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Esiste una "psicologia" Buddhista? Per molti anni si è tentato di negare che il "pensiero orientale" fosse in grado di produrre ciò che in Occidente viene chiamata "filosofia". Certamente, essendo un termine di derivazione greca, si è ritenuto che il semplice atto di pensare e sistematizzare un pensiero sulla base di un preciso metodo fosse una prerogativa dei civilizzati occidentali, opposti agli "altri", tribali, orientali, e così via. Quando il pensiero buddhista è stato capito e studiato più approfonditamente, ci siamo resi conto però che esso non solo strutturava un preciso apparato filosofico, ma che il suo interesse principale era proprio capire come funziona l'umano, il suo essere nel mondo e percepire le cose del mondo. Volendo dunque trovare una "terapia", un percorso (magga) terapeutico per impedire che scorrette abitudini portino a ulteriore sofferenza (dukkha), non è forse corretto definire il pensiero buddhista una psicologia, e la pratica buddhista una psicoterapia? In questo testo l'autore si cimenta in un'analisi introduttiva del pensiero buddhista, basandosi principalmente sui testi originali del canone antico, regalandoci delle lezioni sulla psicologia buddhista non filtrate dalla riduzione e dal pensiero comparativo operato da forme moderne di sincretismo, come ad esempio la mindfulness, fornendo dunque uno strumento indispensabile per tutti gli psicologi o gli operatori nel campo di discipline orientali come lo yoga o la meditazione che vogliano conoscere più nel profondo ciò che mettono in pratica.

Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationTo tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for the sake of stories that everyone lives on this earth.Yahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom.Her days are measured out making elaborate religious papercuts, taking part in highly charged tug-of-war competitions between the faiths and trying to resist the daily temptation to return to secular life and abandon the ascetic ideals that are her calling. Everything seems to dangle by a thread. But when she meets a Daoist student called Mingzheng, an inexorable romance of mythic proportions takes hold of her.In this profoundly otherworldly novel, Chinese master Yan Lianke remakes the campus novel in typically visionary fashion, dropping readers into an allegorical world ostensibly far from our own, but which reflects our own questions and struggles right back at us.** Beautiful edition illustrated throughout with beautiful original papercuts **'One of China's greatest living authors' Guardian'His talent cannot be ignored' New York Times'China's foremost literary satirist' Financial Times

"In this ancient tale of one of the Buddha's past lives, the Buddha is born as a little gray parrot who takes it upon herself to save her beloved forest home from a raging fire. Even though she can only sprinkle drops of water onto the blaze, her perseverance, courage, and compassion change everything, eventually saving the forest in an unexpected way."--Back cover.

The Karma BusTM - Healthy House, Healthy Mind!The Jones family build a new environmentally healthy and self-sufficient home. Through the building process, self-esteem and peer group issues are discussed.

The Karma BusTM - Are You Listening?The Jones family explore themes of following instructions and the consequences of not listening.

The Karma BusTM - Mr and Mrs Positive!Once again, the Jones family take you on a journey with the parents Steve and Jane 'nicknamed' "Mr and Mrs Positive". The benefits of a positive attitude are canvassed in detail.

The Karma BusTM - Happy House, Sad House!The Jones family are happy and appreciate what they have; consequently The Karma Bus brings them many positive events that slowly transform their dilapidated home.The Smith family are negative and unappreciative of life; consequently, the Karma Bus brings them ongoing events of misfortune with their home slowly deteriorating.

The Karma BusTM - The Crystal Cavern! The final book in The Karma Bus series takes the Jones family on a magical journey with a flying Karma Bus taking them deep into a crystal cavern. Throughout the journey, basic meditation breathing and positive affirmations are practiced.

The Karma BusTM - You Are What You Eat! Living in the new environmentally sustainable home from book five, the Jones family have detailed discussions about the impact of food on our emotions and physical wellbeing. The family builds an elaborate vegetable garden and chook house. Aquaponics is also discussed.

?A teen thriller in the vein of the '90s horror movie The Craft . . . A beautiful meditation on meditation . . . Frequently hilarious, and thoughtful throughout.? ?The New York Times Book Review"The Lightness could be the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French, but its savage, glittering magic is all Emily Temple's own." ?Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists A Belletrist Book Club Pick! A Most Anticipated Novel by Entertainment Weekly • USA Today • Marie Claire • Elle • WSJ. Magazine • Glamour • Vulture • Bustle • Buzzfeed • The Millions • The Philadelphia Inquirer • Minneapolis Star Tribune • The Daily Beast • Refinery 29 • Publishers Weekly • Literary Hub • Electric Literature • and more!A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, and the female body that shimmers with rage, wit, and fierce longing?an audacious, darkly observant, and mordantly funny literary debut for fans of Emma Cline, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Jenny Offill.One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother?a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial?Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center.Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as ?Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls?. Soon, she finds herself drawn into the company of a close-knit trio of girls determined to transcend their circumstances, by any means necessary. Led by the elusive and beautiful Serena, and her aloof, secretive acolytes, Janet and Laurel, the girls decide this is the summer they will finally achieve enlightenment?and learn to levitate, to defy the weight of their bodies, to experience ultimate lightness. But as desire and danger intertwine, and Olivia comes ever closer to discovering what a body?and a girl?is capable of, it becomes increasingly clear that this is an advanced and perilous practice, and there's a chance not all of them will survive. Set over the course of one fateful summer that unfolds like a fever dream, The Lightness juxtaposes fairy tales with quantum physics, cognitive science with religious fervor, and the passions and obsessions of youth with all of these, to explore concepts as complex as faith and as simple as loving people?even though you don't, and can't, know them at all.?A suspenseful debut.? ?People Pick

