"Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever. . . . You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you cannot be, for you are life and exist Now."—from Become What You Are
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This insightful, easy-to-read handbook offers a non-traditional perspective on meditation. Written primarily for American insight meditation students, it delivers the Buddha's essential teachings clearly, straightforwardly, and without spiritual jargon, and helps make sense of practices often laden with traditional terminology.
his book opens the way to a deeper knowledge of mahamudra, a Buddhist system of meditation on the nature of the mind. In providing a detailed commentary on the Vajra Song of the first Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899), the author elucidates the stages of ground, path, and fruition for those who wish to meditate according to this system.
The people we've come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of ...
Green smoothies provide a way for us to correct these persistent imbalances and begin to discover what health actually feels like. "Green Smoothie Revolution" offers a wide variety of smoothie recipes as well as the nutrition and know-how behind the drinks.
En berättelse i två olika tidsplan, där en samling brev från 1200-talet med anknytning till filosofen Thomas ab Aquino och en problematisk kärleksrelation i nutid vävs samman. Claeson är på sitt bästa berättarhumör och visar en osviklig känsla för den italienska miljön.
May Fitzgerald suddenly has everything she's ever wanted. After years of feeling fat and frumpy and looking for love in all the wrong places, she finally has the life and man of her dreams. It all should be so perfect - she had followed her inner voice and it led her to the magical life she had dreamt of.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning.
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" comes a light-hearted, inspirational account of an encounter with a modern-day messiah. In "Illusions", Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that make our souls fly, showing that people don't need airplanes to soar, and that messiahs can be found everywhere.
Insight Dialogue is a way of bringing the tranquility and insight attained in meditation directly into your interactions with other people. It’s a practice that involves interacting with a partner in a retreat setting or on your own, as a way of accessing a profound kind of insight.
At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.
The noosphere, identified in the early twentieth century as intrinsic to the next stage of human and terrestrial evolution, is defined as the Earth’s “mental sphere” or stratum of human thought.
This introduction to the writing and preaching of the greatest medieval European mystic contains selections from his sermons, treatises, and sayings, as well as Table Talk, the records of his informal advice to his spiritual children.
Varje kapitel i Metronom handlar om ett århundrade och är namngivet efter en metrostation. Lorànt Deutsch låter metrokartan blottlägga Paris ryggrad och följa hur staden utvecklats från en liten ö i floden Seine till den världsstad vi känner i dag. På vägen möter vi galler och romare, kungar och drottningar, galenskap och hjältemod, krig och fred.
If you think your astrological fate is sealed by your Sun sign, think again! Your emotions, instincts, intuition, and mast private passions are dominated by your Moon sign. It throws light on such mysteries as why an Aquarian like Ronald Reagan is no radical, and why a Virgo like Raquel Welch is no virgin. Reagan's Moon is in conservative Taurus, and Welch's is in sexy Scorpio.
The Buddha taught meditation as the essential spiritual practice. Nothing else is more important. These classic teachings on the outlook and technique of meditation provide the foundation that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did
In this book Almaas demonstrates that healthy ego development is part of the continuum of spiritual development. He also establishes the possibility of attaining inner realization and developing our essential being—"the pearl beyond price"—in the context of living a normal human life.
Inspired by the bestselling editions of "The Complete Book of Raw Food," this edition includes more than 100 new raw-food recipes that are healthy, take very little time, and are simple to make.
Man behöver inte dö för att komma till helvetet. Det räcker med att vara på fel plats vid fel tillfälle. På ett av Varbergs berömda nakenbad för damer görs en fasansfull upptäckt. Under en bänk hittas kroppen av en man som blivit mördad.
Det till synes lokala brottet visar sig ha förgreningar långt utanför landets gränser. Dessutom finns en djupt bevarad hemlighet kopplad till mordet.
Tonåringar är ett säreget släkte. Svåra att nå, förstå och kommunicera med. Och vi vuxna vill stötta, hjälpa och vägleda dem … Vi vill att de ska få bli vuxna utan att slå sig alltför illa på vägen.Men hur pratar man om alkohol och droger? Och vad händer när de skaffar pojk- eller flickvän? Tänk om man misstänker att ens barn lider av ätstörningar, kanske mobbas eller bara stänger in sig med si