Books in English: G. Edward Griffin - One World Government and Collectivism

One World Government & Collectivism - G. Edward Griffin

Dear Friends,

I notice that you are a one of the rare young people in Vietnam who still reads and reflects on stuff going in this World. So I choose to share some of my readings for you to reflect on them.

Hope this is an eye-opening experience that might bring you some answers to the chaos you are witnessing around you. Or maybe you chose not to?!

We are all victims somehow of this situation, unless we take action to save ourselves, and people around us.

Best,

Anh Tho Andres

Founder and Owner of 

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Skype: anhtho.andres

A brilliant work by G Edward Griffin, which deserves a place in everyone's library, living room, and in every school's curriculum. 

• What is collectivism?
• Who desires a collectivist world?
• How are collectivism and totalitarianism related?
• Does a one-world government have to be collectivist, or totalitarian?
• How does collectivism influence the thinking of individuals and governments? Where does the individual stand in such a system? 
• What about "group rights"? What does "rights" mean applied to a group?
• What is a "U. N. Peacekeeper"? What is their purpose?
• How does government secrecy fit into this?
• What kind of government might come from a "North American Union"?
• Is the One World Government a conspiracy?
• What are the components of a real conspiracy? Where is the use of the word "conspiracy" justified?
• What is the U. S. Constitution? What is its meaning for the American people?
• Why is the Constitution addressed from "We the People" to the government?
• Do legitimate governments rule, or protect?
• Do legitimate governments use force? What about martial law?
• What is "Cultural Marxism"? What does it have to do with collectivism?
• Are differences in culture a cause for war?
• What is the principle cause of war?
• What is the "Rothschild Formula"?
• What is the difefrence between killing and murder, as applied to war?
• What role does fiat money play in war?
• Why did the Founding Fathers want local militias, rather than a standing Federal army?
• How do corporations and governments evade responsibility for their actions? How is this immunity a problem?
• How do banks control our government? Why aren't the names of these banks and the individuals behind them known?
• What did the "New Deal" turn out to be?

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Books in English : From Communists to Foreign Capitalists by Nina Bandelij

I am still trying to understand the logic of what my compatriots term as "Free Market with Socialist Orientation" (in Vietnam: nền kinh tế thị trường với định hướng xã hội chủ nghĩa")... Maybe we will find the answers in this book on the social foundation of post socialist Europe. 

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

Nina Bandelj

Princeton University Press, Oct 16, 2011 - Social Science - 312 pages

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From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how both investors and hosts rely on social networks, institutions, politics, and cultural understandings to make decisions about investment, employing practical rather than rational economic strategies to deal with the true uncertainty that plagues the postsocialist environment.the postsocialist environment.

The book explores how eleven postsocialist countries address the very idea of FDI as an integral part of their market transition. The inflows of foreign capital after the collapse of Communism resulted not from the withdrawal of states from the economy, as is commonly expected, but rather from the active involvement of postsocialist states in institutionalizing and legitimizing FDI. Using a wide array of data sources, and combining a macro-level account of national variation in the liberalization to foreign capital with a micro-level account of FDI transactions in the decade following the collapse of Communism in 1989, the book reveals how social forces not only constrain economic transformations but also make them possible.

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the social processes that shape economic life.

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English Authors: America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam

Reading History

This weekend, I found another inspiring book: "Une promenade singulière à travers de l'Histoire", written by Michel de Grèce, great grand child of the Duc d'Orleans, which awakens my appetite for more discoveries on History. That brings me back to my own roots, and the tumultuous history of contemporary Vietnam. Here is one episode of our tragedy. 

America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia

Seth Jacobs

Duke University Press, Jan 6, 2005 - History - 381 pages

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America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. anticommunism and an absence of other candidates for South Vietnam’s highest office. Challenging those explanations, Seth Jacobs utilizes religion and race as categories of analysis to argue that the alliance with Diem cannot be understood apart from America’s mid-century religious revival and policymakers’ perceptions of Asians. Jacobs contends that Diem’s Catholicism and the extent to which he violated American notions of “Oriental” passivity and moral laxity made him a more attractive ally to Washington than many non-Christian South Vietnamese with greater administrative experience and popular support.

