Interpretations of Desire: Mystical love poems by the Sufi Master Muyhiddin Ibn `Arabi, Hill Keith
Автор: Hill Keith Название: The Bhagavad Gita: A new poetic translation ISBN: 0995133395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995133396 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
On the battlefield of life, desiring to do our best, how should we act? Which values should we live by? What metaphysical outlook best explains what happens to us? How do we express our spiritual nature? And how can we stay spiritually focused in the whirl of daily activity?
Arjuna s searching questions, asked on the brink of a war he is loathe to fight, and Krishna s profound answers, spoken in his chariot as they survey the battlefield on which thousands will soon die, offer timeless insights into the difficulties and wonders of human existence, making the Bhagavad Gita one of the great works of world spirituality.
Originally written in poetry, but usually translated into English in prose, this version balances the need to present the Bhagavad Gita's profound concepts precisely while reproducing the original s dramatic and poetic power. This translation is especially successful in capturing the Bhagavad Gita's shifts of tone, moving from vivid descriptions of the battlefield, to the precise reasoning of Krishna s advice to Arjuna, to the sublime visionary intensity of Krishna as cosmic being. Endnotes and a glossary help readers unfamiliar with Indian culture understand the poem s mythological and philosophic references.
Excerpt from Discourse Two:
The Lord said:
You grieve for those who require no grief,
confusing yourself with words of false wisdom;
wise men mourn neither living nor dead.
For there was never a time when I was not,
nor when you and these kings did not exist,
nor, hereafter, when we will cease to be.
The embodied passes from infancy to death,
just so it enters another body;
the wise are not deceived over this.
Heat and cold, pleasure and pain, each arise
when the senses and their objects meet.
But they are transitory. Transcend them, therefore.
In 1201, Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi arrived in Mecca. Among the many people who impressed him one drew his attention above all others: Niz m, the daughter of a prominent religious teacher. As Beatrice did for Dante, Niz m soon inspired a sequence of love poems that are Ibn 'Arabi's poetic masterpiece, Tarjum n al-Asw q (The Interpreter of Desire).
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi was known as Shaykh al-Akbar (the Greatest Shaykh), a title given him due to his profound knowledge as a mystic, theologian, philosopher and legalist. Scholars are devoting much labour to translating and interpreting Ibn 'Arabi's voluminous prose writings, but his poetry remains little known by Western readers compared with that of his fellow Sufis, Rumi, Attar and Hafiz.
This collection reveals that with his intense feeling, vivid imagery, and the playful way he reworked the conventions of Bedouin desert poetry, Ibn 'Arabi wrote poems that deserve to be placed alongside the best of his illustrious Sufi compatriots. Keith Hill's engaging new English language versions will be welcomed not just by those attracted to Sufi literature, but by all who enjoy enchanting love poetry.
THE LOVER'S LAMENT
I wish I knew if they knew
whose heart they had captured.
I wish my heart could know
what mountain pass they travelled.
Is it through living or dying
that they have endured?
Perplexed, lovers lose the path;
lost in love, they die enraptured.
A LOVER'S PLEA
When they departed, my patience
and endurance departed,
yet that absent traveller still
lives inside my churning chest.
I asked my guides where riders
at noon make their rest.
They answered: "Where desire
and absence spread their scent."
So I begged the East Wind:
"Go and search through the estates,
find where in the groves they shelter,
shaded beneath their tents.
"There give them greeting
from one whose life is one long lament
due to the age that, from his heart
companions, he has been absent."
Автор: Ross, Keith Mackenzie Название: Tales from a winchester hill ISBN: 1788305906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788305907 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The story begins in Russia 1917, at the time that Czar Nicholas 2nd, his wife, Alexandra, and four children Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia, Maria and son, Alexis, are imprisoned before being assassinated. Little-known is the fact that there was a parallel or rival Czar in the far-east of Russia, recognised by the Old Believers: Czar Ussuri, who had a small son, Mikhail. Because of the prevailing unrest, Mikhail was sent to live under the guardianship of an old Russian aristocratic family, where, in time, he would be known as Peter Mikhail Czarevitch,
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The greatest personal difficulties we face, along with the psychological strengths and weaknesses that loom largest in our life, have their roots in previous life experience. This makes our personal psychology the tip of an iceberg that has been profoundly shaped by our past life undertakings, reactions and choices. Only by adopting a multi-life perspective can we get to the heart of who we are at our deepest level, and learn what is driving us in this life.
