The Buddha's Path of Peace

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Gombrich
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Core ◽  
World Today ◽  
Introductory Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
The Buddha

The Buddha’s Path of Peace sets out the basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the so-called “Noble Eightfold Path”) wholly in the context of contemporary and everyday life, personal experience, human relationships, work, environmental concern and the human wish for peace. In this book, the core of the Buddha’s teaching is comprehensively cast in modern models of thought—borrowed from science and philosophy—and informed by contemporary concerns. The reader, who may be completely new to Buddhism, is accompanied along the Path with practical exercises that are fully explained. The Path begins with an introductory overview and then proceeds through Right Speech, Right Acting, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Concentration, Right Mindfulness, Right Understanding and Right Resolve, and concludes with a short chapter on the relevance of the Path to the multiple crises facing the world today. The reader is mentored throughout by practical meditational and contemplative exercises, with tables, diagrams, analogies and stories. Gradually the reader who has followed this handbook with commitment will feel the benefits of growing peacefulness, wisdom and compassion.

Abruptly Dogen

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kidder Smith
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The World ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Way

In the thirteenth century Dogen brought Zen to Japan. His tradition flourishes there still today and now has taken root across the world. Abruptly Dogen presents some of his pith writings—startling, shifting, funny, spilling out in every direction. They come from all seventy-five chapters of his masterwork, the Eye of Real Dharma (Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏), and roam through mountains, magic, everyday life, meditation, the nature of mind, and how the Buddha is always speaking from inside our heads. An excerpt from chapter 1, “A Case of Here We Are”: Human wisdom is like a moon roosting in water. No stain on the moon, nor does the water rip. However wide and grand the light, it still finds lodging in a puddle. The full moon, the spilling sky, all roosting in a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass. A man of wisdom is uncut, the way a moon doesn’t pierce water. Wisdom in a man is unobstructed, the way the sky’s full moon is unobstructed in a dewdrop. No doubt about it, the drop’s as deep as the moon is high. How long does this go on? How deep is the water, how high the moon?

Homiletical possibilities and challenges in Colossians

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-465
Author(s):  
Casey Thornburgh Sigmon
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
World Today ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Cosmic Order ◽  
The World ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church ◽  
Christian Society

Colossians shines a light onto how some early churches on the margins of society adjusted to everyday life in the midst of a non-Christian society. Engaging baptismal liturgy and hymnody, the Colossian authors instruct Christians in the Lycus Valley (western Turkey) to beware of philosophies and ascetic practices competing for their devotion. According to Colossians, the baptized are now living a new life in Christ, the head of the Church and cosmos. New fruit is visible evidence to the outside world of the cosmic reconciliation that occurred through the cross of Jesus Christ. As dramatic as the shift in cosmic order may seem in the first chapters of the letter, however, the latter half creates a challenge for the preacher. The authors seem to accommodate the radical new life in Christ to the wider Greco-Roman culture, resulting in a diminished role for women in the church and an acceptance of the slave–master dichotomy. Both accommodations in Colossians haunt our legacy as Christ’s Body in the world today.

Using God’s Name for the Mundane

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Horizontal Plane ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Divine Name

This chapter follows naturally out of the previous one in its presentation of a case of theology crystallizing into Jewish law. It examines various instances of concrete law that involve the divine name and its use in everyday life. The rabbinic allows for the exploitation of the most sacred for the most mundane, drawing the divine into the horizontal plane of human relationships. The first instance discussed is where classical rabbis allowed the name YHVH to form an integral part of the common salutation. The second examined is allowing the name’s effacement in order to repair a spousal breakdown. God disappears so that love can reappear. The third instance involves a battle to eradicate evil in the world. God’s name remains incomplete as long as that evil exists.

I Feel ‘Being Outcast’: A Case of Hura brasiliensis

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (04) ◽  
pp. 268-271
Author(s):  
Aman Goel
Keyword(s):  
Autoimmune Disease ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Case Based

AbstractThis is a case based on my personal experience at Cure Foundation, Meerut, with the remedy Hura brasiliensis. In accordance with the sensation way of practicing homeopathy, this case study reveals the essence of Hura brasiliensis, as a remedy while understanding the core value of Leprosy miasm in the autoimmune disease of psoriasis. Hura brasiliensis, being the principle remedy of Leprosy miasm, incorporates the sensation of ‘being outcast’ from the world and ‘being unfortunate’.

