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Eknath Easwaran, translator of the best-selling edition of the Dhammapada, sees this powerful scripture as a perfect map for the spiritual journey. Said to be the text closest to the Buddha's actual words, it is a collection of short teachings memorized during his lifetime by his disciples. Easwaran presents the Dhammapada as a guide to spiritual perseverance, progress, and ultimately enlightenment -- a heroic confrontation with life as it really is, with straight answers to our deepest questions. We witness the heartbreak of death, for instance -- what does that mean for us? What is love? How does karma work? How do we follow the spiritual life in the midst of work and family? Does nirvana really exist, and if so, what is it like to be illumined? In his interpretation of Buddhist themes, illustrated with stories from the Buddha's life, Easwaran offers a view of the concept of Right Understanding that is both exhilarating and instructive. He shares his experiences on the spiritual path, giving the advice that only an experienced teacher and practitioner can offer, and urges us to answer for ourselves the Buddha's call to nirvana -- that mysterious, enduring state of wisdom, joy, and peace.
Spiritual life --- Buddhism. --- Dhammapada. --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism)
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This book explores an important concept within the Buddhist Mahāyāna tradition, bodhicitta. This term appears frequently in Sanskrit literature relating to the spiritual practices of the bodhisattva in Mahāyāna Buddhism and has been variously translated as "thought of enlightenment" or "desire of enlightenment." Francis Brassard offers a contextual analysis of bodhicitta based on the presuppositions underlying the spiritual practice of the bodhisattva. Since the understanding that emerges involves how one ought to view the process of spiritual transformation, this work contributes to Buddhist psychology and soteriology in particular, and to comparative religions in general. The book surveys the various interpretations of the concept of bodhicitta, analyzes its possible functions in the context of the spiritual path of the aspirant to enlightenment, and discusses an understanding of bodhicitta in the context of the Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra.
Bodhicitta (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life --- Buddhism. --- Bodhicitta (Buddhism). --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism) --- Buddhism --- Doctrines --- Spiritual life - Buddhism.
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Buddhism and science. --- Physics --- Spiritual life --- Enlightenment (Buddhism) --- Bouddhisme et sciences --- Physique --- Vie spirituelle --- Illumination (Bouddhisme) --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Aspect religieux --- Bouddhisme --- Buddhism and science --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism) --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Awakening (Buddhism) --- Bodhi --- Illumination (Buddhism) --- Religious awakening --- Buddhism --- Nirvana --- Salvation --- Science and Buddhism --- Science --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Doctrines --- Physics - Religious aspects - Buddhism. --- Spiritual life - Buddhism.
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The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self has been a common theme in many religions throughout history and an idea that is still with us today. This inwardness or interiority unique to me as an essential feature of who I am has been an aspect of culture and even a defining characteristic of human being; an authentic, private sphere to which we can retreat that is beyond the conflicts of the outer world. This inner world becomes more real than the outer, which is seen as but a pale reflection. Remarkably, the image of the truth within is found across cultures, and this book presents an account of this idea in the pre-modern history of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Furthermore, in theistic religions, Christianity, and some forms of Hinduism, the truth within is conflated with the idea of God within, and in all cases this inner truth is thought to be not only the heart of the person, but also the heart of the universe itself. Gavin Flood examines the metaphor of inwardness and the idea of truth within, along with the methods developed in religions to attain it such as prayer and meditation. These views of inwardness that link the self to cosmology can be contrasted with a modern understanding of the person. In examining the truth within in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, Flood offers a hermeneutical phenomenology of inwardness and a defence of comparative religion.
Introspection --- Spiritual life --- 291.22 --- Spiritual life (Hinduism) --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism) --- 291.22 Godsdienstwetenschap: doctrines over mens en ziel --- Godsdienstwetenschap: doctrines over mens en ziel --- Religious aspects. --- Christianity. --- Buddhism. --- Hinduism. --- Hindu authors --- Self --- Christianity and other religions --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Buddhism --- Hinduism --- Introspection - Religious aspects. --- Self - Religious aspects. --- Spiritual life - Christianity. --- Spiritual life - Buddhism. --- Spiritual life - Hinduism.
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Indian religions --- Bouddhisme tantrique. --- Vie spirituelle --- Bouddhisme. --- Spiritual life -- Buddhism. --- Chögyam Trungpa --- Chögyam Trungpa, --- Tibet --- techniques de méditation tantrique --- mysticisme --- sagesse --- spiritualité --- l'Occident --- le bouddhisme tibétain --- Trungpa Tulku --- Milarepa --- Padmasambhava --- 1959 --- méditation --- 1970 --- les Etats-Unis --- Colorado
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Buddhism and science. --- Physics --- Spiritual life --- Enlightenment (Buddhism) --- Bouddhisme et sciences --- Physique --- Vie spirituelle --- Illumination (Bouddhisme) --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Aspect religieux --- Bouddhisme --- Physics - Religious aspects - Buddhism. --- Spiritual life - Buddhism.
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Lamas --- Lamas (Bouddhisme) --- Mi-la-ras-pa, --- Spiritual life --- Vie spirituelle --- Biography. --- Buddhism. --- Biographies --- Bouddhisme --- Buddhism --- Lamas - China - Tibet Autonomous Region - Biography --- Spiritual life - Buddhism --- Mi-la-ras-pa, - 1040-1123
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"Creatively exploring the points of confluence and conflict between Western psychology and Buddhist teachings, various scholars, researchers, and therapists struggle to integrate their diverse psychological orientations - psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, transpersonal - with their diverse Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist practices. By investigating the degree to which Buddhist insights are compatible with Western science and culture, they then consider what each philosophical/psychological system has to offer the other. The contributors reveal how Buddhism has changed the way they practice psychotherapy, choose their research topics, and conduct their personal lives. In doing so, they illuminate the relevance of ancient Buddhist texts to contemporary cultural and psychological dilemmas."--Jacket
Buddhism --- Spiritual life --- Psychotherapy --- Buddhism and psychoanalysis. --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism) --- Psychoanalysis and Buddhism --- Psychoanalysis --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- History --- Buddhism. --- Religious aspects
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