Kokoro Cultivating A Gentle Heart

Author : Thomas Jacob
Publisher : Thomas Jacob
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Kokoro: Cultivating a Gentle Heart by Thomas Jacob Pdf

In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to lose sight of our inner peace and compassion. Kokoro: Cultivating a Gentle Heart offers a transformative journey inspired by the profound Japanese concept of "kokoro," encompassing both the mind and the heart. This insightful book delves into the essence of kokoro, guiding you to develop a gentle heart and cultivate inner peace. Here's what you'll discover: Understanding Kokoro: Explore the multifaceted nature of kokoro and its significance in Japanese culture. Developing Compassion: Learn practices to cultivate empathy, kindness, and understanding towards yourself and others. Building Inner Strength: Discover how gentleness isn't weakness, but a source of resilience and a path to inner strength. Finding Mindfulness: Integrate mindfulness practices into your daily life to create greater self-awareness and emotional balance. Living with Simplicity: Explore the Japanese concept of "wabi-sabi" and its connection to fostering inner peace through appreciating the simple beauty in life. Kokoro: Cultivating a Gentle Heart is more than just a book; it's a practical guide for transforming your life. You'll find: Engaging Narratives: Learn from inspiring stories and anecdotes that illuminate the power of a gentle heart. Guided Meditations: Utilize calming meditations to cultivate inner peace and emotional balance. Journaling Prompts: Explore your inner world, reflect on your journey, and deepen your self-understanding. Practical Exercises: Engage in activities designed to cultivate compassion, kindness, and acceptance. Embrace the transformative power of kokoro. With Kokoro: Cultivating a Gentle Heart, embark on a journey towards a more peaceful, compassionate, and fulfilling life. Discover the strength that lies within gentleness and open yourself to a world filled with deeper connections and greater well-being.

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Center for Culture & Global Studies
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788194769910

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Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn Pdf

Edited by: Prof. Ram P Dwivedi

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425047054

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Kokoro by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Folklore
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050676907

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Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn Pdf

Author : Beth Kempton
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0349425582

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Kokoro by Beth Kempton Pdf

kokoro [n.] intelligent heart, feeling mind One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything. Join Japanologist Beth Kempton on a pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life's biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and beauty in the darkness? How do we let go of the past and stop worrying about the future? What can an awareness of impermanence teach us about living well? Together you will journey to the deep north of Japan, hike ancient forests, watch the moon rise over mountains of myth and encounter a host of wise teachers along the way - Noh actors, chefs, taxi drivers, coffee shop owners, poets, philosophers and the spirits that inhabit the land. You will contemplate the true nature of time at one of the world's strictest Zen temples and nothing will be quite the same again. This book is an invitation to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world. It all begins with the kokoro, a profound Japanese term which represents the intelligent heart, the feeling mind and the embodied spirit of every human being. To explore the kokoro is to explore the very essence of what it means to be human in this tough yet devastatingly beautiful world. When you learn to live guided by the light in your kokoro, everything changes, and anything is possible.

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425048075

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Kokoro EasyRead Comfort Edition by Natsume Soseki Pdf

"Kokoro" is one of the classics of Japanese literature. Soseki introduces readers to the Japanese modern culture and its effect on the young generation of that time. Author narrates the events, when in 1857 Western imperialism invaded Japan. In order to protect Japan and it's culture, the Japanese Emporer Meiji planned and ordered an industrial revolution in the country. Must Read!

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664646019

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Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn Pdf

First appeared in 1896, "Kokoro: Hints and Echos of Japanese Inner Life" by Lafcadio Hearn was issued on raising tide of the European interest to the eastern philosophies in the late Victorian era. The book is a collection of stories, anecdotes, essays, and journal entries that reflect Japan's inner spiritual life through the people that make Japan the unique place.

Author : Johnathan Flowers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781793626714

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Mono No Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism by Johnathan Flowers Pdf

Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism argues that gender is best understood as a felt sense of the organization of the human body. Through Japanese aesthetics and American pragmatism, this book argues that re-understanding gender as an affect, or a feeling, can expand the ways that gender is understood, enacted, and theorized in experience.

Author : Alberto Corsin Jimenez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351894852

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The Anthropology of Organisations by Alberto Corsin Jimenez Pdf

The Anthropology of Organisations offers a critical overview of the work that for over sixty years anthropologists have been carrying out in and on organisations and of the contribution that this work has made to social theory at large. Moving beyond earlier preoccupations with ’culture’ and ’relationality’, the volume brings together a selection of classic and contemporary articles that cast new light on the relevance of ethnography for organisational and social theory. It offers an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in the politics behind the institutionalisation of social life.

