malf
Member
No shameChoices: One Man's Spiritual Journey. By Stephen McKinnell
Part of my own story.
No shameChoices: One Man's Spiritual Journey. By Stephen McKinnell
Part of my own story.
No shame
The Fall is a major work that overturns mainstream current thinking on the nature of civilization and human nature. It draws on the increasing evidence accumulated over recent decades that prehistoric humanity was peaceful and egalitarian, rather than war-like and crude. It is not natural for human beings to kill each other, for men to oppress women, for individuals to accumulate massive wealth and power, or to abuse nature. The worldwide myths of a Golden Age or an original paradise have a factual, archaeological basis.
SciFi, when you've read the Swartz book, would you mind telling me if it's a how-to book as well as exposition of Vedanta? I see he published a previous book that seems to focus on the "how": How to Attain Enlightenment: The Vision of Nonduality. Anybody read it?
Thanks a lot for this, I'll keep away from it!But then the author proceeds to lambast all other ways of attaining enlightenment, for example Zen Buddhism and Daoism and believes that all humans have a svadharma or some fixed calling, which btw was the cause of the caste system and its multiple inequities(Buddha opposed this concept). It is basically Vedanta with all the trappings of archaic Hindu tradition.
In Gotama Buddha, Professor Hajime Nakamura embarks on a search for the details of the historical Buddha's life. He conducts an exhaustive analysis of both the oldest, most reliable texts and later biographies of the Buddha that contain mythological material.
Carefully sifting these texts to separate facts from embellishments, he constructs a biography that begins with the Indian historical context at the time of Buddha's Birth and takes the reader through all the stages of his life. Professor Nakamura also compares the oldest Buddhist texts with the earliest Jain and Hindu writings and finds surprising similarities that elucidate the significance of the historical Buddha. Archeological discoveries and factual elements from Buddhist art support Professor Nakamura's fascinating story.