Category - Philosophy

Does It Matter? presents Alan Watts’ thoughts on the problem of humankind’s relationship to its environment. Here he argues that contemporary peo...

This book offers an in-depth introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism. Bret Davis explores the philosophical implications of Z...

The author designed his book to be a transformative journey that conclusively reveals one's own "enlightened self-nature" directly, leaving no ro...

Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from North Africa to Japan. Profuse...

This book provides an introduction to the main schools of Indian philosophy within both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Richard King analyzes ...

Having masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive ...

A classic work of Indian philosophy that succinctly spells out how the mind works and what is needed to attain liberation   Compiled in the secon...

When Krishnamurtia•s Notebook first became available in 1976, it was soon realized that it was a spiritually unique document giving his perceptio...

Called "a first rate piece of work" by T.S. Eliot, this book offers a comprehensive discussion of Taoism, one of the world's major religions, as ...

The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker - and formidable rival of the Confucianists - are pre...

How can you develop spiritual understanding? This sequel to Learning How to Learn and The Commanding Self turns that question on its head. It cla...

The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Isl...

Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concern...

Approximately two thousand years old, The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali is the landmark scripture on classical yoga. The translation and commentary pro...

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing somethi...

The classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th century.From the sage-kings of ancient China to the ...

Truth cannot be described or explained. Truth is "What-Is" and the acceptance of it. Every word that is uttered concerning Truth can only be a ...

First published in 1918, "The Serpent Power" is an important and influential text for the modern practice of Kundalini yoga in the West. Written ...

Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By c...

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the classic Hindu text on the spiritual practice of yoga. Written more than 2,000 years ago, these teachings prov...