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The articles and shorter pieces collected in this volume provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to the author's writings, his background, and perspective. In particular, it offers a synopsis of his forty published works, together with short commentaries on their contents. This book has been compiled to let the interested reader gain a clearer picture of the painter and writer Bo Yin Ra whose unprecedented expositions in the fields of metaphysics, religion, and philosophy are difficult to classify and have to be examined by themselves, within their proper context. "The Kober Press's translations of the books of Bo Yin Ra are the only English translations authorized by the Kober Verlag, Switzerland. The Kober Verlag publishes the books of Bo Yin Ra in the original German and has protected their integrity since Bo Yin Ra's lifetime." Contents: Preface. About My Books. Concerning My Name. In My Own Behalf. Essential Distinction. Resume. Comments on the Cycle Hortus Conclusus and the Related Works. Brief Biography of Bo Yin Ra. The Works of Bo Yin Ra
You should not read this book if you believe the teachings of your faith with heart and soul. You should not read this book if you have never doubted God. This book is written for all those who suffered bitter conflicts in themselves in their labours, never found Him.
This book is not intended to recruit adherents for some new hypothesis of metaphysics or philosophy; nor is it meant to found a new kind of 'religion'. Its only purpose is to offer you authentic knowledge concerning the objective spiritual -- not intellectual -- experience that was the source and origin of all the ancient great religions which, in their time and place, were born out of the Spirit that is Gods.
In The Book on Happiness Bô Yin Râ guides the reader to a new and deeper understanding of the spiritual laws at the root of happiness. He stresses the importance of finding happiness in this life; it is happiness that gives life its meaning and lifts it out of drudgery and pain. Happiness here on earth is the basis for happiness in life beyond. Bô Yin Râ defines happiness as the joy that comes from creative endeavor whether through work, the building of a loving relationship or, most fulfilling of all, the development of one's inner self. Happiness is not given to us by luck or fate; rather, it must be actively sought and forged out of whatever circumstances life gives us--even the most ...
The words I here address to you may, to be sure, bestir your will to search for timeless truth, but all the insights I can offer in my native tongue are always but a call that would awaken you within; because the wisdom from the Himavat is "taught" in other ways." -- Page 56 "Do not bar your way to God with questions! Let those who live devoid to God and all who worship idols argue whether God exists." -- Page 149 "Your reasons are well founded when you doubt that God is indiscernible. We, by contrast, know for certain that God will not respond to anyone who questions his existence." -- Page 149 "In seeking God, the human being must become the point of your departure, lest God remain a stranger to your soul forever." -- Page 150 "God is alive in joy, not in the gloom of grief. Minds enslaved by grief conceived the "suffering" God to offer him their worship. But you should force your grief into your service that it may turn into a helper of your will to joy!" -- Page 146.
In this beautiful and atmospheric book, Bô Yin Râ sets the tone for concepts he develops in all his future works. Rich in allegory, metaphor, and poetic language, The Book on the Royal Art invites readers to enter the path of the inner journey towards an awakening of their timeless, true self. The path is simple, straightforward, and quiet. At the core of Bô Yin Râ's teaching is the importance of cultivating an inner silence so that one's eternal self can slowly emerge. It is the work of a lifetime, and transcends death. Bô Yin Râ stresses that there is no need to look outside for masters, to renounce the world or engage in unusual practices: We can develop ourselves in our everyday, f...
The joy experienced in creative work alone is real happiness, and all things else you might regard as such will surely, if you trust them, betray and rob you of true happiness, as much as one can find it in this life. Bear in mind that even here and now -- indeed, while you are reading this -- you find yourself in the very midst of eternal life. And what you cannot here and now accomplish for yourself, no "God above" shall in your place create for you in all eternity. By virtue of creating happiness in your own life, you tangibly increase the sum of happiness experienced on this earth. And thereby you accomplish more for mankind as a whole than by attempting to establish in your outer world the most beguiling of utopian theories.
In this book the author shows not only what is without question the highest goal that human beings can achieve in mortal life, but also how that timeless goal can be attained, so long as the resources of the physical body still offer the means to perform the "work," which ceases when "the night has come." The goal on which this book sheds light surpasses all other quests in temporal existence in that its attainment, the recovery of conscious self-awareness in the Spirit's realm, transforms the vague belief in some eternal life into an objective, permanent experience. While all material goals, however mighty and ambitious, are limited in space and time, conscious self-awareness in the Spirit,...
"At a time in history when every fertile pasture of mankind is desecrated by befouling tides of hate, the topic I shall speak of in this present book is love..." -- Page 1.
Among the thirty-two works that form Bo Yin Ra's cycle Hortus Conclusus (The Enclosed Garden), this volume occupies a special place, in that the author's text is here accompanied by twenty of the artist's spiritual perspectives, paintings that depict the nature and dynamic structure of eternal life. The subject of this book is the ascent of an awakened human spirit, under the protection of its inner guide, to a dimension in the Spirit's world where ultimate perfection is attained, and where the human spirit then is able to survey and understand its own eternal journey, from its origins, its self-willed fall from highest light, and its eventual, long and burdensome return to where it had begun its quest.