The Zen Commandments

Author : Dean Sluyter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101161937

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The Zen Commandments by Dean Sluyter Pdf

The Ten Commandments tell us how to behave, but they don't say much about the inner awareness from which outer behavior springs. Do the right thing, of course-- but better yet, find your inner light and doing the right thing becomes as natural as breathing. THE ZEN COMMANDMENTS offers ten powerful nudges toward that light. Drawing on sources from Zen stories and the Bible to jazz and rock 'n' roll, from American movies to Tibetan meditative techniques, Dean Sluyter steers clear of dogma and emphasizes what works-- a sort of spiritual street smarts. He shows that the state of boundless freedom and happiness isn't something distant or exotic, but is right here, while you're stuck in traffic or taking out the trash. And revisiting the Ten Commandments, he shows how on a deeper level they offer some surprising enlightenment wisdom of their own. “The book is extremely well written and joyously entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly “With sparkling clarity and wit, Sluyter's ten suggestions lay out the practical essentials of the path. My suggestion is: listen to this guy.” —Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within “Dean Sluyter clearly presents simple but profound ways to live one's life consciously and skillfully. He teaches that the source of universal truth not only rests in the heart of every one of us, but is the essence of what ultimately brings us true happiness and freedom. This is a wonderful book with rich wisdom and deep insight.” —Rabbi David Cooper, author of God Is a Verb “No matter what your religion (or lack of it), this book shows how to live the kind of life people ache for. It turns out to be pretty simple.” —Jane Cavolina, co-author of Growing Up Catholic

Author : Dean Sluyter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322695962

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Zen Commandments by Dean Sluyter Pdf

Author : Henry G. Brinton,Vikram Khanna
Publisher : CSS Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780788024634

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Ten Commandments of Faith and Fitness by Henry G. Brinton,Vikram Khanna Pdf

Building on the Ten Commandments that guide our spiritual lives, Henry Brinton and Vikram Khanna have devised Ten Commandments of Faith and Fitness, a scientifically sound resource that teaches how to properly incorporate physical activity into daily life and how to eat better, while building faith in the process.

Author : Kissiah Young, MSW
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595415618

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The Truth Exposed by Kissiah Young, MSW Pdf

The Truth Exposed takes you along a tender journey of pain rooted in childhood abuse, religious conflict, and sexuality. This journey begins with the impact of a domineering, controlling, and abusive mother, a life alone at eighteen-battling sexuality and Christianity, and the sudden death of the author's father, to self-acceptance and spiritual wholeness. The Truth Exposed reveals the infinite possibilities present even when met with complete chaos, uncertainty, and aloneness. It offers profound insight and deep healing. The Truth Exposed is more than a book; it is a profound experience.

Author : Osho
Publisher : Fivestar
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself by Osho Pdf

It is time, ripe time for a Zen manifesto. The Western intelligentsia have become acquainted with Zen, have also fallen in love with Zen, but they are still trying to approach Zen from the mind. They have not yet come to the understanding that Zen has nothing to do with mind. Its tremendous job is to get you out of the prison of mind. It is not an intellectual philosophy; it is not a philosophy at all. Nor is it a religion, because it has no fictions and no lies, no consolations. It is a lion’s roar. And the greatest thing that Zen has brought into the world is freedom from oneself. All the religions have been talking about dropping your ego – but it is a very weird phenomenon: they want you to drop your ego, and the ego is just a shadow of God. God is the ego of the universe, and the ego is your personality. Just as God is the very center of existence according to religions, your ego is the center of your mind, of your personality. They have all been talking about dropping the ego, but it cannot be dropped unless God is dropped. You cannot drop a shadow or a reflection unless the source of its manifestation is destroyed.

