Stepping Out Of Self Deception

Author : Rodney Smith
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834822962

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Stepping Out of Self-Deception by Rodney Smith Pdf

Anatta is the Buddhist teaching on the nonexistence of a permanent, independent self. It’s a notoriously puzzling and elusive concept, usually leading to such questions as, "If I don’t have a self, who’s reading this sentence?" It’s not that there’s no self there, says Rodney Smith. It’s just that the self that is reading this sentence is a configuration of elements that at one time did not exist and which at some point in the future will disperse. Even in its present existence, it’s more a temporary arrangement of components rather than something solid. Anatta is a truth the Buddha considered to be absolutely essential to his teaching. Smith shows that understanding this truth can change the way you relate to the world, and that the perspective of selflessness is critically important for anyone involved in spiritual practice. Seeing it can be the key to getting past the idea that spirituality has something to do with self-improvement, and to accessing the joy of deep insight into reality.

Author : The Arbinger Institute
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781576755020

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Leadership and Self-deception by The Arbinger Institute Pdf

Explains why self-deception is at the heart of many leadership problems, identifying destructive patterns that undermine the successes of potentially excellent professionals while revealing how to improve teamwork, communication, and motivation. Reprint.

Author : Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108423724

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Political Self-Deception by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti Pdf

Explores self-deception and its consequences for political decision-making.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9781427087607

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The Anatomy of Peace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abraham J Twerski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592858064

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Addictive Thinking by Abraham J Twerski Pdf

The unpredictability and anxiety associated with the coronavirus pandemic can cloud and confuse everybody's thinking. Excuses, self-deception and addictive logic can harm your recovery and relationships. Don't let it. Author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individuals and offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding recovery. Abnormal thinking in addiction was originally recognized by members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who coined the term "stinking thinking." Addictive thinking often appears rational superficially, hence addicts as well as their family members are easily seduced by the attendant--and erroneous--reasoning process it can foster. In Addictive Thinking, author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individual. This timely revision of the original classic includes updated information and research on depression and affective disorders, the relationship between addictive thinking and relapse, and the origins of addictive thought. Ultimately, Addictive Thinking offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding life recovery.

Author : Daniel Goleman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780684831077

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Vital Lies, Simple Truths by Daniel Goleman Pdf

A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened by intriguing case histories and experiments.

Author : Rodney Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780861711406

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Lessons from the Dying by Rodney Smith Pdf

In everyday language, "Smith offers us important teachings and reflections for dealing with death and embracing life" (Jack Kornfield, author of "A Path with Heart").

Author : Rodney Smith
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611805024

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Touching the Infinite by Rodney Smith Pdf

An Insight Meditation teacher explores the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, an essential teaching that transcends all Buddhist traditions and provides a path to true liberation Awakening manifests through the application of mindfulness to four areas: body, feelings, mind, and dharmas. Buddhists of all the traditions share this foundational principle, which is defined in the Satipatthana Sutta and has been expounded upon since the time of the Buddha himself. In Touching the Infinite, Rodney Smith guides readers through the Four Foundations to provide a solid understanding of the teaching. He goes on to challenge us to hold this teaching up against our own experience—and in doing so, to discover the inherent interconnection of all Four Foundations. They are a sequential path that reveal the true nature of things, leading the practitioner to the perception of the formless and then back to daily life infused with that great freedom. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness thus serve as a road map for any genuine spiritual path.

Author : Robert Trivers
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465028054

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The Folly of Fools by Robert Trivers Pdf

Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.

