被誉为“灵魂的导师,心灵的道友”的慧敏,在哈佛大学求学时,疯狂怀念母语,于是开始用推特记录自己日常生活中的感悟,用母语与人交流。没想到,这些简单的文字,不仅让自己感到安慰,那些无意中看到日志的人,也纷纷留言说获得了疗愈。他们开始试着理解那些不能原谅的人,决心从现在起爱惜不争气的自己,筋疲力尽地下班后,又突然精神百倍。通过与网友的交流,他也了解到,每天只睡四小时的创业者的煎熬,因学习压力过大想要自杀的学生的痛苦,面临毕业和失业的青年的苦闷。原来,每个人都活得如此艰难。他希望《人生那么长,停一下又何妨》,能够给那些感觉终日被生存压力驱赶的人,那些追求轻松生活却不得的人,那些因自己的不如意去怨恨别人的人,那些期盼着真爱的人,带来哪怕只有一点点的,帮助。
人生是剧场。? 长久以来,生活经验的积累,主动内建或被动植入的信念演变为我们内心的“木马程序”,逐步导致了故步自封的自囚状态,让我们在毫无察觉的情况下被篡改潜意识、控制自主性,一再受困于重复的剧情,在不快乐与挣扎中轮回。? 假若不及时清除,木马程序就会越来越强大,直到耗尽你的所有能量。? 《人类木马程序》就像人间剧场上方的大型探照灯,帮每个人照亮舞台,打掉“木马之墙”,看清自己在演哪出戏。? 看得清,我们就可以改变自己的生命剧本,把悲剧改为喜剧,从而打开全新的生命维度,不要再让木马程序运作不想要的人生。?
《华严经》在大乘佛教发展上,有着重要的地位,书中所提出的“十方成佛”及“修行十地”的理论,对佛教思想发展产生重要影响。而《原人论》作者圭峰宗密,少通儒书,但儒学智识并不能满足他对宇宙根本问题的追求,因缘际会过禅门、入华严,最终达到“外境内心,豁然无隔”之境。
本书包括:价值与货币;货币的特质性价值;目的序列中的货币;个体自由;个人价值之货币等价物;生活风格等。
Written during the golden age of Chinese philosophy, andcomposed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao TeChing is surely the most terse and economical of the world’sgreat religious texts. In a series of short, profound chapters itelucidates the idea of the Tao, or the Way–an idea that in itsethical, practical, and spiritual dimensions has become essentialto the life of China’s enormously powerful civilization. In theprocess of this elucidation, Lao-tzu both clarifies and deepensthose central religious mysteries around which our life on earthrevolves.
"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continuestudying without respite, to instruct others without growingweary--is this not me?" --Confucius Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, andhis ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese culturaltradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of therecorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius--informedfor the first time by the manu* version found at Dingzhou in1973, a partial text dating to 55 BCE and only made available tothe scholarly world in 1997. The earliest Analects yet discovered,this work provides us with a new perspective on the centralcanonical text that has defined Chinese culture--and clearlyilluminates the spirit and values of Confucius. Confucius (551-479 BCE) was born in the ancient state of Lu into anera of unrelenting, escalating violence as seven of the strongeststates in the proto-Chinese world warred for supremacy. Thelandscape was not only fierce politically but also intel
This translation presents Daoism’s basic text in highlyreadable contemporary English. Incorporating the latest scholarshipin the field (including the most recent discoveries of ancientmanu*s in the 1970s and '90s), the book explains Daodejing 's often cryptic verses in a clear and concise way.The introduction interprets the Daodejing 's poetic imageryin the context of ancient Chinese symbolism, and a briefphilosophical analysis accompanies each of the 81 translatedchapters of the Daodejing.
“Between the earliest and the latest of the works includedhere, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous andadventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in hisIntroduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be onlyvaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and wecan ask whether any dominant themes, overall patterns of movement,or notable achievements can be found within it. This question isone that is best asked by the reader after he has read, or readaround in, these works.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic also includes a newly updatedBibliography.
This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position ofminorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus onminority rights and recognition. For the first time, it bringstogether leading international authorities on ethnicity,nationalism and minority rights from both social and politicaltheory, with the specific aim of fostering further debate betweenthe disciplines. In their introduction, the editors explore theways in which politics and sociology can complement each other inunravelling the many contradictory aspects of complex phenomena.Topics addressed include the constructed nature of ethnicity, itsrelation to class and to 'new racism', different forms ofnationalism, self determination and indigenous politics, thepolitics of recognition versus the politics of redistribution, andthe re-emergence of cosmopolitanism. This book is essential readingfor all those involved in the study of ethnicity, nationalism andminority rights.
Use human means as though divine ones did not exist, and usedivine means as though there were no human ones. So wrote theJesuit scholar Baltazar Gracian some 300 years ago, in a book thatwill be compared to Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's ThePrince. A new translation of long lost wisdom on livingsuccessfully yet responsibly.