21 títulos para "Universal Octopus"

DEPENDENT ORIGINATION

Taylor, Brian F.

The Buddha's Teaching of DEPENDENT ORIGINATION is a fast-track method for experiencing Nibbana with your eyes open. It is a practical psychological explanation of how suffering arises and the psychological steps to be taken in the here and now to reach enlightenment directly.   &n...

Bamboo Leaves

Taylor, Brian F.

THAILAND: Disabled beggars with plastic begging cups; Ferraris, a snow white Bugatti Veyron and a swimming pool filled with ice for New Year's Day; westernised nose jobs, lady boys and budget sex changes; Ghosts and Spirit Doctors; mediums offering lunch to the spirits that possess them; body sn...

Oxford Blues

Taylor, Brian F.

Oxford: Bones and stones, churches and vivisection laboratory. Peaceful gardens, rivers and quadrangles. Relentless efforts to squeeze the money out of its alumni. Drifting ghosts looking for peace. Drifting students looking for a place in a disintegrating world. Beauty inherited from the past. Deli...

BUDDHIST PALI CHANTS with ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Taylor, Brian F.

Buddhist Pali chants with English translations for use by students in Meditation Retreats. Pali is an Indo-Aryan language, current in Northern India at the time the Buddha was teaching and used by him. It is the language in which his teaching is preserved in the Tipiaka, the sacred texts of The...

What is Buddhism?

Taylor, Brian F

Buddhism is a method by which one can put an end to the suffering that we experience in this world.When we find the whole universe, mind and body, unsatisfactory, and let it go, it falls away from us and we experience total Peace and Happiness. This is a state that has always been there. From time t...

The Five Buddhist Precepts

Taylor, Brian F

If these precepts were kept throughout the human world, it would make an unbelievable difference. There would be no war, no serious crime, and no need for money to be spent on armies, policing, courts of justice or prisons.If we were wholeheartedly to adopt these five precepts and live our lives by...

Gnomonic Verses

Taylor, Brian F

HERE (AND NOW) Clusters of English “unofficial” roses have climbed the fence to face the sun. Each in its crimson finery supposes that it, alone, is the only one. Honeysuckle tangles with its vagrance bramble and lavender, rose and gorse, fills the still air with its golden fragrance t...

Basic Buddhism for a World in Trouble

Taylor, Brian F / Taylor, Brian F

A world in trouble? War in the Far East and the Middle East. Suicide bombers. Riots on the streets. Gaols and Psychiatric hospitals full. Soaring crime. Racial hatred. Violence in the schools and in the home. Economic Meltdown. Yes. A world in trouble. Everywhere man is striving for Freedom. But he...

GNOMONICS

Taylor, Brian F

The SAD and HUMOROUS STORY of MAN since his CREATION out of the CENTRE. His encounter with the Tree of Knowledge. His identification with his body and his assumption that he is NAKED. His expulsion from the Garden of Eden. His continuous and accelerating degeneration. Killing his fellow animals for...

THE FIVE NIVARANAS

Taylor, Brian F.

Buddha identified Five Nivaranas (Hindrances or Blockages) which prevent us from seeing the Truth and putting an end to Suffering. One or more of these obstacles is present at every stage of the Path until the ultimate attainment of the Arahant - the Deathless. These Hindrances affect...

WAVES

Taylor, Brian F.

A sample of intuitive Projects, Poems and Talks to support the practice of insight meditation in daily life and the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path to Nibbana, the end of Suffering.Oh ye inheritors of immortal bliss, hearken to this! Guardians of the eternal fire, if to higher truths you do asp...

The Living Waters of Buddhism

Taylor, Brian F.

Buddhism is the cool water of the Universe. It is refreshing. It sustains the Holy life. It revives the parched Heart of man. ''The purpose of the Holy Life, its goal, is unshakeable liberation of mind.''  Buddha: Middle Length Sayings, Sutta 29. (This booklet is included i...