Category: Spirituality

By Sangharakshita

Kindness is among the most simple features we will be able to own, and some of the most robust. In Buddhism is it referred to as a metta - a gap of the center to all we meet. Any pleasant feeling comprises the kernel of metta. it's a seed that's ready to be constructed, here amidst the stipulations of our way of life. dwelling with Kindness is a pithy observation at the Buddha's instructing of metta within the Karaniya Metta Sutta. In it, Sangharakshita, a instructor of Buddhism for over fifty years, indicates us the right way to domesticate a few of the points of kindness in usual, daily life. Outlining the nurturing stipulations the seed of kindness must develop, he encourages us to stick to the trail that ends up in a hot and expansive center - and past. And with that center, we will be able to be happier and extra fulfilled in ourselves and empathise with the fun and sufferings of all residing beings.

By Woody Hochswender, Greg Martin, Ted Morino

Whereas the idea that “happiness can came across inside oneself” has lately turn into well known, Buddhism has taught for millions of years that each individual is a Buddha, or enlightened being, and has the potential of precise and lasting happiness. via real-life examples, the authors clarify how adopting this outlook has optimistic results on one’s future health, relationships, and occupation, and offers new insights into global environmental matters, peace matters, and different significant social problems.

By Kathleen Rao

If you’re wandering via lifestyles with no experience of that means, goal, and success and will use a few (non-religious) assistance, this booklet is for you!

This publication will advisor you with particular steps to discovering your life’s objective and that means for you to in achieving a feeling of success and consider like you’re at the correct direction. With a feeling of goal and that means, your lifestyles will successfully turn into extra precious to you, to these round you, and finally to the realm. Here’s an in depth blueprint of ways to find and attain your objective in lifestyles.

Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...
Actual concrete steps to take to figure out your particular person priorities and pursuits in life
Why connecting with folks is necessary in pleasing your purpose
Ways to connect to others, as a member or as a leader
How to imagine tremendous and internationally
The significance of environment milestones and targets, and comparing your accomplishments periodically
Pointers on discovering goal on your life
Suggested actions that can assist you observe purpose
A Bonus! – Inspirational rates that experience helped me personally
Much, even more!

By Bodhidharma

A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. even if the culture that strains its ancestry again to him didn't flourish until eventually approximately 2 hundred years after his demise, this present day thousands of Zen Buddhists and scholars of kung fu declare him as their religious father.

While others seen Zen perform as a purification of the brain or a level in an effort to excellent enlightenment, Bodhidharma equated Zen with buddhahood and believed that it had a spot in way of life. rather than telling his disciples to purify their minds, he pointed them to rock partitions, to the routine of tigers and cranes, to a hole reed floating around the Yangtze.

This bilingual variation, the single quantity of the nice teacher's paintings presently to be had in English, provides 4 teachings of their entirety. "Outline of Practice" describes the 4 all-inclusive conduct that bring about enlightenment, the "Bloodstream Sermon" exhorts scholars to hunt the Buddha by way of seeing their very own nature, the "Wake-up Sermon" defends his premise that the main crucial approach for attaining enlightenment is beholding the brain. the unique chinese language attempt, provided on dealing with pages, is taken from a Ch'ing dynasty woodblock variation.

By Ken Wilber

A short historical past of every little thing offers Ken Wilber's obtainable and interesting account of fellows and women's position in a universe of intercourse, soul, and spirit. He examines the process evolution because the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from subject of existence to brain, together with the better phases of religious improvement the place Spirit turns into aware of itself. Wilber bargains amazing and unique perspectives on many issues of constant curiosity and controversy: gender wars, multiculturalism, ecology and environmental ethics between them.

By Peter Ralston

Over many years of martial arts and meditation perform, Peter Ralston stumbled on a curious and paradoxical truth: that real information arises from a country of not-knowing. Even the main honest research of self and spirit, he says, is usually sabotaged by way of our tendency to snatch too speedy for solutions and concepts as we retreat to the protection of the recognized. This "Hitchhiker’s advisor to Awareness" offers precious guideposts alongside an experiential trip for these Western minds predisposed to wandering off to previous behavior, loved presumptions, and a stubbornly good feel of self. conveniently and readability Ralston teaches readers how you can observe the heritage styles that they're frequently too busy, under pressure, or distracted to note. The ebook of now not Knowing issues out the methods humans get caught of their lives and provides readers how to make clean offerings approximately each element in their lives, from a spot of expertise rather than autopilot.

