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50 Spiritual Classics merupakan kaleidoskop inspirasi yang
mengajak pembaca untuk menjelajahi gagasan para pemikir besar
spiritual. Dalam buku ketiga dari trilogi yang dimulai dengan buku
pemenang penghargaan 50 SELF-HELP CLASSICS, Tom Butler-Bowdon
menyimpulkan perjalanan pemenuhan diri dengan mengeksplorasi
literatur tentang penemuan diri, pencerahanm dan tujuan hidup.
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Master Cheng Yen dilahirkan di kota kecil bernama Chingsui di
Taiwan bagian tengah pada tahun 1973. Ketika berusia 23 tahun,
beliau meninggalkan rumah untuk menjadi seorang Bhiksuni.
Master Cheng Yen selalu menerapkan cara hidup yang sederhana dan
saleh. Agar dapat berhemat, beliau membuat lilin dan tepung sereal
yang terbuat dari kacang-kacangan untuk mempertahankan hidup.
Pada tahun1966, beliau mendirikan Yayasan Buddha Tzu Chi, dan
selama bertahun-tahun organisasi ini memusatkan kegiatan-
kegiatannya di bidang amal, kesehatan, pendidikan, budaya
kemanusiaan, bantuan internasional, donasi sumsum tulang,
sukarelawan komunitas, dan pelestarian lingkungan. Semua kegiatan
kemanusiaan tersebut dilakukan tanpa memandang perbedaan agama,
ras, suku, dan negara.
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The Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone is the earliest
teaching of the Buddha on living fully in the present moment. "To live
alone" means to live in mindfulness, to let go of the past and the
future, and to discover the true nature of all that is taking place in the
present moment. To live alone does not mean to isolate ourselves
from society. If we know how to live alone, we can truly be in touch
with people and know how to be of help to society. In his gentle and
clear style, Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that that our appointment
with life is in the present moment.
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IN THIS FRESH TRANSLATION and commentary, Thich Nhat Hanh
explores the essential teaching of Master Linji, one of the founders of
Zen Buddhism. Linji's unorthodox teachings remind us that insight is
better reached through our own experience and practice than by
following others.
With humor, skill, and compassion, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how we
can each get closer to the ideal person within us, the person who
simply is, with nothing to achieve and nowhere to be.
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Living with the Devil is Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on
humankind's greatest struggle- to become good. Batchelor traces the
trajectory- from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the
writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire
ant the fiction of Kafka -- that keep us from doing what's in our own
and other's best interests. He shows us the Myriad forms those
obstacles take: a wandering farmer, a caring friend, a devout religious
believer, a powerful king, even a frustrated old man who doodles in
the sand when he cannot snare the Buddha. The devil need not appear
with horns and a forked tail: he stands for everything that paralyzes
our innate wisdom, freedom, and empathy, thus blocking our paths in
life. Ia a world of black and white, Batchelor paints in shades of gray,
illustrating what it means to live in an ambiguous and precarious
environment that continually tempts ud from what we hold to be good.
Drawing on classic religious text from East and West, as well as the
findings of modern physics and evolutionary biology, Batchelor asks us
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Living with the Devil tells a poetic and provocative tale that weaves its
way among philosophy, religion, and science, and psychology, history,
and myth. This is a book that will challenge your attitudes, your
beliefs, the very way you live your life.
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Ini adalah sebuah buku tentang upaya menghadapi hidup, tentang
bersahabat dengan diri kita sendiri dan dunia kita, tentang
kemampuan menerima situasi yang menggembirakan maupun yang
menyakitkan, situasi untuk tidak meninggalkan sesuatu. Isi buku ini
mendorong kita agar bangkit seutuhnya terhadap apapun dan agar
kita menggunakan unsur-unsur kehidupan sehari-hari yang kaya dan
berlimpah sebagai guru kebatinan dan pemandu utama kita.
