When The Buddha Was An Elephant

Author : Mark W. McGinnis
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780834803206

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When the Buddha Was an Elephant by Mark W. McGinnis Pdf

The Buddhist Jataka tales are simple lessons in living with honesty, wisdom, and compassion that contain the power to transform the hearts and minds of those who hear them. They are stories of the Buddha’s past lives—in such forms as a boar, a parrot, a monkey, or a peacock—that have enchanted children and adults for millennia. Their animal characters powerfully and sometimes humorously demonstrate the virtues and foibles to which we humans are prone, and they point the way to more enlightened ways of living. Mark McGinnis retells the Jatakas in poetic and accessible language, rendering the Buddhist teachings they contain abundantly clear. Each tale is brought to life by Mark’s full-color illustration, making the book a visually stunning entrée to this edifying and highly entertaining literary tradition.

Author : Mark W. McGinnis
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781611802641

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When the Buddha Was an Elephant by Mark W. McGinnis Pdf

A treasury of traditional Buddhist wisdom tales, illustrated with gorgeous original artwork. The Buddhist jataka tales are simple lessons in living with honesty, wisdom, and compassion that contain the power to transform the hearts and minds of those who hear them. They are stories of the Buddha’s past lives—in such forms as a boar, a parrot, a monkey, or a peacock—that have enchanted children and adults for millennia. Their animal characters powerfully and sometimes humorously demonstrate the virtues and foibles to which we humans are prone, and they point the way to more enlightened ways of living. Mark McGinnis retells the jatakas in poetic and accessible language, rendering the Buddhist teachings they contain abundantly clear. Each tale is brought to life by Mark’s full-color illustration, making the book a visually stunning entrée to this edifying and highly entertaining literary tradition.

Author : John Tarrant
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834823497

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Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant Pdf

Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.

Author : Diane Shainberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-21
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0970158505

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Chasing Elephants by Diane Shainberg Pdf

Author : Eugene Watson Burlingame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Buddhist legends
ISBN : WISC:89094597028

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The Grateful Elephant by Eugene Watson Burlingame Pdf

Twenty-six stories selected from the author's larger work, Buddhist parables.

Author : Lama Choedak Rinpoche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0994581300

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Taming the Elephant Mind by Lama Choedak Rinpoche Pdf

A handbook on the Buddhist mindfulness practice of Calm Abiding Meditation or shamatha (sanskrit). It includes instructions on the practices of Mindfulness of Body and Mindfulness of Feeling the Buddha taught. There are teachings on the five obstacles and eight antidotes, five experiences and nine stage of Calm Abiding meditation.

Author : Andy Wrasman
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490819297

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Contradict by Andy Wrasman Pdf

Tolerance and co-existence are both great! In fact, they are necessary. If we are to live together in peace without hating each other, or physically harming each other over differences in race, culture, sexual orientation, political views, and religious beliefs, we must have tolerance. However, we must also recognize that every belief can't be equally valid. If two beliefs directly contradict each other, both of them cannot be true, no matter how "tolerant" we become. This means it is false to say that every religion is true, or that every religion leads to God. When people make such claims they show that they have not taken the time to study the world's religions, because a brief reading of the sacred texts of only a handful of religions quickly reveals contradictions on the most fundamental levels. Religious Contradictions Reincarnation (Hinduism and Buddhism) contradicts the belief that this is your only life before eternity (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam). Salvation from sin (Christianity) contradicts the belief that there is no sin to be saved from but simply pain that can be escaped through enlightenment (Buddhism). Jesus Christ is the incarnate, Son of God (Christianity), contradicts the teaching that he is just a prophet (Islam) or that he was a false prophet (Judaism). In light of these contradictions alone, all religions can't be true. They could all be false, but they can't all be true. Are any of them true? This is the most important question anyone can ask. Recognize religious contradictions. Embrace them. Test them. Seek the truth. www.contradictmovement.org

Author : Ācariya Buddharakkhita
Publisher : Pariyatti
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681723693

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Mettā by Ācariya Buddharakkhita Pdf

The Pali word mettā; is a multi-significant term meaning loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill, etc. If these qualities of mettā are sufficiently cultivated through mettābhāvanā the meditation on universal love the result is the acquisition of a tremendous inner power which preserves, protects and heals both oneself and others. The present booklet aims at exploring the various facets of mettā both in theory and in practice. The examination of the doctrinal and ethical side of mettā will proceed through a study of the popular Karaniyametta Sutta, the Buddha s Discourse of Universal Love and several other short texts. The explanation of the meditation on universal love will give practical directions for developing this type of contemplation as set forth in the main meditation texts of the Theravada Buddhist tradition.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226264363

