The Emptiness Above

The Emptiness Above

Author: M.E. Purfield

Publisher: trash books

Published:

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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Dark secrets fill the halls and classrooms of high school. But can you keep them from infecting your heart. Fifteen-year-old nonverbal autistic Prudy Radicci lives with her older sister in Jersey City. A girl with many secrets. She is a psychic that can access the internet with her brain, which comes in handy being non-verbal. If only she could reveal it to the world. Other kids in her school have secrets, too. Like Jordan. A smart and beautiful girl in her class. A girl with slices on her arms. When a project throws Prudy and Jordan together, secrets collide. Secrets that awaken a new side to Prudy. Secrets that may harm Prudy. Buy The Emptiness Above and experience a dark, mysterious love story about the faces we hide from the world.


The Other Side of Nothingness

The Other Side of Nothingness

Author: Beverly Lanzetta

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780791449493

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Provides an innovative theology based in mysticism, one that acknowledges the pain of spiritual repression and values religious pluralism.


A Philosophy of Emptiness

A Philosophy of Emptiness

Author: Gay Watson

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2014-03-15

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1780232853

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In this book Gay Watson offers an alternative view of emptiness via a tour of early and non-Western philosophy, taking us from Buddhism, Taoism and religious mysticism to the contemporary world of philosophy, science and art practice.


Poetics of Emptiness

Poetics of Emptiness

Author: Jonathan Stalling

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2011-10-03

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0823231461

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The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics. This conceptual migration is detailed in two sections. The first focuses on "transpacific Buddhist poetics," while the second maps the less well-known terrain of "transpacific Daoist poetics." In Chapters 1 and 2, the author explores Ernest Fenollosa's "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" as an expression of Fenollosa's distinctly Buddhist poetics informed by a two-decade-long encounter with a culturally hybrid form of Buddhism known as Shin Bukkyo ("New Buddhism"). Chapter 2 explores the classical Chinese poetics that undergirds the lost half of Fenellosa's essay. Chapter 3 concludes the first half of the book with an exploration of the didactic and soteriological function of "emptiness" in Gary Snyder's influential poetry and poetics. The second half begins with a critical exploration of the three-decades-long career of the poet/translator/critic Wai-lim Yip, whose "transpacific Daoist poetics" has been an important fixture in American poetic late modernism and has begun to gain wider notoriety in China. The last chapter engages the intertextual weave of poststructural thought and Daoist and shamanistic discourses in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's important body of heterocultural productions. By formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book makes available one of the most important yet still largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics.


Xiong Shili's Treatise on Reality and Function

Xiong Shili's Treatise on Reality and Function

Author: John Makeham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-09-15

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0197688691

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"Although intrinsic Reality is characterized in terms of origin, point of emergence, and beginning, the relationship between intrinsic Reality and its phenomenal manifestation is not like that of mother and offspring or creator and created. Rather, Xiong not only insists on the ontological parity between ti and yong, but also on their ontological identity"--


In Search of Reality

In Search of Reality

Author: O. N. Krishnan

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9788120820128

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"Comparative analysis of the philosphical systems of the Upanisads, Advaita Vedanta and various schools of Buddhism."


The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

Author: Thomas Cleary

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 1998-09-14

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1570623481

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Hui-neng (638–713) is perhaps the most beloved and respected figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a flash, he became the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen, and is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" school. He is the supreme exemplar of the fact that neither education nor social background has any bearing on the attainment of enlightenment. This collection of his talks, also known as the Platform or Altar Sutra, is the only Zen record of its kind to be generally honored with the appellation sutra, or scripture. The Sutra of Hui-neng is here accompanied by Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra—in its very first published English translation ever.


Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine E-Book

Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine E-Book

Author: Giovanni Maciocia

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 2092

ISBN-13: 0702059501

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This major, new book is a complete, easily accessed and highly illustrated guide to diagnosis in Chinese Medicine. Emphasis is placed on "real world" issues and symptoms, and the text focuses on clear interpretations of signs and symptoms - the practice beyond the theory. Since Chinese medicine diagnosis relies on a subjective appraisal of the patient's symptoms and signs - which form a pattern - many factors beyond traditional Western symptoms are taken into consideration e.g. a patient's voice, the absence of thirst, feeling hot or cold, the patient's smell, tone of voice, glitter of eyes. Thus, Chinese diagnosis is based on a subtle appraisal of a patient's disharmony, which may not be a "disease" at all, and as such requires careful interpretation of a range of nuances. This book will help lead students and practitioners through basic on to sophisticated levels of diagnostic interpretation - Provides a clinical understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Offers an unparalleled depth of information that is meticulously cross-referenced - Includes all the signs and symptoms, however subtle, that a modern patient may present in the clinic - Provides clinical experience and understanding from a leader in the field of Chinese medicine - Clearly outlines the decision-making options in key situations to help readers through the most challenging topics - Logically organized so readers can quickly find the information they need in clinical situations


Sepher Rezial Hemelach

Sepher Rezial Hemelach

Author: Steve Savedow

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781578631681

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The long-awaited first English translation from ancient Hebrew of the rare and complete 1701 Amsterdam edition, of this famous magical text. According to Hebrew legend, the Sepher Rezial was given to Adam in the Garden of Eden, by the hand of God. The myth suggests that this diverse compendium of ancient Hebrew lore was the first book ever written. Includes an explanatory text on the holy names of God, the divisions of Heaven and Hell, and the names and hierarchy of the angels and spirits.


The Moon Points Back

The Moon Points Back

Author: Koji Tanaka

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0190297557

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The Moon Points Back comprises essays by both established scholars in Buddhist and Western philosophy and young scholars contributing to cross-cultural philosophy. It continues the program of Pointing at the Moon (Oxford University Press, 2009), integrating the approaches and insights of contemporary logic and analytic philosophy along with those of Buddhist Studies in order to engage with Buddhist ideas in a contemporary voice. The essays in the volume focus on the Buddhist notion of emptiness (sunyata), exploring its relationship to core philosophical issues concerning the self, the nature of reality, logic, and epistemology. The volume closes with reflections on methodological issues raised by bringing together traditional Buddhist philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy. The Moon Points Back demonstrates convincingly that integration of Buddhist philosophy with contemporary analytic philosophy and logic allows for novel understandings of and insights into Buddhist philosophical thought. It also shows how Buddhist philosophers can contribute to debates in contemporary Western philosophy and how contemporary philosophers and logicians can engage with Buddhist material.