Attracting The Heart

An idealized view of the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk might be described according to the doctrinal demand for emotional detachment and, ultimately, the cessation of all desire. Yet monks are also enjoined to practice compassion, a powerful emotion and equally lofty ideal, and live with every other human feeling—love, hate, jealousy, ambition—while relating to other monks and the lay community. In this important ethnography of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Samuels takes an unprecedented look at how emotion determines and influences the commitments that laypeople and monastics make to each other and to the Buddhist religion in general. By focusing on "multimoment" histories, Samuels highlights specific junctures in which ideas about recruitment, vocation, patronage, and institution-building are dynamically negotiated and refined. Positing a nexus between aesthetics and affect, he illustrates not only how aesthetic responses trigger certain emotions, but also how personal and shared emotions, at the local level, shape notions of beauty. Samuels uses the voices of informants to reveal the delicately negotiated character of lay-monastic relations and temple management. In the fields of religion and Buddhist studies there has been a growing recognition of the need to examine affective dimensions of religion. His work breaks new ground in that it answers questions about Buddhist emotions and the constitutive roles they play in social life and religious practice through a close, poignant look at small-scale temple and social networks. Throughout, Samuels makes the case for the need to account for emotions in making intelligible the behavior of religious participants and practitioners. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork that includes numerous interviews as well as an examination of written and visual sources, Attracting the Heart conveys the manner in which Buddhists describe their own histories, experiences, and encounters as they relate to the formation and continuation of Buddhist monastic culture in contemporary Sri Lanka. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion, Buddhist studies, anthropology, and South and Southeast Asian studies.

The Spiritual Guide to Attracting Love shows you ways to use the Law of Attraction and the wisdom of some of the most ancient spiritual traditions to attract love, helping you to heal past wounds and live a nurturing, joyful life. Containing effective, easily-accomplished love rituals from the East and West, both ancient and contemporary, this book explains how to identify issues from the past and how to heal yourself and move forward. Featuring case studies that demonstrate how others have manifested love in their lives, you'll learn how to use the Law of Attraction to attract the right partner for you.

Attract the Love You Desire & DeserveDo you wonder why love seems to be easier for others but is a challenge for you?Have you ever obsessed over whether you could've said or done something different to win a particular man over?Do you wish you could bypass heartache and move straight into the true love partnership you've longed for?If so, Steal His Heart, Save Your Life (just not in that order) was written for you. In this book Jen Wilding, coach, hypnosis practitioner and former matchmaker, delivers the answers you need using stories, humor, examples, exercises, metaphors and matchmaker secrets.Understand him better; understand you better. You'll learn why your behavior has sabotaged your luck in love, how your subconscious keeps you from maintaining a healthy romantic relationship and how you can reprogram it to attract and nurture an authentic love partnership to rival anything you've ever experienced before.

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Pocket Guide to your Heart for Relationships can be a personal pathway to the Beloved experience. This book will guide you to that place inside, to recognize, inspire, attract and ignite the Beloved relationship. The Beloved is the experience of a safe rhythm of understanding and unconditional love between two hearts. In this place there is no judgment of expectations. The intention of love and peace woven with respect creates a safe place for each other to become all that they are. Colleen feels her significant relationships have been the reflection of who she was at that time. Pocket Guide to your Heart for Relationships formulas have been her connection to her Inner Relationship; Inner Workout and Inner Peace. This process has strengthened her self-worth and self-love allowing her to experience her life and relationships with an open and loving heart. This book is the expression of the process and formulas that she used to find the beloved within and attract her beloved partner, their reflection together ignites many. Pocket Guide to your Heart for Relationships addresses every type of relationship and guides you to the truth of why we attract these experiences over and over again and how we can use them to let go and heal. Everyone is searching for or dreaming of their perfect partner. Pocket Guide to your Heart for Relationships will take you there and gives you the formula to keep you there....in the Beloved experience.

Bestselling author and The Secret co-star Dr. Joe Vitale teaches you how to attract money easily and effortlessly by harnessing the astounding power of the Law of Attraction! The potential to attract money and create abundant wealth doesn't reside in your job, your circumstances, or even the economy. It resides within you. Your mind is equipped with the natural ability to attract as much money as you want and need - at anytime, anyplace, in any financial climate, without struggle. You just have to know how to trigger it. You'll learn to identify and conquer the unconscious mental blocks, money myths and misconceptions, and limiting beliefs that are preventing you from attracting money and uncover empowering new thought processes that will open the floodgates to unlimited money and wealth. If having money and financial freedom are at the top of your personal wish list, The Secret to Attracting Money will act as the perfect blueprint to make your wishes come true.

Most people have the same fundamental yearnings and questions inside of them. Most of us agree, the most common desire by far is to love and to be loved. And yet for so many people, love - in its many forms - poses the most difficult challenge of all. Your Magnetic Heart reveals the nature of the mysterious force of charisma and attraction which is present in us all and which determines the course of our relationships and our lives. German seminar leader, life-coach and author Ruediger Schache introduces the spiritual and psychological concept of the "heart magnet" and how readers can attune themselves and get in touch with it to find their true life path. This important process is explained by revealing ten essential secrets which emphasize self-reflection. The description of each secret is accompanied by practical advice, a number of real-life case histories, and insights from age-old and new spiritual figures, seers and thinkers. Those who embrace these concepts can develop a new consciousness and improve their inner clarity, outer relationships, and fortune. By understanding the force of the heart magnet within them, readers can learn to attract precisely those people and events into their lives that they have been longing for.

Most people have the same fundamental yearnings and questions inside of them. Our most common desire by far is to love and to be loved, yet for so many people, love -- in its many forms -- poses the most difficult challenge of all. Your Magnetic Heart reveals the nature of the mysterious force of charisma and attraction which is present in us all and which determines the course of our relationships and our lives. Here, life coach and author Rudiger Schache introduces the spiritual and psychological concept of the "heart magnet" and how it can guide readers to find their true life path. This is explained in ten essential secrets which emphasize self-reflection. The description of each secret is accompanied by practical advice, real-life case histories, and spiritual insights from seers and thinkers. Those who embrace these concepts can develop a new consciousness and improve their inner clarity, outer relationships, and fortune. By attuning to the force of their heart magnet, readers can attract the people and events for which they have been longing into their lives.