It’s time to liberate yourself from the allure of external validation, unearthyour inner strength, and nurture the growth of your enlightened self.Embark on a journey to the heart of presence with the profound teachings, mindfulness practices, and meditation techniques in this insightful guide to empowerment. By engaging with this profound work, you will discover the true essence of presence and envelop yourself in a life of simplicity, aut...

This volume provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, classical Japanese dance-drama.Drawing from specialized scholarship in English and in Japanese, it takes an accessible approach useful for a range of readers, including students and researchers of Japanese culture and performing arts, as well as theatre practitioners.The introduction provides an overview, describing noh from the point of view of both the audience an...

BONUS SIZED EDITION! Inspired by Ben Franklin's poem, 'The Fall of Piracy,' a poem written by a young Ben Franklin, this pivotal, action-packed crossover features the return of heroic runaway slave Pistolfist and the sassy swashbuckler Hannah Teach. When Hanna's estranged father - the infamous Blackbeard - unites with a vicious villain from Pistolfist's past, these heroes not only find themselves in a fight for their lives, but for the fragile hopes and dreams of a fledgling nation on the ...

This small eBook deals with human emotions, specifically here with 'anger'.This first book in a new series of 'OSHO SOLUTIONS" consists of a single talk by Osho and uses a Zen story as a teaching tool to deepen the readers understanding how to deal with anger. Understanding is totally different approach compared to 'self-help' or 'how-to' models which often try to give outside solutions for an inner problem. Osho brings a clarity to this issue and helps your own inner understanding ...

The embodiment of the ancient knowledge that underlies the dedication-to-perfection philosophy of Japan• How mastering these specific movement sequences known as katas provides a way to deepen one’s martial arts practice spiritually• Explores the psychological and social importance of the katas in martial arts and Japanese society, including their role in seppuku (ritual suicide)• Includes many examples from the lives of famous masters, from the legendary s...

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains aesthetic ...

A 20th anniversary edition of the art classic that celebrates the intersection of creative expression and spirituality—from one of the greatest living artists of our timeTwenty years after the original publication of The Mission of Art, Alex Grey’s inspirational message affirming art’s power for personal catharsis and spiritual awakening is stronger than ever. In this special anniversary edition, Grey—visionary painter, spiritual leader, and best-selling a...

The first portrait of spiritual luminary Thomas Keating’s remarkable evolution, in the last decades of his life, into a fully realized modern-day Christian mystic.In the first four decades of his life as a Trappist monk, Thomas Keating created a comprehensive, unified psychospiritual pathway leading from healing to holiness and from contemporary psychological wellness to classic mystical sanctity and beatitude. As one of the key innovators of the meditative practic...

The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has long held a fascination for people both in the East and the West. For six hundred years it has had a huge influence on Japanese culture—and has inspired such Western artists as Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats. Here is a translation of the Fushikaden, a seminal treatise on Noh by the...

In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world.Schechner argues that in failing to see the structure of the whole theatrical process, anthropol...

Simple ideas pack powerful consequences in a small format designed for easy absorption.Marie Kondo's book shows that Americans are ready to take instruction from Japan.Offers fresh, practical solutions to intangible problems at the place where our inner struggles and social challenges intersect.Eschews the financial and religious focus of much of the self-help industry, offering a spiritual and humanist alternative.

Indias rich cultural legacy has been founded on the abiding faith of the Indians in the divine power, whose worship had found expression through dance. Bhakti or devotion was the underlying essence of the various dance forms that developed in India. Indian Classical Dances is a unique presentation of the eight classical dance styles Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Sattriya, through a concise portrayal of the background of each dance form, the ...