Psychological Spirituality focuses on human psychology as viewed from a reincarnational perspective. It offers practical insights into human psychology, advocating the use of self-observation and analysis to understand how traits form in response to current and past life situations. Providing a number of interlinked frameworks, it shows how to first identify key traits, then transform them.
This book will be of particular benefit to those seeking to learn more about their deep selves, and therapists who include past life analysis in their psychotherapy.
Psychological Spirituality is the third in a series of channelled books that offer a psychospiritual approach to inner development. Designed for twenty-first century seekers, it draws on a number of established spiritual traditions, notably G.I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way and the channelled Michael Teachings, to clarify the developmental process. Key concepts presented here include:
How the concepts of false and true personality help us understand our psyche
The nature of fear and how it provides the basis for self-defensive traits
The essence self and its roots in accumulated human identity
Individual preferences in the development of skills, abilities and talents
The multi-life trajectories individuals adopt during their reincarnation cycle
How false personality and fear combine to stop us achieving our life plan
The way life goal, orientation and attitude interlink to steer us through a life
How to use self-enquiry to maximise our achievement in this life
Автор: , Hill Keith Richard Название: Play from the Soul: An Artist`s Science of Creativity ISBN: 1986663892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781986663892 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 28740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Do you want to make art that moves people, understand more of how the universe works, or find deeper spirituality? If that sounds like you, read this book.In this trailblazing, comprehensive guide to aesthetic science, Keith Hill offers thirty creative mechanisms that activate the Soul, thirty-five universal principles, and an entirely new explanation of how human beings function. You will learn how to "feed" your Soul in a way that stimulates creativity and insight, and you will discover how to use your senses-all 133 of them-to create excellence in art, work, and life.
In 587 BCE, King Zedekiah of Judah led his people in rebellion against Babylonian rule. Nebuchadnezzar responded mercilessly. His army sacked Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and deported thousands to Babylon.
These psalms are written from the perspective of one of those exiles. They express his growing unhappiness with life as a slave, his despairing cries for help to his Lord, and his eventual escape into the wilderness. After much struggle he is reunited with his lost beloved, and together they find their way back to Jerusalem.
Inspired by the passionate writings of the ancient Jewish prophets and poets, and in harmony with the Jewish healing tradition of tikkun olam, these poems recount the spiritual journey seekers make as they strive to transcend everyday life, enter their own hurt heart, heal its pain, and experience the wisdom that exists there. It is the story of exiles who, lost and despairing, rediscover themselves in joy.
Автор: Calvert Peter, Hill Keith Название: Learning Who You Are: An Introduction to Experimental Spirituality ISBN: 0995120447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995120440 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Learning Who You Are offers a contemporary take on the age-old questions of who we are and why we are here. The book builds on current scientific knowledge to show how the physical and spiritual realms are interlinked. It does this by presenting a number of innovative models and conceptual frameworks that mesh with twenty-first century understanding. The book also discusses the process of validating these models and concepts empirically, through observation, and explains how meditation may be used to expand vision within and beyond the everyday self. Throughout, the emphasis is on practical processes, focused on the here and now, yet which have the potential to open a doorway into the beyond.
All this is explored using an open-ended, experimental approach that challenges the rigid dichotomies of the past, such as the mundane many vs the enlightened few, and the profane human vs the sacred divine. Historically, the notion of divinity has erected a barrier between humanity and the spiritual realm, which signals that whatever happens in the spiritual dimension is distant and so must remain an unfathomable mystery. Learning Who You Are alternatively, and controversially, asserts that the spiritual domain is not divine; individual human spirits, enlightened or otherwise, are not special; and the spiritual is neither distant nor unfathomable.
