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Language
English
Description
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning, the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki is considered a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many in the West encountered Buddhism for the very first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. As an early and influential representative of Zen...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + Part 1 guidebook (ii, 69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.) + Part 2 guidebook (ii, 65 p. ; 22 cm.) + Part 3 guidebook (ii, 63 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken. It is essential that Westerners...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 267 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche was the respected thirty-six-year-old abbot of three monasteries, a world-renowned meditation teacher, the son of an esteemed meditation master, and a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters. In Love with the World begins the night that, without telling anyone of his plan, he slips past the monastery gates alone for the first time in his life and sets forth on a wandering retreat, following the ancient practice...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 160 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh look at the Buddhist principle of metta, or loving-kindness. Dharma teacher Kevin Griffin demonstrates that metta is not just a meditation practice-it's a radical, selfless way of life based in universal love for all beings. In Living Kindness, Kevin Griffin guides us through the stories of the Pali Canon of Buddhism to deepen our understanding of the "brahmaviharas," or practices of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Appealing to the...
Author
Publisher
Padma Pub
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
xxi, 179 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1985 correctional officer Sergeant Burchfield was murdered in San Quentin, and Masters was convicted and sentenced to death for sharpening the blade that killed him. Masters had suffered from an extremely violent past. Now Masters shares stories of his life since 1990 on San Quentin's death row and how his own spiritual growth through Buddhism changed his life inside the prison.
Author
Publisher
Apocryphile Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvi, 170 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Veteran journalist Don Lattin trains his eye on some previously unexamined questions. Why do relatively few people in the burgeoning psychedelic renaissance connect chemically induced mystical states with their own religious traditions? Can sacred plant medicines be a source of renewal for Christians, Jews and other people of faith? Some clergy and laity think they can. Judaism and Christianity each have centuries-old mystical paths. Yet since the...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
But rather than a dry, theological treatise, Savage provides something more akin to an ancient mystery text. Drawing on Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and other spiritual sources, as well as autobiographical material and highlights from his radio show, Savage shares a series of glimpses of God he has experienced over the whole of his life, before and after his groundbreaking radio career. Moving childhood stories, his dinner with an atheist and a Buddhist,...
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