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TOPICS (introduced below, with links to further web pages):
Mental Health
Meditation
Tantra
Books
In memoriam: Robert C. Solomon
About Jinavamsa (Mitchell Ginsberg)
General Links Information
Books: The Inner Palace
Books: The Far Shore
Books: Calm, Clear, and Loving
For an orientation in the world of psychotherapy, along with a number of links to various on-line articles and further perspectives in this field, please see on mental health, a brief description of my orientation related to Buddhist Mindfulness Practice, found listed at San Diego Buddhism (scrolling down to the listings of "Buddhist Therapists"), Reflections for Couples, and also video on Survivors of Torture, International: SOTI.
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For visitors to this web page who may be interested in or curious about an approach to heart-felt mindfulness as taught under the name of insight (vipassana) meditation, please see the page on insight meditation, with various further links. There are also some chapters available online from my book The Far Shore. There is also more on The Far Shore, below. On meditation and mental health (psychotherapy), see the essays found at Dayamati on therapy. And for a large number of teachings from Theravada Buddhism, offered in many languages, see What the Buddha Taught, as well as its links page.
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For more on respectful and intimate teachings in the world of tantra, see Tantra Pujas and links there, with more at sites listed at tantra index.
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For more on my background in academic (university-level) teaching, at the Universities of Michigan, Yale, Antioch, at the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, etc., as well as a variety of Post-doctoral and Visiting Scholar appointments through the decades, please see IUPS Faculty: Mitchell Ginsberg, Ph.D. and Academia, as well as the following link (About the Author). For more on my background in the world of psychotherapy and psychotherapy research as well, please see professional links. For more of my background in the context of research and writing, please see About The Author (in pdf format) or About The Author (in html format).
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Preliminary areas I will touch upon here include: meditation practice, Buddhism, Sufism, Hasidism, wisdom teachings, poetry, as well as psychology and psychotherapy, philosophy, and linguistics (adding a dash of serendipity here and there). A variety of links are provided as a menu offering a smorgasbord of snacks in these and other domains.
These links are now presented in two groupings. Those in the first group lead to other pages I have prepared; those in the second lead to a variety of other sites on the web, including links to the sites for subscribing to three discussion groups that might be of interest: the
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Of books in general, it has been said (long ago), "Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." (Francis Bacon, Of Studies, 1625). Presumably, where any given book falls among these categories may depend on the interests of the reader, among other things ...
On new books recently published or in preparation, continue reading here, or click here to jump ahead to that information.
For books already in print -- The Far Shore (1980; fourth edition, 2009) and The Inner Palace (2002; sixth edition, 2010) -- more on these (including some selections) see the books directory or index listing these (specific files are listed by clicking on each of these titles listed there).
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This book investigates the phenomenology (that is, the experiential basis and consciousness states) of personal transformation as addressed by the various psycho-spiritual Wisdom Traditions of the world, a book which Bob described as "mercifully undogmatic, despite its theme which has often become the most 'dogmatic' of subjects" (quoting from his Foreword to the book, at p. iv).
On the different editions: Please note that the ISBN of all editions of this book are identical. It is perhaps best simply to confirm which edition is being offered, before making any purchase. (The year of the printing is identified on the copyright page of each volume.) For more specifics, please see the Introduction to The Inner Palace. Please note that The Inner Palace is sold as a two-volume set. The covers of these two volumes have remained the same since the second edition (2003).
At
are sites for The Inner Palace. In particular,
for an overview of the book, see Blue Dolphin Publishing: The Inner Palace.
For reviews and appreciations of the book, see Sketch and Reviews of The Inner Palace.
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More to be added.... visit when inspired.
There are several further books that are recently published (immediately below).
This 2009 edition is the fourth edition (the third Indian edition, published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi) of The Far Shore: Vipassana, The Practice of Insight.
There are selections from this book that are available
to be read online.
The Revised Edition (2009) is now available for purchase. It can be distinguished from the earlier editions by its new ISBN-13: 978-81-208-1348-9, which is found on the copyright page of the book. The earlier ISBN-10 found in the first two editions by Motilal Banarsidass was 81-208-1348-0.
ISBN-10 refers to the ten digits of that number; ISBN-13 has thirteen digits.
Both numbers are considered to refer to the book in any of its editions (even though the copyright pages differ as described here.)
More information is available from the publisher,
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, at its site
The Far Shore, Third Edition.
For your convenience, for orders within the USA, you may order directly by going to
Ordering The Far Shore.
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Of books being prepared, their tentative titles are:
(1)
Tango Tantras: The Embrace of Yearning and Love
(2)
Peace and War and Peace.
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Calm, Clear, and Loving, whose subtitle is
Soothing the Distressed Mind, Healing the Wounded Heart,
addresses issues in Psychospirituality, Philosophy, and Personal Transformation, inviting the reader to reflect calmly on some very powerful issues we each face. This slowing down of the mind is part of the beginning of shifts in consciousness that can be beneficial on many levels. There is more on this in the book, as well as in other writings mentioned above.
There are some
reviews that are up on the net describing this book from different perspectives.
For a few specifics here: This book is a guide to understanding consciousness and a tool to deal with life's struggles.
It is interested in the mind -- not the intellectual mind, but the vibrant consciousness that is the sum of our thinking, feeling, and emotional processes, called the wise heart or the heart-mind. It presents some theoretical considerations to help understand this mind, and also addresses the nature of experiential processes that the troubled mind undergoes. These concerns are addressed in part from a theoretical perspective. One key interest is in the psychology of distress and its being soothed or resolved.
It also addresses actual experiences of stresses in life, including those of some more intense moments that some have experienced, including life traumas of varying intensities.
This book is being offered to
give interested readers an occasion to reflect upon these experiences, to understand them more clearly, and to consider with an open mind various approaches to being of help, of self-transformation to calm, clarity, and a loving frame of mind.
Calm, Clear, and Loving includes introductory material beginning with a Preface and an Introduction, which are followed by:
"The Passionate
Robert C. Solomon
Memorial Conference"
"Foreword by
Kathleen Higgins"
(see also Wiki)
"Foreword by
Claudio Naranjo"
(see also
Wiki)
"Foreword by Audrey Rachel Stevenson"
These various presentations are followed by the chapters of the book itself.
A more detailed list is given at
Introduction to CCAL,
with reviews given at
Reviews of CCAL, and the full analytic Table of Contents, with brief descriptions of the issues addressed in each chapter, is given at
CCAL Table of Contents.
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Email:
jinavamsa@yahoo.com
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