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Author : Thomas E. Wood
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120812395
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Author : Jeffrey Hopkins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520239081
"This is a scholarly tour de force, the likes of which are rarely seen in the academy."—José Ignacio Cabezón, Illif School of Theology "An exceptionally clear and detailed account of a central debate in Tibetan Buddhist scholastic philosophy."—Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago "This is without question the finest and most complete discussion of the renowned Mind-Only school and its Tibetan context."—Anne C. Klein, author of Knowledge & Liberation, Path to the Middle "An important new contribution to our understanding of the development of Buddhist philosophical thought in Tibet."—Matthew T. Kapstein, author of The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory
Author : William S. Waldron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614297260
Through engaging, contemporary examples, Making Sense of Mind Only reveals the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism as a coherent system of ideas and practices for the path to liberation, contextualizing its key texts and rendering them accessible and relevant. The Yogacara, or Yoga Practice, school is one of the two schools of Mahayana Buddhism that developed in the early centuries of the common era. Though it arose in India, Mahayana Buddhism now flourishes in China, Tibet, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. While the other major Mahayana tradition, the Madhyamaka (Middle Way), focuses on the concept of emptiness—that all phenomena lack an intrinsic essence—the Yogacara school focuses on the cognitive processes whereby we impute such essences. Through everyday examples and analogues in cognitive science, author William Waldron makes Yogacara’s core teachings—on the three turnings of the Dharma wheel, the three natures, the storehouse consciousness, and mere perception—accessible to a broad audience. In contrast to the common characterization of Yogacara as philosophical idealism, Waldron presents Yogacara Buddhism on its own terms, as a coherent system of ideas and practices, with dependent arising its guiding principle. The first half of Making Sense of Mind Only explores the historical context for Yogacara’s development. Waldron examines early Buddhist texts that show how our affective and cognitive processes shape the way objects and worlds appear to us, and how we erroneously grasp onto them as essentially real—perpetuating the habits that bind us to samsara. He then analyzes the early Madhyamaka critique of essences. This context sets the stage for the book’s second half, an examination of how Yogacara texts such as the Samdhinirmocana Sutra and Asanga’s Stages of Yogic Practice (Yogacarabhumi) build upon these earlier ideas by arguing that our constructive processes also occur unconsciously. Not only do we collectively, yet mostly unknowingly, construct shared realities or cultures, our shared worlds are also mediated through the storehouse consciousness (alayavijñana) functioning as a cultural unconscious. Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses argues that we can learn to recognize such objects and worlds as “mere perceptions” (vijñaptimatra) and thereby abandon our enchantment with the products of our own cognitive processes. Finally, Maitreya’s Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Ultimate Nature (Dharmadharmatavibhaga) elegantly lays out the Mahayana path to this transformation. In Waldron’s hands, Yogacara is no mere view but a practical system of transformation. His presentation of its key texts and ideas illuminates how religion can remain urgent and vital in our scientific and pluralistic age.
Author : Gardner Fiona
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718844745
In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is the only mind worth having and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. Shedemonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus' command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path towards spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experienceto organised innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.
Author : Michael Cupo
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1452558558
MICHAEL CUPO thought he had everything hed always wanted: a beautiful wife, two wonderful children, a nice house, and a great job. By all outward appearances, hed made it. He should have been one very happy person. But Michael felt he was not good enough, ever since he was a child, and as an adult, he found himself addicted to drugs, alcohol, and gamblingand his behavior was killing him and harming those he loved. In this inspirational book, Michael shares the story of his journey of inner discoverieswith all its false starts, roadblocks, relapsing, and ultimately, an overwhelmingly uplifting state of surrender, acceptance, grace, and personal peace. Equal parts memoir and easy-to-follow guide for personal growth, Its Monday Only in Your Mind offers a startling, fresh interpretation of the Twelve Steps used by many programs. Here is a valuable toolkit for anyone interested in enhancing their spiritual life, repairing their relationships, finding calm, and attaining an inner sense of well-being. Included also are dozens of Michael Cupos original Daily Messages, which he shares via text message and e-mail with his ever-expanding circle of support, a growing community of fellow seekers around the world. Its Monday Only in Your Mind explores lifes deepest questions (as well as recognizable real-life issues) facing everyone, whether you want to enhance your spiritual life or not. It holds the vital power to transform all of our lives each day in the most profound of ways.
Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316082792
A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Author : Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027279545
In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCR:31210009889021
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Sermons, American
ISBN : CUB:U183018603676
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : CHI:55226681
Author : Berkeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00089254
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015039449544
Author : Brooklyn Ethical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Evolution
ISBN : UOM:39015065152541
Author : Greg Lukianoff,Jonathan Haidt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780735224902
Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths are incompatible with basic psychological principles, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. They interfere with healthy development. Anyone who embraces these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—is less likely to become an autonomous adult able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to produce these untruths. They situate the conflicts on campus in the context of America’s rapidly rising political polarization, including a rise in hate crimes and off-campus provocation. They explore changes in childhood including the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.