""Any deep, committed relationship can be a springboard for your liberation or a prison that traps you. The power to make it one or the other always lies within you." That's the fifth rule of Ten. Tenzing Norbu and his fiancee, Julie, eagerly await the arrival of Ten's best friends, Yeshe and Lobsang, his boyhood chums who have since become the Head Abbots at Ten's former monastic home in India. Ten has helped Yeshe and Lobsang organize a fund-raising event sponsored by the Los Angeles Buddhist temple where Tenzing first taught years ago--before shedding his robes to pursue a career as a cop. The fund-raiser's big attraction is the unveiling of a sacred sand-painted mandala that the monks have constructed in the center of the temple. At the premiere, however, a group of hooligans commit an outrageous act that catapults the story into action. To complicate matters, one of the novice lamas--a brilliant protege of Lobsang's--goes missing at the event's culmination. Soon a series of strange crimes besets the city. Each crime is unique--some physical, some cyber--but all are mysteriously interconnected. Ten's attempts to crack the case pull him into a dark mirror-world of his sacred Tibetan Buddhist tradition; soon he's engaged in a life-and-death battle with a powerful shadow presence. He joins forces with Yeshe; Lobsang; his ex-partner Bill; and his hack-tivist buddy, Mike, to track down the Patient Zero of this epidemic of criminal chaos. Finally, he must face the truth: the source of the evil, and the solution, are a lot closer to home than he ever imagined"--

Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work, Siddhartha integrates Eastern and Western spirituality, psychology, and sensibilities in a simple, moving tale. Includes as essay on Buddhism by Alan Watts.

This book is appropriate for academic and practitioners who are interested in understanding Muslim interaction in online space. The book provides insight on how Muslim scholars have used online space for preaching activities in particular in Indonesia context. Many of Islam preachers become famous in short time and have million followers or viewers on social media sites. More and more Muslim enjoy religious preaching from online sources. This has created a new phenomenon in Islamic teaching delivery. At the same time, this phenomenon has also created new space for Muslim scholars and institutions to practicing research in online space to understand Muslim interaction in online space. Some strategies and benefits to practicing research in understanding Muslim in online space are discussed. However, few Muslim has also misused online space for radicalism activities, such as to recruit new members, solicit a donation, disseminate a radical ideology, etc. Readers who interested to understand Muslim activities in online space are encouraged to read this book.

A spellbinding literary thriller packed with psychological suspense and profound questions about motherhood, trauma and how death illuminates life.--Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past BeginsBarbara Graham is a literary alchemist. What Jonah Knew not only grabs you from the first page, it makes the mystical believable and the human predicament shine with wit, wisdom, and love.--Tara Brach, meditation teacher and bestselling author of Radical Acceptance and Radical CompassionA seven-year-old boy inexplicably recalls the memories of a missing 22-year-old musician in this psychological thriller about the fierce love between mothers and sons across lifetimes, a work of gripping suspense with a supernatural twist that will mesmerize fans of Chloe Benjamin and Lisa Jewell.Helen Bird will stop at nothing to find Henry, her musician son who has mysteriously disappeared in upstate New York. Though the cops believe Henry's absence is voluntary, Helen knows better. While she searches for him--joined finally by police--Jonah is born to Lucie and Matt Pressman of Manhattan. Lucie does all she can to be the kind of loving, attentive mother she never had, but can't stop Jonah's night terrors or his obsession with the imaginary other mom and dog he insists are real.Whether Jonah's anxiety is caused by nature or nurture--or something else entirely--is the propulsive mystery at the heart of the novel. All hell breaks loose when the Pressmans rent a summer cottage in Aurora Falls, where Helen lives. How does Jonah, at seven, know so much about Henry, Helen's still-missing son? Is it just a bizarre coincidence? An expression of Jung's collective unconscious? Or could Jonah be the reincarnation of Henry? Faced with more questions than answers, Helen and Lucie set out to make sense of the insensible, a heart-stopping quest that forces them to redefine not just what it is to be a mother or a human being, but the very nature of life--and death--because of what Jonah knows.

This monograph provides information about the basics of Islamic jurisprudence, its role in Islamic science, the importance of the scientific heritage of Husamuddin al-Akhsikathi, the contribution of «Al-Muntakhab al-Husami»to the Fergana school of jurisprudence. The book also examines the scientific environment during the scholar's lifetime, commentaries on the scholarly legacy of Husamuddin al-Akhsikathi, and the copies preserved in the World Manuscripts Fund today, among others. The appendix to the monograph includes the Arabic text of ¿Al-Muntakhab al-Husami".

The aim of this study is to sketch out the main policies formulated by the EU in the last 10-15 years in an attempt to fill the gap created by its previously negligent attitude towards the immigration phenomenon, from its inception in the 1950s up to the 1990s, the decade when Europe suddenly awoke to the necessity of addressing the challenges posed by heavy migration flows. Before the EU started to contain such flows, the Member States had to deal with their new ¿guests'' on their own. This situation is examined in the first part of this study, along with an introduction to various meanings of integration models. Part II looks at attempts at the EU level to harmonise the integration policies of its members.The last part closes with a focus on Muslim immigrants in Europe since the 1950s, and how they have been (dis-)integrated, or are still undergoing a process of integration, and what challenges this process brings. The study ends with a call for a greater understanding of the essence of the issue under focus. This is a well-argued introductory work for students and academics interested in Muslim immigration and EU integration policies.