Author : Dorinne K. Kondo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226098159

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Crafting Selves by Dorinne K. Kondo Pdf

"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature."—Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist "Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo shows that inequalities are not simply oppressive-they are meaningful ways to establish identities."—Nancy Rosenberger, Journal of Asian Studies

Author : Robert E. Carter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791479285

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The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation by Robert E. Carter Pdf

It is through the practice of the arts, and not through rules or theory that moral and spiritual values are taught in Japan. Author Robert E. Carter examines five arts (or "ways" in Japan): the martial art of aikido, Zen landscape gardening, the Way of Tea, the Way of Flowers, and pottery making. Each art is more than a mere craft, for each takes as its goal not just the teaching of ethics but the formation of the ethical individual. Transformation is the result of diligent practice and each art recognizes the importance of the body. Training the mind as well as the body results in important insights, habits, and attitudes that involve the whole person, both body and mind. This fascinating book features the author's interviews with masters of the arts in Japan and his own experiences with the arts, along with background on the arts and ethics from Japanese philosophy and religion. Ultimately, the Japanese arts emerge as a deep cultural repository of ideal attitudes and behavior, which lead to enlightenment itself.

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Folklore
ISBN : PSU:000061417779

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Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Life by Lafcadio Hearn Pdf

Author : Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781523094578

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From Mindfulness to Heartfulness by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Pdf

“A rare gem . . . filled with valuable and authentic teachings about practical and spiritual paths toward balance and understanding.” —Richard Katz, PhD, author of Indigenous Healing Psychology Millions have found mindfulness to be a powerful practice for reducing stress, enhancing attention, and instilling tranquility. But it can offer so much more—it can transform you, make you more fully awake, alive, and aware of your connection to all beings. In Japanese, the character that best expresses mindfulness, 念, consists of two parts—the top part, 今, meaning “now,” and the bottom part, 心, meaning “heart.” Using stories from his own life as the son of an Irish father and a Japanese mother, a professor in Japan and America, a psychotherapist, a father, and a husband, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu describes eight “heartfulness” principles that help us realize that the deepest expression of an enlightened mind is found in our relation to others. “He shows us through stories and practices how to expand our contemplative lives from being self-focused to being inclusive, connected, compassionate, and responsible . . . Each story is a jewel, opening the heart. He connects heartfulness to social justice, leadership, and education and offers simple, direct instructions for seven heartful practices.” —Mirabai Bush, author of Walking Each Other Home (with Ram Dass) “Resonant with Stephen’s kindness, heartfulness, and wisdom and filled with excellent exercises and practical guides, this lovely volume will be a friend and guide to all those intent on creating and sustaining thriving lives, workplaces, relationships, and communities.” —Dan Barbezat, Professor of Economics, Amherst College

Author : Tony Langlois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351556156

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Non-Western Popular Music by Tony Langlois Pdf

This collection provides readers with a diverse and contemporary overview of research in the field. Drawing upon scholarly writing from a range of disciplines and approaches, it provides case studies from a wide range of 'non Western' musical contexts. In so doing the volume attends to the central themes that have emerged in this area of popular music studies; cultural politics, identity and the role of technology. This collection does not seek to establish a new theoretical paradigm, but being primarily aimed at researchers and students, offers as comprehensive a view of the research that has been carried out over the last few decades as possible, given the global scope of the subject. Inevitably, the experience of globalisation itself runs through many of the contributions, not only because musicians find themselves part of an immense flow of international culture, technology and finance, but also because Western scholarship can also be considered an aspect of such a flow. The articles selected for the volume take different disciplinary approaches; many are close ethnographic descriptions of musical practices whilst others take a more historical view of a musical 'scene' or even a single musician. Some essays consider the effects of emerging technologies upon the production, dissemination and consumption of music, whilst the political context is central to other authors. The collection as a whole serves as a resource for those who wish to be better acquainted with the diversity of research that has been carried out into non-western pop, whilst also highlighting the broader themes that have, so far, shaped academic approaches to the subject.

Author : Jack Kornfield
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307573735

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A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield Pdf

“This important guidebook shows in detail and with great humor and insight the way to practice the Buddha’s universal teachings here in the West. Jack Kornfield is a wonderful storyteller and a great teacher.”—Thich Nhat Hanh “Jack is helping to pave the path for American Buddhism, bringing essential basics into our crazy modern lives. And the language he uses is as simple and as lovely as our breath.”—Natalie Goldberg Perhaps the most important book yet written on meditation, the process of inner transformation, and the integration of spiritual practice into our American way of life, A Path with Heart brings alive one by one the challenges of spiritual living in the modern world. Written by a teacher, psychologist, and meditation master of international renown, this warm, inspiring, and expert book touches on a wide range of essential issues including many rarely addressed in spiritual books. From compassion, addiction, and psychological and emotional healing, to dealing with problems involving relationships and sexuality, to the creation of a Zen-like simplicity and balance in all facets of life, it speaks to the concerns of many modern spiritual seekers, both those beginning on the path and those with years of experience. A Path with Heart is filled with practical techniques, guided meditations, stories, koans, and other gems of wisdom that can help ease your journey through the world. The author’s own profound—and sometimes humorous—experiences and gentle assistance will skillfully guide you through the obstacles and trials of spiritual and contemporary life to bring a clarity of perception and a sense of the sacred into your everyday experience. Reading this book will touch your heart and remind you of the promises inherent in meditation and in a life of the spirit: the blossoming of inner peace, wholeness, and understanding, and the achievement of a happiness that is not dependent on external conditions. Sure to be a classic, A Path with Heart shows us how we can bring our spirituality to flower every day of our lives. It is a wise and gentle guidebook for an odyssey into the soul that enables us to achieve a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.