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Bridges Spiritual Enlightenment of the East with the Mind and Soul of the West.

Spiritual enlightenment from the Far East has taught the world that true happiness and peace comes from within a wisdom that transcends time and boundaries. As each new generation struggles to find happiness in an ever-changing world overrun by technology and media, few take the inward path to deep, long-lasting peace.

Richard Singer, a psychotherapist, has studied hundreds of Eastern-based writings and given them new life in today s world for people looking to apply this wisdom to the stressful and frustrating aspects of the 21st century. Based on the words of Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Buddha, Lao-Tzu, and others, Richard Singer has illuminated some of the most profound Eastern quotes with 111 meditations and contemporary applications. Each selection acts as a seed that he expands upon to create a practical meditation for a real-life situation, enabling you to recognize and accept the inner peace of your true being . . . right here, right now.

Sujets

Santé et bien-être

Bien-être émotionnel

Bien-être

Happiness

Méditation

Eastern

Meditation

Healing

Body (disambiguation)

Buddhism

PHILOSOPHY

Personal Growth

Mindulness

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Publié par	DeVorss & Company
Date de parution	05 septembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780875168944
Langue	English

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Eastern Wisdom Western Soul

“Richard Singer has outdone himself! If you thought his first book, Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds was wonderful, you haven’t read anything yet. Singer has taken the word ‘mindfulness’ to a new level and shows us how to apply it to every moment of our lives. A Japanese proverb says, ‘Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.’ However, they obviously hadn’t read Singer’s new book, Eastern Wisdom Western Soul: 111 Meditations for Everyday Enlightenment — Richard has made it easy to begin and continue.”
Sue Vogan, author/radio show host

“I would highly recommend Eastern Wisdom Western Soul to those seeking truth in life.”
David J. Powell, Ph.D., President International Center for Health Concerns, Inc. and Institute of Mental Health, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China

“This little book has a definite place on the library shelf. Singer, a psychotherapist and ‘seeker of truth,’ has assembled a variety of quotations and written meditations and ‘real-life applications’ for them. What makes his book interesting is that—in an Asian context—the quotations are pan-cultural; that is, Chinese, Buddhist, Japanese, and Hindu sources stand side by side, implying, probably rightly, that all of Asian thought, considered together, is characteristically different from Western ways of thinking.”
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Eastern Wisdom Western Soul

RICHARD SINGER

Eastern Wisdom Western Soul
Copyright © 2007 by Richard A. Singer Jr.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except for the purpose of brief excerpts for articles, books, or reviews, without the written permission of the publisher.
ISBN: 978-087516-892-0
First DeVorss Publications printing, 2016
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007932440
DeVorss & Company, Publisher
PO Box 1389
Camarillo CA 93011-1389
www.devorss.com

Printed in the United States of America.

This book is dedicated to those seeking truth and awareness in their daily lives.
Please, never give up on this precious journey.

Foreword by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface: Organization and Purpose of this Book
Mindfulness
Truth
Change
Ego ~ Illusion
Our True Nature
Unity ~ Oneness
Simplicity
Compassion
Anger and Resentment
Death
Enlightenment
The Twelve Steps Based on Eastern Wisdom
Suggested Reading for Further Exploration
About the Autho r