A diplomatic and cultural history, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam draws on government archives, presidential libraries, private papers, novels, newspapers, magazines, movies, and television and radio broadcasts. Jacobs shows in detail how, in the 1950s, U.S. policymakers conceived of Cold War anticommunism as a crusade in which Americans needed to combine with fellow Judeo-Christians against an adversary dangerous as much for its atheism as for its military might. He describes how racist assumptions that Asians were culturally unready for democratic self-government predisposed Americans to excuse Diem’s dictatorship as necessary in “the Orient.” By focusing attention on the role of American religious and racial ideologies, Jacobs makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the disastrous commitment of the United States to “sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem.”

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Book on 21st Century Challenge : The End of the World as We Know It_ with Mark Steyn

Read the Book,

Click link to download

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Listen to the Author's own presentation on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAi-DsOmOS0

About the book: 

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (ISBN 0-89526-078-6) is a nonfiction book by Mark Steyn, published in 2006. It forecasts the downfall of Western civilization owing to internal weaknesses and the increasing Muslim population in Western countries and the world generally.

America Alone is set in the context of the global war on terror. 

Steyn argues that "much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive the twenty-first century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most European countries."

Steyn attributes the forecast fall of the Western world to three factors:

• Demographic decline, based on the observation that European nations have low birth rates while Muslim nations have higher birth rates. Specifically, in recent years the population of the developed world declined from about 30% of world population to around 20%, while the population of Muslim nations increased from about 15% to 20%.

• The unsustainability of the advanced Western social-democratic state, based on the thesis that the responsibilities of normal adults, such as care of the elderly, childcare, health care and insurance, have been slowly taken over by the state. Steyn argues that these programs erode humanity's basic sense of self-reliance to a point at which a more resilient group of people — Muslims in his view — will take control.
• The exhaustion of civilization. Steyn argues that Western nations are so focused on moral and cultural relativism—with "diversity" and "racism" as their new favorite words—that they are unable to see that their existence is threatened. Specifically, he argues that European nations have given up defending themselves and rely on America for their defense. He views anti-Americanism as a symptom of civilisational exhaustion, whether manifested by Muslims (to whom America symbolizes gay porn, children born out of wedlock, immodest women, and immorality) or by Europeans (to whom America symbolizes a crude and radical Christianity, fat rednecks and uncontrolled firearms). However in his view America is the most benign hegemonic power the world has ever seen. According to Steyn, America will be the last and only country—as all others will be taken over by Muslims—that will retain its sense of self-preservation, but this is not a given, as America's enemies know that it ran from Vietnam and they hope that America will continue to flee when faced with a challenge.

Steyn's final argument is that the Muslim world will not need to carry out an outright attack. Instead, Europe will collapse from "wimpiness" or "multicultural 'sensitivity,'" leading to betrayal of the state's core values. Thus, during the Danish 'cartoon jihad' of 2006, Jack Straw, then British foreign secretary, hailed the 'sensitivity' of Fleet Street in not reprinting the offending representations of the Prophet."

Steyn dismisses the danger of climate change, The Population Bomb, The Limits to Growth, nuclear winter, and points out Jimmy Carter's 1977 incorrect prediction that the world's oil would run out in the next decade. (Source: wikipedia)

More on Mark Steyn view on politics: http://www.steynonline.com/politics-war

Books in English: The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War

From Cautious Friend to Reluctant Ally: The Soviet Union and the VietnamWar

Ilya V. Gaiduk. Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963. Cold War International History Project Series. Washington, D.C.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xxi + 286 pp., ISBN 978-0-8047-4712-7.
Reviewed by Tom Nichols (U.S. Naval War College)

Published on H-Diplo (November, 2004)