By Scott Cunningham

Common magic makes use of the area round us for magical reasons. Herbs are the most very important instruments for traditional magic, and the simplest creation to the program is located in Scott Cunningham's Magical Herbalism.
This ebook provides a whole approach of magic utilizing herbs. you are going to study the speculation of magic and the instruments you'll want. Then you'll get numerous innovations for utilizing herbs for magic. desire a safeguard technique? "Pick a number of protecting herbs and bind the stems including purple thread, then hold them up. this custom dates again to Babylonian times." You'll discover a checklist of over one hundred fifteen herbs that information their magical powers, so that you can simply locate which of them are protecting in nature.
How a couple of divination utilizing herbs? "Get a small volume of dried patchouly, mugwort, or wormwood. disintegrate the herb among your arms till it really is finely reduced. subsequent, pour it right into a small sq. pan (glass or ceramic). gentle yellow candles and position the pan in your operating zone. shut your eyes, expand the index finger of your vulnerable hand, and lightly contact the heart of the pan with its tip. movement it at random within the pan, transferring from one path to a different ... Now, eliminate your finger, open your eyes, and interpret the symbols you have got simply written within the herb."
All of the innovations, rituals, spells, talismans, therapeutic equipment, and charms are this simple. And most significantly, they paintings! You'll additionally locate the way to make and use incenses, scented oils, perfumes, fluid condensers, and much more.
Here is your probability to paintings with a gorgeous and straightforward process. provide it a attempt! You won't be upset.

By Jerry Lane

The significant deity-personalities of the Urantia Revelation are humanity's religious parents—Christ Michael (or Jesus) and his coequal accomplice, mom Spirit. during this sequel to The experience of Being Human: classes on Soulful dwelling from the center of the Urantia Revelation, the focal point is completely on mom Spirit—the all-loving, omnipresent mom folks all. She is the truth in the back of the entire adored notions of a divine mom all through human heritage in addition to the majestic resource of the Holy Spirit, and of existence itself. during this fascinating consultant you'll examine all approximately her and become aware of how she regards the original demanding situations of being human. she is going to clarify why our lives in this advanced and infrequently risky planet supply an awesome atmosphere for our adventures of soul progress. This booklet offers a variety of mom Spirit's teachings from her a long time of "live" transmission periods, besides wealthy aiding fabrics. Her extraordinary and pleasant directions at the artwork of soulful dwelling are extra obtainable than ever earlier than.

By David L. McMahan

Loads of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing approximately Buddhism of the prior a hundred and fifty years displays, and certainly constructs, a traditionally targeted glossy Buddhism, even whereas purporting to symbolize old culture, undying educating, or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature, Asian in addition to Western, weaves jointly the strands of other traditions to create a singular hybrid that brings Buddhism into alignment with some of the ideologies and sensibilities of the post-Enlightenment West.

In this e-book, David McMahan charts the advance of this "Buddhist modernism." McMahan examines and analyzes a variety of renowned and scholarly writings produced by means of Buddhists world wide. He makes a speciality of ideological and resourceful encounters among Buddhism and modernity, for instance within the geographical regions of technology, mythology, literature, paintings, psychology, and spiritual pluralism. He exhibits how yes issues minimize throughout cultural and geographical contexts, and the way this type of Buddhism has been created through a number of brokers in various occasions and locations. His place is necessary yet empathetic: whereas he offers Buddhist modernism as a building of various events with various pursuits, he doesn't decrease it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or fabrication. quite, he provides it as a fancy ancient procedure constituted via various responses -- occasionally trivial, frequently profound -- to a couple of crucial matters of the fashionable period.

By James R. Lewis, Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

Written by means of a famous authority on nontraditional non secular movements, this resource is probably the most entire books on angels and similar issues at present on hand. greater than three hundred entries are integrated and drawn from a number of religions, equivalent to Christianity, Islam, and Hindu traditions, in addition to from pop culture. A number of angel subject matters are mentioned, including celebrity angels, classifications of angels, imprecise angels nonetheless expecting their substantial holiday, father or mother angels, fallen angels, Anaheim angels, biblical figures linked to angels, angels in artwork and architecture, and angels within the media and literature. Angels also are mentioned by way of the occult and metaphysics, with entries on UFOs, fairies, and witches.