wisdom publications jun 2026 (3 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A powerful collection of poems from the bestselling creator of The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy.In Just This, beloved poet John Brehm returns with a rich and inclusive collection of his best poems. As he faces his own mortality and health challenges, Brehm offers us a moving, elegant, and refreshingly honest look at moments of beauty, pain, and insight in his own life. The collection also contains a substantial selection of poems from his previous books, allowing us to see the evolution of his work over the past twenty years, as his Dharma practice and his poetry practice become more integrated. For readers, the lively, accessible poems in Just This may come to feel like companionsoffering wisdom, comfort, and the blessed relief of laughteras they walk through the ten thousand joys and sorrows of their own lives.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Acclaimed author David Loy explores what has gone wrong with humanity and how we can fix it.Humanity's survival instincts worked great back when humans were few, primitive, and had to fight against the entirety of nature to survive. But those same instincts proved disastrous once humans began to organize themselves into complex societies. How did we manage We developed moral and ethical frameworks that kept societies functioning for centuries. But now, in the modern era, those frameworks again have proven unsatisfactoryrigid, inflexible, and often unable to accommodate new information and ideas. So some of us have turned to secularism and scientific progress, which have resulted in awesome technologiesmany of which improve our lives immensely, but some of which threaten our existence. E. O. Wilson sums up our quandary: "The real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology." Where do we go from here David Loy describes how today we are left with three primary worldviews competing for our allegiance. The first has the most adherents and includes traditional religious versions of cosmological dualism, including the promise (or threat) of individual post mortem salvation (or damnation). The second is secularism, supported by the physical sciences and offering a naturalistic understanding of the world that does not support any spiritual or afterlife transcendence. The third worldview regards the earth and its creatures as sacred, without the need for a "higher reality" to have created them. Humanity is one of the manifestations of a self-organizing cosmos that, according to some versions, is evolving to become more self-aware. According to this nondualist paradigm, everything is a manifestation of the sacred, which we can experience when we wake up from the delusion of being a separate self in an objectified world. This third view is our way out of the quandary, and Loy shows readers how this nondualist view has actually been with us longer than we think: within the more esoteric views woven through and among a wide variety of otherwise traditional religious traditions. Table of Contents Introduction What We Can Learn from Our Evolution An Inevitable Certainty Sexuality Beyond Freedom and Determinism How to Be an Ape Altruism and Tribalism Self-Domestication Civilization Religion Why Our Evolutionary Psychology Matters Today What We Could Have Learned from Our Religions The Axial Age Script/ure Transcendence The Birth of the Axial Age The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Why This Matters What We Need Today Shamanism Judaism Christianity Islam Vedanta Buddhism China Waking Up to the Dream Conclusion Touching the Earth Notes Index About the Author.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Truth and Knowledge in an Empty World, sixteen leading experts in Buddhist philosophy tackle complex problems of how we can gain reliable knowledge when both the knower and what is known are empty of any intrinsic identity.The Dutch-Canadian philosopher Tom J. F. Tillemans has been influential in the field of Buddhist philosophy for decades, and the seventeen contributions to this volume celebrate that influence by engaging some of his core ideas about the nature and possibility of truth and knowledge, particularly in the Madhyamaka stream of Buddhist thought initiated in India by Nagarjuna and continued by Tibetan philosophers. Should Buddhists refrain from analyzing quotidian truths and thus remain content with popular opinion Or should Buddhists seek ways to critique and reform customary truths in the interest of reducing ignorance If the latter, what criteria should guide the critique If, as Nagarjuna argues with his philosophy of emptiness, there are no metaphysical foundations for our epistemological practices, then to what may a Buddhist appeal in asserting that a given statement is either true or false Readers will find here arguments about how such truths may be saved from what Tom has labeled the "dismal slough" of abject relativism. Tillemans has offered a variety of such solutions in his publications over the years, and here scholars extend his analyses, at times vehemently disagreeing and at other times suggesting nuanced extension or improvement of his ideas. As a tribute to Tillemans, the book highlights what has been central to his work: the unceasing commitment to questioning received wisdom. As the volume's editor, Sara McClintock has provided a marvelous introduction that provides both an account of Tillemans' life and intellectual journey and a taste of the immense pleasure that may arise when having a philosophical conversation with Tom Tillemans. Contents Preface Introduction: Conversations with Tom Tillemans Part 1. Truth Epistemology for Madhyamikas: How Many Hairs Are Falling Jay L. Garfield Candrakirti on the Couch: Why Madhyamikas Need Analysis Mark Siderits Materials for the Study of Cowherds: Are Their Beliefs Normative for Candrakirti Dan Arnold Candrakirti's Tripartite Theory of Conventional Truths: A Case Against Typical-Atypical Readings Sonam Thakchoe Part 2. Knowledge Can Emptiness Be Understood Philosophically Jose Ignacio Cabezon Self-Knowledge and Attachment: A View from Madhyamaka Jonardon Ganeri Bhaviveka's Proof Formulation in Light of Dignaga's Logic Shoryu Katsura Stairway to Ultimate Truth: Gyamarwa's Reinterpretation of the Satyadvayavibha ga Chizuko Yoshimizu On Levels in Madhyamaka John Dunne One, Many, or Neither Neither-One-Nor-Many Arguments in Dharmakirti's Philosophy of Mind Birgit Kellner Negative Dialectics in Madhyamaka Practice Kenneth Liberman Symmetric Existential Dependence Relations in Madhyamaka Jan Westerhoff Part 3. World Whose World Is This Reflections on Customary Truth Sara McClintock The World Is Not Enough: An Early Tibetan Discussion on the Division of Customary Truth Pascale Hugon Unity of the Two Truths: Some Sources and Implications of a Central Buddhist Tantric Doctrine David Higgins Part 4. Reflections and Responses On Truth, Knowledge, Typical/Atypical Madhyamaka Philosophies, and the Science of Tuesdays Tom J. F. Tillemans Index About the Contributors.