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“patrick de sercey”

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  • Spiritual Ecology

    Evolution Beyond Faith Based Culture

    by Patrick de Sercey ...
    In this present work, the matter of faith based cultures is addressed as a developmental cultural stage corresponding to adolescence during which ideologies compete in violent confl icts which, with the present state of armament, promise human annihilation. The path towards an evolution towards a spiritual ecological maturity is discussed at length with particular emphasis on the relevance of ... Read more

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  • The Monk and the Philosopher

    A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life

    by Jean Francois Revel, Matthieu Ricard ...
    Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters.Meeting in an ... Read more

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  • After Buddhism

    Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

    by Stephen Batchelor ...
    Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts?   Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha’s teachings. The time has come, he ... Read more

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  • Zen and the Birds of Appetite

    by Thomas Merton ...
    Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners."Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... ... Read more

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  • Secular Buddhism

    Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World

    by Stephen Batchelor ...
    An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor’s most probing and important work on secular BuddhismAs the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Buddhist Philosophy

    Essential Readings

    Edited by William Edelglass, Jay Garfield ...
    The Buddhist philosophical tradition is vast, internally diverse, and comprises texts written in a variety of canonical languages. It is hence often difficult for those with training in Western philosophy who wish to approach this tradition for the first time to know where to start, and difficult for those who wish to introduce and teach courses in Buddhist philosophy to find suitable textbooks ... Read more

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  • Nothing Is Hidden

    The Psychology of Zen Koans

    by Barry Magid ...
    In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan. What's more, Magid also uses the koans to expand upon the insights of psychology (especially self psychology and relational psychotherapy) and open for the reader new perspectives on the ... Read more

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  • The Making of Buddhist Modernism

    by David L. McMahan ...
    A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects, and indeed constructs, a historically unique modern Buddhism, even while purporting to represent ancient tradition, timeless teaching, or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature, Asian as well as Western, weaves together the strands of different traditions to create a novel hybrid that ... Read more

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  • Anti-Natalism

    Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar

    by Ken Coates ...
    Every birth brings with it pain, suffering and death. Are life's joys and pleasures worth its costs? This book examines a set of perspectives - religious, philosophical, and literary - which find human existence deeply flawed and unacceptable. Its modern expression by philosophers Benatar and Zapffe as anti-natalism needs to be taken seriously in our choice whether to procreate or not. ... Read more

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  • On Relationship

    by Jiddu Krishnamurti ...

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  • Tamil

    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
    Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique ... Read more

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  • Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives

    Moral Vision and Literary Innovation

    by Gregory M. Clines ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies
    Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature.The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors ... Read more

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