Empty Vision
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Empty Vision
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Author : David McMahan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-19
Empty Vision written by David McMahan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Religion categories.
Yet another contribution to the RoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism series This study examines the roles of metaphor, and especially visual metaphor, in the construction of epistemic systems It is important and timely as it substantially develops the theme of vision in South Asian religions - a subject which has so far been noticed in scholarly works but seldom analysed thematically The book also expands the current discussion of vision and its roles in constructing epistemic systems and cultural practice beyond its exclusively European and American focus The book develops the discussion of visual themes treated in Jacob Kinnard's Imaging Wisdom, previously published in the series
Cognitive Training
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Author : Tilo Strobach
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-20
Cognitive Training written by Tilo Strobach and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with Psychology categories.
The second edition of this book brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of training interventions designed to improve cognitive functions in different target populations. Since the publication of the first volume, the field of cognitive research has rapidly evolved. There is substantial evidence that cognitive and physical training can improve cognitive performance, but these benefits seem to vary as a function of the type and the intensity of interventions and the way training-induced gains are measured and analyzed. This book will address the new topics in psychological research and aims to resolve some of the currently debated issues. This book offers a comprehensive overview of empirical findings and methodological approaches of cognitive training research in different cognitive domains (memory, executive functions, etc.), types of training (working memory training, video game training, physical training, etc.), age groups (from children to young and older adults), target populations (children with developmental disorders, aging workers, MCI patients etc.), settings (laboratory-based studies, applied studies in clinical and educational settings), and methodological approaches (behavioral studies, neuroscientific studies). Chapters feature theoretical models that describe the mechanisms underlying training-induced cognitive and neural changes. Cognitive Training: An Overview of Features and Applications, Second Edition will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, students, and professors in the fields of psychology and neuroscience.
Beyond Vision
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Author : Allan Jones
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-06-06
Beyond Vision written by Allan Jones and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s first blind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy that changed his life. Advaita Vedanta, the most iconoclastic and liberating of the classical Indian philosophies, profoundly altered the author’s experience of self and world. He found that the true self, as distinct from the individual ego, far exceeds the boundaries of individuality. It lies beneath sightedness or blindness and is absolutely unaffected by the latter. This welcome shift of perspective was reinforced by startling discoveries in contemporary physics, evolutionary biology, and developmental psychology that are fully consistent with Advaitic metaphysics. As for the practical applications of metaphysics, this book demonstrates step by step how Advaitic insight and practice significantly reduce physical and psychological tension. The most telling examples have to do with adjustments compelled by extreme circumstances. Thus Jones describes how he drew upon Advaitic mindfulness techniques to maintain his white cane mobility skills in the teeth of permanent spinal, nerve, and muscle pain. The arc of Beyond Vision moves from the claustrophobically personal to the openness of the transpersonal. It begins in a dysfunctional family background, breaking out into a full life encompassing an adventurous foreign service career, spiritual exploration, and an unconventional kind of marital love.
Visions Of Awakening Space And Time
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Author : Taigen Dan Leighton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-11
Visions Of Awakening Space And Time written by Taigen Dan Leighton and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-11 with Religion categories.
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Visions Of Awakening Space And Time
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Author : Taigen Dan Leighton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-31
Visions Of Awakening Space And Time written by Taigen Dan Leighton and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-31 with Religion categories.
As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dōgen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Sōtō Zen tradition, which currently enjoys increasing popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most important Buddhist scripture in East Asia, contains a famous story about bodhisattvas (enlightening beings) who emerge from under the earth to preserve and expound the Lotus teaching in the distant future. The story reveals that the Buddha only appears to pass away, but actually has been practicing, and will continue to do so, over an inconceivably long life span. Leighton traces commentaries on the Lotus Sutra from a range of key East Asian Buddhist thinkers, including Daosheng, Zhiyi, Zhanran, Saigyo, Myōe, Nichiren, Hakuin, and Ryōkan. But his main focus is Eihei Dōgen, the 13th century Japanese Sōtō Zen founder who imported Zen from China, and whose profuse, provocative, and poetic writings are important to the modern expansion of Buddhism to the West. Dōgen's use of this sutra expresses the critical role of Mahayana vision and imagination as the context of Zen teaching, and his interpretations of this story furthermore reveal his dynamic worldview of the earth, space, and time themselves as vital agents of spiritual awakening. Leighton argues that Dōgen uses the images and metaphors in this story to express his own religious worldview, in which earth, space, and time are lively agents in the bodhisattva project. Broader awareness of Dōgen's worldview and its implications, says Leighton, can illuminate the possibilities for contemporary approaches to primary Mahayana concepts and practices.
