Prefacio.- Europa en el siglo XIII.- El Imperio Germánico en los siglos XIII y XIV.- La guerra de los cien años y la participación de los reinos europeos.- La economía europea bajomedieval.- La sociedad en la baja Edad Edad Media.- La iglesia, espiritualidad y cultura en occcidente (siglos XIII y XIV).- El mundo ortodoxo: Bizancio y Rusia durane los siglos XIII-XIV.- El Islam en el siglo XIII. El avance mongol.- Los reinos europeos en el siglo XV.- El ámbito imperial: Alemania e Italia a fines de la Edad Media.- Iglesia, gobierno y espiritualidad en la época del conciliarismo.- Pensamiento y cultura a finales de la Edad Media.- Biznancio contra los turcos.- El dominio del Islam a finales de la Edad Media. Los reinos africanos.- Los inicios de la expansión europea.- Addenda.- Bibliografía general.- Glosario.
This is a true story, a call to come on a great adventure. More than a travel tale or memoir, it is an invitation to the very real possibility of freedom, always available, always here and now. In 1974, intrigued by accounts that spoke of the magic and mystery of Asia, a young man commenced an overland journey from Indonesia to Europe. His story is, in some ways, a “coming-of-age” narrative about a singular journey of discovery through Southeast Asia and India, across the Middle East to Greece. However, the movement from innocent abroad to cynical world traveler is interrupted in the Himalayas by a chance meeting with a Buddhist monk and the Dharma. The title of the book comes from Kalu Rinpoche, a Tibetan master. “We live in illusion, the appearance of things. There is a reality. You are that reality. When you see this, you realize you are nothing and being nothing, everything. That is all.” This is also a cautionary tale where “awakening” does not necessarily mean “wisdom in the world”. As the Buddha is meant to have said, “Sometimes the closest you can get to the truth is in the knowing of what is not true.”