Cuộc Chiến Việt Nam, Liên Bang Xô Viết và chiến tranh Việt Nam bởi TG: Ilya V. Gaiduk, link to vnthuquan.net Vietnam translation: 
http://vnthuquan.net/truyen/truyentext.aspx?tid=2qtqv3m3237nmn1n3n1n31n343tq83a3q3m3237nvn)

About the Book: 

In his first book on this subject, The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War (1996), Ilya Gaiduk harvested a great deal of fascinating data from previously closed communist archives and produced a volume on Soviet involvement in Vietnam and communist coalitional dynamics that has few if any peers in the literature. His second book, a kind of prequel to the first (which picked up the story of Vietnam near the moment of U.S. intervention) does not disappoint, and is a worthy and fascinating companion to the first. Although Confronting Vietnam is essentially a diplomatic history, it nonetheless tells a story that carries important implications for understanding the nexus of ideology and realpolitik in war.

Readers of The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War will recognize the Soviet Union of Confronting Vietnam: an ascending superpower torn between the need to improve relations with the West in Europe and the unfortunate burdens that fall to the self-declared center of a revolutionary ideological movement. When the North Vietnamese declared themselves to be engaged in a revolutionary struggle, both the USSR and China were faced with an ideologically driven requirement to aid them.

For more, click on link below:

(http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9966)

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Books in English: Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

I am reading my new acquisition: "Dirty Wars"  by Jeremy Scahill, see also Youtube film under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN4Sn5u_pK0

Dirty Wars is a 2013 American documentary film, which accompanies the book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefieldby Jeremy Scahill. The film is directed by Richard Rowley, and written by Scahill and David Riker. Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill is a frequent guest on a wide array of programs, appearing regularly on The Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Democracy Now!. He has also appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, BBC, al Jazeera, CNN, The NewsHour, and Bill Moyers Journal. Scahill’s work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater. In 2013, Scahill was named one of nine recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Scahill is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East. (See more: http://dirtywars.org/jeremy-scahill)

See also youtube video: Why did the Iraq War start. Book presentation by Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersch. Iraq Confidential, the untold story of the intelligence conspiracy to undermine the UN and overthrow Saddam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLh3xJgDlk

Organiser: New York Society of Ethical Culture, the Nation Institute

https://books.google.ch/books?id=1TsBAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PR5&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q&f=false

Another interesting film on Iraq with Seymour Hersh, Jeremy Scahill, Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian in conversation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuTu2YFVBW0

and Leading to War - the Complete Film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_cciUzoLwo

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GT Sách: Hướng dẫn đọc và dịch báo chí Anh - Việt

Hướng dẫn đọc và dịch báo chí Anh - Việt

Dịch Thuật là một kỹ năng khó trong việc học ngoại ngữ nói chung và Anh ngữ nói riêng. Ngôn ngữ truyền đạt ý nghĩ, tình cảm, cảm xúc của con người. Khi dịch thuật, cần chú ý làm sao để chuyển ngữ được chính xác, trung thành với bản gốc mà vẫn giữ được ý của tác giả, nghĩa là đạt được 3 yêu cầu : chân – thiện – mỹ. Nhằm giúp bạn nâng cao kỹ năng dịch Anh – Việt, chúng tôi xin giới thiệu cuốn “Hướng dẫn đọc và dịch báo chí Anh – Việt”. Cuốn sách gồm 2 phần: luyện dịch Anh - Việt và trau dồi từ vựng tiếng Anh. Chúc bạn học tốt.

(Source: http://tailieu.vinhuni.edu.vn/)

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Event: Project on Vietnamese Encyclopedia

Xây dựng đề án biên soạn Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam

Cơ quan chủ trì thực hiện:Viện Từ điển học và Bách khoa thư Việt Nam

Chủ đề chính HN-HT:Xây dựng đề án biên soạn Bách khoa thư Việt Nam

Loại hình tổ chức:Hội thảo

Lĩnh vực:Biên soạn từ điển

Thời gian:19/10/2012 - 01/01/2024

Địa điểm:Thành phố HCM

Ngày 19-10-2012, tại trường Đại học Lao động Xã hội, TP Hồ Chí Minh, Viện Từ điển học và Bách khoa thư Việt Nam thuộc Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học Xã hội Việt Nam tổ chức Hội thảo khoa học về xây dụng Đề án Biên soạn Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam.

