of extraordinary spiritual manifestos written by the anonymous Wei Wu Wei. Like a master instructing every reader who has the dedication to read this book, the author maintains direct and unrelenting perspective, giving Fingers Pointing to the Moon its status as one of Zen Buddhism's essential classics. The depth of understanding evinced by Wei Wu Wei places him with Paul Reps, Alan Watts, and Philip Kapleau as one of the earliest and most profound interpreters of Zen.

Author : Osho
Publisher : Fivestar
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Finger Pointing to the Moon by Osho Pdf

One who is not ready to stake his very life will never be able to know the hidden mysteries of life. Those secrets are not available cheaply. Knowledge is available very cheaply; knowledge is available from books, from scriptures, in education, with the teachers. Knowledge is available almost for free; you do not have to pay anything for it. In religion you have to pay heavily. It is not right even to say ”heavily” because only when someone stakes everything do the doors to that life open. The doors to that life open only for those who put this life at stake. To put this life at stake is the only key to the door of that life. But knowledge is very cheap, so the mind chooses the easier and the cheaper way. We learn things – words, doctrines – and think that we know. Such knowledge only enhances ignorance.

Author : Joan D. Chittister
Publisher : Sheed & Ward
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580512251

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Called to Question by Joan D. Chittister Pdf

This unique and intensely personal memoir is about spirituality, not about religion,and it is alive with the raw energy of a journal and polisjed with the skill of the master storyteller.

Author : Trevor Leggett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001432076

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Fingers and Moons by Trevor Leggett Pdf

The well-known Zen Buddhist phrase 'the finger pointing at the moon' refers to the means and the end, and the possibility of mistaking one for the other. Trevor Leggett says, 'the forms are the methods and they are very important as pointing fingers, but if we forget what they are for and they become, so to speak, the goal in their own right, then our progress is liable to stop. And if it stops, it retrogresses.' On the other hand there are those who say 'with considerable pride, "I don't want fingers or methods. I want to see the moon directly, directly . . . to see the moon directly . . . no methods or pointing." But in fact they don't see it! It's easy to say.'With many varied analogies, stories and incidents, Trevor Leggett points to the truth behind words, behind explanations and methods. Indeed, the book itself is like 'a finger pointing at the moon'.

Author : Jane English
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy, Asian
ISBN : 0934747229

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Fingers Pointing to the Moon by Jane English Pdf

A Zen story speaks of not mistaking a finger that points to the Moon for the Moon itself--a topic explored in photos, words, and paintings by the author. 50 photos, 30 in color. Line drawings.

Author : Carolyn Curtis
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1841486116

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I Took the Moon for a Walk by Carolyn Curtis Pdf

A boy and the moon share a walk through his neighborhood.

Author : Wei Wu Wei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religious life
ISBN : 0710309740

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Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon by Wei Wu Wei Pdf

Author : Max Ritvo
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571319579

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Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo Pdf

Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss. And yet they are also erotically, electrically attuned to possibility and desire, to everything living / that won t come with me / into this sunny afternoon. Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity, but he is also a poet of life and of lovea cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures. Ritvo writes to his wife, ex-lovers, therapists, fathers, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips, Indian mythology, wool hats. But in these poemsfrom the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of deathit s Ritvo s vulnerable, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one of our finest young poets. "

Author : Margaret Heffernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476784908

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Beyond Measure by Margaret Heffernan Pdf

Foundational introduction to the concept that organizations create major impacts by making small changes.

Author : Rodney Bruce Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 1599244810

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Fingers Pointing at the Moon by Rodney Bruce Farmer Pdf

Author : Gudo Nishijima,Jeffrey Bailey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 143031950X

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To Meet the Real Dragon by Gudo Nishijima,Jeffrey Bailey Pdf

Buddhist masters of the past have explained the relationship between Buddhist theory and the Truth by way of a simple metaphor. The Truth, they say, is like the distant moon. Ideas, theories, and explanations are merely fingers pointing at that far-away goal. They are not, and can never be, the moon itself. So this book is one such finger, a finger pointing at the moon, but the moon itself can be touched by you alone... The Buddhism which emerges from To Meet the Real Dragon is not a Buddhism for gods or supermen. It is Buddhism for real people: ordinary human beings with ordinary human problems. It is humanistic Zen--Zen for human beings. Here are a few of the topics covered by this very readable book: What is Religion, Meeting a True Master, Master Dogen, Science and Buddhism, Idealism and Materialism, Gautama Buddha, The Four Noble Truths, The Transmission of the Truth, Cause and Effect, Not Doing Wrong, Action: The Centre of Buddhism, Zazen, The Four Philosophies.

Author : Thanhha Lai
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780702251177

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Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai Pdf

Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.

Author : Ailsa Keppie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1989833098

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By the Light of the Crescent Moon by Ailsa Keppie Pdf

When Ailsa Keppie puts on the hijab for the first time, it solidifies her commitment to her new, chosen religion. She gives up the lights and action of the circus for the position of wife and mother, learns Arabic, and moves to Morocco. A new mother living in a strange country, under foreign rules, Ailsa experiences isolation and racism, as well as romance and sisterhood, in her quest to fit in with her new community. She welcomes another wife into her marriage hoping to experience the peace and joy of a pious life. As the story progresses, cracks appear in her relationships. Things are not as blissful as Ailsa would have others believe. We are drawn into her inner struggle, often seeing the folly of her choices, but championing her to prevail. Torn between her inner voices of duty, shame, longing, and hope, she is determined to find the light that will get her through darkening times. Ailsa's story is easily recognizable by women who have dimmed their light in order to survive. For any woman who has faced similar constraints of marriage, religion, or culture, Ailsa's story will help bring clarity and a sense of knowing she is not alone.

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Lightyear Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cousins
ISBN : 0899685323

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Pdf

Merricat Blackwood protects her sister, Constance, from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers after murders occur on the family estate.

Author : Waubgeshig Rice
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773052441

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Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Pdf

2023 Canada Reads Longlist Selection National Bestseller Winner of the 2019 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Shortlisted for the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Shortlisted for the 2019/20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award 2020 Burlington Library Selection; 2020 Hamilton Reads One Book One Community Selection; 2020 Region of Waterloo One Book One Community Selection; 2019 Ontario Library Association Ontario Together We Read Program Selection; 2019 Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads; 2019 Amnesty International Book Club Pick January 2020 Reddit r/bookclub pick of the month “This slow-burning thriller is also a powerful story of survival and will leave readers breathless.” — Publishers Weekly “Rice seamlessly injects Anishinaabe language into the dialogue and creates a beautiful rendering of the natural world … This title will appeal to fans of literary science-fiction akin to Cormac McCarthy as well as to readers looking for a fresh voice in indigenous fiction.” — Booklist A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.