These are passages that inform and transform: enjoy their
poetry, study their wisdom, or use them for Easwaran''s "Passage
Meditation"."Timeless Wisdom", the companion volume to Easwaran''s
"Passage Meditation", is a rich collection of spiritual texts from
all the world''s great traditions, selected by Easwaran for study
and for his method of meditation.Here are flashes of insight from
the Hindu Upanishads; prayers of comfort from the Christian saints;
psalms from the Old Testament; songs of praise from the Sufis; and,
deep wisdom from the Buddhist and Taoist traditions. Some of these
passages, such as the Prayer of St. Francis, the Buddha''s "Twin
Verses", and the Twenty-third Psalm, are familiar and well loved,
others may be fresh discoveries - all are beautiful. Short texts,
easy to read and memorize, are interspersed with longer ones, which
the reader can study in depth." Passage Meditation", together with
its companion volume, "Timeless Wisdom", are the first two books in
Nilgiri Press'' "Essential Easwaran Library", a series of ten books
that defines Easwaran''s legacy and represents the heart of
Easwaran''s teachings for the serious reader, based on the theme of
timeless wisdom for daily living.
關於作者:
Eknath Easwaran 1910-1999 is respected around the world as
the originator of passage meditation and an authentic guide to
timeless wisdom. His method is a dogma-free approach which brings
universal ideals into daily life. His best-selling book,
Meditation, has sold 195,000 copies since 1978. His 26 books on
spiritual living have been translated into 26 languages, and his
editions of the Indian Classics have regularly been
bestsellers.