Hội nghị có hơn 100 GS, PGS, TS đầu ngành trong lĩnh vực khoa học, xã hội ngôn ngữ từ Đà nẵng trở vào cùng tham dự và đóng góp ý kiến xây dựng đề án.

Book Review: LE CHINOIS

Dear Friends, I just finished reading this book, a thriller written by a talented Swedish Author whom I just discovered. The story started by a serial murder of a small village where all members who are linked by bloodline are all murderer. The killer was sent from China to settle a vendetta of over 170 years, which started in the Nevada railway construction by Chinese "guest-workers" who were ill-treated by their Swedist supervisor. The story is interesting as it brings us to modern China and the Chinese contemporary behind-the-scene political struggle between 2 factions which is quite near up-to-date. For somebody who needs a light reading on Asian-related story, it would be a good read. Highly recommended. Review in French:
Ce roman en contient au moins deux. Le plus intéressant concerne l’histoire de l’ancêtre chinois (à l’âge de jeune homme) et de ses frères fuyant une misère et une servitude totales qui perdurent depuis des siècles dans leur pays . Ils ne s’échappent que pour être finalement enlevés et servir à nouveau comme esclaves dans la construction d’une voie de chemin de fer à travers les Etats-Unis. Cette histoire va faire l’objet d’une vengeance un siècle plus tard dans une intrigue en Suède , et surtout de manière plus intéressante à Pékin.  C’est vrai que Mankell a inséré un véritable essai à l’intérieur de son roman, mais ce n'est pas gratuit ni artificiel. Pour ma part , n’étant pas sinologue averti, j’ai été très intéressé. Certes sa vision est celle d’un occidental , mais la perspective historique et l’interrogation sur l’avenir qui sont posées sont bienvenus.  (Book Review by http://www.critiqueslibres.com/)

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JOBS for young translators: A Taste of Human Touch to be translated from Vietnamese into English

Hi All, 

Yourvietbooks muốn tuyển chọn một số dịch giả xuất sắc để dịch tác phẩm từ tiếng Việt sang tiếng Anh với sự hướng dẫn của nhóm dịch giả yourvietbooks. 

Sách có tựa đề là: Cho tình người chạm đến, 
Author: Luật sư Lê Luân,
Tựa tiếng Anh là: A Taste of Human Touch. 

ATA xin trích câu này: “Con người ta tìm thấy nhau không phải bởi sự hiện diện trước mắt hay những thứ họ có thể nhìn thấy được mà người ta tìm thấy nhau ở phía sau trong những góc khuất khép sâu.” Liên tưởng đến câu nói bất hửu của St-Exupéry, TG của hoàng tử bé (Le Petit Prince bằng tiếng Pháp): "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux". 

Xin các bạn đăng ký để dịch thử một chương voi yourvietbooks@gmail.com. 

Deadline: 30 tháng chín, 2015. Xin cám ơn. Xem FB notes: https://www.facebook.com/notes/861460457270716/

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IR-One Definition a Day: Indochina Discovery - Annam

Indochina Discovery

Annam (ənăm`, ă`năm)

Historic region (c.58,000 sq mi/150,200 sq km) and former state, in central Vietnam, SE Asia. The capital was Hue. The region extended nearly 800 mi (1,290 km) along the South China Sea between Tonkin on the north and Cochin China on the south. In addition to Hue, the principal cities in the region are Da Nang(the chief seaport), An Nhon, Quang Tri, and Vinh. In 1954, when Vietnam was divided on a line approximating the 17th parallel, Annam went largely to South Vietnam. The ridge of the Annamese Cordillera separated N and central Annam from Laoson the west; the ridge then swung southeastward and ran along the coast of S Annam, which included the plateaus that stretched to the borders of Cambodiaand Cochin China. The narrow coastal plains of N and central Annamwere interrupted by spurs of mountains that almost reached the sea, as at Porte d'Annam, a pass important in Annamese history.

