The Formless Self

Author : Joan Stambaugh
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791441497
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formless Self written by Joan Stambaugh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamarsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay "The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness," and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.

Author : Joan Stambaugh
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791441503
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formless Self written by Joan Stambaugh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the depth insights of eastern & western traditions, this book places the topic of the self in a new context.

Author : Jason Shurka
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646285123
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forming the Formless written by Jason Shurka and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is meant to be used as a guide to help you realize what already exists within. It will shed Light where darkness may reside. It will assist you in revealing and awakening the wisdom and knowledge that you already possess in your soul. After all, wisdom cannot be taught; it can only be attained through the medium of knowledge and experience if transmuted correctly. You cannot learn wisdom; you may only reveal it. The following ideas and concepts are not meant to give you conclusions and answers about how the universe works; rather, they are meant to simply open your doors of thought for you to explore further and perceive the world in your own unique way. What will follow is a life in which you have complete control, a higher level of consciousness, and a stronger connection to your inner true self. Take your time and read each sentence carefully. Consider reading some chapters more than once, perhaps even multiple times. Allow your soul to digest the information it is receiving and the wisdom it is revealing. Where you take it is up to you!

Author : Rashad Young
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781729631034
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Be Formless written by Rashad Young and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Be Formless means to become something without a form. It's to live a life without limits, without validation from others, and become fearless. Too often, we lived in a world where we're boxed in and blocked off. We block ourselves of our full potential because of fear within, and fear of what others may think about us. We live in a world where people are too afraid to step out of their comfort zones and become the person they're designed to be. We instead, live life through illusions and filters to block the true essence of who we are. We rather live life seeking validation and acceptance of others to feel self-fulfilled. In the end, we're all human, we have flaws, we suffer, we strive, and we live. You matter through it all. Don't change who you are because you don't know who you can become until you stretch out and reach the sky.

Author : Brian Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998827810
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Formless written by Brian Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Hamilton
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982283203
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now That You Are Formless written by Helen Hamilton and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many beings have revelations of our true Self and yet few come to live and move in the world as the Sage does. We must deeply assimilate what it means to be formless and allow that knowledge to pervade our entire consciousness. Questions such as “How can I come to know that I cannot die?” and “How do I live from this place of Truth?” begin to become very important to us. In this book we will look at specific points of contemplation that are designed to help come to know beyond doubt that to be formless means we cannot die, we cannot suffer and we are infinite. This book embodies the process that every awakened being has gone through and will allow you to let go of all doubt and fear. Think of this book as a road map to the awakened state of Being. It is the essence of every Sage’s journey and it will allow you to bring forth the Sage that is in you right now. This book is the answer to every student’s question of “How do I live as this?”

Author : Hans Mol
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889206783
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Firm and the Formless written by Hans Mol and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is woven around the idea that wholeness (the firm) and fragmentation (risking formlessness) alternate in human affairs. This theme is applied to the history and the present condition of Australian Aboriginals. Their religion is seen as a way to bolster a precarious identity and to affirm order in an existence which would otherwise become formless. It deals with totemism as a form of ordering a variety of often conflicting identities. The author describes the modern predicament of Aborigines in Australian society and concludes that their revitalization will occur only when they manage to make economic self-sufficiency subordinate to a viable and firm view of existence. He critically integrates into his analyses and interpretations the positions of such well-known scholars as Frazer, Durkheim, Freud, Lévi-Strauss, Radcliffe-Brown, Eliade, and Stanner. The volume will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, and religion.

Author : Thomas Metzinger
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458759164
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ego Tunnel written by Thomas Metzinger and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain - an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is ''a virtual self in a virtual reality.'' But if the self is not ''real,'' why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct it? Do we still have souls, free will, personal autonomy, or moral accountability? In a time when the science of cognition is becoming as controversial as evolution, The Ego Tunnel provides a stunningly original take on the mystery of the mind.

Author : Helen Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977048431
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now That You Are Formless written by Helen Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you had a realisation of your true nature? Have you seen yourself to be the formless awareness? Many of us are having such revelations of our true Self and yet few come to live and move in the world as the Sage does. We must deeply assimilate what it means to be formless and allow that knowledge to pervade our entire consciousness. Questions such as "How can I come to know that I cannot die?" and "How do I live from this place of truth?" begin to become very important to us. In this book we will look at specific points of contemplation that are designed to help us come to know beyond doubt that to be formless means we cannot die, we cannot suffer and we are infinite. It is one thing to have seen what we truly are and another thing altogether to have totally transcended any doubts, fears and challenges to living as this formlessness. This book embodies the process that every awakened being has gone through and will direct you to contemplate important questions that will allow you to let go of all doubt and fear. Many Saints, Teachers and Sages advise us to "stay as the Self" or "be the awareness" but this teaching can be vague when we need it most. Think of this book as a road map or signpost to the fully lived awakened state of Being. It is the distilled down essence of every Sages journey and it will allow you to bring forth the Sage that is in you right now. This book is the answer to every students question of "How do I live as this?"

Author : Margaret Gigowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989183727
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formless Exploration of Self written by Margaret Gigowski and published by . This book was released on 1915-08-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical approach to discovering one's true nature, while living in a physical body. Exploring concepts and conditioning, which created the belief, we are separate individuals and in control of our own life. The reader is being asked to step aside from the notion of being a supposed individual and explore their true nature as Source.