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A Lamp Unto Yourself: A Beginner's Guide to Asian Spiritual Practices, from Advaita and Buddhism to Yoga and Zen
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ISBN10: 0807020397
ISBN13: 9780807020395
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780807020395
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
For spiritual explorers ready to travel beyond Western bounds, a beginner's guide to Asian spiritual traditions spanning regions, cultures, and history Asian spiritual practices, from yoga and tai chi to qigong and mindfulness meditations, permeate our culture. But these practices are often casually used in the West, and sometimes little understood. As informative as it is inviting, A Lamp unto Yourself introduces spiritual explorers of all experience levels to embodied Eastern spiritual practices. Employing decades of personal and professional experience with Asian spiritualities, C. Pierce Salguero explains the origins of key Asian spiritual practices. He grounds them in their historical and philosophical contexts and provides information on how the reader can begin and deepen their personal practices. Salguero also discusses the focus of the path (heart, body, or perception) and describes what one might experience as they develop their practice. In A Lamp unto Yourself, readers will learn more about such traditions as
- mindfulness meditation, insight meditation, and loving-kindness meditation
- yogas, tai chi, and qigong
- Taoism and Advaita
- mantras, chakras, and tantra
Those looking to begin practicing for the first time or to simply expand their ever-growing spiritual tool kits will feel empowered to explore Eastern spirituality with knowledge and autonomy. With Salguero as their guide, readers can confidently embark on their journeys to becoming, as Buddha would encourage, a lamp unto themselves.
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