Jodo Notebook

Author: Bo Jespersen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 8771459170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
"Jodo Notebook" is a fully illustrated manual of the Basic techniques (Kihon) of Shindo Muso Ryu (SMR) and the Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei (ZNKR),and the 12 Kata of Seitei Jodo. It is an invaluable supplement to Jodo training to make learning easier and faster as well. Jodo (Japanese stick fighting) is taught either in Shindo Muso Ryu, or in the Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei under the name Seitei Jodo. Both systems share the same Basics (12 Kihon). The differences are in the Kata (12 in Seitei Jodo, and 64 in SMR), and the training with other weapons arts besides the Jo and the Sword (Tachi) in Shindo Muso Ryu (in the 64 SMR Kata). The ZNKR Jodo organization is by far the largest international Jodo organization. Very few books are available on Jodo. Jodo is taught worldwide, but newer literature in English is hard to get. Most of the literature is in Japanese.The Notebook is made to fill this gap in literature. The author is co-writer with George W. Alexander of The Dictionary of Japanese Martial Arts, and illustrator of The Way of White Crane Karate, both from Yamazato Productions.

Sacred Trickery and the Way of Kindness

Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620554607
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Enter the mind of Jodo and follow his initiatory saga from Zen disciple to revolutionary filmmaker to spiritual teacher • Explores the sacred trickery of shamans he encountered, including Carlos Castaneda, and how intention and action matter more than notions of “true” and “false” • Explains the Way of Kindness and how small acts of generosity and goodness can have a profound effect on your spirit, infusing life with a wealth of happiness • Includes contributions from friends and students of Jodorowsky on their experiences with him, including his son Adan Jodorowsky Known for his surrealist films, his unique approach to tarot, his symbolic comics, and his shamanic therapeutic method of psychomagic, Alejandro Jodorowsky has accomplished an extraordinary amount in his more than 80 years. In this book, we get an intimate look into the inner workings of the cult figure of Jodo. What is revealed is a man who has evolved since his groundbreaking films of the 1970s, El Topo and The Holy Mountain, a man who has grown from a sacred trickster, a shaman of psychomagic, into a brilliant spiritual maverick of the 21st century. We get to see Jodo’s own reflections on the rich tapestry of his remarkable life, including the initiatory failure of the Dune film project, which combined the talents of a multitude of creative greats, including Moebius, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, and H. R. Giger. We learn about Jodo’s years with Marcel Marceau and with great masters such as Ejo Takata, whose Zen training featured strenuous physical and mental ordeals; the sorceress Pachita, who performed psychic surgery on Jodo; and the mysterious Carlos Castaneda, whose sacred trickery reveals how intentions matter more than notions of “true” and “false.” Discussing the Way of Kindness that he now follows, Jodo reveals how intentionally practicing small acts of generosity and goodness can have a profound effect on your spirit, infusing life with a wealth of happiness. From sacred trickery to the path of kindness, Jodo’s radical wisdom discerns the timeless within the immediate and gauges the everyday by the measure of eternity.

Prey Into Hunter

Author: Maurice Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423120
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
In this book Maurice Bloch synthesises a radical theory of religion.

Roadwalker

Author: Dilip D'Souza
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357088911
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
‘The length of India, though. Think of that. The magnitude of it takes my breath away, even months later. When next will I get such an opportunity? As the Yatra got going, through its early days in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, that question began to haunt me. Through those early days, the challenge of finding an answer came to mean something to me. Something deep, profound, elemental. The challenge of the walk, yes. But what it helped me articulate for myself, too. The way it dredged up long-ago experiences, reminded me of what they had meant, wrung new meaning from them now, said things about my country, my family, myself. All in all, it helped me decide — if I wasn’t doing the whole trip, there was a next best thing I could do.’ Dilip D'Souza joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra four times. This is the story of that experience. But even more, this is the story of how he found energy, empathy and enthusiasm in the Yatra. How it spoke to him of renewal. How it filled him, and many others, with hope. ‘This was my chance to make my own slice of personal history,’ he writes. ‘That was enough for me.’