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Elephants and Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

Retreat and persistence of elephants -- Elephants and Indian kingship -- War elephants -- Structures of use: caturaga, vihana, vyha -- Elephant knowledge -- The spread of the war elephant -- North India, South India, Sri Lanka -- The Near East, North Africa, Europe -- Southeast Asia -- After the war elephant -- Drawing the balance, looking ahead

Author : Stanley Bing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780061791314

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Throwing the Elephant by Stanley Bing Pdf

Stanley Bing follows his enormously successful What Would Machiavelli Do? with another subversively humorous exploration of how work would be different—if the Buddha were your personal consultant. What would the Buddha do—if he had to deal with a rampaging elephant of a boss every day? That is the premise of Stanley Bing’s wickedly funny guide to finding inner peace in the face of relentlessly obnoxious, huge, and sometimes smelly bosses. Taking the concept of managing up to a new cosmic plateau, Bing urges no less than a revolution of the spirit in the American workplace, turning overwrought, oppressed, stressed-out employees into models of Zen-like powers of concentration, able to take their elephant-like bosses and grey, lumbering companies and twirl them around the little finger of their consciousness. In Bing’s unique tradition of social criticism cum business self-help, Throwing the Elephant presents Four Truths (or possibly Five), a Ninefold Path, and one useful, hilarious guide to workplace sanity, success, and enlightenment that surpasses all understanding, survival.

Author : Reiko Ohnuma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190637569

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Unfortunate Destiny by Reiko Ohnuma Pdf

Unfortunate Destiny focuses on the roles played by nonhuman animals within the imaginative thought-world of Indian Buddhism, as reflected in pre-modern South Asian Buddhist literature. These roles are multifaceted, diverse, and often contradictory: In Buddhist doctrine and cosmology, the animal rebirth is a most "unfortunate destiny" (durgati), won through negative karma and characterized by a lack of intelligence, moral agency, and spiritual potential. In stories about the Buddha's previous lives, on the other hand, we find highly anthropomorphized animals who are wise, virtuous, endowed with human speech, and often critical of the moral shortcomings of humankind. In the life-story of the Buddha, certain animal characters serve as "doubles" of the Buddha, illuminating his nature through identification, contrast or parallelism with an animal "other." Relations between human beings and animals likewise range all the way from support, friendship, and near-equality to rampant exploitation, cruelty, and abuse. Perhaps the only commonality among these various strands of thought is a persistent impulse to use animals to clarify the nature of humanity itself--whether through similarity, contrast, or counterpoint. Buddhism is a profoundly human-centered religious tradition, yet it relies upon a dexterous use of the animal other to help clarify the human self. This book seeks to make sense of this process through a wide-ranging-exploration of animal imagery, animal discourse, and specific animal characters in South Asian Buddhist texts.

Author : Jones Loflin,Todd Musig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591841712

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Juggling Elephants by Jones Loflin,Todd Musig Pdf

What do you do when your life feels as busy as a three-ring circus? Juggling Elephants tells a simple but profound story about one man with a universal problem. Mark has too much to do, too many priorities, too much stress, and too little time. As he struggles to balance his many responsibilities without cracking under the pressure, Mark takes a break to attend the circus with his family. There he has a surprising conversation with a wise ringmaster. He leaves with a simple but powerful lesson: Trying to get everything done is like juggling elephants -- impossible. So Mark begins to think about his work, family, and personal life the way a ringmaster thinks about the many acts in a three-ring circus. He discovers that managing his various acts can be fun and easy once he changes his attitude and follows his new friend's ongoing guidance. Mark soon realizes: • If you keep trying to juggle elephants, no one, including you, will be thrilled with your performance. • A ringmaster cannot be in all three rings at once. • The key to the success of a circus is having quality acts in all three rings. • Intermission is an essential part of any good circus. Juggling Elephants is a wonderfully lighthearted guide for everyone who feels like they're about to be squashed. It will help you better focus your time and energy, so you'll be able to enjoy more of the things that are important to you. Above all, it will teach you how to run your circus, instead of letting the circus run you.

Author : William Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Asiatic elephant
ISBN : UOM:39015050494312

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The Elephant in Thai Life & Legend by William Warren Pdf

Author : Rinpoche Dzogchen Ponlop
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781590308745

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Rebel Buddha by Rinpoche Dzogchen Ponlop Pdf

Buddhist teacher Dzogchen Ponlop offers advice on training one's mind and understanding one's nature in order to overcome fear and unhappiness.

Author : Carl Bock
Publisher : London: Low, Marston,Searle and Rivington,.
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Laos
ISBN : YALE:39002088372298

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Temples and Elephants by Carl Bock Pdf