A Study of Pleasure and PainTheosophical Press, 1962 - 97 من الصفحات The theme of this book is that pain is functional in the advancement and enrichment of life in nature and in man, therefore it should be received with understanding and consideration. The arguments found within are purely scientific and illustrated by examples in the lives of common people. Fully discussed are the topics of how pain arises and ceases and the different kinds of pain. |
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الصفحة 21
... meditative or synthesizing period . These are definitely periods in which the physical , emo- tional , mental and , shall we say , ethical - spiritual impulses and developments predominate . Before we go into these in some detail , let ...
... meditative or synthesizing period . These are definitely periods in which the physical , emo- tional , mental and , shall we say , ethical - spiritual impulses and developments predominate . Before we go into these in some detail , let ...
الصفحة 64
... meditation , derived indirectly from the Sanskrit word dhyana , which means meditation , or as Patanjali describes it , a continued mental effort upon an object of concen- tration.13 This Far Eastern method of meditation , which was ...
... meditation , derived indirectly from the Sanskrit word dhyana , which means meditation , or as Patanjali describes it , a continued mental effort upon an object of concen- tration.13 This Far Eastern method of meditation , which was ...
الصفحة 78
... meditation and as he thought the forms of matter came into being . Thought is the ac- tivity of the mind ; motion is the activity of matter . Herein lies the secret of our present immortality , for those who care to meditate upon it ...
... meditation and as he thought the forms of matter came into being . Thought is the ac- tivity of the mind ; motion is the activity of matter . Herein lies the secret of our present immortality , for those who care to meditate upon it ...
المحتوى
Pain Among the Animals | 7 |
Plants Animals and Babies | 13 |
Old Age and the Stages of Life | 19 |
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action activity animal antelope anxiety attention awakening better Bhagavad Gita bodily body Buddha called cause Chapter coherence comes consciousness death desires doctrine emotional pains enhancement enjoying enjoyment Epictetus Epicurean evolution example experience extent eyes fact faculties Father feeling function further give grow Hindu human hunger ice-cream idea impulse individual intellect intelligence interest Jesus Julian Huxley kind knowledge law of karma legs living look lower mind material forms matter means meditation memory ment mental merely modern nature nirvana object observed old age one's organs ovum paramecium Patanjali perhaps person philosopher picture pleasure present psychosis purusha realization reason regard Sankhya Sanskrit seen self-image sense sexual selection Sir Edwin Arnold sometimes speak stages Stoic Theosophical Society Theosophists things thinking thought tion tree trouble true truth uncon unity word Yoga Yoga Sutras