Gateway to Eastern Philosophy & Religion

By Justin F. Stone

?Only those concerned with life and death should enter here,? proclaims the sign atop the door of every Japanese Zen temple. A similar notice might appear atop Gateway to Eastern Philosophy & Religion. For thousands of years Eastern spiritual practitioners have been seeking to discover who and what are we, and what is the Real? In this book, Justin Stone, takes us on a whirlwind tour of Eastern empirical methods -- some of which have been used for thousand of years to arrive at answers to these two questions. Although Stone has written upwards of a dozen books, this is his only scholarly discourse. In Gateway, Stone begins with the six Indian philosophies from which most of the world?s religions sprang, and he ends with an examination of new Japanese religions. Throughout, Stone integrates his scholarly knowledge with personal insights and garnishes them with entertaining stories. It is his fervent hope that this book intensify the reader?s commitment to his or her own spiritual practice. Gateway to Eastern Philosophy & Religion, a transcription from a four-part lecture series, is not intended to be an exhaustive examination of any one school of thought, although it does highlight Zen. What is striking is that all these philosophies, which have been practiced for thousands of years, express eternal truths. The philosophies complement, rather than contradict, each other. As Stone points out, ?If Western philosophies deal with Truth, why do they change so often?? Western philosophies deal with relative truth, not absolute truth."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882290089
• ISBN13: 9781882290086
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Good Karma Publishing, Inc.
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"