Ergebnis für "Buddhism For Beginners" in Literatur & Belletristik

Luise, eine Buchhändlerin, ist immer in Sorge, anzuecken oder etwas furchtbar Peinliches zu tun. Und findet es dabei ziemlich anstrengend, nicht anstrengend sein zu wollen. Plötzlich tritt in dieses kleinlaute Leben ein buddhistischer Mönch, kahlrasiert und in Kutte. Er ist kein dauerlächelnder Glücksbringer, aber ein Ausbund an provozierender Gelassenheit: Es geraten zwei Leben an- und ineinander, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Und plötzlich wird Luises Leben komisch und abenteuerlich.

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikāya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pāli Canon, the authorised scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection - among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings - consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and shorter suttas of the other collections. 

Fans of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Peace is Every Step and Anger, and Deepak Chopra’s Buddha, will appreciate Hanh’s wisdom and storytelling in his novel The Novice, which contains universal themes that transcend all boundaries of faith, creed, country, and era. Through the parable of a young woman...

From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.