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Swami Vivekananda[a] (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta[b] was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. [4][5] He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, [6][7][8] and is the father of modern Indian ...
The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his own reflections on issues raised.
Satipaṭṭhāna is the establishment of mindfulness in one's day-to-day life, maintaining as much as possible a calm awareness of one's body, feelings, mind, and dhammas. The practice of mindfulness supports analysis resulting in the arising of wisdom (Pali: paññā, Sanskrit: prajñā). [ 16 ]
1926. In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message is a book written by Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (1875–1941), the leader of the Grail Movement, a millenarian new religious movement, [ 1 ] and first published in 1926 under the pen name Abd-ru-shin. An expanded, complete edition was published by the author under the name of Abdruschin in 1931 ...
Contents. Homiletics. In religious studies, homiletics (Ancient Greek: ὁμιλητικός[ 1 ]homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng" [ 2 ]) is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. [ 1 ] One who practices or studies homiletics may be called a homilist, or more simply, a ...
Spencer’s focus on “good order and discipline” is one that has been top of mind for Navy leadership in recent years as charges of murder, sexual assault and drug use have rocked the SEALs.
Sigrid Nunez was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father. She received her BA from Barnard College (1972) and her MFA from Columbia University (1975), after which she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books.
Discipline. Discipline is the self-control that is gained by requiring that rules or orders be obeyed, and the ability to keep working at something that is difficult. [1] Disciplinarians believe that such self-control is of the utmost importance and enforce a set of rules that aim to develop such behavior. Such enforcement is sometimes based on ...