Lure Of The Supreme Joy
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Author : Xin Conan-Wu
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-02-26
Lure Of The Supreme Joy written by Xin Conan-Wu and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-26 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Xin Conan-Wu presents a radically revisionist argument on Zhu Xi’s (1130–1200) Neo-Confucian philosophy of education. Via analyses of unfamiliar landscapes and the poems of the White-Deer Grotto Academy, Yuelu Academy, and Wuyi Retreat, Conan-Wu argues that when praxis speaks for orthodoxy, the eclipsed pedagogue casts a liberal light on the enshrined philosopher. Neo-Confucian senses of the gaze and place engendered Zhu Xi’s natural pedagogy and mapped the environment of his academies. This book cross-examines the textual traces and their innate vision, the physical sites and their transhistorical milieux, the Eight Views and Nine Bends and their afterlives in China and Korea. It unfurls an academy education, mutually reinforced by classical learning and self-cultivation, and sustained by a lure of the Supreme Joy of Confucian sagehood.
Alternative Visions Of Post War Reconstruction
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Author : John Pendlebury
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-19
Alternative Visions Of Post War Reconstruction written by John Pendlebury and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-19 with Architecture categories.
The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history. This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period between the start of the Second World War to the mid-sixties. The various figures and currents covered here represent a largely overlooked field within the history of 20th century urbanism. In this period while certain modernist practices assumed an institutional role for post-war reconstruction and flourished into the mainstream, such practices also faced opposition and criticism leading to the production of alternative visions and strategies. Spanning from a historically-informed modernism to the increasing presence of urban conservation the contributors examine these alternative approaches to the city and its architecture.
The Idea Of Retribution In The Book Of Ezekiel
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Author : Ka Leung Wong
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2001
The Idea Of Retribution In The Book Of Ezekiel written by Ka Leung Wong and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Religion categories.
After a brief review of recent literature on retribution in the Old Testament, the book seeks to demonstrate that underlying Ezekiel are three principles of retribution: covenant, the disposal of impurity, and poetic justice.
Response Ethics
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Author : Kelly Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Response Ethics written by Kelly Oliver and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with Philosophy categories.
What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless? In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a “response ethics” as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver’s response ethics is grounded in an innovative understanding of subjectivity. Insofar as one’s subjectivity is informed by the social, and our sense of self is constituted by our ability to respond to our environment, reconceptualizing subjectivity transforms our ethical responsibility to others. Oliver’s engagement in various debates in applied ethics, ranging from our ecological commitments to the death penalty, from sexual assaults on campus to reproductive technology, shows the relevance of response ethics in contemporary society. In the age of pervasive war, assaults, murder, and prejudice, Response Ethics offers timely contributions to the field of ethics.
Vanguard Of Visions And Dreams
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Author : Bishop Dr. Jackie L. Green
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2012-12-29
Vanguard Of Visions And Dreams written by Bishop Dr. Jackie L. Green and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-29 with Religion categories.
Dreamers hope Visionaries see Vanguards hope, see and lead ! This book is a dreamers tool box, packed with what they need to know about provision for the vision, the journey of a vision and the visionarys cup. This book will speak to those that are at a spiritual crossroad and intersection of the vision; or on the edge of a cliff called faith, living in two realms at the same time and pushing through the contractions of a vision in the birth canal. The author expounds on the seven types of vanguards needed in every generation: Presidents, Pastors, Parents, Pioneers, Prayer Warriors, Prisoners and Prophets. This book will reveal how and why God is deploying His end time vanguards throughout the earth. Bishop Green throws out a holy lifeline to dreamers and visionaries so that they will not throw away their inspiration, perspiration and determination for the future. The Word for the Church as well as for our nation this hour is GO FORWARD WITH GOD!