English Philosophy
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What I Believe
- 3 Complete Essays on Religion
- Auteur(s): Bertrand Russell
- Narrateur(s): Terrence Hardiman
- Durée: 2 h et 25 min
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Remarkably relevant, beautifully written, and filled with wit and wisdom, these three essays by Bertrand Russell allow the listener to test the concepts of the good life, morality, the existence of God, Christianity, and human nature. "What I Believe" was used prominently in the 1940 New York court proceedings in which Russell was judicially declared "unfit" to teach philosophy at City College of New York. "Why I Am Not a Christian" concludes that churches throughout history have retarded progress and states that we should instead "look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in." Finally, "A Free Man's Worship", perhaps the most famous single essay written by Russell, considers whether humans operate from free will.
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Relevant a century later!
- Écrit par MRH le 2022-09-10
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What I Believe
- 3 Complete Essays on Religion
- Narrateur(s): Terrence Hardiman
- Durée: 2 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 1999-12-16
- Langue: Anglais
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These three essays by Bertrand Russell allow the listener to test the concepts of the good life, morality, the existence of God, Christianity, and human nature....
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On War
- Auteur(s): Carl von Clausewitz
- Narrateur(s): Nadia May
- Durée: 11 h et 30 min
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The theories and observations in this abridged version of Prussian soldier Carl von Clausewitz's magnum opus have been heeded by military strategists for nearly 200 years. Most have considered this to be the "Bible" of military strategy and tactics.
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
- How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
- Auteur(s): Sean Carroll
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Hogan
- Durée: 10 h et 45 min
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Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: The Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. In The Particle at the End of the Universe, Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event.
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
- How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Hogan
- Durée: 10 h et 45 min
- Date de publication: 2012-12-17
- Langue: Anglais
- Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: The Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found....
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Smile at Fear
- Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
- Auteur(s): Chögyam Trungpa, Carolyn Rose Gimian - editor, Pema Chödrön - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Gabra Zackman, Karen White, Steven Crossley
- Durée: 3 h et 59 min
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Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. "The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are," writes Chögyam Trungpa. In this audiobook, he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.
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A must read.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-01-03
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Smile at Fear
- Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
- Narrateur(s): Gabra Zackman, Karen White, Steven Crossley
- Durée: 3 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2014-12-09
- Langue: Anglais
- Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being....
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Thinking Like a Lawyer
- A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students
- Auteur(s): Colin Seale
- Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
- Durée: 4 h et 37 min
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Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. Colin Seale, a teacher-turned-attorney-turned-education-innovator and founder of thinkLaw, uses his unique experience to introduce a wide variety of concrete instructional strategies and examples that teachers can use in all grade levels and subject areas.
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Thinking Like a Lawyer
- A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students
- Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
- Durée: 4 h et 37 min
- Date de publication: 2020-10-13
- Langue: Anglais
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Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least....
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How to Grow Old
- Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
- Auteur(s): Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - introduction, Philip Freeman - translation
- Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
- Durée: 1 h et 39 min
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Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all - and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was.
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How to Grow Old
- Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
- Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
- Série: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Durée: 1 h et 39 min
- Date de publication: 2018-08-31
- Langue: Anglais
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Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you....
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Your Defiant Child
- Eight Steps to Better Behavior
- Auteur(s): Russell A. Barkley PhD, Christine M. Benton
- Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
- Durée: 8 h et 56 min
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Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" five-to-12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley's approach is research based, practical, and doable - and leads to lasting behavior change. Vivid, realistic stories illustrate what the techniques look like in action. Thoroughly revised to include the latest resources and 15 years' worth of research advances, the second edition also reflects Dr. Barkley's ongoing experiences with parents and kids.
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Highly recommend it to any and every parent
- Écrit par Kindle Customer le 2023-06-17
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Your Defiant Child
- Eight Steps to Better Behavior
- Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
- Durée: 8 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-17
- Langue: Anglais
- Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" five-to-12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley....
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The Queer Art of Failure
- Auteur(s): Jack Halberstam
- Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives.
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Inspiring
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-08-26
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The Queer Art of Failure
- Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2019-03-12
- Langue: Anglais
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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....
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Heroes of History
- Auteur(s): Will Durant
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 12 h et 15 min
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At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant's granddaughter's garage. Written shortly before he died, these 21 essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's best-selling, 11-volume series, The Story of Civilization.
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Should be called "Heroes of Christendom"
- Écrit par LaTomate le 2023-01-09
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Heroes of History
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 12 h et 15 min
- Date de publication: 2004-05-05
- Langue: Anglais
- At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses....