Reciprocity among “Decent Folk”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Rosenblum
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
World Today ◽  
Mutual Advantage ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Aspect ◽  
Complex Forms

This chapter talks about the principal defining characteristic of the democracy of everyday life: rough parity in give and take among neighbors. Reciprocity among “decent folk” fleshes out this facet of the democracy of everyday life, for “decent folk” carries a distinctive understanding of equality for the purposes of living side by side. Moreover, reciprocity cannot be reduced to the idea of mutual advantage because it has a fundamentally social and moral aspect: the shared project of a well ordered society. Historically and in some parts of the world today, reciprocity does shape many social interactions. But social scientists characterize it as the prelude to more complex forms of coordination and developed institutions.

OTRADNENSKYE READING 2020 IN VILLAGE IN KUBAN: REVIEW OF THE CONFERENCE MATERIALS TO THE 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KUBAN COSSACKS

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
I.Yu. Yurchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Local History ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
The South ◽  
Regional Society ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Science In Russia ◽  
The Village ◽  
Relevant Component

The reason for writing the article was the publication of a collection of materials from the anniversary readings of Otradnaya, dedicated in 2020 to the 160th anniversary of the formation of the Kuban Cossack army. The relevance of the study of local history and local historiography is determined by the latest trends in the development of historical science in Russia and in the world. Today, studies of the Cossack village everyday life in the South of Russia are an important and relevant component of agrarian history. Therefore, it is of great interest to study the historical, archival, local history and archaeological activities of the Otrad-nensky regional society of historians and archivists in the village of Otradnaya, Otradnensky district of the Krasnodar Territory.

scholarly journals Buddhism and Political Behaviour

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Ishwori Prasad Kandel
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Natural Form ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Core ◽  
Buddhist Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
The Buddha

The Buddha lived and taught 2.500 years before the field of psychology was established, but the teaching he left behind introduce wide-ranging and profound analysis of human behaviour that overlap. Buddhist Festivals are always joyful occasions. The most significant celebration takes place every May on the night of the full moon, when Buddhists all over the world celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha over 2,500 years ago. It has come to be known as Buddha Day. Buddhism, in its natural form, is not a religion; rather it is a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development. The Buddha intended his philosophy to be a practical one, aimed at the happiness of all creatures. While he outlined his metaphysics, he did not expect anyone to accept this on faith but rather to verify the insights for themselves; his emphasis was always on seeing clearly and understanding. To achieve this, however, requires a disciplined life and a clear commitment to liberation; the Buddha laid out a clear path to the goal and also observations on how to live life wisely. The core of this teaching is contained in the Noble Eightfold Path, which covers the three essential areas of Buddhist practice: ethical conduct, mental discipline and wisdom. The goals are to cultivate both wisdom and compassion; then these qualities together will enable one ultimately to attain enlightenment.

scholarly journals Neoteny - Japanese Cultural and Psychoanthropological Aspects: Otaku Subcultures and Maido Kissa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladen Cimesa
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biological Phenomenon ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
The Core ◽  
World Today ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Art And Culture

This paper deals with psychoanthropological research on the phenomenon of neoteny and its impact on manga and anime culture in Japan and beyond. Neoteny is, to put it simply, a "stretch of youth" and is present today in various forms and throughout the world. Today, Japan has become one of the most neotenized countries in the world. Neoteny itself, as a biological phenomenon, has transposed itself into other frameworks and has gained its place in popular Japanese art and culture, more precisely, it is now the core of a new subculture called Otaku. Otaku is a relatively young subculture in Japan, dating back to the 1980s. One average otaku is characterized by an abnormal attachment to the neotenized characters from the world of anime and manga and computer games, and is more individualistic and asocial. Maid's Café, on the other hand, is a place for Otaku's limbo as they experience the continuing fantasy of a relationship with a fictional character in a meeting with the staff there.

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

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