Once upon a time, in the ancient city of Ayodhya lived a King. His name was Dashratha. He was a great and happy King. The King had four sons. Rama is the eldest and favorite son of the King. His mother is Kaushalya. Bharata is the son of his second and favorite wife, Queen Kaikeyi. View Herencia.pdf from PSICOLOGIA 12 at Central University of Chile. Lenguaje y aplicaciones(2a ed Madrid ES RA-MA Editorial 2007 ProQuest ebrary Web.
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Here is the complete PDF version of Ramayana in English. The version of Ramayana I posted nearly a year ago was a shorter more popular edition. This one here is a translation of the entire scripture directly from the original Sanskrit versions. Like The Mahabharata, Ramayana is an ancient epic tale, that not only is a cornerstone for eastern cultures but also serve as spiritual foundations for several religions.
The complete PDF version of the Hindu Epic tale of Ramayana in English.
Published by: Manmatha Nath Dutt, M. A.
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Lauretta, one of the narrators of the Decameron, painted by Jules Joseph LefebvreThe Decameron or Ten Days’ Entertainment of Boccaccio – also sometimes subtitled Prince Gehaut and often named I’Umana Commedia is a collection of short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio. The stories are told within a frame story, much as One Thousand and One Nights. A group of young people has escaped the black death and are now waiting in a remote villa outside Florence where they usually live. To pass the time, they tell stories.
100 stories in all about love, jokes, nature, society, and relationships and much more. Many of the stories are folk tales or stories Boccaccio took from other authors and twisted to fit his within his frame. Some stories he combined and elsewhere he takes only parts of other stories. What is interesting is that The Decameron was finished in 1353 and as such gives us a very early and unique literary perspective from a time when Marco Polo had just returned and Christopher Columbus wasn’t even born yet.Download The Decameron here as a free PDF e-book, large file (587 pages/54 Mb):Listen to the entire Decameron here. Category:,Tags:Posted on January 17, 2020 Leviathan is the masterwork on political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes a 17th-century Brittish philosopher. He argues that war is the natural state of humankind and that only a strong state unified around a great supreme ruler can counterweight chaos.
He goes further and describes the state of war like a situation where all are against all and uses this grim image to advocate for an unlimited powerful ruler, who should do whatever to maintain power. Rebellion should be dealt with ferociously as Hobbes believes that political freedom and peace are two opposites. Need some arguments against democracy? Read this book.Download Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan here:Listen to the Leviathan – full version here. Category:,Tags: Posted on January 16, 2020 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes is here presented as the third in our mini-series of major economic-philosophical works, the two others being. Keynes’s work is the most recent, published in 1936, established economics as a modern scientific field and created a shift in the way societies, markets, companies, and even households thought about economics.The theory describes how crises, booms, and unemployment are inevitable aspects of market economies. What Keynes points out, is that the free hand of the market does not necessarily provide stability and fairness.
This led many to believe that Keynes’s work was a critique of capitalism. It was not, even though he strongly advocates for economic intervention, his ideas were rather a showdown with the mainstream misinterpretations of economics at the time. Keynes’s economic theories became in the years are after the publication of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money implemented in national policies all over the world and played a major role in formulating wartime and post-war economic policies.Download the free PDF e-book here. Category:Tags: Posted on January 10, 2020 An Inquiry into the Nature of Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) also known as simply The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus by the Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith. The work is considered the foundation of modern economic philosophy – a field established by Adam Smith, who studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Oxford.
The Wealth of Nations is still relevant today and is obligatory reading at universities all over the world. Smith analyzed economical structures never before studied and his thoughts and conclusion are widely used today.
For example, he nailed the concept of “The Invisible Hand of the Market.” Adam Smith worked together with and forms together with and Keynes the early basis of modern economic thinking. Wikipedia has an extensive article about Adam Smith, so no need to go into his bio here.Download The Wealth of Nations here:The Wealth of Nations as a free audio book:. Category:Posted on January 8, 2020 The Hadith is the second most important Islamic book after the. The book is often referred to as “The backbone of Islamic culture” because of its immense influence on Islamic societies, morality, and spiritual life.
While the Quran is based solely on revelations written down immediately after the Prophets death, the Hadith merely bear status as guidelines and narratives rooted in Islamic folklore. – Actually, “Hadith” means “stories” or “narratives”. This does not mean, however, that the content is taken less seriously. Only a small minority of Muslims rejects the Hadith and its content is the basis for.
Furthermore, The Hadith is a foundation for the most authoritative and it is still today referred to by almost all branches of when studying and resolving questions about the sayings of the Quran.The Hadith is a huge work. This English edition consists of 9 volumes collected in a single PDF-file with a total of 2.535 pages.
Download The Hadith here. Category:,Posted on January 4, 2020 The Teachings of a Sufi Master. Preaches no particular dogma, except the great truths that are the basis of all religious beliefs: the belief in the existence of divinity, of an invisible world, and of the immortality of the soul. Unlike the mosque, the Sufi’s gathering is open to all people; everybody can go in the circle of a Sufi Master as an observer without changing his religion.
If you are Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, or even if you have no religion, your entrance to a Sufi gathering is not refused. Sufi circles are not exclusively for Muslims.Sufism is a set of personal practices – though rarely practiced collectively in small groups – designed to help the follower develop hidden and unexploited capacities, with the goal of developing and the visible and invisible world, and guiding the seeker or “traveler” along the, and ultimately acquiring truths of his existence and a certain vision of the world.The base postulate of Sufism as with all is that there is no need for blissful faith in a supposed truth, as advocated by dogmatic religions. All answers lie within the self, deep in the heart.
