ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Buddhist books

Showing posts with label Buddhist books. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Buddhist books. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2025

Reading

MOUNTAIN DHARMA
An Ocean of Definitive Meaning
The Library of Tibetan Classics – Volume 7

Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen

Translated by Cyrus Stearns

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Reading

MIND TRAINING
The Great Collection
The Library of Tibetan Classics - Volume 1

Translated by Thupten Jinpa

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Reading

THE TRADITION OF EVERLASTING BÖN
Five Key Texts on Scripture, Tantra, and the Great Perfection

Translated by J. F. Marc des Jardins

Friday, January 31, 2025

Reading

Sonam Thakchoe
THE TWO TRUTHS IN INDIAN BUDDHISM
Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Reading

Dilgo Khyentse and Padampa Sangye
THE HUNDRED VERSES OF ADVICE
Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

Translated by Padmakara Translation Group

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Currently Reading

Stephen Bachelor
THE ART OF SOLITUDE

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Currently Reading

SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE INDIAN BUDDHIST CLASSICS

VOL IV - PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS

Conceived and Introduced by

HH the XIVth Dalai Lama

Edited by

Thupten Jinpa

Translation and Introductory Essay by

Dechen Rochard

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Currently Reading

Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis

JAPANESE MANDALAS
Representations of Sacred Geography

Friday, July 14, 2023

Currently Reading

Lawrence Shainberg

FOUR MEN SHAKING

Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Currently Reading

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THE METHOD OF NO METHOD

The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination

Chan Master Sheng Yen

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Currently Reading

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REVAMP

Writings on Secular Buddhism

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Winton Higgins

Foreword by Stephen Batchelor

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Currently Reading

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VAST AS THE HEAVENS,

DEEP AS THE SEA

Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta

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Khunu Rinpoche

Foreword

HH the XIVth Dalai Lama

English Translation

Gareth Sparham

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Currently Reading

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SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE INDIAN BUDDHIST CLASSICS

VOL III - PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS

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Conceived and Introduced by

HH the XIVth Dalai Lama

Edited by

Thupten Jinpa

Introductory Essay by

Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Translated by

Hyoung Seok Ham

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Currently Reading

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GANDAHĀRAN BUDDHISM

Archaeology - Art - Texts

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Edited by

Pia Brancaccio and Kurt Behrendt

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Currently Reading

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SEX, SIN, AND ZEN

A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and All Points in Between

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Brad Warner

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Currently Reading

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SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE INDIAN BUDDHIST CLASSICS

VOL II - THE MIND

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Conceived and Introduced by

HH the XIVth Dalai Lama

Edited by

Thupten Jinpa

Contextual Essays by

John D. Dunne

Translated by

Dechen Rochard

Friday, December 16, 2022

Currently Reading

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SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE INDIAN BUDDHIST CLASSICS

VOL I - THE PHYSICAL WORLD

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Conceived and Introduced by

HH the XIVth Dalai Lama

Edited by

Thupten Jinpa

Translated by

Ian Coghlan

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Currently Reading

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FREEDOM THROUGH CORRECT KNOWING

On Khedrup Jé's Interpretation of Dharmakirt

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Translated by The Sera Jey Monastic University Translation Department

Edited by Geshe Tenzin Namdak and Ven. Tenzin Legtsok

Friday, June 3, 2022

NĀGĀRJUNA'S LETTER TO A FRIEND

[Nāgārjuna's Suhr̥llekha]

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Padmakara Translation Group

Commentary by Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche

Snow Lion, 2006

Friday, May 27, 2022

LETTER FROM A FRIEND

A BODHISATTVA'S ADVICE TO AN INDIAN KING ON RIGHT LIVING AND THE BUDDHIST PATH

[Nāgārjuna's Suhr̥llekha]

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Translation and Commentary by Bhikshu Dharmamitra

Kalavinka Press, 2009

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.