Protecting Nature with Buddha’s Wisdom

Protecting Nature with Buddha’s Wisdom
Author: S. N. Seo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1035311674
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Illustrating an insightful contrast between modern scientific and economic approaches, and the Buddhist viewpoint, this book examines key environmental issues such as species protection, pollution, natural resource use and global climate change. Through a comprehensive explanation of the pertinent Buddhist philosophy and eleven Buddhist instruments, it unpacks the rich intellectual resources relating to modern environmental and nature studies that have been treasured in the Buddhist Canons and commentaries for thousands of years. This book provides a rare opportunity to reflect on the ongoing climate crisis using a time-tested thought system.

Protecting Wisdom

Protecting Wisdom
Author: Kathryn Selig Brown
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Book covers
ISBN: 9783791347561
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This elegant volume is the first published study of the finely carved wooden covers designed to protect fragile Tibetan Buddhist texts. From the 11th through 14th centuries, Tibetan monks worked tirelessly to transcribe the life and teachings of the Buddha onto paper. Highly skilled craftsmen then covered these pages with wooden boards that had been elaborately and painstakingly carved, gilded, and painted. The MacLean Collection, based in Chicago, has significant holdings of these extremely rare and ornately decorated objects. The first and most comprehensive study of its kind in English, this lavishly produced, oversize volume features numerous illustrations of magnificent book covers from Tibet as well as several examples from other cultures. The volume tells the fascinating history of these objects, examines the materials from which they were carved, and traces stylistic influences from Kashmir, India, Nepal, and China. AUTHOR: Kathryn H. Selig Brown is a former curator at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York. She is the author of Eternal Presence: Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art and a former Luce Fellow at the Asia Society. 195 colour illustrations

Sacred Instructions

Sacred Instructions
Author: Sherri Mitchell
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1623171962
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A “profound and inspiring” collection of ancient indigenous wisdom for “anyone wanting the healing of self, society, and of our shared planet” (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma). A Penobscot Indian draws on the experiences and wisdom of the First Nations to address environmental justice, water protection, generational trauma, and more. Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, Sherri Mitchell addresses some of the most crucial issues of our day—including indigenous land rights, environmental justice, and our collective human survival. Sharing the gifts she has received from the elders of her tribe, the Penobscot Nation, she asks us to look deeply into the illusions we have labeled as truth and which separate us from our higher mind and from one another. Sacred Instructions explains how our traditional stories set the framework for our belief systems and urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. It reveals how the removal of women from our stories has impacted our thinking and disrupted the natural balance within our communities. For all those who seek to create change, this book lays out an ancient world view and set of cultural values that provide a way of life that is balanced and humane, that can heal Mother Earth, and that will preserve our communities for future generations.

Wisdom Is a Woman

Wisdom Is a Woman
Author: Lance Rundus
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532682727
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In Proverbs 1-9, we are introduced to stunning, scandalous, and mysterious Lady Wisdom. For millennia interpreters have endeavored to explain, simplify, or domesticate the vaunted and varied personification of this woman. In Wisdom Is a Woman, Lance Rundus illustrates that our difficulties with Lady Wisdom run much deeper than uncertainty about her origins and depiction, but are rooted in inherited assumptions about and definitions of metaphor, as well as a distorted disposition toward right hemisphere modes of knowledge that undercut the very attempt at discovering Wisdom at all. Wisdom Is a Woman invites the reader into the mode of aesthetic perception that opens the way to the beautiful, transcendent intimacy of relational knowledge born from constellations of canonical metaphor in Proverbs 1-9. In "obtaining scale" with Wisdom we discover that this paradoxical wonder is but a faint echo of the wonder and beauty of the Triune God in the person, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

I WILL DESTROY the WISDOM of the WISE

I WILL DESTROY the WISDOM of the WISE
Author: Publius Marcus
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1304994600
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For many years I have stated and written at my web sites and stated on many radio shows, that your basic Satanic liberal will use any and all means to change meanings of words because their usual and meaningless selves fail all the time. I do personally believe that Satan and its demons either possess many liberals or they have run amok of their own feelings and have become seriously satanically oppressed of Satan and its demon thugs. They rewrite anything to suit their own Satanic influenced selves into meaning what they think "it" means. And that brings us to this...the rewriting of the Holy Scriptures. And, these pathetic liberals that know not much of anything, will always accuse others of what they themselves have done in a vain attempt of making themselves look better at whatever it is that they do. As you read this book always have the Scriptures open before you and pray before you read one jot and one tittle.

