"A guide for achieving an enlightened mind through the art of non-doing"--
Taoist inner alchemy is a collection of theories and practices for transforming the mind and refining the self. The Inner Teachings of Taoism includes a classic of Chinese alchemy known as Four Hundred Words on the Gold Elixir. Written in the eleventh century by a founder of the…
Practicing yoga is an extremely popular way to get fit, but its underlying philosophy can offer so much more to focus the mind and help you to discover untapped personal power. In Beyond the Mat, business leader, physician, and certified yoga instructor Julie Rosenberg shows you…
'Selling Yoga' explores how modern yoga became transformed from a largely countercultural phenomenon to a part of pop culture when entrepreneurs became strategic participants in a global market and succeeded in 'selling yoga' by establishing continuity between their yoga brands …
"It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades--from the end of World War II until the late 1960s--existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsia's uncontested champion. In t…
"This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message the Dalai Lama can give us about the future of our world. It's his rallying cry, full of solutions for our chaotic, aggressive, divided times: no less than a call for revolution. Are we ready to hear it…
The goals of the budo--the martial arts and ways of Japan--lie in refining the body and spirit. These goals are not always the obvious ones--and are learned only through the guidance and direction of great teachers. The techniques, methods, and rituals of the sensei can serve as…
In Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran , Ata Anzali and S. M. Hadi Gerami offer a critical edition of a hitherto unpublished manuscript that is arguably the most erudite and extensive polemical work against philosophy and philosophical mysticism from the Safavid period. The…
In Days of Great Peace: the Highest Yoga as Lived
by SADHU, MOUNI
fromRoutledge library editions
For several years Mouni Sadhu steeped himself in the teachings of the foremost Hindu ascetic, Sri Ramana Maharshi. This book, first published in 1957, is the best attempt by a European to describe without technicalities what such teachings entail, what meditation is about, and w…
Maimonides' 'Guide for the Perplexed' is one of the most discussed books in Jewish history. Over 800 years after the author's death it remains disputed with readers seeking secret philosophical messages behind its explicit teaching.
Introduction / Riffat Hassan -- The human person in Iqbal's thought / Ebrahim Moosa -- Achieving humanity : convergence between Henri Bergson and Muhammad Iqbal / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The contemporary relevance of Muhammad Iqbal / Basit Bilal Koshul -- Pragmatism and Isla…
Examines the ideas central to Muhammad Iqbal's thought and life: religion, science, metaphysics and nationalism. There are few moments in human history where the forces of religion, culture and politics converge to produce some of the most significant philosophical ideas in the …
In Thomé H. Fang, Tang Junyi and Huayan Thought , King Pong Chiu discusses Thomé H. Fang and Tang Junyi, two of the most important Confucian thinkers in twentieth-century China, who appropriated aspects of the medieval Chinese Buddhist school of Huayan to develop a response to t…
Jason Clower publishes English translations of this most famous and influential of modern Chinese philosophers for the first time. In essays chosen for their clarity and approachability, this leading contemporary Confucian speaks on the topics that best define his career: the fu…
In Late Works of Mou Zongsan, Jason Clower publishes English translations of this most famous and influential of modern Chinese philosophers for the first time. In essays chosen for their clarity and approachability, this leading contemporary Confucian speaks on the topics that …
This volume brings together 19 of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy. Together they cover a variety of topics, from metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics, to the specific discussions of the interaction between Buddhist and…