The absence of divinity means no Divine Being is pushing or pulling any of us during the course of our lives. So understanding the fundamental nature of our existence doesn't depend on divine decree or sacred revelation. We are already spiritual, hence appreciating the spiritual bases of our existence may be achieved straightforwardly--should we wish to do so, and be willing to make the effort required to discern them.
Learning Who You Are offers the spiritually inquisitive and adventurous a unique, contemporary perspective on what it is to be human, and what may be achieved while living on this often perplexing planet.
I always maintained he would amount to something. Thank goodness I never put money on it. -- Aunt Joan
Strength: Looks good in uniform. Weakness: Not inclined to study. Potential career: Flight attendent. More likely: Carrying sandwich board outside local pizzeria. -- Year Eight School Report
Every time he posts honking geese rise into the sky. -- Asuka (#instapoetfav)
New Zealand literature has no one like him. Always surprising, a genuine original. -- Roger Horrocks
Is this book ticking? -- Receptionist, Ministry for Culture
Striving To be Humanexamines what our moral values are, how we came to have them, and how we can add a spiritual dimension to them.
Westerners live in liberal, secular democracies. The religious and moral certainties of the past have lost their influence on us, replaced by liberal freedoms that have led to a culture of moral relativism. The plus about this is that it gives each of us the freedom to decide what is right and wrong. But if moral relativism considers all moral choices to be equal, as a culture what moral values do we end up collectively sharing? Is our morality no more than a grab-bag of values taken from consumerism, power politics, and self-interested ambition that justifies the view that we deserve whatever we can get, all softened by traditional religious ideas that it is good to be nice to others? Or is there is an objective scale of right and wrong that transcends our own individually-centred thoughts and feelings and that can definitely tell us what is moral and what is not?
This book is a search for a moral yardstick that we can use to decide what is truly right and wrong, and that offers us a guide to living together in contemporary Western secular democracies, while we remain true to our individual sense of spirituality and to our shared humanity.
Автор: Hill Keith Название: The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca ISBN: 0473324075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780473324070 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In 1528, a Spanish expedition was shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. Eight years later only four men remained alive. One of the four, Cabeza de Vaca, later published an account of what occurred. Naked and enslaved, de Vaca was stripped of all he possessed, then underwent an extraordinary transformation. The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca is Keith Hill's masterful retelling of Cabeza de Vaca's story. This is a heartbreaking account of courage and faith, barbarity and miracles, that transports us to the limits of human experience.
Автор: Hill Keith Название: What Is Really Going On?: 21 Key Spiritual Questions Answered by Spirit Guides Who Tell It How It Is ISBN: 0473318172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780473318178 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: It often seems that our biggest problem with being human ... is being human! Here you will find down-to-earth and compassionate comments on some of the biggest issues that trouble us as we attempt to live fully and make sense of our lives. In often humorous responses, the guides talk plainly about the spiritual complexities involved in being human.
"We'll start by introducing ourselves. We're spiritual beings like you. Except we don't have a body. But we did in the past, many times. We have repeatedly lived through the experience of occu-pying a human body and dealing with all the exciting, boring, wondrous and excruciating experiences that go with being human. We have been delirious with joy. We have suffered unimagin-able pain. We have given birth. We have raised children. We have lost children. We have been slaves. We have been masters. We have oppressed. We have fought against oppression. We have experienced everything available to human beings. This is the experiential basis for our claim to authority on what you're living through now. We know because we've done it all."
Topics include:
-Why human beings are confused about their spiritual nature
-The rationale and implications of reincarnation
- Does God really punish us when we screw up?
-The difference between gut feelings and deep insights
-A non-embodied view of what happens to us between lives
-Is more than one of us here right now?
-How can we know whether or not our pets have souls?
-The different varieties and roles of spirit guides
-If we're intrinsically good why is there so much evil?
-What we are to the universe and its enveloping consciousness
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