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by Agni Yoga Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Infinity II is the sixth book from the Agni Yoga Series which is composed of fourteen books. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path not of physical disciplines,...
Mystics and Martyrs
Nine Saints from Nine Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In this book you will find the stories of nine different individuals from nine different religious backgrounds. They followed different customs and wore different clothes. They disagreed about what people should eat. Some were involved in politics and business, some retired from the world. They had...
Le Sûtra en 42 articles
Traité Bouddhique
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Edition Complète de " Le Sûtra en 42 articles - Traité Bouddhique - Léon Feer ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée.
Le Sūtra en quarante-deux...
by Pierre-Eugène Lamairesse
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Tout homme, même dans l’état le plus sauvage, a la conscience de son individualité et de son pouvoir de produire des actes ou effets conformes à sa volonté spontanée ou réfléchie. Il se sent essentiellement une entité qui, servie par...
Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth
Contemporary Sri Lankan Practice and Its Origins
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In Buddhist thought and practice, death has always been a central concept. This book provides a careful and thorough analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka.
Rita Langer describes the rituals of death and rebirth and investigates...
by Zhuhong, J. C. Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Translation of a work known in Chinese as Chan Guan Ze Jin (Impetus for Advancing in the Zen Gate), put together in China around 1600 A.D. by Zhuhong of Yunqui temple. It is a compendium of practical lessons on meditating with koans, which are often used as focal points in Zen meditations.
Painting the Sidewalk with Water
Talks and Dialogues About Non-Duality
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
These lively talks and dialogues are about seeing through the illusion of separation and waking up to the boundless wholeness that is all there is. Joan's approach is open and explorative, questioning all attempts to conceptually grasp and frame the movement of life. She talks about seeing through...
by H. P. BLAVATSKY, Michael GOMES
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2015
La première oeuvre majeure d'Helena P. Blavatsky, Isis dévoilée, fit sensation lors de sa publication en 1887. Une jeune femme russe, d'origine noble, explorait dans ses 1200 pages "les mystères de la science et de la théologie, anciennes et modernes." ...
Visions of Compassion
Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion. Resulting from a meeting between the...
by Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
Several thousand years ago in north-central India, two people sat in a chariot in the midpoint of a great battlefield. One of them, the yogi Arjuna, knew that it would be not be long before the conflict would begin. So he asked Krishna, the Master of Yoga (Yogeshwara), what should be his attitude...
Performing China
Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660–1760
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-century English consumer culture is well documented, less so is its influence on English values. Through...
Feuer der Freiheit
Satsang mit Papaji
Language: German
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Die Dialoge in diesem Buch stammen von Tonaufnahmen, die im Juli und August 1991 in Papajis Haus in Lucknow aufgezeichnet wurden. Papaji hat immer darauf hingewiesen, dass es eine Kraft in den Worten eines erleuchteten Wesens gibt, die den Menschen, die zuhören, die direkte...
Also sprach Papaji
Prosa und Poesie der tanzenden Leere
Language: German
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Prosa und Poesie der tanzenden Leere ist eine Sammlung von Gedichten, die Sri H. W. L. Poonja, liebevoll Papaji genannt, in seinen Satsangs gesprochen hat. Diese Worte entspringen seiner makellosen Erfahrung der höchsten und dennoch einfachsten Wahrheit: Wir sind reines Bewusstsein, die Totalität...
The Krishna Cancer
Neurotheology Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.”
Abhijit Naskar, a globally...