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Why Materialism Is Baloney
- How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Auteur(s): Bernardo Kastrup
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
- Durée: 8 h et 40 min
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The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then, uniquely, presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by skepticism, hard empirical evidence, and clear logical argumentation.
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Profound
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-04-20
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Why Materialism Is Baloney
- How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
- Durée: 8 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2021-07-13
- Langue: Anglais
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The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this....
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Rabid
- A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
- Auteur(s): Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
- Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
- Durée: 8 h et 8 min
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The most fatal virus known to science, rabies kills nearly 100 percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes.
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Hell of a narrator.
- Écrit par GDS le 2020-08-21
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Rabid
- A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
- Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
- Durée: 8 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2012-07-19
- Langue: Anglais
- A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....
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The Path Is The Goal
- A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation
- Auteur(s): Chögyam Trungpa, Sherab Chödzin - editor
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 3 h et 29 min
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According to the Buddha, no one can attain basic sanity or enlightenment without practicing meditation. The teachings given here on the outlook and technique of meditation provide the foundation that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did. Trungpa teaches us to let go of the urge to make meditation serve our ambition; thus we can relax into openness.
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A great book to start your journey
- Écrit par Mad hatter le 2023-12-21
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The Path Is The Goal
- A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 3 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2014-12-09
- Langue: Anglais
- The teachings given here on the outlook and technique of meditation provide the foundation that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did....
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition)
- A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
- Auteur(s): Daniel T. Willingham
- Narrateur(s): Jim Seybert
- Durée: 9 h et 12 min
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition) features 25 percent updated material while still honoring the classic, beloved approaches of the original. The second edition will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn and reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition)
- A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
- Narrateur(s): Jim Seybert
- Durée: 9 h et 12 min
- Date de publication: 2021-07-13
- Langue: Anglais
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition) features 25 percent updated material while still honoring the classic, beloved approaches of the original....
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The Machiavellians
- Defenders of Freedom
- Auteur(s): James Burnham
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
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This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto. Burnham contends that the writings of these men hold the key both to the truth about politics and to the preservation of political liberty.
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very good. very relevant.
- Écrit par Adam Milne le 2020-06-21
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The Machiavellians
- Defenders of Freedom
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2009-05-07
- Langue: Anglais
- This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States....
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Staying with the Trouble
- Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- Auteur(s): Donna J. Haraway
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.
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Staying with the Trouble
- Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2017-11-14
- Langue: Anglais
- In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants....
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Phantoms in the Brain
- Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- Auteur(s): Sandra Blakeslee, V. S. Ramachandran
- Narrateur(s): Neil Shah
- Durée: 10 h et 47 min
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Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments - using such low-tech tools such as cotton swabs, glasses of water, and dime-store mirrors.
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Incredible!
- Écrit par Alex Gendron le 2018-11-21
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Phantoms in the Brain
- Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- Narrateur(s): Neil Shah
- Durée: 10 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2013-12-24
- Langue: Anglais
- Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address....
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Kant
- A Very Short Introduction
- Auteur(s): Roger Scruton
- Narrateur(s): Kyle Munley
- Durée: 5 h et 17 min
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Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.
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Kant
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrateur(s): Kyle Munley
- Durée: 5 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2021-05-25
- Langue: Anglais
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Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring....
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 2 h et 6 min
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts. His understanding of the darker and more extreme recesses of the human mind cast a forceful light into these areas of experience. The raw psychology and passionate involvement of his books galvanized writers and thinkers as disparate as Nietzsche and Kafka.
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Read it to understand Dostoyevsky
- Écrit par Marc Schelpe le 2022-06-13
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 2 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2005-09-14
- Langue: Anglais
- After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly....
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 1 h et 22 min
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Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. He insisted that all experience must conform to knowledge. According to Kant, space and time are subjective; along with various "categories," they help us to see the phenomena of the world, though never its true reality.
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 1 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2004-04-13
- Langue: Anglais
- Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg....
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Training in Compassion
- Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
- Auteur(s): Norman Fischer
- Narrateur(s): Norman Fischer
- Durée: 6 h et 9 min
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Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works.
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So helpful!
- Écrit par Anonymous le 2023-05-04
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Training in Compassion
- Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
- Narrateur(s): Norman Fischer
- Durée: 6 h et 9 min
- Date de publication: 2015-04-28
- Langue: Anglais
- Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion....
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