Eastern Light In Western Eyes

Author : Marty Glass
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9781597310123
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastern Light in Western Eyes written by Marty Glass and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marty Glass lives with his wife Carol beyond the power and water lines in Humboldt County, California, relying on his 1965 pick-up truck "Old Brown" to take him the final two miles up a dirt road to his owner-built home. He has worked as a college English instructor, wharehouseman, and janitor. A devoted father of five children, loving husband and neighbor, he now teaches sixth grade in a rural elementary school, and plays jazz piano and cards. For the past thirty years, he has seriously practiced the religion of India, spending the long necessary hours meditating in "Marty's Cell," an old chicken coop reborn as an austere shrine. His spiritual practice is his real life. Marty's acclaimed book Yuga: An Anatomy of our Fate, was published by Sophia Perennis in 2001. He now gives us perhaps his most beautiful and thoughtful gift, reminding us that the world is woven of the infinite Love and Joy that is God, and showing us how, inspired by the Hindu tradition, that Love and Joy can be directly experienced as the heart of the universe and the heart of our hearts. We have it from Frithjof Schuon (The Transcendent Unity of Religions) and many others that the Vedanta appears among explicit doctrines as one of the most direct formulations possible of what makes the very essence of our spiritual reality. The work in hand can be read as a book-length unpacking of that accurate description. Reliable from beginning to end, it is distinctive among the innumerable renditions of the Vedanta in two ways. First, because its author is an accomplished wordsmith, he makes the Vedanta's profundities-which delve as deep as those of any philosophical theology-read like an open book; and second, because he has worked for thirty years to shape his life by those profundities, his vivid accounts of what he experienced along the way make his words jump off the page into the reader's heart. The book is inspiring. Huston Smith, author of Why Religion Matters, The World's Religions, etc.

Author : Donald Fairbairn
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664224974
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes written by Donald Fairbairn and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, Eastern Orthodoxy has moved from being virtually unknown to Western Christians to being a significant presence on the religious scene in North America and Great Britain. In light of Orthodoxy's growing presence, this book will introduce Western Christians to the Eastern Orthodox vision of the Christian life by examining Orthodox theology and worship and will also alert readers to the cultural and historical factors that shape any interpretation of the Christian faith.

Author : Patrick Porter
Publisher : Critical War Studies (Unnumber
ISBN 13 : 9780199333424
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Orientalism written by Patrick Porter and published by Critical War Studies (Unnumber. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Ancient Greeks' obsession with the armies of the Persians, Westerners have been irresistibly drawn to the exotic nature of "Oriental" warfare and have sought either to emulate their enemies' imagined ways of fighting or to incorporate Eastern warriors and "martial races," such as the Sikhs and Gurkhas, in their own forces. The alluring yet terrifying prospect of Samurai warriors, obedient to an ancient code of chivalry, or of the Mongol cavalry thundering across the steppes, continue to grip our imagination, while the courage and fighting prowess of today's "Eastern" warriors, the Taliban and Hezbollah, have been grudgingly acknowledged by the high tech armies of NATO in Afghanistan and the IDF in Lebanon. Such romantic notions are based on a highly questionable premise, namely that race, culture and tradition are separate and primordial, and that they determine how societies fight. But how far does culture shape war? Do non-Westerners approach strategy, combat, or death in ways intrinsically different from their Eastern neighbours? This debate can be tracked through time, from Herodotus onwards, and features in innumerable histories and literary works as well as in poetry, art and oral epics. Yet there are few histories of the idea itself. Military Orientalism argues that viewing culture as a script that dictates warfare is wrong, and that our obsession with the exotic can make it harder, not easier, to know the enemy. Culture is powerful, but it is an ambiguous repertoire of ideas rather than a clear code for action. To divide the world into western, Asiatic or Islamic ways of war is a delusion, one whose profound impact affects contemporary war and above all the War on Terror. Porter's fascinating book explains why the "Oriental" warrior inspires fear, envy and wonder and how this has shaped the way Western armies fight.

Author : Martin E Malia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040481
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia under Western Eyes written by Martin E Malia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia Pilot: South and east coasts of Australia from Cape Northumberland to Port Jackson, including Bass Strait and Tasmania written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Randolph Richards
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830863478
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes written by E. Randolph Richards and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. Identifying nine areas where commonplaces of modern Western thought diverge with the text, the authors ask us to reconsider long-held opinions about our most beloved book.

Author : Daniel Doane Bidwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Far as the East is from the West written by Daniel Doane Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Western Eyes written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : U.S.A. Navy Department. Bureau of Equipment. Hydrographic Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2564 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notices of Mariners. ... written by U.S.A. Navy Department. Bureau of Equipment. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michigan. Department of Public Instruction
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual of Schoolroom Equipment Improvement and Construction written by Michigan. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: