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The Sura?gama Sutra, one of the most important works of Mahayana Buddhism, dates from some time before the 8th Century when the first Chinese translation was written, probably from an Indian original. It has long been a seminal work for Buddhist practitioners in East and South-East Asia, especially China and Korea. Indeed this "Sutra of the Indestructible", as it is often translated, is regarded as a staple manual of practice for newly-ordained...
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Based on the Dalai Lama's talks in London this ebook addresses the current difficulties facing humanity including: racial hatred, gender and environmental protection. Modern life is so full of confusion and suffering that people need the courage to face their anger and hatred, in order to transform their lives and relationships. This ebook describes in a clear and simple style how to live and die well and how to bring wisdom and compassion into our...
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How we explain the evils of the world, and the darkest parts of ourselves, has preoccupied humans throughout history. A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, “The Devil's Best Trick” is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil and the myriad ways we attempt to understand it. Instructive, riveting, and unnerving, this is a profound rumination on crime, violence, and...
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“Violence and the Sacred” is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy, and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.
5) The Vatican
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What does it mean when you've been raised by The Holy Trinity?They viewed her as The Vatican for a reason.SaveriaAs the only person capable of toppling an entire crime organization, Saveria Fiore was far more powerful than anyone could have guessed. Born to The Holy Ghost and The Church of the Benetti Crime Family, Ria had both Fiore and Mancini blood racing through her veins. Coupled with the fact that she was Luca Benetti's favorite protégé, Ria...
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Most likely at some point in your life you will decide if you believe in God. That decision will be accompanied by decisions regarding Jesus, Heaven, Hell, and eternity. THE END OF ETERNITY tries to help you understand some of the other decisions you must make when deciding what you believe. "Is Jesus the son of God," may be one of those questions. Is the big bang real or is the creation story true? If God does exist, is God benevolent and loving...
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*Jesus of Nazareth, Boy and Man: A Novel of the Lost Years* opens with the preaching of Jesus in the Temple and progresses through the years that the Gospels are silent on. Although this is a novel and the events are mere conjecture, Hayden has taken recent archeological findings and her own knowledge as a spiritual student and has spun this into a tale that anyone interested in the progression of one remarkable and dedicated soul will want to consider....
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You are always in some combination of medieval Japan or modern Los Angeles. At every turn there is someone leading you either to the highest transcendent state or into inexcusable vice, or some combination of both. In the final analysis, ancient Kyoto and current Santa Monica are one reality. Inebriation and iron-willed discipline are of one substance. Story after story carries you forward into questions that haven't changed for millennia and answers...
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Following Fritjof Capra's arguments in The Tao of Physics, this book seeks to draw a connection between Western mysticism and theoretical physics, specifically between string theory and the Hebrew esoteric tradition of Qabala, arguing that the structure of space-time is defined by the Qabalistic Tree of Life.
Modern theories developed to combine the incompatible theories of relativity and quantum mechanics nearly always postulate that the Universe...
10) First-Name Basis
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His answer peeks its head above the waves to tease us with everything we could become. Everything we could have. Then dips back under to keep us questioning if we ever truly saw it.
DJ Hicks's debut novel First-Name Basis is a collection of linked, spiritual journeys focusing on the people of Suffolk Township as they pit the power of prayer against the highs and lows of life. The curtain is pulled back in this behind-the-scenes look at a church...
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For those discouraged and exhausted by the bitterness and rage in our politics, Michael Wear offers a new paradigm of political involvement rooted in the teachings of Jesus and drawing insights from Dallas Willard's approach to spiritual formation.
When political division shows up not only on the campaign trail but also at our dinner tables, we wonder: Can we be part of a better way? “The Spirit of Our Politics” says "yes," offering a distinctly...
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This book exploring the generational ties of a family across various narrators tell their struggles with humor, comedy, and tragedy, where traditional storytelling, asserts the eternity of the soul as zero time.
Because the soul is everlasting and reincarnates, every child is a reincarnated ancestor that returns from the eternal to the physical plane.
The soul in the body is manifested from spiritual to physical being that is made flesh. It echoes...
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Synopsis: In the last five thousand years, only six primary (or first) civilizations occurred in our human world, and such rare events were nothing but the result of special historical and environmental factors. Except China, all other five appeared on a narrow land near sea and desert. The vast mysterious sea water led prehistoric people to develop megalith culture and religion, and desert led to patriarchal and warrior culture, and narrow land led...
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Synopsis: Have you ever felt yourself drifting away in the turbulent sea of life, seeking an anchor of hope? Dive into the essence of Mark C. Overton's Promises, aimed at unfolding the unwavering truth behind God's love and His promises that defy the bounds of failure. As an incentive for those grappling with skepticism in this era of misinformation, Promises shapes a bold narrative- 31 days to turn your life around! Overton persuades you it's okay...
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"The World's Greatest Books (Religion and Philosophy)" takes you on an exciting journey across the fields of religion and philosophy. Explore legendary books such as Augustine's "City of God," which provides significant insights into spirituality, and Aristotle's "Ethics," which explores the foundations of moral philosophy. From the calm contemplations of Thomas à Kempis' "Imitation of Christ" to the cerebral depth of Descartes' "Discourse on Method,"...
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Rebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling congregation, she now works as a college counselor at a small Vermont college advising students about private matters and offering the "Jewish perspective" on issues raised at faculty dinner parties.
Deeply lonely and on the edge of losing her faith, she comes into possession of a Torah, the last relic of Czechowa, a village of Polish Jews who were exterminated by...
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Jacob grew up in a tightly-knit religious community in Knutby, where he found solace in his unwavering belief in God's power and existence. Surrounded by like-minded individuals, his faith and worldview were continually reinforced. However, fate had other plans, and a tragic event shattered the very foundation of his life.
Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, Jacob inadvertently played a role in the untimely death of another boy. Overwhelmed...
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I Am With You Always is a message to the world of possible future happenings if mankind doesn't change their ways. This will inspire all who read it that it is time for everyone to heed now of their present relationships with their God and, with that discovery, on their part fulfilled, to act accordingly because we may be in the "end of time" scenario.
We are a society that is very comfortable in our own little corner of our world and don't really...
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After being parted from her love David, Kat is forced to face the truth of everything to come. Tasked with foretelling the End of Times, Kat has to relay the future events of a pending war between good and evil. With her sister Maggie by her side, Kat will learn what it means to truly believe, as she raises her son, who has his own destiny.
It's the end of the world as Kat knows it, and everyone has a role to play.
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