Author : , The Arbinger Institute
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523087310

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The Outward Mindset by , The Arbinger Institute Pdf

The new edition of an international bestseller helps individuals and organizations shift to a new mindset that will improve performance, spark collaboration, accelerate innovation, and make your life and the lives of everyone around you better. Without even being aware of it, many of us operate from an inward mindset, a single-minded focus on our own goals and objectives. This book points out the many ways, some quite subtle and deceptive, that this mindset invites tension and conflict. But incredible things happen when people switch to an outward mindset. They intuitively understand what coworkers, colleagues, family, and friends need to be successful and happy. Their organizations thrive, and astonishingly, by focusing on others they become happier and more successful themselves! This new mindset brings about deep and far-reaching changes. The Outward Mindset presents compelling true stories to illustrate the gaps that individuals and organizations typically experience between their actual inward mindsets and their needed outward mindsets. And it provides simple yet profound guidance and tools to help bridge this mindset gap. This new edition includes a new preface, updated case studies, and new material covering Arbinger's latest research on mindsets. In the long run, changing negative behavior without changing one's mindset doesn't last—the old behaviors always reassert themselves. But changing the mindset that causes the behavior changes everything.

Author : William Kronick
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781456762124

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The Art of Self-Deception by William Kronick Pdf

Before turning to novel-writing, William Kronick enjoyed a long career as both a documentary and theatrical filmmaker. As writer-director, his highly acclaimed Network Specials ranged from the National Geographic's Alaska! to six Plimpton! entertainments to Mysteries of the Great Pyramid. In the feature arena, he directed the comedy, The 500 Pound Jerk, and the Second Unit on such major productions as King Kong (1976), Flash Gordon and others. His first novel, The Cry of Sirens (2004) was followed by Cooley Wyatt, then N. Y. / L. A. All three explore, in the framework of morality tales, the dynamics of authentic artistic talent, celebrity and commerce in our modern culture. Each one centers on a violent act involving a physical or moral crime committed by the protagonist; both he and the reader must decide what represents appropriate justice. His fourth novel, All Stars Die, tells of two lovers for whom morality is not the issue, but their dark secrets are. The Art of Self-Deception returns to the themes of Mr. Kronick's first three novels.

Author : Shankar Vedantam,Bill Mesler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393652215

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Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by Shankar Vedantam,Bill Mesler Pdf

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being. The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human.

Author : C. Terry Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : Emotions (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0989793508

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Oxford Papers by C. Terry Warner Pdf

"Educated in philosophy at Yale, Dr. C. Terry Warner has devoted a lifetime to the study of self-deception. In a steady stream of lectures, papers, and seminars over nearly three decades, Dr. Warner has presented the results of his academic inquiry into the foundations of human behavior to both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences. The papers that make up this collection, among others, were all prepared as part of Warner's work at Oxford--either presented in lectures there, prepared for presentation or publication there, or prepared in response to colleagues there--and have been assembled for the use of the serious student of Arbinger's rich and robust philosophical underpinnings"--

Author : Rodney Smith
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611801262

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Awakening by Rodney Smith Pdf

An amazingly succinct and accessible answer to the question “What is enlightenment?”—from one of America's most prominent teachers of Insight Meditation Former Buddhist monk and highly regarded Insight Meditation teacher Rodney Smith describes the process of enlightenment in a way anyone can understand—demonstrating in clear language why we operate with the illusion of separation, how we can move out of it to the realization of emptiness and no-self, and how we can live from that state of awakening. He provides brief, powerful exercises that enable us to challenge the reality of our thoughts in order to free ourselves from the illusion they keep us bound to—all the while steering us away from the temptation to regard spiritual practice as a process of self-improvement or a goal to be obtained. “With systematic precision, and with subtle wisdom born of a lifetime of practice, Rodney Smith uses science, psychology, and traditional Buddhism to explain the unexplainable: the how and why of authentic spiritual awakening . . . an original work by a contemporary spiritual master at the height of his powers.” —Norman Fischer, author of Training in Compassion

Author : Gregg A. Ten Elshof
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467439701

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I Told Me So by Gregg A. Ten Elshof Pdf

Think you’ve ever deceived yourself? Then this book is for you. Think you’ve never deceived yourself? Then this book is really for you.