Pema Chodron adalah seorang bhiksuni Amerika dan salah satu murid
utama Chogyam Trungpa yang telah menunjuknya menjadi Kepala
Biara Gampo, sebuah biara Buddha untuk orang-orang Barat di Cape
Brento, Nova Scotia, pada tahun 1986.
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In Teaching on Love, Thich Nhat Hanh offers meditations on love, ways
to heal our relationships with our family and our own spiritual
traditions, and to ways to resolve conflicts. There are exercises and
traditional and contemporary stories designed to help us learn to love
ourselves, those we like, those neutral to us, and those who causes us
pain.
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Present Moment Wonderful Moment is an inspiring handbook of
gathas, or "mindfulness verses," with commentaries by Thich Nhat
Hanh and illustrations by internationally recognized artist, Mayumi
Oda. Reciting this poetic yet practically verses can help us slow down
and enjoyed each moment of our lives.
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The Heart of the Prajanaparamita Sutra is regarded as the essence of
Buddhist teaching. It is recited daily in Mahayana temples and practice
centers throughout the world. This translation and commentary are the
fruit of the author's more than 40 years of monastic study and
practice. Thich Nhat Hanh decribes the Heart Sutra as "Avalokitesvara
Bodhisattva's precious gift to us, the gift of fearlessness."
"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in
this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without
rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make
paper. If we look even more deeply, we can see the sunshine, the
logger who cut the tree, the wheat that became his bread, and the
logger's father and mother. Without all of these things, this sheet of
paper cannot exist. In fact, we cannot point to one thing that is not
here -- time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the
sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat, the mind. Everything co-exist
with this sheet sheet of paper. So we can say that the cloud and the
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THE FIVE MINDFULNESS TRAININGS are the basic statement of
ethics and morality in Buddhism. In For a Future to Be Possible, Zen
Master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh discusses these Five
Mindfulness Trainings and offers insight and challenges for how they
might play an important role in our personal lives and in society. Nhat
Hanh calls the Five Trainings a "diet for mindful society," and he hopes
that this book will launch a discussion, transcending sectarian
boundaries, on how we can agree upon and practice moral guidelines
that will allow us to sustain a compassionate and sane life together.
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In this extraordinary celebration of spirituality The Energy of Prayer
demonstrates the relevance of prayer in our daily lives. Thich Nhat
Hanh reveals how to energies of prayer and meditation allow us to
reconnect with our higher selves while satisfying our basic need to
connect with the world as a whole. With a generous spirit that
acknowledges the many different types and function of prayer, The
Energy of Prayer provides a guide for deepening our spiritual practice
through the use of prayer.
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What Would Buddha Do at Work menunjukkan bagaimana Buddha
dalam berbagai aspek dari dunia kerja masa kini, termasuk bagaimana
cara menghadapi bos yang sulit, melayani pelanggan, memfasilitasi
kelompok kerja, mempekerjakan orang yang tepat, menyediakan
kepemimpinan yang efektif, dan mengatasi perubahan yang terus-
menerus. Mengajarkan dengan menggunakan contoh, para penulis
buku ini mempersembahkan nilai-nilai berdasarkan praktek-praktek
bisnis berakar dalam dari kebijaksanaan Buddha yang tak mengenal
batasan waktu yang membimbing kita menuju jalur kepuasan pribadi
dan kesuksesan organisasi.
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Hidup di zaman modern ini membuat kita terus-menerus dibombardir
dengan informasi, dikendalikan oleh ambisi dan pemuasan diri, ditekan
oleh pengharapan dan tuntutan orang lain. Baik kita mengikuti arus,
berjalan menuju puncak, melangkah di atas orang yang lemah, atau
terinjak-injak. Satu hal yang pasti; semakin kita berjuang, semakin
kita merasa gelisah, frustasi, tidak puas, depresi... Di rumah, di
tempat kerja. Di mana-mana. Setiap saat.