Author : Conrad P. Pritscher
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433108704

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Einstein & Zen by Conrad P. Pritscher Pdf

This book makes a strong case for free schooling, comparing the mind of Albert Einstein - who said much - to Zen conscious practice, which says little but encompasses everything. Examining the work of brain researchers, neuroscientists, physicists, and other scholars to illuminate the commonalities between Einstein's thought and the Zen practice of paying attention to one's present experience, the book reveals their many similarities, showing the development of self-direction as a key to fostering compassionate consideration of others and to harmonious, semi-effortless learning and living. Examples demonstrate that students who choose to study what is interesting, remarkable, and important for them tend to become more like Einstein than students with the rigid school curricula; students who are free to learn often demonstrate empathy, and less rigid rule-following, while involved in the process of imaginatively becoming their own oracles and self-educators.

Author : David A. Oliver
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781365351877

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The Ten Commandments by David A. Oliver Pdf

Written with the finger of God nearly 3,500 years ago, the Ten Commandments still provide GodÕs moral standards and principles for worship. ÊWhile these laws were central to the people of the Old Testament, they remain vital to GodÕs people today.Ê The Ten Commandments is a series of sermons preached from the pulpit of Ashley Baptist Church in Belding, Michigan.Ê These sermons explore several facets of each commandment, and at the same time provide the reader with a big picture statement and point of application. These messages on the Ten Commandments are "profitable" (II Tim.Ê3:16) for practical living, but most importantly, they point to the Jesus Christ as the Savior from sin (Gal.Ê3:24).Ê

Author : D. E. Osto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231541411

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Altered States by D. E. Osto Pdf

In the 1960s, Americans combined psychedelics with Buddhist meditation to achieve direct experience through altered states of consciousness. As some practitioners became more committed to Buddhism, they abandoned the use of psychedelics in favor of stricter mental discipline, but others carried on with the experiment, advancing a fascinating alchemy called psychedelic Buddhism. Many think exploration with psychedelics in Buddhism faded with the revolutionary spirit of the sixties, but the underground practice has evolved into a brand of religiosity as eclectic and challenging as the era that created it. Altered States combines interviews with well-known figures in American Buddhism and psychedelic spirituality—including Lama Surya Das, Erik Davis, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei, Rick Strassman, and Charles Tart—and personal stories of everyday practitioners to define a distinctly American religious phenomenon. The nuanced perspective that emerges, grounded in a detailed history of psychedelic religious experience, adds critical depth to debates over the controlled use of psychedelics and drug-induced mysticism. The book also opens new paths of inquiry into such issues as re-enchantment, the limits of rationality, the biochemical and psychosocial basis of altered states of consciousness, and the nature of subjectivity.

Author : Conrad P. Pritscher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460917080

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Brains Inventing Themselves by Conrad P. Pritscher Pdf

Neuroscience has found that neuroplasticity of brain cells allows brains to invent themselves. Remodeling of brains can be facilitated by schools and universities. What may be done to accelerate that positive inventing so as to prepare for rapidly accelerating change? As an IBM advertisement reads: “It is time to ask smarter questions.” This book helps the reader do that. What is worse than being blind to something? “Being blind to your blindness” says Eric Haseltine who has worked for both Disney and the National Security Agency. Being blind to what our brains can do is slowly changing. Brain researchers recently found that we can now be our own subjects of brain experimentation. Research shows how one can change one’s brain by changing one’s mind. In her 2010 high school valedictorian speech Erica Goldson courageously said: “The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it.” This book shows professors, teachers, parents, and interested citizens how students can become aware and reach higher levels of consciousness.

Author : Norimoto Iino
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781504067089

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Zeal for Zen by Norimoto Iino Pdf

The Zen scholar and author of Hints in Haiku offers a revealing introduction to Zen thought and practice in this collection of essays. In 1964, when he accepted a visiting professorship at Coe College teaching non-Western studies, Norimoto Iino wrote this uniquely insightful introduction to Zen for his students. As he says in the preface, “Zen is a subject notoriously elusive. It goes beyond the happiest form of linguistic expression.” And yet, Iino pursues his topic with illuminating clarity and probing insight. In Zeal for Zen, Iino discusses Zen as an ever-evolving way of seeing and a powerful antidote to the egoistic pursuit of power. He covers a wide range of topics, from Soto Zen and Zen prayer to mathematics, modern physics, and the Zenlike works of English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.

