English Buddha

In the latest installment of the Mingling in the CIA series, readers are introduced to Archie. Join Archie as he jaunts across the globe, generously funded by the U.S. government. Readers will continue to get a peek into the real lives of the officers in America's premier intelligence agency.

More than just another how-to manual relating to the independent film industry, in this book, Zen Filmmaker Scott Shaw, guides the reader towards understanding the deeper philosophical, psychological, and metaphysical realms of filmmaking via piercing articles and essays that detail not only his own experiences in the film industry but the interactions he has encountered via the actions and understandings of others. From this, the reader who desires to gain a deeper understanding of what the filmmaking process truly entails will be presented with facts known only to someone who has been an ...

Journey into the profound depths of wisdom and enlightenment with 'The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Unveiling the Core Wisdom of Enlightenment for Inner Peace.' This audiobook serves as a guiding light on your quest for inner serenity and understanding, as it invites you to explore the essence of Buddhist teachings.

The Thought Provoking writings presented in this book were originally published in the Scott Shaw Zen Blog 4.0. These writings discuss the realities of life, god, Zen, enlightenment, art, cinema, and existence in the way only Scott Shaw can present, allowing the reader to come to new understandings about life, interpersonal relationships, and spirituality.

They used to tell stories about Shangri-La, a land of peace and prosperity hidden in the heights of the Himalayas. In the adventure that lies ahead, Janet Locke doesn't find the mythical city, but she does find a new, joyous existence up on the roof of the world.

The Zen Musings of Scott Shaw on Life, Existence, Spirituality, Art, Film, and Consciousness. This book takes the reader deeply into the mind of ever-expanding human consciousness as it charts it way through the philosophies, observations, and experiences of one of the leading proponents of modern Zen, Scott Shaw. The Asian Journal of Zen writes, “The words presented in this book lead the reader to investigate their own thoughts, morals, and ideologies. Not only does it provide them with expansive food for thought, but also it guides them to come to a clearer conclusion about their own ...

The Buddha and Jesus Christ are two great spiritual leaders who founded two important world religions. Though they are similar in certain respects, they differ greatly one from the other as founders of religion, in the same way that their doctrines differ from one another. This paper aims at making a brief comparative study of these two great personages in their role as religious teachers.

Children will benefit from Dharmachari Nagaraja's appealing combination of warmth, wisdom, wit and playfulness in this third book from the At Bedtime series. Growing up in the modern world, our children can often feel distracted, stressed and anxious. The ancient wisdom of Buddhism, with its emphasis on peace, compassion and mindfulness, is the ideal basis for helping any child face the challenges of daily life with increased confidence and calm.

Marguerite Duras and Charles Bukowski were each dramatically shaped by their early life experiences, established in the environment of a dysfunctional family. From their early negative exposure and emotional indoctrination to life, Duras and Bukowski each developed as individuals who, at a young age, acted out behavior that was in direct conflict with the commonly accepted standard of their individual societal norms. From the moment these authors made the adolescent choices that they did, the rest of their physical and emotional existence was ultimately defined. What was created was a body ...

Even though he was one of the most influential men who ever walked the Earth, very little is known about the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the man we call the Buddha. His teachings were followed in India for 1,500 years and became the guiding principles of life for both rich and poor, high born and lower castes. Today the religion he founded is followed all over the world. Here is the fascinating story of his life from his youth as a privileged prince to his renunciation and his attainment of nirvana.

With the mysterious foster child, Angelia, dreams become real, and her latest dream plunges her and her siblings, Paul, Cesara, and Killian Brave into Mirrororrim, an alternate universe of magik, Firebirds, Dracowings, and warring kingdoms. In Mirrororrim, all the Braves are vested with powers and become swept up in the effort to save that world and its peoples from destruction and to find a way back to their home world. An epic fantasy, filled with humor, charm, peril, majesty, and love, you've never been in a dream realm like Mirrororrim.

This book contains life-changing events in Buddha's life, deep and meaningful stories that lead to evolution in the field of meditation. This books looks at all the important aspects of Buddha's life—his meditation, discoveries, and his life as a student, teacher, son, and husband. This book is made short in length on purpose so that all his work remains to the point. I have described Buddha as a spiritual leader, then just a character.

Heroically triumphing over her abusive ex who abducted their daughter, Luna, Diana Atestesso has to rise from the ashes. What more unlikely way to do that than to team up with her lost love, Finn, to build a bar named Sacred Hearts that unexpectedly becomes a haven for “freaks” of all kinds - a gonzo journalist, a drag-queen diva, a lesbian musical virtuoso, and Diana’s mentor, Selene, who embarks on an unexpected same-sex relationship in her twilight years? But not everyone joins the celebration.

Women are being murdered on campus. Thomas Yanter can't sleep, nor can he be certain that he's not the murderer. A model student with a secret, compromised past, Yanter's life is upended when the mysterious Tami of his high-school days resurfaces in his life, her presence drawing him ever closer to the epicenter of campus violence. Then, Yanter finds a pool of blood in a hidden underground passage and black pools his memory can't recover on the nights women were murdered. Is his obsession to find the true murderer - or his own true identity? Thomas is terrified that it might be both.

As a profound thinker, as the most profound thinker the world has ever known, the Buddha had two ways of speaking to people. At one time he would address them in words that expressed the utmost depth of his knowledge. At other times, he would tell them simple things within the compass of their ready understanding, in words that were taken from the ordinary speech used among themselves. In both modes of speech, he spoke what was true.

The Support Verses: Earliest Sayings of the Buddha is Christopher Carter Sanderson’s best English translation of the title of The Dhammapada, usually transliterated from its original language - Pali, a language older than Sanskrit. While some of the verses in it are in Pali, others have come to us only in Sanskrit. The Dhammapada could be considered the single most ubiquitous collection of the Buddha’s sayings in existence across all Buddhist traditions.

Buddha statues are objects worshipped in Buddhism.

Diana Atestesso has lost her daughter, her livelihood, and her peace of mind to her abusive ex-husband, Clay. Now she returns to the old Victorian mansion in the mountains where she was raised through a traumatic childhood, only to find that her ex is stalking her still. Now is the time to make a final stand. Now is the time Diana calls upon the Fire Golem.

In Why We Don't Awaken, Jennifer Schuitemaker treads on sacred ground by digging up the origins of ancient belief systems and ways of controlling our actions and behaviors in the world that are keeping us from experiencing ourselves as who we really are as total spiritual, emotional and physical beings.

Zen Buddhism: The Pathway to Nirvana provides the reader with a complete overview of the history and evolution of Buddhism -- from the birth and enlightenment of the Buddha onto the modern day. It then provides a complete how-to for all of the various meditation techniques employed by Zen Buddhism. Finally, this book details how the practitioner of Zen may rise to the ultimate plateau of Nirvana. This book is a compelling work by one of the most respected authors in the field.