43 Results for : ascetics
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The Royal Question: The Mystical Captive Series (Volume 3) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 278min
What is the Royal Question if not the final and most important question we must all ask about our lives here upon the earth? In the third and final audiobook of The Mystical Captive' series, we have traveled from the primordial Garden of Eden to the now fallen world of our mothers, our fathers, ourselves. Now that we understand that which we have lost, is it possible for it to be restored, renewed? How can such a thing be done in a fallen world? Through the great sacrifice of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. But yet, this, too, is much too simplistic. You must understand the question. You must then understand the mechanism. You must then understand the renewal. Whence the Royal Question is answered properly by the soul, they are now fit to enter into the Royal Family of God shared by the Prophets, Mystics, Sages, Seers and Ascetics of all ages and of all religions. Hope remains despite the fall of man, but we must seek it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Spencer Bryant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013937/bk_acx0_013937_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Meditations for a New Earth, Hörbuch, Digital, 157min
One of the most telling signs that we are creating what Eckhart Tolle calls a "new earth" is the increasing interest in meditation. Once a practice intended for monks and ascetics, meditation is now open to everyone as a powerful pathway to awakened consciousness. In Meditations for a New Earth, Eckhart's teaching partner, Kim Eng, presents eight guided practices that let you go deeper into "the formless awareness that has already awakened within you". Whether you are an experienced meditator or just starting out, Kim Eng brings you a program of valuable insights and techniques, including: How to structure your practice so you are not "doing" meditation but instead "allowing" it to give rise to presence Eight guided meditations, including practices for dissolving the pain - body, breathing, meditating in nature, and more Ten "mini meditations" to turn your daily routine into an opportunity for awakening How to experience the true purpose of meditation - opening to a life of spacious awareness If you're like millions of listeners, you may wonder how you can participate in the transformation of consciousness that Eckhart Tolle describes in A New Earth. Now, with Meditations for a New Earth, you can discover a series of powerful and time-honored practices for liberating your awareness from the labyrinth of thought - and opening to a state of pure presence. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Kim Eng, Eckhart Tolle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/true/000760/sp_true_000760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The First Firangis: Remarkable Stories of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 878min
The Indian subcontinent has been a land of immigrants for thousands of years: waves of migration from Persia, Central Asia, Mongolia, the Middle East and Greece have helped create India's exceptionally diverse cultural mix. In the centuries before the British Raj, when the Mughals were the preeminent power in the subcontinent, a wide array of migrants known as 'firangis' made India their home. In this book, Jonathan Gil Harris, a 21st-century firangi, tells their stories. These gripping accounts are of healers, soldiers, artists, ascetics, thieves, pirates and courtesans who were not powerful or privileged. Often they were escaping poverty or religious persecution; many were brought here as slaves; others simply followed their spirit of adventure. Some of these migrants were absorbed into the military. Others fell in with religious communities - the Catholics of Rachol, the underground Jews of Goa, the fakirs of Ajmer, the Sufis of Delhi. Healers from Portugal and Italy adapted their medical practice in accordance with local traditions. Gifted artisans from Europe joined Akbar's and Jahangir's royal ateliers and helped create enduring works of art. And though almost invisible within the archival record, some migrant women, such as the Armenian Bibi Juliana and the Portuguese Juliana Dias da Costa, found a home in royal Mughal harems. Jonathan Gil Harris uses his own experience of becoming Indian through the process of acclimatizing to the country's culture, customs, weather, food, clothes and customs to bring the stories of these shadowy figures to vivid life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029047/bk_adbl_029047_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2842min
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. The Majjhima Nikaya might be concisely described as the Buddhist scripture that combines the richest variety of contextual settings with the deepest and most comprehensive assortment of teachings. These teachings, which range from basic ethics to instructions in meditation and liberating insight, unfold in a fascinating procession of scenarios that show the Buddha in living dialogue with people from many different strata of ancient Indian society: with kings and princes, priests and ascetics, simple villagers and erudite philosophers. Replete with drama, reasoned argument, and illuminating parable and simile, these discourses exhibit the Buddha in the full glory of his resplendent wisdom, majestic sublimity and compassionate humanity. The translation is based on an original draft translation left by the English scholar-monk Bhikkhu Ñānamoli, which has been edited and revised by the American monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, who provides a long introduction and helpful explanatory notes. Combining lucidity of expression with accuracy, this translation enables the Buddha to speak across 25 centuries in language that addresses the most pressing concerns of the contemporary listener seeking clarification of the timeless issues of truth, value and the proper conduct of life. Winner of the 1995 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award and the Tricycle Prize for Excellence in Buddhist Publishing for Dharma Discourse. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Taradasa. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000239/bk_dhrm_000239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min
Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple.Growing up a 90-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. While in college, Matthew decided the time had come to pursue this quixotic dream before it was too late. Much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism.Expecting to find an isolated citadel populated by supernatural ascetics that he had seen in countless badly dubbed chop-socky flicks, Matthew instead discovered a tacky tourist trap run by Communist party hacks. But the dedicated monks still trained in the rigorous age-old fighting forms - some even practicing the "iron kung fu" discipline, in which intensive training can make various body parts virtually indestructible-even the crotch. As Matthew grew in his knowledge of China and kung fu skill, he would come to represent the temple in challenge matches and international competitions, and ultimately the monks would accept their new American initiate as close to one of their own as any Westerner had ever become.Laced with humor and illuminated by cultural insight, American Shaolin is an unforgettable coming-of-age tale of one young man's journey into the ancient art of kung fu - and a funny and poignant portrait of a rapidly changing China. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/012783/bk_blak_012783_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cogitations on the White Whale, and on Other Matters of Inimitable Purulence: A Palaver Novel in One Sentence (The Collected Works of U.R. Bowie) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min
Poised on the edge of the Octogenarian Age, Hezekiah Hopewell, palaverer extraordinaire, reads Moby Dick and talks, talks, talks. Hezekiah drives around through the fall of 2019 with his nephew Hiram — “a man steeped in self-rectitude, ineptitude, rednecktitude” — in a rusted old Jeep through rural north Florida, cogitating all the while and indulging himself in logorrhea, or “spouting-out-the-mouth disease.” Inspired by Bohumil Hrabal’s novel in one sentence, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, U.R. Bowie’s Cogitations cogitates on a wide variety of issues and themes: The prevalence of self-declared Messiahs in human history, the outrageous cost of dental care in the U.S., how to train a pet lizard to bark, beg, and fetch, ways of committing suicide, including holding your breath, the smell of irradiated horse chestnut leaves in Kiev, autumn of 1986, modern-day hate-drenched America, the way global warming threatens the frozen sighs of seals, polar bears, and Eskimos in Alaska, how beautiful old words are dying out in our wordless, incoherent age, the Christian ascetics known as Stylites, the ephemeral three-day existence of the Florida love bug, how to make a good living selling ambergris gathered from the guts of sperm whales, why Jonah in the bible was vomited out of a gross big fish onto dry land, why there are no Whys on Earth (because there are no Becauses), and much, much, much more.What has Hezekiah Hopewell done with his long life? Well, he has been married to four different women. Lucky for him, since he has never had a job and his wives have supported him. He has not really done much of anything but read books. Now, fast approaching deep old age, where is his ever-going-forward getting him? To the same place all of our ever-going-forward — really more of a circling round and round — is getting the rest of us here on God’s green Earth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: U.R. Bowie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209275/bk_acx0_209275_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Life of the Buddha , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 965min
This unique biography, told in a lively manner through six 'voices', presents the Buddha's revolutionary solution for humanity that lends to the end of ill will, craving and delusion. It goes back to the earliest sources of the Buddha's life and teachings, drawing as it does from the Pali Canon which was said to record the words that the Buddha spoke, the events that happened, and his specific teachings on which the world-wide religion was based. It is an absorbing, edifying and even entertaining collection of reportage, myths, wisdom, kindness, human insight - and decisiveness. For 45 years after his enlightenment he walked around North-Eastern India, encountering and teaching kings, courtesans, matted-hair ascetics, murderers, men and women on spiritual quests - and many ordinary people living ordinary lives in 5th century BCE, but who were grateful for his compassion and advice. Sometimes he teaches through rich metaphors. Sometimes he teaches through scientific analyses of mental states. In one tender moment, he helps his own son, Rahula, to gain enlightenment. The Buddha was not only clear about life, and how, and why, it should be lived, but endeavoured to create a practical framework that monks, nuns and laymen and laywomen could follow to 'disentangle the tangle' and reach enlightenment. Not a god or a divine, but a truly remarkable and fulfilled human being. Bhikkhu Ñanamoli's remarkable work - an innovative biography that has become a classic treasured by Buddhists of all traditions - speaks directly, giving us a flavour of what it was like to be around Siddhattha Gotama, the Buddha. Bhikkhu Ñanamoli (Osbert Moore) was born in England in 1905 and graduated from Exeter College, Oxford. In 1948 he came to Sri Lanka to be ordained as a monk. During his 11 years as a monk, he translated some of the most difficult texts of Theravada Buddhism. In The Life of the Buddha, however, he made the teachings acce ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hayward Morse, Leighton Pugh, Nicolette McKenzie, John Foley, Jinananda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000031/bk_dhrm_000031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lay Saints
Lay Saints - Ascetics and Penitents: ab 9.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Female Ascetics
Female Ascetics - Hierarchy and Purity in Indian Religious Movements: ab 40.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Culture Politics and Governing
Culture Politics and Governing - The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production: ab 63.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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