Predique por un año #2

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind almost no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, the likely hallucinogenic plant that appears at the center of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a ...

Un laico cristiano de Barcelona y una monja budista de tradición tibetana deciden dialogar a través de Internet durante el año 2001. De ahí surge una profunda conversación entre las tradiciones cristiana y budista que representan Occidente y Oriente.

"Si, ciertamente el espíritu es de naturaleza divina, y sólo la voluntad del hombre puede descubrir sus más exquisitas expresiones en dádiva creyente. Hay un poder supremo para matizarlo y pulirlo. El hombre puede hacerlo a base de una paz interior, de una obra sapiente, de un amor desinteresado y de una caridad, esperanza y fé sentidas en lo más profundo de su Corazón." ~Adalberto García de Mendoza

«The day of a monk begins with cleaning. The interior of the temple, the garden, and the floor of the main hall are swept. But we do not clean because it is dirty or messy, but to rid the spirit of any shadow that clouds it.» With the Cleansing Manual of a Buddhist Monk, Keisuke Matsumoto offers us a text that combines with grace and exquisitely Zen lightness, practical advice and philosophical and spiritual reflections.