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Śaṅkara is the prime architect of the non-dual Vedānta school of Indian phi- losophy and practice. He is considered by many as India's greatest religious and philosophical genius. This book 'The Complete Commentary by Śaṅkara on the Yoga Sūtras' contains the first complete English translation of the pre- viously unknown sub-commentary, or vivarana, by Śaṅkara on Vyāsa's com- mentary on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali.
If the vivarana is a genuine sub-commentary by Śaṅkara, it is of the greatest importance to the study of Śaṅkara's thought and teaching. Whilst the Yoga school of Patanjali differs from Śaṅkara's Vedānta on certain philosophical points, Śaṅkara regards it as authoritative on meditation practice which is central to both schools.
Leggett considers the issues surrounding the authenticity of the Vivarana as a work by Śaṅkara in his Introduction and this is also commented on in the new Foreword by Dr Kengo Harimoto which was written for the e-book published in 2017.
This edition also includes a previously unpublished section by Leggett on 'How to use this Book for Yoga Practice' in which he says 'When enthusiasm flags read sūtras 11.15-17; look around you and see how anxiety, pain and death are rushing towards us like an express train. Yoga is a way to escape them.'
Trevor Leggett (1914 - 2000) practiced Adhyatma Yoga for over sixty years and for eighteen years he was a pupil of Hari Prasad Shastri until his death in 1956. He studied Zen and Judo in Japan where he achieved sixth dan from the Kodokan and he was one of Great Britain's leading teachers of Judo. For many years he was head of the BBC's Japanese Service until his retirement in 1970. His books on Yoga and Zen include Encounters in Yoga and Zen, Lotus Lake Dragon Pool, The Chapter of The Self, Jewels from the Indra Net, Realisation of the Supreme Self, Zen and the Ways, Three Ages of Zen and The First and Second Zen Readers.
A practical training method, and not merely a text of revelation and worship such is the true status of the ancient Sanskrit text Bhagavad Gita .
The special contribution of the Gita is yoga, practical methods for expanding individual consciousness to realise the Supreme Self. This book presents the Gita yoga in the light of explanations by Sankara, the great seventh-century Indian philosopher and yogin.
The Gita is directed in the first instance at the vigorously active, with responsibilities in the world. The actual practices of yoga are given for meeting
the shock of the world-energies in the form of illusions, fear, greed, and anger. The whole basis of Gita yoga is confirmation through experiment, not mere
exhortation. is highly significant book presents the Gita as a training manual for spiritual practice.
This book records the work of a teacher making Shakespeare's plays accessible to college students, including motor vehicle mechanic apprentices and secretarial trainees, through the drama-in-education life-learning principles, called Mantle of the Expert, of Dorothy Heathcote. These principles are also applied to those excluded from school, to music teaching for Special Needs pupils and English tutorials for young people. Included are detailed descriptions of workshops given by Dorothy Heathcote on Antony and Cleopatra and Much Ado About Nothing to students of the Mencap National College, Dilston, Northumberland.
Dorothy Heathcote MBE (29 August 1926 - 8 October 2011) was a drama teacher and academic who used the method of teacher in role as an approach to teaching across the curriculum in schools and later in other settings. She was a highly accomplished teacher of theatre and drama for learning and amongst her many achievements she defined and developed mantle of the expert as an approach to teaching. The key book she wrote with Gavin Bolton, that explains her Mantle of the expert approach to Education, is called Drama for Learning (1994). The most significant previous book that explains her Drama approach was written by Betty Jane Wagner and was entitled Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium.
This book is written out of a deep desire to share with people a magnificent truth that has been lost in mainstream Christianity for about 1,800 years. It is called 'The Gospel of the Restoration of All Things' or 'Christian Universalism', which is the belief that every person who has ever lived, is living or will live in the future will ultimately be saved and reunited with God through the person and work of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. In this book, Tim Hodge gives a thorough Biblical discourse to show that not only was this the original gospel as taught by the church but that the Bible itself teaches this, even while being taken literally - and shows that God has a good plan for every person no matter where they stand with God, anywhere on Earth or at any time in History.
Don't look at them, look at me, a peacock seemed to be saying as he posed magnificently between the audience and the Shakespearean play being performed by Theatre Set-Up in the open air at Trevarno, Cornwall, effectively upstaging it. I am really worth looking at Fed up with the noise that was disturbing his rest in the tree above the play, his was a deliberate attempt to stop it. Often though, the interference of creatures in the company's performances was accidental...