The origins of the Annamese state may be traced to the peoples of the Red River valley in N Vietnam. After more than 2,000 years of contact with the Chinese, they fell under Chinese rule as the result of a Han invasion in 111 B.C. The region, to which the Chinese gave the name Annam ("Pacified South"; a name resented by the people), comprised all of what later became N Annam and Tonkin. Southern Annamwas occupied by the kingdom of the Chams, or Champa, from the late 2d cent. A.D. In 939 the Annamese drove out the Chinese and established their independence, which they maintained, except for one brief period of Chinese reoccupation (1407–28), until their conquest by the French in the 19th cent.

By 1558 the kingdom was in effect divided between two great families: the Trinh line, whichruled from Hanoi (then called Tonkin) as far south as Porte d'Annam (this area was called Tonkin by the Europeans who arrived in the 16th cent.), and the Nguyens, who ruled from Hue over the territory extending from Porte d'Annam south to the vicinity of Quy Nhon. The ruling dynasties of Hueand Tonkin were overthrown in 1778 and 1786 respectively, and the two domains were reunited (1802) as the empire of Vietnamby Nguyen-Anh, a Hue general, who had procured French military aid by ceding (1787) to the French the port of Da Nangand the Con Son islands. Nguyen-Anh established himself as emperor; his authority was formally recognized by the Chinese in 1803. In 1807 the Vietnamese extended a protectorate over Cambodia, which led in succeeding years to frequent wars against Siam.

After the death of Nguyen-Anh his successor, attempting to withdraw into isolation, mistreated French nationals and Vietnamese Christian converts. This provided an excuse for French military operations, which began in 1858 and resulted in the seizure of S Vietnam (Cochin China) and the establishment of protectorates (by 1884) over N Vietnam (Tonkin) and central Vietnam(Annam). The French, who abolished the name Annam, received recognition for their protectorates from the Chinese emperor. In 1887 Annam became part of the Union of Indochina. In World War II Indochina was occupied by the Japanese, who set up the autonomous state of Vietnam, comprising Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China; Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam, was established as ruler. After the war Annamese and Tonkinese nationalists demanded independence for the new state of Vietnam, and the region was plunged into a long and bloody conflict (see Vietnam).

(Source: Wikipedia)

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IR-One-Definition-A-Day: NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (1949)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

Signing of the NATO Treaty

NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. After the destruction of the Second World War, the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security. The former required a massive influx of aid to help the war-torn landscapes re-establish industries and produce food, and the latter required assurances against a resurgent Germany or incursions from the Soviet Union. The United States viewed an economically strong, rearmed, and integrated Europe as vital to the prevention of communist expansion across the continent. As a result, Secretary of State George Marshall proposed a program of large-scale economic aid to Europe. The resulting European Recovery Program, or Marshall Plan, not only facilitated European economic integration but promoted the idea of shared interests and cooperation between the United States and Europe. Soviet refusal either to participate in the Marshall Plan or to allow its satellite states in Eastern Europe to accept the economic assistance helped to reinforce the growing division between east and west in Europe.

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http://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/NATO

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IR-One-Definition-A-Day: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

One-Definition-A-Day: Corporate social responsibility

(CSR, also called corporate conscience, corporate citizenship or responsible business) is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. CSR policy functions as a self-regulatory mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards and international norms. With some models, a firm's implementation of CSR goes beyond compliance and engages in "actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interests of the firm and that which is required by law." CSR aims to embrace responsibility for corporate actions and to encourage a positive impact on the environment and stakeholders including consumers, employees, investors, communities, and others.

The term "corporate social responsibility" became popular in the 1960s and has remained a term used indiscriminately by many to cover legal and moral responsibility more narrowly construed.

