Only once in the history of human consciousness, says Osho,has a thing like Zen come into being. In Zen: Its History andTeachings, the noted mystic explains that Zen has no rituals,no chanting, no mantras, no *ures — only short, evocativeparables and teachings that make it ideal for the modern seeker.Using his characteristic humorous, encouraging style, Osho guidesreaders through the origins and development of this seminalspiritual tradition that is neither religion nor dogma nor creed.He provides a context for those who have not been born into the Zentradition, introducing them to its timeless approach to existence.The book argues that the only preparation for fully experiencingZen's power is meditative awareness, and Osho presents simpletechniques to achieve this awareness. Stunning color photographsthroughout offer further inspiration and illumination.
The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish SavedCivilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews ThomasCahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, onceagain recreating a time when the actions of a small band of peoplehad repercussions that are still felt today. The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that madewestern civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancientreligions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endlesscycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinningceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see timedifferently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was anarrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future.From this insight came a new conception of men and women asindividuals with unique destinies--a conception that would informthe Declaration of Independence--and our hopeful belief in progressand the sense that tomorrow can be better than today. As ThomasCahill narrates this momentous shift,
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstoodas Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faiththat promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, femaleoppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow viewof Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing aboutthe subject, Karen Armstrong’s short history demonstrates that theworld’s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenonthan its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.
Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspectsto any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. InMindfulness in Plain English, author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, amonk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, offeredbasic instruction on the meaning of insight (or vipassana)meditation through concepts that could be applied to any tradition.In Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English, he presents the levels ofconcentration with the same simplicity and humor that made theprevious book so successful. The focus here is on the Jhanas, thosemeditative states of profound stillness and concentration in whichthe mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen objectof attention. Using the Jhanas to guide readers along the path tojoy, happiness, equanimity, and one-pointedness, the authorprovides all of the instruction necessary to utilize meditation asa tool for building a more fulfilling life
本书主体内容是德国哲学家贺伯特·博德(1928-2013)教授关于黑格尔《精神现象学》的几十次讲座，他以黑格尔的逻辑学为索引，透彻地阐明了《精神现象学》各个章节中的逻辑关系及整体发展，使得《精神现象学》成为把握近代哲学历史进程的“拓扑学”，同时也说明了后黑格尔时代的思想主题乃至现代意识形态的历史渊源。
In this remarkable book, Martin Buber presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Told through stories of imagination and spirit, together with his own unique insights, Buber offers us a way of understanding ourselves and our place in a spiritual world. Challenging us to recognize our own potential and to reach our true goal, this is a life-enhancing book.
世界无限，除非你设地自限！心理学导师、壹心理联合创始人黄启团，人称“团长”，在20年婚姻、家庭、亲子教育培训过程中，培养学员超过10万人，个人咨询近万小时。团长认为，人生的层次不仅仅取决于我们外在的成就，更多取决于我们内在的状态，只有由内而外富足的人生，才是拥有更加美好的人生。在本书中，团长主要从固有模式、限制性概念、情感银行、情绪、人生维度等方面，深度把握人与人之间的沟通本质、疏导心理焦虑，教你学会心中有爱、目中有人，用心理学实现个人成长！与初版的《只因目中无人》相比，这一版的内容新增了近三万字。一方面是将作者这两年所做的咨询个案加入书中，为读者呈现更具象的成长参考模式；另一方面，作者将对人生困境和格局的思考融入其理论体系中，并对全书文字进行润色修改，让这本书中的方法论更加实用
The Zen school of Mahayana Buddhism contends that each one ofus is already a Buddha — the enlightenment we seek is always withinus, waiting to be realized through mindfulness and concertedspiritual work. This truth pushes us toward practice, in the hopesthat we may awaken our potential and live up to what is insideus.?This is a?notion taught widely by ninth century Zen Master LinChi, and in his tradition Thich Nhat Hanh employs the teachings andwritings of Mahayana Buddhism to discuss specific topics inBuddhist study and practice. With these teachings, readers have thetools to awaken the Buddha within.
本辞典共选收道教方面词目凡1406条。包括道教总论，教派、组织，人物，教义，经籍书文，神仙，道术，称谓、斋戒、仪礼、节日，仙境、名山、宫观等九大类。
全书分四部分，依次回答四个问题：美学是什么？美是什么？美感是什么？艺术是什么？作者以简洁有力，极为浓缩的文笔，旁征博引，娓娓而谈，引领读者通过仔细阅读和深入思考而走入金碧辉煌的美学宫殿。本次出版的修订插图本，是作者李泽厚先生在《美国三书》的基础上，对全书文字作了*订正。全书插图的选配侧重现当代作品，以凸显其指向二十一世纪的前瞻性特征，与《美的历程》《华夏美学》修订插图本共同构筑了一片完整统一而丰富多彩的美学园地。tttttt
本书主体内容是德国哲学家贺伯特·博德(1928-2013)教授关于黑格尔《精神现象学》的几十次讲座，他以黑格尔的逻辑学为索引，透彻地阐明了《精神现象学》各个章节中的逻辑关系及整体发展，使得《精神现象学》成为把握近代哲学历史进程的“拓扑学”，同时也说明了后黑格尔时代的思想主题乃至现代意识形态的历史渊源。
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In 1202, zealous western Christians gathered in Venicedetermined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But thecrusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by theshrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople,wreaking devastation so terrible and inflicting scars so deep thatas recently as 2001 Pope John Paul II offered an apology to theGreek Orthodox Church. The crusaders spared no one: They raped and massacred thousands,plundered churches, and torched the lavish city. A prostitutedanced on the altar of the ravaged Hagia Sophia. And by 1204,barbarism masquerading as piety had shattered one of the greatcivilizations of history. Here, on the eight hundredth anniversaryof the sack, is the extraordinary story of this epic catastrophe,told for the first time outside of academia by Jonathan Phillips, aleading expert on the crusades. Knights and commoners, monastic chroniclers, courtly troubadours,survivors of the carnage, and even Pope Innocent III left vividac
本书主体内容是德国哲学家贺伯特·博德(1928-2013)教授关于黑格尔《精神现象学》的几十次讲座，他以黑格尔的逻辑学为索引，透彻地阐明了《精神现象学》各个章节中的逻辑关系及整体发展，使得《精神现象学》成为把握近代哲学历史进程的“拓扑学”，同时也说明了后黑格尔时代的思想主题乃至现代意识形态的历史渊源。
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本书由作者的博士论文改写而成，研究了纬书政治神话的贡献、天人学说成为政治神话的过程、政治神话与中国文化各种形态之间的关系等学术问题。
本书由作者的博士论文改写而成，研究了纬书政治神话的贡献、天人学说成为政治神话的过程、政治神话与中国文化各种形态之间的关系等学术问题。
A history so funny, so true, so scary, it's bound to becalled a conspiracy. "Meticulous in its research, forensic in itsreasoning, robust in its argument, and often hilarious in itsdebunking, Voodoo Histories is a highly entertaining rumblewith the century's major conspiracy theorists and their theories"(John Lahr). From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to the assassination of JFKto the Birthers, Aaronvitch probes and explores the majorconspiracy theories (and theorists) of our time. In doing so, heexamines why people believe these conspiracies and makes anargument for a true skepticism.
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