[PDF] Miner Wisdom eBook

Author : Karl Brunnholzl
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1559393955

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Maitreya’s Distinction between Phenomena and the Nature of Phenomena distinguishes the illusory phenomenal world of saṃsāra produced by the confused dualistic mind from the ultimate reality that is mind’s true nature. The transition from the one to the other is the process of “mining for wisdom within delusion.” Maitreya’s text calls this “the fundamental change,” which refers to the vanishing of delusive appearances through practicing the path, thus revealing the underlying changeless nature of these appearances. In this context, the main part of the text consists of the most detailed explanation of nonconceptual wisdom—the primary driving force of the path as well as its ultimate result—in Buddhist literature. The introduction of the book discusses these two topics (fundamental change and nonconceptual wisdom) at length and shows how they are treated in a number of other Buddhist scriptures. The three translated commentaries, by Vasubandhu, the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, and Gö Lotsāwa, as well as excerpts from all other available commentaries on Maitreya’s text, put it in the larger context of the Indian Yogācāra School and further clarify its main themes. They also show how this text is not a mere scholarly document, but an essential foundation for practicing both the sūtrayāna and the vajrayāna and thus making what it describes a living experience. The book also discusses the remaining four of the five works of Maitreya, their transmission from India to Tibet, and various views about them in the Tibetan tradition.

Author : Steve Langford
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1698707827

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Five ancient stories, woven together by genealogical tables, are recorded in Genesis 1-11. Author and spiritual guide Steve Langford explores these ancient stories and genealogies, identifying the ancient wisdom and spiritual truths they reflect. The author walks the reader through each story and then identifies the timeless truths reflected in them. The book takes the reader beyond a casual, superficial reading of the stories, guiding the reader into unexplored depths where the stories’ riches are found.

Author : Christopher Scotton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455551937

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"A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." - John Grisham "A page-turner." - New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the "company" and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains. *Includes Reading Group Guide*