Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Eastern

In arriving at the heart of Buddhist philosophy, Nolan Pliny Jacobson attempts to eliminate some of the confusion in the West (and perhaps in the East as well) concerning the Buddhist view of what is concrete and ultimately real in the world.

Jacobson presents N g rjuna, the Plato of the Buddhist tradition, as the major exemplar of the Buddhist expression of life. In his comparison of Buddhism and Western theology, Jacobson demonstrates that some efforts in Western religious thought approach the Buddhist empirical stance.

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Sun Tzu's ideas on survival and success have been read across the world for centuries. Today they can still be applied to business, politics and life. The Art of War demonstrates how to win without conflict. It shows that with enough intelligence and planning, it is possible to conquer with a minimum of force and little destruction.

This luxury hardback edition includes an introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon that draws out lessons for managers and business leaders, and highlights the power of Sun Tzu's thinking in everyday...

'Essays in Truth - Glimpses into Reality' By Nick Roach & Sally Powell.

"Nick Roach has once again provided us with a profusion of provocative thoughts and stimulating speculations as to our true nature. Nick isn't shy about declaring his own Enlightenment. He states with razor-sharp clarity what enlightenment is and isn't, and how any of us can drop our resistance to Enlightenment at any moment, by simply becoming aware of where we are and what we are feeling. If Nick is right, Enlightenment is not at all what most Enlightened' teachers say it is, but instead is both more...

""The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywhere must be the soil in which the new humanism can thrive."" For Daisaku Ikeda, whose words these are, education has long been one of the fundamental priorities of his work and teaching. And his emphasis on the intellectual legacy bequeathed to humanity by the great teachers of civilization is in this volume encapsulated by the notion of a ""new humanism"": a significant residue of wisdom that in the right circumstances may be passed on to future generations, expanding horizons, making connnctions between different cultures and...