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Buddha volume 3
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322 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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In this third volume of the fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Prince Siddhartha undergoes hardship and ordeals in his search for enlightenment.
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Budda volume 4
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370 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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In this fourth volume of the award-winning graphic novel biography, Buddha slowly discovers that his destiny lies in a path not readily available to him. With fellow ascetics Dhepa, who has complete faith in the purifying quality of painful physical ordeals, and Assaji, who can predict everyone's death to the hour, Buddha travels through the kingdom of Magadha into the Forest of Uruvela, where the middle path and enlightenment wait beyond a series...
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When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger-and amuse himself-he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a...
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Buddha trilogy volume 2
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Otto Ringling and his sister Cecelia could not be more different. He's just turned 50, an editor of food books at a prestigious New York publishing house, a man with a nice home in the suburbs, children he adores, and a sense of himself as being a mainstream, upper-middle-class American. Cecelia is the last thing from mainstream. For two decades she's made a living reading palms and performing past-life regressions. She believes firmly in our ability...
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A lighthearted approach to Buddha's journey of discovery. Collecting all the stories created so far for the very first time, from the powerhouse team of Alan Grant, Jon Haward and Jamie Grant. Tales of The Buddha Before He Got Enlightened answers the question 'just what did this holiest of men do before gaining enlightenment?' The stories take an extremely lighthearted approach to Buddha's journey of discovery as he samples other religions whilst...
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"The first fifty or so years of Otto's journey were pretty good. He felt he had it all until one day he didn't. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher ... Otto needs his brother-in-law's wisdom, ... and ... it turns out that Rinpoche himself is also looking for guidance. They embark on a road trip over...
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On September 11, 2001, A. P. Ransome watched in horror as the Twin Towers fell in New York. It was nearly more than he could bear to witness. Just three days earlier, his brother collapsed at his mothers home. A.P. rushed to his brothers aid but didnt understand why a loving God would allow his brother to die. Despite the best efforts of the emergency responders, his brother passed away that day. Left with the painful task to write his brothers eulogy,...
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Every word and every action begins with a thought. Negative thoughts based in jealousy, greed, or hatred may seem harmless on the surface. After all, they're only thoughts, right? But while thoughts are only in our head, they often betray our intentions, and can directly shape our actions. So, how can you overcome internal negativity and live more consciously? In How Would Buddha Think?, best-selling author of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Barbara...
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"Whatever dreams he was having, Jason knew they had nothing to do with his physical body. His eyes were firmly shut and his consciousness withdrawn from his senses when all this was going on. Yet, in his dreams, he experienced sights, sounds and even visceral sensations much more intensely than when he was awake.
From this, he understood that you didn't need a physical body to see, or smell, or endure any kind of experience with an acuteness that...
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Do you often struggle to get whatever you set out to do done because you lack the zeal/motivation to go all in or you soon give up on your goals and you are sick and tired of settling for less or less than ideal?
And have you, upon self-reflection, realized that your reason for struggling has everything to do with you not having a strong, compelling "why" for whatever it is you set out to do and you are desperately looking for ways develop stronger...
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Dessert with Buddha takes the eccentric, sort-of-Buddhist monk, Volya Rinpoche, and his skeptical, middle-of-the-road brother-in-law, Otto Ringling, on another enlightening road trip filled with meals, humor, social commentary, and good times. On this journey, the couple that traveled from New York to North Dakota in Breakfast with Buddha, Seattle to North Dakota in Lunch with Buddha, and North Dakota to Las Vegas in Dinner with Buddha heads down...
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Rinpoche's Remarkable Ten-Week Weight Loss Clinic brings back two main characters from Roland Merullo's beloved Breakfast with Buddha series. This time, though, instead of cruising the American road together, Otto Ringling and Volya Rinpoche are part of the famous meditation master's offbeat weight loss clinic, held over the course of ten Saturdays in a New York City yoga studio.
Known-across twenty books, scores of essays, and twenty-five years...
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