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Author: John Daido Loori Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 1590304594 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 114
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There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development. The Buddhist teachings on morality—the precepts—predate Zen, going all the way back to the Buddha himself. They describe, in essence, how a buddha, or awakened person, lives his or her life in the world. Loori provides a modern interpretation of the precepts and discusses the ethical significance of these vows as guidelines for living. “Zen is a practice that takes place within the world,” he says, “based on moral and ethical teachings that have been handed down from generation to generation.” In his view, the Buddhist precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice.
Author: John Daido Loori Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 1590304594 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development. The Buddhist teachings on morality—the precepts—predate Zen, going all the way back to the Buddha himself. They describe, in essence, how a buddha, or awakened person, lives his or her life in the world. Loori provides a modern interpretation of the precepts and discusses the ethical significance of these vows as guidelines for living. “Zen is a practice that takes place within the world,” he says, “based on moral and ethical teachings that have been handed down from generation to generation.” In his view, the Buddhist precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice.
Author: John Daido Loori Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 0834824507 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development. The Buddhist teachings on morality—the precepts—predate Zen, going all the way back to the Buddha himself. They describe, in essence, how a buddha, or awakened person, lives his or her life in the world. Loori provides a modern interpretation of the precepts and discusses the ethical significance of these vows as guidelines for living. "Zen is a practice that takes place within the world," he says, "based on moral and ethical teachings that have been handed down from generation to generation." In his view, the Buddhist precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice.
Author: John Daido Loori Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1590304594 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen as essential aspects of Zen training and development. The Buddhist teachings on morality—the precepts—predate Zen, going all the way back to the Buddha himself. They describe, in essence, how a buddha, or awakened person, lives his or her life in the world. Loori provides a modern interpretation of the precepts and discusses the ethical significance of these vows as guidelines for living. “Zen is a practice that takes place within the world,” he says, “based on moral and ethical teachings that have been handed down from generation to generation.” In his view, the Buddhist precepts form one of the most vital areas of spiritual practice.
Author: Nancy Mujo Baker Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 1611809398 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 273
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Stop trying to become “better” by suppressing or hiding parts of yourself, and learn what it means to be fully human with this accessible guide to the core ethical teachings of Zen Buddhism. In Opening to Oneness, Zen teacher Nancy Baker offers a detailed path of practice for Zen students planning to take the precepts and for anyone, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, interested in deepening their personal study of ethical living. She reveals that there are three levels of each precept: a literal level (don’t kill, not even a bug), a relative level that takes moral ambiguity into account (what if it’s a malaria-spreading mosquito?), and an ultimate level—the paradoxical level of nonduality, in which the precepts are naturally expressed from a state of oneness. Full of nuance, intelligence, and compassion, the first half of the book addresses the ten grave precepts mostly from the relative level, including instructions for how to practice these precepts individually and in pairs or groups. The second half of the book takes a deep dive into looking at the precepts from the ultimate perspective, largely through an exploration of the writings of Dogen, the thirteenth-century religious genius who founded the Soto Zen school. At once comprehensive and innovative, Opening to Oneness will take its place alongside classics like The Mind of Clover, The Heart of Being, and Being Upright as a cherished guide to Zen Buddhist ethics.
Author: Jeffrey Edward Green Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190215917 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic engagement and career advancement. Under this shadow of unfairness, Green argues that the most advantaged class are rightly subjected to compulsory public burdens. And just as provocatively, he urges ordinary citizens living in polities permanently darkened by plutocracy to acknowledge their second-class status and the uncomfortable civic ethics that come with it -- specifically an ethics whereby the pursuit of egalitarianism is informed, at least in part, by indignation, envy, uncivil modes of discourse, and even the occasional suspension of political care. Deeply engaged in the history of political thought, The Shadow of Unfairness is still first and foremost an effort to illuminate present-day politics. With the plebeians of ancient Rome as his muse, Green develops a plebeian conception of contemporary liberal democracy, at once disenchanted yet idealistic in its insistence that the Few-Many distinction might be enlisted for progressive purpose. Green's analysis is likely to unsettle all sides of the political spectrum, but its focus looks beyond narrow partisan concerns and aims instead to understand what the ongoing quest for free and equal citizenship might require once it is accepted that our political and educational systems will always be tainted by socioeconomic inequality.
Author: Robert E. Wubbolding Publisher: Harper Perennial ISBN: 9780060962661 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 192
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A practical book on counseling that contains down-to-earth ideas on how to apply the principles of reality therapy in specific situations such as marriage, family, and individual counseling as well as the work environment.
Author: Naomi Zack Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538151200 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 275
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The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a classic tragedy of destruction following errors in judgment. Naomi Zack presents social and political aspects of this disaster as it unfolded in public health through federal and local government structures, society, culture, and the economy. Federalism combined with politics in facing and denying the SARS-CoV2 pandemic has revealed both weaknesses and strengths. Preparation was woefully inadequate for the 2020 tidal wave of COVID-19 that broke over the medical system, the educational system, the lives of the poor, essential workers, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and women, especially. Rhetoric and conspiracy theories flourished, as Red and Blue Americans politicized the pandemic. Police reform became urgent after billions witnessed George Floyd’s death. The war of the statues evoked new conflicts over free speech. The X-ray nature of COVID-19 has revealed the United States to itself, in character, incompetence, superstition, and injustice, but also in dedication to caring for others and abiding resilience. The core of democracy held after the 2020 election but vigilance is newly important and required. As a record of this US Plague Year and an argument for why we need to prepare for Climate Change, as well as the next pandemic, this book is an essential resource for every student, scholar, and citizen.
Author: Michael Waibel Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V. ISBN: 9041132023 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 674
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"This book, the outgrowth of a conference organized by the editors at Harvard Law School on April 19, 2008, aims to uncover the drivers behind the backlash against the current international investment regime."--Library of Congress Online Calalog.
Author: David R. Brown Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1644620812 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 142
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Creationism versus evolution. As persistent as it is tiring, this war has torn families and even nations apart. The passions driving these camps to battle have been violent, virulent, and sadly, completely wasted. Scientists have examined this world for evidence to assert their theory, while creationists have believed the Bible speaks of this same world. This is an error that caused a war that needn't have ever been. The account of Noah speaks to another world in another time. Basked in the shadow of an ultradense gravity, Noah's world died in the crib, while this one rolled through a billion years or more. Here, nonhuman life crawled through stages, as plates shifted the world we now know congealed into the stage for Yeshua's master play. As Noah built his ark in the last few years of his world, he prepared for a journey that he could not have conceived-one in which Yahweh would not only save him from an apocalypse but through which He would transport Noah to another world altogether. Thus, The Noatic Crossing, the event through which the godly line of the Messiah was comported from afar to our world. This treatise examines the lattice of facts available through scientific review and reposits the lens of the Scripture to theorize the extraterrestrial nature of Noah and, indeed, of human life itself. Where once science and religion dueled to the death, here, instead, they will form an alliance to heal the past and to illuminate the present.
Author: John Daido Loori
Author: John Daido Loori
Author: John Daido Loori
Author: John Daido Loori
Author: Nancy Mujo Baker
Author: Jeffrey Edward Green
Author: Robert E. Wubbolding
Author: Naomi Zack
Author: Michael Waibel
Author: David R. Brown
Author: A. K. Raina