Sufism teaches the follower who sincerely seeks the truth to develop the capacities to discover or himself the answers to his existential questions. Thus he draws his own truths, independent of any belief imposed or impressed upon him since childhood. This book is written by Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh P, h.D.
An Islamic scholar specializing in Sufism and Shi’ism. He is the representative of the Nematollah Gionabad Sufi order in the United States France and French-speaking countries. The book consists of interpretations of writings by Shah Nematollah Vali (1329-1431) one of the greatest Sufi Masters and founders of Nematollahi Sufi order.Download The Teachings of a Sufi Master here (189 pages/7.6 MB). Category:,Tags: Posted on December 4, 2019 The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar is a classic in Sufi-literature and Islamic esoteric teaching.
The work is also known from other translations from Persian as “Speech of the Birds”. The story takes place at a meeting where the birds are to find a new king to rule them. The birds embark on a quest through seven valleys to find their coming king, the legendary Simorgh. Each bird represents human faults, standing in way for personal and spiritual development.The book was written in the twelfth century and used to be required poetry for Sufis, and the story is widely regarded as a metaphor for life itself.Download The Conference of the Birds as a free PDF e-book in full length (55 pages/2MB):Director Ayten Mutlu Saray has made a movie based on The Conference of the Birds. It can be seen here in full.
Category:Posted on November 12, 2019 Realism: An Attempt to Trace Its Origin and Development in Its Chief Representatives from 1925 is the primary work by the Pakistani philosopher Syed Zafarul Hasan and his doctoral thesis. Realism has become a classic on the subject of realism and for good reasons. In, the view is that the physical world exists independently of the observer – objects have properties regardless of someone labeling, perceiving or naming them. In this book, Syed Zafarul Hasan takes on the task to outline the history of realism from the to the Age of Reason while dealing with the major problems himself. Syed Zafarul Hasan was the first Muslim Scholar of the Indian sub-continent to secure a Ph.D. From Oxford in Philosophy.Download Realism: An Attempt to Trace Its Origin and Development in Its Chief Representatives here. Category:,Posted on November 8, 2019 Capital – A Critique of Political Economy, also knows as ‘Das Kapital’ – the original German title, by Karl Marx, is probably the most well-known on politics and economy.
Marx was a brilliant economic thinker and I personally often recall his quote ‘If you need something you can’t produce, you must produce something you won’t need’ as a general truth applicable to many situations and discussions. However, what Karl Marx had in insights into the economy he lacked in political and sociology understanding.
Marx was certain that his lifelong studies in national economics pointed towards inevitable revolutions worldwide, in which the exploited classes would take over control of societies and build socialistic Utopias. Unfortunately for Marx, his work (and millions of victims), these fallacies became the ideological basis for dictatorship and despots all over the world.Download ‘Capital – A Critique of Political Economy’ here. Category:,Posted on November 5, 2019 ‘Bodhinyana’ was the first collection of talks by Ven. Ajahn Chah to be translated and published by his Western students. Although Ajahn Chah passed away in 1992, the training which he established is still carried on at the and its branches.
The training usually consists of group meditation twice a day and sometimes a talk by the senior teacher. But the heart of the meditation is the way of life. The monastics do manual work, dye and sew their own robes, make most of their own requisites and keep the monastery buildings and grounds in immaculate shape. They live extremely simply following the precepts of eating once a day from the alms bowl and limiting their possessions and robes. Scattered throughout the forest are individual huts where monks and nuns live and meditate in solitude, and where they practice walking meditation on cleared paths under the trees. Discipline is strict, enabling one to lead a simple and pure life in a harmoniously regulated community where virtue, and understanding may be skillfully and continuously cultivated.
From the book:Ajahn Chah’s wonderfully simple style of teaching can be deceptive. It is often only after he is read or heard many times that suddenly our minds are ripe and somehow the teaching takes on a much deeper meaning. His skillful means in tailoring his explanations of Dhamma to time and place, and to the understanding and sensitivity of his audience, was marvelous to see. Sometimes on paper though, it can make him seem inconsistent or even. At such times the reader should remember that these words are a record of a living experience.
Similarly, if the teachings may seem to vary at times from tradition, it should be borne in mind that the Venerable Ajahn speaks always from the heart, from the depths of his own.Download Bodhinyana here (134 pages/ 10.1MB). Category:,Posted on November 2, 2019 Zen Anarchy by Max Cafard. What is the Sound of One hand making a Clenched Fist? Is the strictest and most super-orthodox form of — and at the same time the most iconoclastic, revolutionary and anarchistic one. The roots of Zen go back to the beginnings of the Buddhist tradition — not to any founding sacred documents or to any succession of infallible authorities, but to the experience that started the tradition: the anarchic mind! Forget the “ism” of Buddhism.
It’s not ultimately about doctrines and beliefs. The “Buddha” that it’s named after means simply the awakened mind or somebody, anybody, who happens to “have” that kind of mind. And Zen (or Ch’an, in Chinese) means simply, which is just allowing the mind to be free, wild, awake, and aware. It’s not about the occasional or even regular practice of certain standardized forms of activity (sitting and walking meditation, koan practice, being inscrutable, trying to look enlightened, etc.). Equating meditation with silent sitting is something that Zen simply will not stand for!
Zen is also intimately linked to the absurd, but it can’t be reduced to doing and saying absurd things, as in the popular caricature of Zen. Zen is not but is (like all Buddhism) the Middle Way between hopeless nihilism and rigid dogmatism.Download the free PDF e-book Zen Anarchy here.
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