Stephen Snyder's writing delves into the intricate dynamics of human psychology and the tensions that fuel conflict and misunderstanding. Drawing from his extensive experience as a civil litigator and mediator, he expertly dissects the emotional and psychological blocks that impede effective communication and dispute resolution. Snyder's work offers readers profound insights into the mechanisms shaping our interactions and provides pathways toward achieving greater balance and understanding. His approach bridges the gap between complex legal tensions and the universal human experience of navigating relationships.
This guide presents a distinctive approach to personal realization and spiritual awakening, crafted by a leading contemporary spiritual teacher. It explores transformative insights and practices designed to lead readers on a fulfilling journey towards deeper understanding and enlightenment. Through practical wisdom and guidance, the book aims to empower individuals in their quest for self-discovery and spiritual growth.
Learning to Relax
Focusing on achieving a more relaxed and fulfilling legal career, this practical guide combines insights from a retired lawyer and a senior meditation teacher. It offers strategies to manage stress and enhance well-being, emphasizing the integration of mindfulness practices into the demanding legal profession. Readers will discover techniques to improve their work-life balance and cultivate a more positive approach to their careers, ultimately leading to greater satisfaction and success in the field of law.
How to Stop Worrying, Reduce Stress, Eliminate Negative Thinking (Stop Negative Thinking, Good Habits and Much More)
Focused on mental decluttering, this book offers practical exercises, motivational insights, and empowering tips to help readers regain control over their thoughts and emotions. It encourages a personal journey towards self-improvement, fostering a sense of empowerment and well-being. Through actionable strategies, it aims to transform feelings of helplessness into proactive steps for a better mental state.
"With Buddha’s Heart, senior meditation teacher Stephen Snyder reveals an original and clear path to the powerful brahmavihāras. These practices offer rich, soothing support for the soul and a portal to spiritual awakening and deepening self-realization."--Amazon.com
Winner, Nautilus Gold Book Award for Relationships and Communication.Can sex survive monogamy? Yes, once you understand how sexual emotions really work.This award-winning, paradigm-shifting guide turns traditional sex therapy inside-out to reveal the hidden rules for great sex. Gentle, compassionate, and filled with compelling stories from Dr. Stephen Snyder’s thirty years as a sex therapist working with over 1,500 individuals and couples, Love Worth Making is essential reading for anyone hoping to keep sexual inspiration alive in a committed relationship.
This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. The end-of-art claim is often associated with the end of a certain standard of taste or skill. However, at a deeper level, it relates to a transformation in how we philosophically understand our relation to the ‘world’. Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto each strive philosophically to overcome Cartesian dualism, redrawing the traditional lines between mind and matter. Hegel sees the overcoming of the material in the ideal, Nietzsche levels the two worlds into one, and Danto divides the world into representing and non-representing material. These attempts to overcome dualism necessitate notions of the self that differ significantly from traditional accounts; the redrawn boundaries show that art and philosophy grasp essential but different aspects of human existence. Neither perspective, however, fully grasps the duality. The appearance of art’s end occurs when one aspect is given priority: for Hegel and Danto, it is the essentialist lens of philosophy, and, in Nietzsche’s case, the transformative power of artistic creativity. Thus, the book makes the case that the end-of-art claim is avoided if a theory of art links the internal practice of artistic creation to all of art’s historical forms.
Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge. After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a diabolical plot for revenge. Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.
Two experienced American meditators explain the stages and techniques of concentration meditation, as taught by the Buddhist master Pa Auk SayadawThis is a clear and in-depth presentation of the traditional Theravadin concentration meditation known as jhāna practice, from two authors who have practiced the jhānas in retreat under the guidance of one of the great living meditation masters, Pa Auk Sayadaw. The authors describe the techniques and their results, based on their own experience.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in. OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.
Focusing on the literary achievements of Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo and his contemporaries, this text explores the post-war Japanese literary landscape. It features essays on notable authors such as Endo Shusaku, Murakami Haruki, and Yoshimoto Banana, highlighting their contributions and the evolution of literary themes in the post-Oe generation. The work delves into the unique styles and perspectives of these writers, providing insight into their impact on contemporary literature.