The Buddha, the Bike, the Couch, and the Circle
The Buddha, the Bike, the Couch, and the Circle

Author: Michael M. Dow

Publisher: University Professors Press

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1939686563

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From the tenements of the Bronx to the Southern California Desert and the hills of Berkeley, back to the Manhattan world of psychoanalysis, and finally landing in the foothills of Boulder, the journey of Bob Unger has traveled through changing times, landscapes and roles. As psychoanalyst, teacher and mentor, he has helped launch thousands of clients and students on their own voyages. As a father, son, husband, and friend he has helped to build communities and groups of interconnection and aliveness spanning decades. This is a moving collection that captures the complexity of the full range of human feelings. In addition to the brilliance and humor familiar to all who know Bob, there are countless clinical gems here, as well as real life wisdom about relationships, parenting, marriage, and personal and professional growth. This book brings together over one hundred anecdotes, teaching stories and essays on every conceivable aspect of the clinical and human experience, a detailed interview about Bob’s life and work, and a reprinting of some of his essential writings. A festschrift is a tribute to a scholar or person of eminence who has contributed much to his field and communities. This book is testament to the transformative power of Buddhism, cycling, psychoanalysis, and group psychotherapy when practiced with discipline and love.

The Buddha and the Bee
The Buddha and the Bee

Author: Cory Mortensen

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781735498126

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Life-Changing Journey... but this is NOT a typical blah-blah-blah memoir Planning is for sissies. A solo bike ride across the country will be filled with sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, and 80 degree temps every day, right? Not so much. The Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, an alkaline desert, and the Sierra Nevadas lay miles and days ahead. Disappointment with unrealized potential, and the thirst for what's next drew farther away in the rotating wide-angle shockproof convex rear-view mirror. I will ride my bike down a never-ending ribbon of asphalt wearing a backpack. Cory Mortensen began his bike ride across the United States from Chaska, Minnesota, to Truckee, California, without a route, a timeline, or proper equipment. Along the way, he gained more than technical skills required for a ride that would test every fiber of his physical being and mental toughness. Ride along as he meets "unusual" characters, dangerous animals, and sweet little old ladies with a serious vendetta for strangers in their town. Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace From long stretches of road ending in a vanishing point at the distant horizon, to stunning vistas, terrifying close calls, grueling conditions, failed equipment, and joyous milestones he stayed the course and gained an appreciation for the beauty of the land, the genius of engineering and marvel of nature.

The Buddha Sat Right Here
The Buddha Sat Right Here

Author: Dena Moes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 163152562X

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Dena was a busy midwife trapped on the hamster wheel of working motherhood. Adam was an eccentric Buddhist yogi passing as a hard-working dad. Bella was fourteen and wanted to be normal. Sophia was up for anything that involved skipping school. Together, they shouldered backpacks, walked away from their California life of all-night births, carpool schedules, and Cal Skate, and criss-crossed India and Nepal for eight months—a journey that led them to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the tree where the Buddha sat, and the arms of Amma the Divine Mother. From the banks of the Ganges to the Himalayan roof of the world, this enthralling memoir is an unforgettable odyssey, a moving meditation on modern family life, and a spiritual quest, written with humor and honesty—and filled with love and awe.

Escape to the Fifth Dimension
Escape to the Fifth Dimension

Author: Dean Yang

Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1482828332

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When Keat--not an ordinary man but a high-ranking member of the triad that controls the Tanjung Bungah area on the tropical island of Penang--robs a goldsmith shop, his life takes quite a turn. Though a hoodlum from childhood, Keat now finds himself the fugitive, hunted by the efficient and relentless Inspector Hassan along with the Sarawak Rangers. A chance encounter with an aborigine and the mysterious Bird Man changes Keat's destiny. Meanwhile, meet a doctor whose interests lie outside of his medical field and who tries to understand the changing universe. As the whole world faces an apocalypse, the only way out is to escape to another planet or into another dimension. To be successful, they'll need the help of the extraterrestrials and the Agarthans and Lemurians from inner Earth. Set in Penang, Malaysia, Escape to the Fifth Dimension presents a fast-paced science fiction novel that offers a possible look into the near future.

The Wheels of Friend
The Wheels of Friend

Author: Eric Norland

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2020-05-11

Total Pages: 1408

ISBN-13: 1532094434

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This book is one mans attempt to make peace with a world that was on the brink of mutually agreed upon destruction. He chose a bicycle as his medium of expression and named it Friend. His intent was to go from California and head east until going to The Soviet Union. He wanted to meet Soviets and show others that they were alright. He made it as far as East Germany but was not allowed to travel any farther east. From there the traveling cyclist heads for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. And then onward around the world. He ran out of money after one year of traveling. He traveled across large continents like Australia and China and circumvented the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. In all he comes away with a world experience and a new way of looking at the planet.

A Very Minor Prophet
A Very Minor Prophet

Author: James Bernard Frost

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 098330498X

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An aimless young barista in 2004 Portland, Oregon, finds inspiration from a fiery dwarf preacher's positivity, and soon has feelings for the bike messenger who helps distribute the preacher's literature.

The Realm of Hungry Spirits
The Realm of Hungry Spirits

Author: Lorraine López

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1609418689

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The award-winning author of The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters returns with a new novel about a woman who craves solitude, only to find family more fulfilling. In Buddhism, there is a place where hungry souls gather between lives awaiting rebirth so they can finally satisfy the desires that haunt them. In the San Fernando Valley, that place is Marina Lucero's house. The Realm of Hungry Spirits For Marina Lucero, whose father transformed his life through meditation and whose mother gave hers to a Carmelite convent, spirituality should come easily. It doesn't. After a devastating relationship leaves her feeling lost and alone, she opens her home to a collection of wayward souls-- the abused woman next door and her alcoholic sister, her aimless nephew and his broken-hearted best friend. Her house now full but her heart still empty, Marina then turns to the wisdom of Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, even a Santeria priest who wants to cleanse her home. As Marina struggles to balance the disappointments and delights of daily life, she'll learn that, when it comes to inner peace and those we love, a little chaos can lead to a lot of happiness.

The Detour
The Detour

Author: Ben J. Harris

Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1839753439

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A travelogue of a 19-year-old's journey home from Thailand to the UK without the aid of the internet, a mobile phone or GPS. Chance encounters, miles of solitude, rare experiences and a fair amount of luck.

The Trouble with Buddhism
The Trouble with Buddhism

Author: Robert M. Ellis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-03-13

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1447516788

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This book is a critique of Buddhism by a philosopher with about 20 years' experience of practising Buddhism. It attempts to judge Buddhism by the standards of its own key insight of the Middle Way. This book argues that Buddhism has often abandoned the Middle Way and allowed dogmatic metaphysical assumptions to take its place. The Buddha criticised appeals to metaphysics, yet many of the trappings of traditional Buddhism are built on it - whether these are karma and rebirth, the revelations of the enlightened and their scriptures, dependent origination, the interpretation of the Four Noble Truths, alienated idealisations of love, or rituals that celebrate metaphysics rather than insight. This is not a purely negative book, but an attempt at a balanced appraisal of Buddhism with praise as well as criticism. In the West we have an opportunity to evaluate Buddhism anew and reform it so that it best applies its own insights.