Author : Meghan Warner Mettler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496206886

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How to Reach Japan by Subway by Meghan Warner Mettler Pdf

Japan’s official surrender to the United States in 1945 brought to an end one of the most bitter and brutal military conflicts of the twentieth century. U.S. government officials then faced the task of transforming Japan from enemy to ally, not only in top-level diplomatic relations but also in the minds of the American public. Only ten years after World War II, this transformation became a success as middle-class American consumers across the country were embracing Japanese architecture, films, hobbies, philosophy, and religion. Cultural institutions on both sides of the Pacific along with American tastemakers promoted a new image of Japan in keeping with State Department goals. Focusing on traditions instead of modern realities, Americans came to view Japan as a nation that was sophisticated and beautiful yet locked harmlessly in a timeless “Oriental” past. What ultimately led many Americans to embrace Japanese culture was a desire to appear affluent and properly “tasteful” in the status-conscious suburbs of the 1950s. In How to Reach Japan by Subway, Meghan Warner Mettler studies the shibui phenomenon, in which middle-class American consumers embraced Japanese culture while still exoticizing this new aesthetic. By examining shibui through the popularity of samurai movies, ikebana flower arrangement, bonsai cultivation, home and garden design, and Zen Buddhism, Mettler provides a new context and perspective for understanding how Americans encountered a foreign nation in their everyday lives.

Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190655648

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Happier? by Daniel Horowitz Pdf

Happier? provides the first history of the origins, development, and impact of the shift in how Americans - and now many around the world - consider the human condition. This change, which came about from the fusing of beliefs and knowledge from Eastern spiritual traditions, behavioral economics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and cognitive psychology, has been led by scholars and academic entrepreneurs, in play with forces such as neoliberalism and cultural conservatism, and a public eager for self-improvement. Ultimately, the book illuminates how positive psychology, one of the most influential academic fields of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, infused American culture with captivating promises for a happier society. [Source : éditeur].

Author : Keith Kachtick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780861712915

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You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction by Keith Kachtick Pdf

2004's Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction was hailed as "a milestone" and "an embarrassment of literary riches." Its sequel proves that this new genre is here to stay. Edited by Keith Kachtick-the author of Hungry Ghost: A Novel (A New York Times Notable Book)-You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction offers even more sparkling and transcendent work from some of fiction's famous names, alongside names you've never heard before-but surely will again. Book jacket.

Author : Mark Christensen
Publisher : IPG
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936182008

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Acid Christ by Mark Christensen Pdf

From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who described himself as "too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," this account conducts a mesmerizing journey from the perspective of Mark Christensen, an eventual member of the Kesey "flock." Featuring interviews with those within his inner circle, this exploration reveals the bestselling author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in his many forms, placing him within the framework of his time, his generation, and the zeitgeist of the psychedelic era.

Author : Dean Sluyter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101993750

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Fear Less by Dean Sluyter Pdf

Less Fear, More Life—a Practical Guide These days there’s so much fear in the air, you can almost taste it—along with all the varieties of anxiety, anger, and addiction that grow out of it. How can you navigate your way through the fear and confusion, and find your way to peace? In Fear Less, acclaimed teacher and award-winning author Dean Sluyter shows how to use simple meditative techniques and subtle tweaks of body, mind, and breath to open your life to deep, relaxed confidence. Drawing on ancient enlightenment teachings as well as contemporary research, he lays out practical, easy-to-follow steps for addressing such issues as: • letting go of compulsive overthinking • loosening the bonds of addiction (including smartphone addiction) • overcoming the fear of death • finding meditative stillness in the thick of activity