ΟΙ ΜΥΘΟΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΗΜΑΝΤΙΚΕΣ ΝΗΣΙΔΕΣ ΣΤΗ ΓΝΩΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ ΤΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ
Πέμπτη 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2011
Τετάρτη 2 Φεβρουαρίου 2011
Τρίτη 1 Φεβρουαρίου 2011
ESOTERIC AGENDA
Ένα ντοκιματέρ του Ben Stewart. To Esoteric Agenda αποκαλύπτει διάφορες πτυχές του συστήματος ή της Νέας Τάξης Πραγμάτων. Συγκεκριμένα, ασχολείται με την μείωση του παγκόσμιου πληθυσμού, την 11/9, τις αρχαίες προφητείες σχετικά με το 2012, τον πόλεμο του κόλπου, με μασονικά σύμβολα, τον παγανισμό και τη σχέση αυτού με όλες τις σύγχρονες θρησκείες. Στο τέλος της ταινίας, ασχολείται με την πνευματικότητα, το πραγματικό νόημα της ζωής και το πως λειτουργεί η φύση, σύμφωνα με την μέγιστη ενότητα.
SWAMI KRISHNANANDA - THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF YOGA - VOLUME 1
Patanjali's
Yoga Sutras are aphoristic prescriptions in the form of pithy one-liners for
leading the mind into deeper states of absorption in the state of Samadhi,where
the individual merges with the Absolute.A tranquil mind is a pre-requisite for
attaining the higher states of awareness and the Yoga Sutras are a graduated
manual for the achievement of this goal. The aphorisms in their original form
can not be undestood easily.Swami Krishnananda's commentary is easy to decipher
and reader friendly,lucid style probes into the aphorisms and lays before
seekers the approach to understanding the mind and it s machinations,and how
the hurdles that make meditation difficult can be overcome.The rendition and
style in which this has been made possible is a tribute to Swamiji s love for
truth. This series of two volumes is an all encompassing spirtual guide.The
teachings are progressive in content and begin where most seekers find
themselves when spiritual aspiration dawns and the need for higher
understanding is felt.Ther reader is led gradually through the different
aspects of practice and mind management. Volume I,which covers the Samadhi
Pada,the first of the four sections of the Yoga Sutras,and provides a good
introduction and in-depth understanding of the philosophy and practice of yoga
including the levels of consciousness that are attained,has been printed first.
Volume II covers the Sadhana Pada and Kaivalya Pada which go into further
detail about the practice of yoga using the aphoristic rungs of Patanjali Yoga
sutras as a veritable stairway on the path of the ascent of the spirit.Nothing
is left unsaid as Swamiji brings the teachings together in two volumes as a
complete treatise on this spiritual path.
MEDITACTICS MEDITATION
The trailer is about a free-to-download DVD. It is a complete guide to meditation in both theory and practice for everyone. From the complete beginner to the expert. It is also an extensive library on meditation, containing material from some of the absolute best scientists and teachers in the world, all recognised experts on the complex topic of meditation.
THUS HAVE I SEEN: VISUALIZING FAITH IN EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM
Although
Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some
of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the
Buddhist practitioner. In Indian Buddhist narratives from the early centuries
of the Common Era, most lay religious practice consists not of reading,
praying, or meditating, but of visually engaging with certain kinds of objects.
These visual practices, moreover, are represented as the primary means of
cultivating faith, a necessary precondition for proceeding along the Buddhist
spiritual path. In Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian
Buddhism, Andy Rotman examines these visual practices and how they function as
a kind of skeleton key for opening up Buddhist conceptualizations about the
world and the ways it should be navigated.
Rotman's
analysis is based primarily on stories from the Divyavadana (Divine Stories),
one of the most important collections of ancient Buddhist narratives from
India. Though discourses of the Buddha are well known for their opening words,
"thus have I heard" - for Buddhist teachings were first preserved and
transmitted orally - the Divyavadana presents a very different model for
disseminating the Buddhist dharma. Devotees are enjoined to look, not just
hear, and visual legacies and lineages are shown to trump their oral
counterparts. As Rotman makes clear, this configuration of the visual
fundamentally transforms the world of the Buddhist practitioner, changing what
one sees, what one believes, and what one does.
A HISTORY OF INDIAN BUDDHISM: FROM SAKYAMUNI TO EARLY MAHAYANA
This comprehensive and
detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the
results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most
renowned scholars of Buddhism. Relying on Pali and Sanskrit sources and on
inscriptions from archaeological sites and Chinese translations of Indian
texts, Hirakawa balances his review of early Buddhist doctrinal development
with extensive discussion of historical background and the evolution of
Buddhist institutions. The inclusion of Japanese and Western language
bibliographies together with an extensive bibliographic essay by the translator
should make this volume especially useful as an introduction to a large corpus
of Japanese scholarship on Buddhism which is still not widely known in the
West.
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