Tag: Contemplation

The Springs Of Contemplation A Retreat At The Abbey Of Gethsemani


Free Download Thomas Merton, "The Springs Of Contemplation: A Retreat At The Abbey Of Gethsemani"
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0374128936 | EPUB | pages: 312 | 0.2 mb
In the Sixties, Merton invited a group of contemplative women – cut off by inflexible rules from any analysis of important movements in the Church and the world – to make a retreat with him at his abbey in Kentucky. What he and they said on such themes as "Zen, a Way of Living Life Directly," "Prophetic Choices," and "The Feminine Mystique," is the text of this book.

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Gurdjieff Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises


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English | ISBN: 0190064072 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Armenian-born mystic, philosopher, and spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) is an enigmatic figure, the subject of a great deal of interest and speculation, but not easily fitting into any of the common categories of "esoteric," "occult," or "New Age." Scholars have for the most part passed over in silence the contemplative exercises presented in Gurdjieff’s writings. Although Gurdjieff had intended them to be confidential, some of the most important exercises were published posthumously in 1950 and in 1975.

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Death, contemplation and Schopenhauer


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2007 | 126 Pages | ISBN: 0754660508 | PDF | 3 MB
The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato’s "Phaedo" and the "Katha Upanishad" and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer’s references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer’s writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live

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