FOREWORD

It is my pleasure to introduce you to Richard’s book of Eastern wisdom with its wise and wonderful quotes, commentary, and exercises encapsulating millennia of spiritual truth. Repetition is the real source of power in self-development, and being reminded of good, wise thoughts by great spiritual leaders is a surefire way of growing in wisdom and personal power.
I have done my own research into the great spiritual traditions, and was struck by the similarity of the themes in this book to what I have also learned.These themes include:
Acknowledgment of an Unseen Order
You do not have to believe in a religious “God” to acknowledge that there is an invisible order to life that cannot be escaped.We can either get more in tune with this order, or resist it to our disadvantage. As the Old Testament prosaically puts it, “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
In Taoism this order is known as the Tao. It refers to the real nature of things, the force that governs the universe. In Hinduism it is expressed as karma and dharma.Whatever you call it, a life lived out of tune with the unseen order is a blind, frustrating life.
Divining of a Life Purpose
The great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung said that when people enter the world, they represent a question mark. In how they live their lives comes the answer. If you believe that we are “spiritual beings having a human experience,” as Teilhard de Chardin expressed it, then it follows you must also believe that we were created for a purpose.
A major element of spiritual practice must therefore be to divine the larger purpose of our lives, intuiting how we can increase the sum of knowledge and love in the world by using our talents and personality to the fullest extent. Instead of being an ego that strives to achieve its wants and desires, we can become a vehicle that makes good things happen. Being human, we of course fear the loss of the ego for greater ends, yet only in doing this will we achieve real peace and become truly powerful.
Letting Go of the Little Self
We sometimes think that the greatest joy in life is to satisfy our bodily pleasures, but in doing so we miss the even greater satisfaction to be gained from leaving behind efforts to please the self.
The purpose of self-development is paradoxical, allowing us to go beyond the concerns and grasping of the ego, to take us beyond the self.We were not made for ourselves, said Al Ghazzali, the great Islamic scholar and mystic, we were made for God—it follows, then, that our greatest delight must lie in increasing our knowledge of the divine.A by-product of this is that such increased knowledge brings greater clarity about who we are and what our purpose in life may be.
Being Present-Minded
A king once looked far and wide to answer three questions:What is the best time to do each thing? Who are the most important people to work with? What is the most important thing to do at all times? When he received his answers, they were not at all what he expected: the best time is now, the most important people are the ones you are with, and the most important act is to make those people happy.
We all make the mistake of living for some imagined future instead of enjoying the treasures of the moment, but actually appreciating the “miracle of mindfulness” is something so easy to forget to do. We should keep in mind what the main character in Dan Mill-man’s classic, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior , learned from his mentor:
There are no ordinary moments!

Seeing the Oneness of the Universe
We humans like to notice opposites such as good and evil, praise and criticism, and happiness and sadness. This is called “duality.” But as all the great sages and saints have found, the nature of the universe is non-dualistic.That is, everything is One, and part of an essential indivisible beingness.
What is a person? As many of the quotes in this book will show, we are in reality splinters of consciousness from a much larger Mind. It is we who maintain the illusion of separateness, but through meditation and spiritual exercises we can shake off our individual mindsets and re-experience the Universal Mind. In doing so, we find the greatest freedom and equanimity.
I would like to add one more quote to Richard’s great collection. It is a Persian proverb that reminds us of the real source of spiritual wisdom:
See truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.
What others have said is a wonderful way of getting us to look into the pond, but we must move our eyes up from its reflections to the sky itself. In meditation we can feel, understand, and align ourselves with the “unseen order” that guides the universe.
Tom Butler-Bowdon , author

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I must acknowledge the great teachers in my life who have pushed me to seek the truth and explore the mysteries of the universe. Each individual who I come in contact with on a daily basis offers an opportunity to teach me something significant about life, if I am open to the lesson. However, the teachers that I am referring to are those that indirectly forced me to look within myself and learn some of the greatest lessons of my life. Kahlil Gibran articulated these learning experiences quite eloquently when he said, “I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I shall not be ungrateful for those teachers.”
So I am now expressing my gratitude for these great teachers in my life. I would like to mention a few by name: Nick Collangelo, Jim Dougherty, Leigh Fierman, and Dominic Vangarelli. Also, Donald Potkins and Judith Seymour (without their indirect help I would have never written my first book) and Graham Walker and Tyra Miller (without their help I would not have been able to stay at home and raise my kids for the first months of their life or had the precious time to write this book). Thank you and I hope you learned as much from me as I have from you.
In addition, I must acknowledge the incredible mentors who have taught me priceless skills and provided me with wisdom to use on my journey. They are: Michael Donahue, Dick Conaboy, Jim Debello, and Rob Olinits.
Finally, I must honor my precious family who provides unconditional love and teaches me about the value of life on a daily basis. They have also provided endless support and encouragement for this project, as well as everything else I choose to pursue in my life.
These include my mother, father, step-father, sister, grandmother, wife, and the newest additions, our twins Matthew and Alexander, who have taught me more than I could ever imagine in their short lives thus far. I cannot express in words what all of you mean to me. Thank you for being there for me, now and always.
Let me not forget the two won