Thought! It's fascinating, mysterious and at the same time silly and foolish to know what it is. It is like what is life - a universal question. Thought is very fundamental of everything and is a natural phenomenon of the human thinking. It is like a seed of the plant that can stay as single or grow into a big tree - like chain of thoughts. Thoughts come in from anywhere and go wherever and anywhere. Out of these thoughts is born Thoughways.

Life has become very busy and like its on steroids now a days. You are continuously running from one place to another, one moment to another, from the time you get up until you hit the bed for rest. It is more or less you are put on a jet speed conveyor belt. For some reason the joy that will light up your life went missing, in all probability it’s lost somewhere. The main reason could be, a high possibility that your mind has taken over with long list of needs and desires and that too in ...

The Bhagavad Gita presents a synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of liberation through jnana, and Samkhya philosophy. Numerous commentaries have been written on the Bhagavad Gita with widely differing views on the essentials. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi penned this extensive commentary on the Gita, and called the sacred text "The Gospel of Selfless Action."

Hymns Of The Samavedaby Ralph T.H. GriffithThe Samaveda, is the third of the four Vedas, the ancient core Hindu scriptures, along with the Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, and Atharva Veda. It ranks next in sanctity and liturgical importance to the Rigveda. It consists of a collection (samhita) of hymns, portions of hymns, and detached verses, all but 75 taken from the Sakala Sakha of the Rigveda, the other 75 belong to the Bashkala Sakha, to be sung, using specifically indicated melod...

In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is cause for celebration—but it can also compel us to go back to the beginning: to look at haiku’s development during the centuries before it was known outside Japan. This in-depth study of haiku his...

Jetsun Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, is known for his penetrating insights, wry sense of humor, and ability to render any lesson into spontaneous song. His songs and poems exhibit the bold, inspirational leader as he guided followers along the Buddhist path.More than any other collection of his stories and songs, Drinking the Mountain Stream reveals Milarepa's humor and wisdom. Faithfully translated by Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Brian Cutillo, this rare collec...

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle’s comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as “Sun,” was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave up sexual relationships to follow a path ...

"The Halfords' book is an achievement. For the first time ever, any Westerner who reads English can obtain a real insight into the plots and stories, the texts and characteristics of Kabuki dramas, and in terms which a Western-trained mind can readily understand. For this the entire Kabuki world must be grateful." — From the Foreword by Faubion Bowers, author of Japanese Theatre and Theatre in the EastKabuki has been described as "in the main, the...

There are many ghost stories in every culture around the world. This book details seven of them. A witch that owns a skin tree, a bloodthirsty creature that demands tolls, an evil pack of boys at night, and many more (a total of seven). In the tradition of the haiku, each story is detailed in multiple sets of haiku's for a complete story. They also are paired with a blood-curdling image each, giving more insight to the evil of each tale.

It is unclear the exact year of Sant Tukaram's birth although 1577 and 1597 have both been cited by scholars. It is clear that he was born in a small village called Dehu in Maharasthtra in India to Bolhoba and Kanakai, a lower Sudra class family and had two brothers. Despite this status the family were comfortable and respected within their community but when Tukaram was 13 his father became ill and shortly after both his parents died. Economic hardship followed and further tragedy occurre...

“Reading poems from another language, culture, and century, I often feel like a foreigner excluded from the original’s greatest subtleties. Not so in Hyesim’s miraculous time-traveling poems, which might have been written yesterday or tomorrow, and anywhere. There’s not a single opaque word in the book. The poems are Buddhist, yes, and Zen (S?n) in particular, but they’re written for anyone interested in human consciousness: what it is, how it perceives the world, how it can be transformed...

Perfect for those who hate to read wordy poetry, San Diego-based author Laura Roberts' new HAIKU FOR HATERS ebook contains only 24 painless pages of 5-7-5s. Covering subjects as diverse as pop-star Prince to Chairman Mao and rowdy revolution, this is the first in the "Haiku for ____" series, with more coming soon; be sure to collect them all!Print version available at Buttontapper.com.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Laura Roberts can leg-press an average-sized sumo wrestler, is a ...