Author: Brendan Lloyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 1925681157
Category: Religion
Page: 34
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O-M-G, Om-inspired poetry? You heard right! Or maybe you didn't hear. Written while in an altered state, this is as close to 'divine inspiration' as you can get without getting 'Out of This World' (gee, why does that sound somehow familiar?). Mantras just became a whole lot more useful! Here's hoping this pocket-sized poetry book finds its way into your permanent (or impermanent) collection - and that Buddhists find a way to 'make it' in the West. There's only one Dalai Lama, but many ignorant Westerners. Don't spend hours contemplating the word 'Om', spend hours contemplating inspiration and insight from the word Om! Your mileage may vary - sorry, no refunds.
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004379299
Category: History
Page: 829
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This volume collects essays which are thematically connected through the work of Kent Emery Jr., to whom the volume is dedicated. A main focus lies on the attempts to bridge the gap between mysticism and a systematic approach to medieval philosophical thought.
Author: Mark Verman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9781438422886
Category: History
Page: 283
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The earliest medieval Jewish mystical writings, or kabbalah, date from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. This is the first book to focus on the most prodigious group active at that timethe Circle of Contemplation. The Circle of Contemplation generated a mystical theology that differs radically from mainstream kabbalistic theosophy. Two of this groups penetrating speculations on God and the origins of the universe are The Book of Contemplation and The Fountain of Wisdom. A meticulous and systematic study of these writings forms the core of this book.
Author: Harvey P. Alper
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0887065996
Category: Religion
Page: 356
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This book explicates the origin, nature, function, and significance of mantras within the bounds of the Hindu tradition. It explores the use of mantras in the Vedic age, in Saivism and Vaisnavism, in Tantra, and in Ayurvedic medicine.
Author: Swami Chinmayananda
Publisher: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
ISBN: 9788175975750
Category:
Page:
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How does one control and quieten the mind? How does one relieve the mind from tension and stress and take it to a state of joy and peace? How do we break free from our sense of limitaion and fear? In the 'Art of Contemplation', Swami Chinmayananda answers all these questions and gives six simple exercises which, if practised regularly, would enable us to control, quieten and free the mind. Swamiji shows how the body must first be quietened, then how to start chanting the mantra, what the various methods of chanting are, how to witness the body and the mind, how to get rid of negative emotions, and finally, how to reach the state of completeness - the absolute peace and happiness.
Author: Triloki Nath Dhar
Publisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 8176485764
Category: Religious biography
Page: 372
View: 202
Kashmir Has Been A Land Of Saints, Savants And Sages-Some Belonged To The Buddhist Faith-Some Advocated Shaiva Philosophy, Some Were Sufis And Some Were Saint-Poets. The Volumes Gives A Glimpse Of This Tradition Through An Account Of It Selected Sages From Kashmir And Lead Us To Divinity.
Author: Stephen M. Metzger
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004342477
Category: History
Page: 758
View: 558
In Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Master, on Knowledge, Wisdom and Contemplation, Stephen M. Metzger presents for the first time a comprehensive account of the life, works and theory of knowledge of the thirteenth-century theologian Gerard of Abbeville.
