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Peace in Spirituality
- Software
- Activities
- Online resources (from us)
- Study aids for deeper practice (recommended reading)
- Elsewhere Online
Software
Stillness Buddy
By using this groundbreaking computer software you will be able to do three things at once!
- Look after the most important peacemaker: you! The software can help to aid your daily mindfulness in the workplace or home. Through simple steps, short moments of peaceful contemplation are woven into your day and this can lead to greater clarity of mind and peace in the heart - also peace work!
- You will be donating up to 15% of your subscription fee to FoR England
- The makers of the software will donate roughly 30% to the work of your chosen author as well
We recommend the Thich Nhat Hanh version because the 30% donation will go towards the work of the European Institute of Applied Buddhism. Hanh is also one of our "own authors". He has published books through IFOR - and IFOR originally paid for his world tour to awareness about the Vietnam war, his teaching, and his experience as a peace activist.
All you have to do is follow these links on our website, and the makers of Stillness Buddy will do the rest (they will know you have reached their website through our website).
The Thich Nhat Hanh version is not the only version of Stillness Buddy available. You can also use a Dalai Lama version, or view all available versions here.
For the best description of how StillnessBuddy works, click one of the links above to read more.
Mindfulness Bell
Free web-based bell timer
Activities
Stillness in the City
Weekly multi-faith event in Oxford city centre
Spirituality of Peace Shared in Central Oxford. Peace Beings, Being Peace! Read full details
Online resources
Wake Up to Life UK Tour
mp3 audio recording
Seven monks and nuns from Plum Village, students of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, visit FoRE's HQ, Peace House, to tell people about inner peace, the beloved community, and social transformation.
Study aids for deeper practice
Be Still And Know (short paperback)
: Meditation for Peacemakers
It is now obvious to most Westerners that we have much to learn from Eastern meditation about getting in touch with ourselves. In this book - a shortened version of Thich Nhat Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness, we are shown somve very simple ways,...,to realise the 'almost limitless power - for the healing of the world - that belongs to each one of us if only we will absorb it. Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen Master who has done a lot of work on Buddhist - Christian dialogue.
We are sold out, but you can still get some from co-publisher Pax Christi.
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Please make sure to check out our general recommended reading and our own general publications list too!
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong
The twelve steps Armstrong suggests begin with 'Learn About Compassion' and close with 'Love Your Enemies.' In between, she takes up 'compassion for yourself,' mindfulness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our knowledge of others, and 'concern for everybody.' She suggests concrete ways of enhancing our compassion and putting it into action in our everyday lives, and provides, as well, a reading list to encourage us to 'hear one another's narratives.' Throughout, Armstrong makes clear that a compassionate life is not a matter of only heart or mind but a deliberate and often life-altering commingling of the two.Read more
When The Trees Say Nothing
Thomas Merton
"Contains over 300 writings from Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968) on the natural world. There are chapters on the four seasons; the elements; the firmament; creatures; rain, flowers and trees; mountains; forest; and Sophia. These pieces are delightfully enriched by the drawings of John B. Giuliani." Read more
The Road to Peace
Edited by John Dear
"John Dear has brought together the best of Nouwen's writings on social spirituality..."
Into the Silent Land
Martin Laird
Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with the breath to cultivate stillness, and the practice of inner vigilance or awareness. Read more
The Naked Now
Learning to See as the Mystics See
"In this timely, cogent, and enlightening volume, Rohr challenges Christians and other spiritual seekers to give up the either-or dichotomies of dualistic thinking and to turn to another "software" for dealing with the big issues of death, love, infinity, suffering, God, and war. This alternative vision has at various times been described as mysticism, contemplation, prayer, or pure presence.
Rohr claims that Jesus was the first nondualistic religious teacher of the West and is one who would surely understand and affirm the nonpolarity thinking of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Along with Native religions, these three traditions emphasize the overcoming of conflicts and oppositional thinking by conversions of the heart, mind, and emotions. They are more concerned with this world than the world to come.
In contrast, the traditional accent of the monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) on individual salvation and "us" versus "them" thinking has led to elitism, ethnic hatred, war, violence, homophobia, poverty, and the savaging of animals and the earth. Much of this conflict stems from the judging mind which ranks and excludes in its quest for certainty. Rohr laments the resistance to the radical change that Jesus proclaimed and embodied in his teachings on nonviolence, a simple lifestyle, love of the poor, forgiveness, love of enemies, inclusivity, and compassion."Read more (We have one copy in our library.)
Elsewhere Online
Living Spiritual Teachers Project
spiritualityandpractice.com/teachers/
The twenty-first century has been dubbed the "age of interspirituality" by Brother Wayne Teasdale and others who are impressed by the increased sharing of ultimate experiences among people of different spiritual traditions. Certainly publishers have taken note of the trend - making available an unprecedented array of resources from all the world's religions....
This website contains a good book list as well.
Mindful UK
mindfuluk.org.uk
This is a portal to mindfulness practice, based around the engaged Buddhist circle (Community of Interbeing, Plum Village, Wake Up Global) but extending to include other sources.