A History of Japanese Literature

Author: Shūichi Katō
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410486
Category : Japanese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature.

A History of Japanese Literature

Author: Shuichi Kato
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Dictionary of International Biography ...

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1168

Book Description
A biographical record of contemporary achievement together with a key to the location of the original biographical notes.

MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Papers - GS Paper-1 & CSAT Paper-2 - Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission

Author: Mocktime Publication
Publisher: by Mocktime Publication
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Papers - GS Paper-1 & CSAT Paper-2 - Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission Table of Contents 1. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2003 (GS : Paper-I) 2. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2003 (GS 'Backlog) : Paper-I) 3. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2005 (GS : Paper-I) 4. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2008 (GS : Paper-I) 5. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2009 (GS : Paper-I) 6. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2010 (GS : Paper-I) 7. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2012 (GS : Paper-I) 8. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2013 (GS : Paper-I) 9. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2014 (GS : Paper-I) 10. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2015 (GS : Paper-I) 11. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2016 (GS : Paper-I) 12. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2017 (GS : Paper-I) 13. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2018 (GS : Paper-I) 14. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2012 : (CSAT) Paper-II 15. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2013 : (CSAT) Paper-II 16. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2014 : (CSAT) Paper-II 17. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2015 : (CSAT) Paper-II 18. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2016 : (CSAT) Paper-II 19. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2017 : (CSAT) Paper-II 20. MPPSC Prelims Solved Previous Paper 2018 : (CSAT) Paper-II

Inoue Enryo

Author: Rainer Schulzer
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438471874
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enry?, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia. Rainer Schulzer provides the first comprehensive study, in English, of the modern Japanese philosopher Inoue Enry? (18581919). Enry? was a key figure in several important intellectual trends in Meiji Japan, including the establishment of academic philosophy, the public campaign against superstition, the permeation of imperial ideology, and the emergence of modern Japanese Buddhism. As one of the most widely read intellectuals of his time and one of the first Japanese authors ever translated into Chinese, an understanding of Enry?s work and influence is indispensable for understanding modern East Asian intellectual history. His role in spreading the terminology of modern East Asian humanities reveals how later thinkers such as Nishida Kitar? and Suzuki T. Daisetsu emerged; while his key principles, Love of Truth and Protection of Country, illustrate the tensions inherent in Enry?s enlightenment views and his dedication to the rise of the Japanese empire. The book also presents a systematic reconstruction of what was the first attempt to give Buddhism a sound philosophical foundation for the modern world. This book is filled with interesting and important details about the unfolding of Enry?s life and the formation of his major works. Schulzer also develops broader themes in terms of Japans intellectual and sociopolitical encounters with the West in light of the advent of its modern self-definition in the context of being part of a global arena for the first time. Steven Heine, author of From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation

Tits Up: The Top Half of Women's Liberation

Author: Sarah Thornton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393881032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests. After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And gained? An experienced sleuth, she resolved to venture behind the scenes to uncover the social and cultural significance of breasts. Riotous and galvanizing, Tits Up excavates the diverse truths of mammary glands from the strip club to the operating room, from the nation’s oldest human milk bank to the fit rooms of bra designers. Thornton draws insights from plastic surgeons, lactation consultants, body-positive witches, lingerie models, and “free the nipple” activists to explore the status of breasts as emblems of femininity. She examines how women’s chests have become a billion-dollar business, as well as a stage for debates about race, class, gender, and desire. Everywhere she turns, Thornton encounters chauvinist myths about this elemental body part that quietly justify deficits in women’s bodily autonomy and endorse shortfalls in their political status. Blending sociology, reportage, and personal narrative with refreshing optimism and wit, Thornton has one overriding ambition—to liberate breasts from centuries of patriarchal prejudice.