Following Wisdom, Leading Wisely

Following Wisdom, Leading Wisely
Author: Jeff Roper
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2024-02-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN:
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If it is true that "everything rises and falls on leadership," we have a problem. A recent international survey revealed that 86 percent of respondents believe we are facing a global leadership crisis. The study encompassed leadership in business, government, the non-profit sector, and religion. Non-profit and business leaders ranked highest in terms of public confidence. Government leaders ranked very low. The only leaders to rank lower than government leaders were religious leaders. This leadership crisis is not driven by an absence of leaders. Leaders are everywhere, yet we still have a leadership crisis. Nor is this crisis caused by a lack of leadership training. Who can keep up with the books, seminars, and training programs offering the latest trends and best thinking on leadership? And yet, we still have a leadership crisis. While the world is looking for better leadership methods, God is looking for better leaders--leaders shaped by wisdom. What use, after all, is getting things done, or even servant leadership, without wisdom? In Proverbs we discover an ancient training regimen for leaders, guiding them in the cultivation of virtuous character. Following Wisdom, Leading Wisely is an invitation to rediscover this ancient wisdom for today's leaders.

The Psychology of Wisdom

The Psychology of Wisdom
Author: Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1316514633
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The first comprehensive coursebook on the psychology of wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the field.

Empowering Public Wisdom

Empowering Public Wisdom
Author: Tom Atlee
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1583945164
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Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the very concept of democracy; Atlee advocates the use of "public wisdom," a collective intelligence that can be drawn upon to guide public policy and action. Reaching beyond partisan politics, Atlee explores how a diversity of views can be engaged around public issues in ways that generate a coherent, shared "voice of the people" that takes most or all of the population's perspectives and needs into account. Atlee's core approach is through "citizen deliberative councils," in which a small group of people randomly selected creates a "mini-public" or a microcosm of the larger population. Citizen councils engage in the study of a public issue and make recommendations to public officials and the community, but disband afterward; when a new issue arises, a new council is formed. Ultimately, Atlee aims even higher, suggesting a possible fourth branch of government to better balance our current democratic system. Combining a radical vision with practical solutions, Empowering Public Wisdom provides a unique and refreshing voice in the political arena. Empowering Public Wisdom is part of the EVOLVER EDITIONS Manifesto Series.

THE WISDOM OF THE MASTER

THE WISDOM OF THE MASTER
Author: Allswell Nyenke
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2008-09-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1436314127
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The author, Allswell Nyenke, was a French Government Scholar, a Rhodes Scholar and a long-term member of the oldest mystical organization. He has a degree in Modern European Languages and another degree in law. He was born with a very advanced intuitive ability. In this rare and unusual book he explains, based on first-hand intuition and angelic feedback: • Excellent techniques for contacting The Principal of the universe, commonly known as God; • Excellent spiritual tools for making big money – including making millions of pounds, dollars, or euros; • Excellent spiritual tools for finding your perfect soul mate with incredible ease; • Excellent spiritual tools for destroying witchcraft and casting out evil spirits; • A rare but excellent method of curing all sorts of excessive anxieties with authority; • Excellent spiritual tools for curing HIV/AIDS and cancers at early stages of development; • Excellent spiritual tools for protecting yourself and your family against all terrorist attacks, air crashes, road accidents, violent crimes, infections, etc.; • Excellent techniques for accurately interpreting predictive dreams through Ovi’s Interpretation Skills or The Technique of the Master; • Mastery of the language of The Principal, commonly known as God; and • The development of intuition. “This is an interesting and quite profound piece of work. The Wisdom… is generally well written in an articulate, persuasive voice that combines an intimate, conversational style with a more authoritative tone.” – READER’S REPORT