It is dreadful thing to see the wig that transforms your character being carted off by a fox cried an actress as she watched a fox race off with the red wig she had set in the open-air stage right changing area of Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. Evidently he had rescued the wig from this improvised theatre arena, mistaking it for one of his cubs This was typical of the chaos that birds, bats, cats, dogs, sheep and horses could make of open-air performances in heritage sites. Add to that the confusion that rain, storms, wind and hot sun could add to the experience and an element of adventure unknown in regular indoor venues prevailed.
This book tells the anecdotes of these adventures in this kind of theatre experienced by the international, professional Theatre Set-Up company (see www.ts-u.co.uk), which survived the vicissitudes of touring mostly open-air performances of Shakespeare in heritage sites from 1976 to 2011, performing throughout the UK from 1979 and in mainland Europe from 1993. Venues and gear of the company were transferred to The Festival Players in 2011. Its tours in 1979, 1980 and 1981 pioneered the genre, a species of theatre which has since then proliferated, providing many actors with paid employment and heritage sites with performances of plays presented conveniently with the minimum of fuss, cost and accoutrements. The companies bravely performing in this kind of theatre all experience the kinds of incidents recorded in this book, which salutes their courage and determination to Carry on Regardless
About the Author: Dr Wendy Jean Macphee was a teacher and lecturer in English, drama and music from 1960 to 2012 and was founder, administrator, artistic director, actor and musician for Theatre Set-Up. She now writes books (see Secret Meanings in Shakespeare Applied to Stage Performance, www.wjm-travelogue.net and www.wjm-pyramid.uk).
As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all....but then he found drugs. As his life descended into chaos and despair, Ben began to chronicle his daily struggles with the aid of a video camera. He was hopeful that one day his experiences could be used to educate others. Ben lost his battle against addiction and died when he was 34 as a result of medical withdrawal. His family decided to release the tapes in the hope that other families could benefit. The result was the highly acclaimed, award winning SKY documentary, 'Ben, Diary of a Heroin Addict' which was shown on national television 27 times and ultimately across the world. Ben's mother, Anne, received hundreds of letters and messages, not only from addicts but also from families saying that the documentary had helped them realise that they weren't alone. The film took Ben's mum to the Home Office, with interviews on national television, radio and the press. She has spoken with many young offenders desperate to educate other youngsters about addiction and to honour her son's wishes. The book includes writings and drawings by Ben which give a unique insight into the chaos surrounding drug addiction. His brother and sisters contribute too to the story of a family living on the edge. 'Ben, Diary of a Heroin Addict - A Mother's Fight' is both an attack against the government's tolerance of addiction and a powerful and moving depiction of one family's love.
Truth. Is there such a thing? Do newspapers print it? Do televisions air it? Is it preached from pulpits in churches? Is the truth on Facebook, can it be found on Twitter? Can money buy you truth? Will you nd truth in love? Is religion the truth? Is it in music? Is it displayed in any museums? Does the mailman post it through your door? Do your friends have it? Do they teach you the truth at school? Does it come from the point of a gun? Can you dig it out of the ground? Do dogs bark it at you? Is it in the sky or in the oceans? Does truth grow on trees? Can you breathe it in? Is it in your pocket? Can you buy it at the supermarket? Does truth come to you in dreams? Is it in the palm of your hand? Is it in your horoscope? Will mystics reveal it to you? Have the communists the truth? Or the freemasons? Do magicians magic it out of their hats? Is it in politics? Is it hiding under a rock? Can you nd it on other planets? One thing is for sure, when you nd the truth, you will know it.
ese teachings are presented as a class. Before delving into these teachings however, read my class Walking by the Spirit, otherwise some of this stu won't make any sense.
Here is a person who shares with me a love of Shakespeare's mysterious depths of understanding. The ancient wisdom traditions underlie and sustain the incredible reflection of our souls in Shakespeare. Sir Mark Rylance, first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, London (1995-2005).
Eight arcana - alchemy, Renaissance Platonism (including Divine Love), Renaissance magic, the Cabala, Celtic mysticism and Old World religion, initiation, theurgy and the Bible - are identified by the author in Shakespeare's plays as means to uncover long misunderstood mysteries and anomalies of his playwriting. Strange and unlikely events in the stage action of his plays are elucidated as metaphors of these arcana, all readily available to Shakespeare and other playwrights of his day. For example, in The Winter's Tale Shakespeare tells of a seacoast of Bohemia on which the ship carrying the baby Perdita, mariners and the courtier Antigonus are wrecked in a storm, the latter being eaten by a bear. A reading of the play as a metaphor of chemical alchemy, clearly identified by the names of the characters and the stage action, shows how the scene is indicative of the alchemical stage of Putrefaction taking place in a bear-shaped vessel. In As You Like It, the reported action in the Forest of Arden where Orlando rescues his brother from a lion and a snake is sourced from several transforming arcana leading to brotherly reconciliation.
