Eastern category: 10105 books
by J. Krishnamurti
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
In 1968—a time when young Americans were intensely questioning the values of their society—Krishnamurti gave a series of talks to college students in the United States and Puerto Rico, exploring the true meaning of freedom and rebellion. Collected in this book, these lectures are perhaps even...
Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era
The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Traditionally known as The Hundred Tales of Wisdom, this collection comprises excerpts from the life, teachings and miracles of the Sufi teacher Jalaluddin Rumi, together with certain important stories from his works.
As well as being part of the bedrock of classical Persian literature, these...
Eastern Light
Awakening To Presence In Zen, Quakerism, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Long requested and long awaited, Steve Smith's audience of thoughtful readers will be delighted to have this ponderings and open insights available in inclusive eBpok formats. The first time reader of his work will find comparative insights from his own journey studying Buddism and Quakerism, from both personal perspective and as a professor of philosophy.
by Philip Toshio Sudo
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Anyone who has ever cursed a computer will benefit from Zen Computer, with its soothing approach to living calmly amid the constant upheavals of new technology.
In a simple, easy-to-read style, Philip Toshio Sudo shows how the ancient principles of Zen philosophy apply to the modern science...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The 'perfuming of a scorpion', referred to by the great Sufi teacher Bahaudin, symbolizes hypocrisy and self-deception: both in the individual and in institutions.In A Perfumed Scorpion, Idries Shah directs attention to both the perfume and the scorpion - the overlay and the reality - in psychology,...
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national life in Czechoslovakia.The book shows that Zionism...
In the Beginning
An Introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The basic principles of eastern philosophies have been practiced for at least 2,500 years. At the heart of all eastern philosophies is the belief expressed in the Chandogya Upanishad: "What that Unknowable is by which this universe subsists, that is the real, that is the soul, that art thou." In this...
Tibetan Shamanism
Ecstasy and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Reflecting sixteen years of intensive fieldwork, this book is a rich chronicle of the daily lives, belief systems, and healing rituals of four highly revered Tibetan shamans forced into exile by the Chinese invasion during the 1950s. Larry Peters lived and studied closely with the shamans in Nepal,...
Love Letters from Golok
A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tāre Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944–2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters exchanged from 1978 to 1980, Tāre Lhamo...
by J. Krishnamurti
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2001
In Freedom, Love, and Action, Krishnamurti points to a state of total awareness beyond mental processes. With his characteristic engaging, candid approach, Krishnamurti discusses such topics as the importance of setting the mind free from its own conditioning; the possibility of finding enlightenment...
Extreme Politics
Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology,...
Fully Human Fully Divine
Awakening to our Innate Beauty through Embracing our Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
There is a value in seeing how spiritual awakening and being human meet in an ordinary Life, in relationship with our partners, kids, families and friends, with our busy lives, in illness, transitions, death, careers and in every area of our lives. This book is a call to awakening and embracing and...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
How can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the durability and persistence of tales? Was the tale of Aladdin and his wondrous lamp really taken from Wales (where it has been found) to the ancient East and, if so, when and by whom?
These...