Proponents argue that corporations increase long term profits by operating with a CSR perspective, while critics argue that CSR distracts from business' economic role. A 2000 study compared existing econometric studies of the relationship between social and financial performance, concluding that the contradictory results of previous studies reporting positive, negative, and neutral financial impact, were due to flawed empirical analysis and claimed when the study is properly specified, CSR has a neutral impact on financial outcomes.

Critics questioned the "lofty" and sometimes "unrealistic expectations" in CSR. or that CSR is merely window-dressing, or an attempt to pre-empt the role of governments as a watchdog over powerful multinational corporations.

Political sociologists became interested in CSR in the context of theories of globalization, neoliberalism and late capitalism. Some sociologists viewed CSR as a form of capitalist legitimacy and in particular point out that what began as a social movement against uninhibited corporate power was transformed by corporations into a 'business model' and a 'risk management' device, often with questionable results.

CSR is titled to aid an organization's mission as well as a guide to what the company stands for to its consumers. Business ethics is the part of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment. ISO 26000 is the recognized international standard for CSR. Public sector organizations (the United Nations for example) adhere to the triple bottom line (TBL). It is widely accepted that CSR adheres to similar principles, but with no formal act of legislation.

(Source: wikipedia)

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How to See Yourself as You Really Are

Original Title in English

By Author His Holiness the Dalai Lama
About the Book:

According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each posess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realizing that goal is self-knowledge. In "How to See Yourself as You Really Are", the Dalai Lama shows readers how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic - and loving - perspective. 
Through illuminating explanations and step-by-step exercises. His Holiness helps readers to see the world as it actually exists and explains how, through the interconnection of meditative concentration and love, true altruistic enlightenment is attained.
About the Authors:
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet. The world's foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding, kindness and compassion, respect for the environment and, above all, world peace.
Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph. D. served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books and translations, he is emeritus professor for Tibetan and Buddhist studies at the University of Virginia.
Contents
Part I: The Need for Insight
1. Laying the Ground for Insight to Grow
2. Discovering the Source of Problems
3. Why Understanding the Truth is Needed
Part II: How to Undermine Ignorance
4. Feeling the Impact of Interrelatedness
5. Appreciating the Reasoning of Dependent-Arising
6. Seeing the Interdependence of Phenomena
Part III: Harnessing the Power of Concentration and Insight
8. Focusing Your Mind
9. Tuning Your Mind for Meditation
Part IV: How to End Self-Deception
10. Meditating on Yourself First
11. Realizing That You Do Not Exist in and of Yourself
12. Determining the Choices
13. Analyzing Oneness
14. Analyzing Difference
15. Coming to a Conclusion
16. Testing Your Realization
17. Extending This Insight to What You Own
18. Balancing Calm and Insight
Part V: How Persons and Things Actually Exist
19. Viewving Yourself As Like an Illusion
20. Noticing How Everything Depends on Thought
Part VI: Deepening Love with Insight
21. Feeling Empathy
22. Reflecting on Impermanence
23. Absorbing Yourself in Ultimate Love


Selective Readings by Authors:
HH The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Translated and Edited J. Hopkins. 

• How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships. New York: Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, 2005.
• How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life.  New York: Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, 2002.
• Kindness, Clarity, and Insight. Coedited by Elizabeth Napper. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1984, rev. ed. 2006.
• The Meaning of Life: Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000.
• Mind of Clear Light: Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously. New York: Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Jeffrey Hopkins

• Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation: Nagarjuna's Precious Garland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.
• Cultivating Compassion. NY: Broadway Books, 2001.
• Emptiness Yoga. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1987.
• Meditation on Emptiness. London: Wisdom Publications, 1983. rev. ed. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1996.

Geshe Sonam and Ruth Sonam Rinchen

• Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas: Gyel-tsap on Aryadeva's Four Hundred. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1994.

Tsong-kha-pa

• The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenments. Vol. 1-3. Translated and edited by W. C. Cutler and Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000 & 2003.

Vesna A and B. Alan Wallace

• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Live.  Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1997.

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