SECRET MEANINGS IN SHAKESPEARE APPLIED TO STAGE PERFORMANCE is unique in that these meanings have been researched and developed specifically to inform stage performances by an international, professional theatre company - Theatre Set-Up (www.ts-u.co.uk). For over thirty years the author's esoteric interpretations have inspired and clarified the company's productions to widespread critical and audience acclaim.
About the Author
Wendy Jean Macphee (whose doctorate in arcana in Shakespeare was taken at the Shakespeare Institute of The University of Birmingham) was a teacher and lecturer in English, drama and music from 1960 to 2012 and was founder, administrator, artistic director, actor and musician for Theatre Set-Up which toured Shakespeare's plays in heritage sites in the UK and in mainland Europe from 1976 to 2011.
'Beyond Nations' is the fourth thrilling instalment in David J. Andrews' 'History Detective'series. Guy Tresanton and his business partner-turned new wife Rose have defeated the Teacher and the Professor, but curious activity in Venice and in the Caribbean suggests that their toughest battle may be yet to come.
What are Lucrezia Calvi and her mysterious Doge Council planning? What is the Mare Nostrum project? Why are so many girls in the Caribbean disappearing in suspicious circumstances? And were the Teacher and the Professor only the beginning?
The exciting, unpredictable plot takes Guy and Rose, along with other memorable characters, to all corners of the globe, from the Middle East to Central America, from Gibraltar to Paraguay, in search of the truth. Along the way, they will face grave danger, heinous villains, and shady conspiracies even greater and more terrible than they could have imagined. 'Beyond Nations' is an epic and gripping historical thriller, full of political intrigue, forgotten histories, and globetrotting adventure.
My name, at least for now, is Amelia Thompson. My beloved brother, Matt died when I was nine; tumbled over the edge, quite literally, by personal tragedy. It wasn't all my fault, others played their part, Inspector Munroe in particular.
Ignoring me was Munroe's biggest mistake and since then, his destruction has become my sole aim; it is an intellectual game that I play; atonement and retribution wrapped up in one sweet parcel of fitting revenge.
You may even know me for I am everywhere. I may be your acquaintance, your colleague, your friend, your confidante, but ignore me and I will be your nemesis and I never forget.
This is what you risk when you deny an intelligent but psychologically fragile child the attention she craves.
In this fifth thriller featuring Dave Woolf, the unorthodox, hard-living lawyer-detective faces his toughest challenge yet. The disappearance of his friend Tim Dowell and the unexplained deaths of a number of Members of Parliament appear to be unconnected cases, but are they? Dave's investigation leads him into a labyrinth of deals with crooks, allies, lovers and the highest echelons of government, but he must also take care of his fraught personal life, ensure the safety of Alton, his young son, and try to move on from the tragedies scarring his past. Loyalties shift, and secrets unfurl as Dave becomes embroiled in a sinister conspiracy, part criminal, part political, but always evil. He must uncover the truth behind Dowell's disappearance, and find out who, if anyone, he can really trust as old friends and old enemies return for retribution and revenge.
Welcome to the world of Dave Woolf, a hard-drinking, hard thinking lawyer-detective surrounded by a cast of characters that includes his former law partner and future lover Sandy, the seedy nightclub owner Lewis, Tim Dowell, a policeman with a more dysfunctional relationship with the law and the truth than the criminals he investigates, also Dave's new Australian sidekick Carson and his nemesis, the dark, dangerous and devious High Court judge Russel Orbach. But everyone must always remember, no one falls out with each other as badly as lawyers.
The Last Wednesday - Someone is killing off the members of a left-leaning set of barristers' chambers.
Controlling Interest - A family firm of solicitors is torn apart by freemasonry and organised crime.
The Judge's Song - A corrupt judge is in the pocket of a pair of East London gangsters.
Orbach's Judgment - A pop star's autobiography lays the blame for the death of her parents at Russel Orbach's door and Dave discovers that there is no depth of deceit to which Orbach would not descend to serve his own ends.
Dave Woolf's enemies are much closer to home than he realises in this shocking thriller from Bernard Bannerman. The uncontainable lawyer-detective's domestic life is under threat, haunted by ghosts from his sidekick Carson's troubled youth in Australia and complicated by an assignment to search for a contract hitman's wayward son. Dave and Carson are soon led to France and Switzerland, where they encounter a potentially dangerous cult, The Accord. Who are The Accord? What is the purpose of their 'gatherings'? Can Carson escape her own past? Woolf confronts double agents, criminal masterminds and dark conspiracies while he questions the loyalties of his friends, the limits of his love and even his own sanity. Nothing is sacred and no one is safe in the sixth gripping instalment in the Dave Woolf saga.
