Isbn: 9798174741683 - forgiveness: a kinder world, a kinder tomorrow (3 risultati)

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Before there is a teaching, there is a man standing in a chariot between two armies, unable to lift his bow.That is the actual opening scene of the Bhagavad Gita - and it is one of the oldest, most honest descriptions ever written of what it feels like to face someone who has truly wronged you and find that you can neither fight nor walk away.Forgiveness: A Kinder World, A Kinder Tomorrow follows Krishna's counsel to Arjuna through twelve chapters, each grounded in a specific, verified teaching from the Gita - read the way it was actually delivered, not borrowed as a decontextualized quote.You'll learn why the Gita describes an unforgiven grudge as a precise, self-destructive chain - dwelling, attachment, desire, anger, ruin - thousands of years before modern psychology had words for rumination and resentment. You'll see why Krishna files forgiveness among the qualities of the fearless and steadfast, never the passive or the weak. You'll meet the real story of his own patient, bounded forgiveness of a man who wronged him ninety-nine times - and what happened on the hundredth. And you'll find the exact, practical difference between releasing your anger at someone and staying in a relationship that isn't safe.This book doesn't ask you to pretend a wrong was smaller than it was, or that forgiveness is quick. It asks something more precise: that you look honestly at what a grudge is costing you to carry, and set it down. You don't need to share the Gita's metaphysics for the practice to work. You only need to be carrying something you're tired of carrying.…