Through the Open Door To the Vastness of Your True Being - Eckhart Tolle

Through the Open Door To the Vastness of Your True Being - Eckhart Tolle

Once you've experienced the power of the present moment, what's next? Eckhart Tolle, who ignited a spiritual awakening in the West with his bestselling The Power of Now, invites you to join him on a path that takes us even further into the profound experience of pure presence. Through the Open Door is Eckhart's highly anticipated return to audio, featuring new teachings on:

• Achieving Space Consciousness—learning to focus on the underlying field from which all forms and thoughts arise
• Refining your alertness to become alive and present with every cell of your body
• The illusions that lead to suffering, spiritual longing, and the need for more time in our lives—and how to dispel them
• How to discover true liberation beyond the limits of the thinking mind and the little self

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Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity

Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
Apart from the exiled Dalai Lama, who is living in India, Tibetan Buddhism has various other spiritual leaders. One of them is the leader of the Karmapa sect, whose birth was already
predicted by the first Buddha, Siddharta Gautama. When the sixteenth reincarnation of the Karmapa leader died in the United States in 1981, monks start a search for the next reincarnation. Ten years later, representatives of the Chinese government in Tibet say they have found him, but an alternative candidate is pushed forward in India. This is the onset of a fierce political sparring. All in all, the production of this double portrait of both hallowed youngsters took six years. Prior to the shooting period from 1994 to 1997, director Arto Halonen (1964) had to wait for three years for permission by the Chinese authorities to film in Tibet, but he concealed the fact that the Dalai Lama and the second intended Karmapa leader, also living in exile in India, would be in his film, too.

A unique, award-winning documentary on the Karmapa and how China used him as a
springboard for its politics that has led to the violation of religious rights. On another level, the film tells the story of the existence of two rival candidates for the title of Karmapa and how the situation of two Karmapas provoked an internal crisis within the Buddhist denomination, as proponents split into different camps. The documentary was made between 1994 -1998 in Tibet, China and India and features the Dalai Lama as well as representatives of the Chinese Government.

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The Origins of Om Manipadme Hum: A Study of the Karandavyuha Sutra

The Origins of Om Manipadme Hum: A Study of the Karandavyuha Sutra
Om Manipadme Hum, perhaps the most well-known and most widely used of all Buddhist mantras, lies at the heart of the Tibetan system and is cherished by both laymen and lama alike. This book presents a new interpretation of the meaning of Om Manipadme Hum, and includes a detailed, annotated precis of Karandavyuha Sutra, opening up this important work to a wider audience. The earliest textual source is the Karandavyuha Sutra, which describes both the compassion of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva whole power the mantra invokes, and the mythical tale of the search and discovery of the mantra. Through a detailed analysis of this sutra, Studholme explores the historical and doctrinal forces behind the appearance of Om Manipadme Hum in India at around the middle of the first millennium c.e. He argues that the Karandavyuha Sutra has close affinities to non-Buddhist puranic literature, and that the conception of Avalokitesvara and his six-syllable mantra is influenced by the conception of the Hindu deity Siva and his five-syllable mantra Namah Sivaya. The Karandavyuha Sutra reflects historical situation in which the Buddhist monastic establishment was coming into contact with Buddhist tantric practitioners, themselves influenced by Saivite practitioners.

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The Buddha comes to Sussex (1979)

The Buddha comes to Sussex (1979)
A report made about Ajahn Chah's visit in England at the end of the 70s when Ajahn Sumedho and the other monks have just moved into Chithurst to set up a forest monastery there.

A small village in west Sussex is faced with the strange prospect of saffron-robed Buddhist monks in its midst. they have just set up their first western sanctuary for training along strict traditional lines.part of their tradition is to rely for their food on the local villagers: but how would Sussex villagers react when a column of monks file past with their alms bowls. this everyman report attempts to explain what they do and why and the reaction of the village to their new neighbours.

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Analytical Buddhism: The Two-Tiered Illusion of Self

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Analytical Buddhism: The Two-Tiered Illusion of Self - Miri Albahari
The author, a lecturer in philosophy, argues that there is no self, drawing on Buddhism, Western philosophy, and neuroscience.

It is not unusual for Western philosophers to deny existence to the self. Following Hume and James, such philosophers have denied the self existence by treating as illusory its supposed unity and unbroken persistence. These qualities are deemed mere fictions, borne from imagination and acting upon a bundle of discrete thoughts, feelings and perceptions. In this book, Albahari also denies existence to the self, but with a new twist: unity and unbrokenness are argued to be real qualities native to consciousness. Consciousness merges with desire-driven thought and emotion to create the impression of a separate and unified self; separateness, not unity, makes the self illusory. Albahari draws this "two-tiered" model of the self-illusion from Canonical sources in Theravada Buddhist literature, augmenting it with research from neurology. Since scholars usually ascribe a "bundle theory" of no-self to Buddhism, Albahari offers a fresh perspective on this central Buddhist "no-self" concept.

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Lecture on Alan Watts & Zen. Dualism - Donna Quesada

Lecture on Alan Watts & Zen. Dualism - Donna Quesada
Professor Donna Quesada from Santa Monica College - lecture on Alan Watts & Zen Buddhism. Part 1 of 5. March 10th 2008 @ L.A. Library.

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Capitalism, Socialism, and Income Inequality - The Dalai Lama

Capitalism, Socialism, and Income Inequality - The Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, gives his perspective on capitalism, Marxism, and the widening global gap between rich and poor.

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