Why We Fight: Practices for Lasting Peace
- ISBN-10
- 0893892351
- ISBN-13
- 9780893892357
- Series
- Why We Fight
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Himalayan Institute Press
- Author
- Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Description
War is the most ancient and primitive way of dealing with conflict. According to yoga, stopping the cycle of war requires delving into the subtle causes underlying material desires and religious differences. These are selfishness, ego, greed, ethnocentrism, and sense of inferiority. Because of these attributes, we fail to do what we know is right, and persist in doing what we know is wrong. In the scriptures, this phenomenon is called killing the conscience.The great scriptures of yoga--The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Sutra, and The Upanishads--clearly describe how the subtle causes of external war emanate from the internal world. The real cause of war lies rooted in the individual's unwillingness to listen to the voice of the heart, the inner conscience.Drawing on the philosophy of yoga and other spiritual systems, Why We Fight: Practices for Lasting Peace offers practical tools for self-transformation. Through contemplation and spiritual practice, we can replace greed, desire, jealousy, and anger with compassion, tolerance, and love for ourselves and others. By cultivating these qualities in our daily lives, we have the power to make a positive impact on the world.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021-04-20
- 242 pages
- Paperback
- AK Press
Similar books
-
Why We Fight
By Mike MartinWhen we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often take the blame. But Mike Martin boldly argues that the opposite is true: rather than driving violence, these things help to reduce it.
-
Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring
By Josh RosenblattJosh Rosenblatt was thirty-three years old when he first realized he wanted to fight.
-
Why We Fight: Defeating America's Enemies - With No Apologies
By Sebastian GorkaTo remind us of what the will to win looks like, Dr. Gorka intersperses the stories of four American heroes—Stephen Decatur, Chesty Puller, “Red” McDaniel, and a warrior who never took up arms, Whittaker Chambers—men who believed in ...
-
Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage
By Steven A. LeBlanc, Katherine E. RegisterIn Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage, LeBlanc contends that warfare and violent conflict have existed throughout human history, and that humans have never lived in ecological balance with nature.
-
Why We Fought: Forging American Obligations in World War II
By Robert B. WestbrookWhy We Fought is a timely and provocative analysis that examines why Americans really chose to sacrifice and commit themselves to World War II. Unlike other depictions of the patriotic “greatest generation,” Westbrook argues that, ...
-
Why We Fight: The Origins, Nature, and Management of Human Conflict
By David ChurchmanThis book draws on twenty-four academic disciplines to provide a critical analysis of some 100 theories that explain the origins, nature, and management of human conflict.
-
Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance
By Guillaume FayeThis edition of Why We Fight contains the complete text of the original French edition, as well as additional material that was added for the German edition.
-
Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II
By Nancy Beck YoungA study of Congress at the crossroads between the New Deal and the postwar era, showing that the wartime political dynamic established the dominant patterns for national politics through the remainder of the century.
-
Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare
By H. Christian Breede, Robert C. Engen, Allan EnglishFor decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they ...
-
Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
By Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'ConnorSee U.S. Civil War film genre Clansman, The (Dixon) Clark, Bennett Champ Clark, Dane Clark, D. Worth Clay, Lucius D. Cleopatra (1963) Clift, Montgomery; The Big Lift Clinton, Bill: foreign policy of; and international crises; ...