Break the norms
Subtitle: questioning everything you think you know about God and truth, life and death, love and sex
By: Chandresh Bhardwaj ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Contributors: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- writer of foreword
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781622035410
Subjects: Peace; Religious aspects; Love; Thought and thinking; Happiness
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; title: Blindly following the norms; title: The unlearning begins; title: Uncensored spirituality. Norm #1 : To be spiritual, we must behave in a "spiritual" way ; Norm #2 : Spirituality is time-consuming ; Norm #3 : Humans are not worthy of divine love; title: God?. Norm #4 : Both believers and nonbelievers blindly accept ; Norm #5 : God has a system of punishments and rewards; Norm #6 : God exists only in temples; title: Straight talk about ego. Norm #7 : The ego is evil and we must dispose of it ; Norm #8 : We should eliminate desire; title: To guru or not to guru? : that is the question . Norm #9 : I don't need a guru ; Norm #10 : A guru is a miracle ; Norm #11 : All gurus are frauds; title: Rising in love. Norm #12 : We possess the people we love ; Norm #13 : Another person can make us whole ; Norm #14 : Love is about getting what we want; title: From kama sutra to calm sutra. Norm 315 : Sex is for physical pleasure only ; Norm #16 : Women are sex objects ; Norm #17 : Sex is separate from God; title: What about death?. Norm #18 : We are our bodies ; Norm #19 : Death is the end ; Norm #20 : We go to heaven or hell when we die; title: Keep breaking the norms.