Buddha on Wall Street

Author: Vaddhaka Linn
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1909314617
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
'An original, insightful, and provocative evaluation of our economic situation today. If you wonder about the social implications of Buddhist teachings, this is an essential book.' David Loy, author Money, Sex, War, Karma. 'Lays bare the pernicious consequences of corporate capitalism and draws forth from Buddhism suggestions for creating benign alternatives conducive to true human flourishing.' Bhikkhu Bodhi, editor In the Buddha's Words. After his Enlightenment the Buddha set out to help liberate the individual and create a society free from suffering. The economic resources now exist to offer everyone decent food, shelter, work and leisure, to allow us to fulfil our potential as human beings. What is it in modern capitalism which prevents that? Can Buddhism build something better than our current economic system? Vaddhaka Linn explores these questions by examining our economic world from the moral standpoint of the Buddha.

Buddha on Wall Street

Author: A.Venkatasubramanian
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Can Money Buy Happiness? How to Maximize your HQ (Happiness Quotient)? What is the Path to ‘Financial MOKSHA’? How to use your finances to Maximize your Potential? Why is Money like ‘Oxygen’? BUDDHA on WALL-STREET is where western philosophies of maximizing wealth meet the eastern philosophies of moderation and maximizing happiness. This is where the United States of America meets Bhutan. While BUDDHA on WALL-STREET is primarily a book on investments it seeks to redefine happiness from the perspective of ancient wisdom drawing on the source of true happiness. It is materialism with contentment. BUDDHA on WALL-STREET not only equips the reader with knowledge and wisdom to effectively maximize returns and manage one’s investments but also lays out a balanced approach to maximize one’s happiness. In the material world there is a single pointed focus towards attaining wealth. This defeats the purpose it intends to serve, ending in misery rather than happiness. The book deals with the mechanics of how to maximize one's Happiness Quotient (HQ). The Book is a practical guide on how one should balance out one’s primal desires for infinite wealth with one’s HQ (Happiness Quotient). It is about securing our future with the right investments and managing our lives with the right attitude.

Buddha on Wall-Street

Author: A Venkatasubramanian
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 9781644294499
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Can Money Buy Happiness? How to Maximize your HQ (Happiness Quotient)? What is the Path to 'Financial MOKSHA'? How to use your finances to Maximize your Potential? Why is Money like 'Oxygen'? BUDDHA on WALL-STREET is where western philosophies of maximizing wealth meet the eastern philosophies of moderation and maximizing happiness. This is where the United States of America meets Bhutan. While BUDDHA on WALL-STREET is primarily a book on investments it seeks to redefine happiness from the perspective of ancient wisdom drawing on the source of true happiness. It is materialism with contentment. BUDDHA on WALL-STREET not only equips the reader with knowledge and wisdom to effectively maximize returns and manage one's investments but also lays out a balanced approach to maximize one's happiness. In the material world there is a single pointed focus towards attaining wealth. This defeats the purpose it intends to serve, ending in misery rather than happiness. The book deals with the mechanics of how to maximize one's Happiness Quotient (HQ). The Book is a practical guide on how one should balance out one's primal desires for infinite wealth with one's HQ (Happiness Quotient). It is about securing our future with the right investments and managing our lives with the right attitude.

How to Have a Meeting with God, Buddha, Allah

Author: Woo Myung
Publisher: Cham Books LLC
ISBN: 1625930496
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Woo Myung is the #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 Amazon, #1 Barnes & Noble, and USA Today bestselling author of How to Have a Meeting with God, Buddha, Allah. Did you know that everything you have been searching for is within your mind? Truth, Heaven, happiness, success and health are all within your mind. This book guides you how to discover it. The top 10 things that people are looking for: 1. Go to a world where one will not die and live eternally 2. Be happy 3. Be successful 4. Have the ability to accomplish one’s goals 5. Be healthy 6. Have peace within 7. Become free from useless thoughts and truly focus on the present 8. Break bad habits 9. Always have a grateful mind 10. Have successful relationships All of the above and more can be found from within the mind. For humans, although it seems that they are living in the real world, they do not live there because they are living inside the mind world that overlaps the world. Because people live in the illusionary world, their minds are not righteous, and they cannot see the world for what it is. However, when you enlighten to and live in the real world, you can know the principles of the world and can become a complete person. This book, which has been written from the perspective of Truth, explains the ways of this world. It is the alternative solution to help you find what you are looking for and achieve everything.

