Hara: The Vital Center of Man
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (548 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594770247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Absolutely life changing book for all R. Lowry I recommend this book to anyone who wants to make themself healthier, calm their mind, relax their body, gain more energy and have more power. I would pay hundreds for a workshop to learn what this book put together for me. Buy this book!!!I've been studying martial arts and Eastern Philosophy on various levels for 28 years. I now mostly study the internal arts of Qigong and Taiji, but anything that fleshes out my understanding of these arts I will read, anything from Alex. A Brilliant Analysis, and Practice Manual In this mind-boggling book, Karlfried Graf Dürckheim provides a brilliant analysis of the concept of Hara, known from Japanese culture and wisdom, but not limited to Japan. In fact, the author writes that if the concept was only of value for the Japanese, he would not have written the book. As the lecture after about half the book shows, the author has in fact trained in Hara in Japan, during the eight years of his stay, prior to WW2, and thus the book is also a pract. Runa said Five Stars. Most interesting and helpful. But who knew its author was a Nazi?
“Hara is essential reading for all who inquire into the spiritual principles and practices that are fundamental to all wisdom traditions and natural healing professions.” (Don Stapleton, author of Self-Awakening Yoga)"the formalism is well worth accommodating in order to gain its gems of wisdom." (Spirit of Change, May/June 2005)
In Japan he discovered Zen Buddhism in its various expressions and subsequently became a Western authority on the subject. . Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (1896-1988) spent eight years in Japan before World War II and was a professor at the University of Kiel until Hitler’s rise to power in 1933
When we find the physical center of the body we also find the psychological center of the soul. This book also explores how the practice of Hara emphasizes empirical learning and the cultivation of self-knowledge through the perfection of arts such as painting and archery.. The classic text on balance, inner calm, and the cultivation of tranquillity using the age-old techniques of Zen masters• Reveals the psychosomatic underpinnings of Zen, Taoism, and other Eastern traditions• Provides an alternative to the “chest out-belly in” postural attitude of the West• Includes translations of the wisdom teachings of three Japanese masters • Shows how the theory and practice of Hara helps us find our essential selfWhen we speak of an individual’s state, we are actually referring to something that transcends the duality of body and soul, something that reflects the entirety of a person’s being. According to Zen masters, by correcting posture and breathing to balance this center, one can cultivate inner tranquillity and balance: the state called Hara.In Hara, Karlfried Graf Dürckheim shows the Western world how to overcome the physical and spiritual decay of modern life by adopting the age-old techniques of Japanese Zen masters. Because each of us is a unity of body and soul, there is no psychic structure or inner tension that is not reflected outwardly in the form and order of the body. Included in this classic text are vi