Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

The Lamrim Chenmo, or Great Treatise on the Steps of the Path, by Je Tsongkhapa is a comprehensive overview of the process of individual enlightenment.

Is meditation an escape from--or a solution to--our psychological problems?

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This updated landmark volume makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were formative to a whole generation of American Zen teachers and students.

Dzogchen, or the "e;Great Perfection,"e; is considered by many to be the apex of Tibetan Buddhism, and Longchen Rabjam is the most celebrated of all the saints of this remarkable tradition.

The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time.

Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced.

We think of enlightenment as something that happens all at once, like a tidal wave that cleans away everything impure.

For centuries, Dzogchen - a special meditative practice to achieve spontaneous enlightenment - has been misinterpreted by both critics and malinformed meditators as being purely mystical and anti-rational.

Welcome and much-needed addition to the literature for psychotherapists, therapists-in-training, and occupational therapists and other types of teachers.

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Whether speaking of student or master, Zen hinges on the question.

Sure to be welcomed by caregivers of all types, the groundbreaking new Medicine and Compassion can help anyone reconnect with the true spirit of their caregiving task.

Chia Tao (779-843), an erstwhile Zen monk who became a poet during Chinas Tang dynasty, recorded the lives of the sages, masters, immortals, and hermits who helped establish the great spiritual tradition of Zen Buddhism in China.

Here, in a teaching of outstanding completeness and clarity, the Dalai Lama sets out the key principles of Buddhism, showing how the mind can be transformed, and suffering overcome, through love, compassion, and a true understanding of the nature of reality.

Luminous Mind is a remarkable compilation of the oral and written teachings of the late Kalu Rinpoche - who was called "e;a beacon of inspiration"e; by the Dalai Lama.

In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind.

Shodo Harada is internationally recognized both as a Zen teacher and as a world-class master of the fine art of Zen calligraphy.

The kitchen is the most vital place on Earth, because survival, even now in the age of iPads and large hadron colliders, still depends on wholesome, nutritious food.

Bhante Gunaratana - Bhante G.

Are a persons perceptions and values altered when facing the end of life?

When we break free from the habits that limit us, a new world of possibilities opens up.

Yogacara is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology that stems from the early Indian Mahayana Buddhist tradition.

"e;The practice of purification is one of the most important solutions to life's problems.

The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions.

A luxury, keep-sake edition of an ancient Chinese scripture This ancient text, fundamental to Taoism, has become a source of inspiration and guidance for millions in modern society.

A luxury, keep-sake edition of an ancient Chinese scripture This ancient text, fundamental to Taoism, has become a source of inspiration and guidance for millions in modern society.

For most Westerners, the Qur'an is a deeply foreign book.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Buddhism & Hinduism Premium Collection: The Light of Asia + The Essence of Buddhism + The Song Celestial (Bhagavad-Gita) + Hindu Literature + Indian Poetry" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing.

Parmenides - Plato - Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies.

One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten book.

Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy.

In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy.

This comprehensive new book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.

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In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue.

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno.

This volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, Negative Dialectics.

Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today.

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures.

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought.

This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.

In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.

In this new collection of recent essays, Habermas takes up and pursues the line of analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.

In this enormously influential book, Jurgen Habermas examines the deep tensions and crisis tendencies which underlie the development of contemporary Western societies and develops a powerful analysis of the legitimation problems faced by modern states.