From Greed to Wellbeing

Author: Magnuson, Joel
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447318986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Despite our fitful attempts over decades at reform, the global financial system seems caught in cycles of boom and bust, instability, and scandal. In this timely new book, Joel Magnuson builds on the classic works of E. F. Schumacher and other kindred spirits to provide a Buddhist economics perspective on this recurring pattern, and offers new possibilities for real change. The book centers on the belief that greed, aggression, and delusion (Buddhism’s “three poisons”) are embedded within our financial institutions and that they perpetuate the continued widespread attachment to endless economic growth and financial accumulation that are responsible for social and ecological malaise. Arguing that mainstream economics fails to adequately address this cycle, Magnuson presents a new framework of Buddhist economics, helping readers gain a deeper understanding of current economic problems and offering a course toward genuine wellbeing.

An End to Suffering

Author: Pankaj Mishra
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429933631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
An End to Suffering is a deeply original and provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence throughout history, told in the form of the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism cast a long, constant shadow. Mishra describes his restless journeys into India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, among Islamists and the emerging Hindu middle class, looking for this most enigmatic of religious figures, exploring the myths and places of the Buddha's life, and discussing Western explorers' "discovery" of Buddhism in the nineteenth century. He also considers the impact of Buddhist ideas on such modern politicians as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. As he reflects on his travels and on his own past, Mishra shows how the Buddha wrestled with problems of personal identity, alienation, and suffering in his own, no less bewildering, times. In the process Mishra discovers the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in the world and for himself. The result is the most three-dimensional, convincing book on the Buddha that we have.

Walk Like a Buddha

Author: Lodro Rinzler
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834829169
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
How can I be the person I want to be when I’m stuck in a job I hate? How is it possible to stay present in an era of nearly constant distractions? Can I pick someone up at a bar or club and still call myself spiritual? This nitty-gritty guide to life for the spiritual-but-not-necessarily-religious uses Buddhist teachings to answer those burning questions and a host of others related to going out, relationships, work, and social action. Based on Lodro Rinzler’s popular advice columns, Walk Like a Buddha offers wisdom that can be applied to just the sort of dilemmas that tend to arise for anyone making even a modest attempt to walk like a Buddha—that is, to live with honesty, wisdom, and compassion in the face of whatever life surprises you with.

Buddha Takes the Mound

Author: Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Ph.D.
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN: 1250237920
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
In 2010 a Buddhist scroll was found in the ruins of Yankee stadium, and it proved what Buddhist scholar/award-winning author Donald Lopez, Ph.D., had suspected: the Buddha created the game of baseball. Buddha Takes the Mound: Enlightenment in 9 Innings is The Tao of Pooh for baseball. Funny, moving, and enlightening, this is a read that will engross, enrich, and charm any baseball fan. At once a love letter to the sport and an engaging introduction to Buddhism, it shows how the Buddha invented baseball to teach us deep truths about the world, about ourselves, and about each other. Lopez believes that Buddhism provides a lens for us to see baseball in a new way, a way that makes us love the game even more, a way that makes us ponder profound questions about winning and losing, about who we are, about finitude and infinitude, about birth and death. As Lopez reveals, not only is Buddhism integral to baseball; but baseball is Buddhism, and baseball is ourselves.

The Art of Solitude

Author: Stephen Batchelor
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252277
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude from renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor “Whatever a soul is, the author goes a long way toward soothing it. A very welcome instance of philosophy that can help readers live a good life.”—Kirkus Reviews “Elegant and formally ingenious.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more deeply into solitude, discovering its full extent and depth. This beautiful literary collage documents his multifaceted explorations. Spending time in remote places, appreciating and making art, practicing meditation and participating in retreats, drinking peyote and ayahuasca, and training himself to keep an open, questioning mind have all contributed to Batchelor’s ability to be simultaneously alone and at ease. Mixed in with his personal narrative are inspiring stories from solitude’s devoted practitioners, from the Buddha to Montaigne, from Vermeer to Agnes Martin. In a hyperconnected world that is at the same time plagued by social isolation, this book shows how to enjoy the inescapable solitude that is at the heart of human life.

The Barefoot Book of Buddhist Tales

Author: Alexandra Kohn
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782856684
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Meet a generous merchant's son, an outlaw-turned-monk and more in 13 thought-provoking stories from India, China, Japan and Tibet. Gentle illustrations and an insightful foreword provide context to help young readers grasp the warmth, wisdom and compassion of Buddhist tradition.