"The Silent Path" is an invitation to dive into the deep mysteries of life. It is an invitation to take an adventurous journey into the depths of your inner being. Every insight and understanding in this writing comes from the innermost recesses of a human heart that went in search of the ultimate Truth. This book is a reflection of an Awakened mind; a mind that transcended the confines of all known boundaries of human conception. Some of the questions this book attempts to answer: What is the true nature of my mind, body, and Self? What is meditation and how do I practice it? How can I attain to my inner peace, certainty, and happiness? What is life and how do I understand it fully? How can I go beyond my daily strife and struggle? What is spirituality and how do I pursue it? What exactly is Enlightenment and how do I attain it? This book is transcribed from talks delivered by Avi, answering personal questions of spiritual seekers. Your journey through these pages will be like taking a bite from a rare, succulent fruit of some far-off land, where it has been growing and waiting for years, just for you. May the freshness of this new taste linger in your soul forever.

Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

Our natural awakening—or buddha-nature—is inherent within all of us and waiting to be realized. Buddha-nature has the qualities of both silence and illumination, and by working with silent illumination meditation you can find your own awakening. Distinguished Chan Buddhist teacher Guo Gu introduces you to the significance and methods of this practice through in-depth explanations and guided instructions. To help establish a foundation for realizing silent illumination, he has translated twenty-five teachings from the influential master Hongzhi Zhengjue into English, accompanied by his personal commentary. This book will be an indispensable resource for meditators interested in beginning or deepening their silent illumination practice.

Excerpt from the book: "As much as we are suffering our ignorance, we are also suffering our modern comforts, intelligence, and sophistication. We are suffering more now than ever before. Our modern accomplishments are arrogantly screaming and supporting our ignorance. No other generation has been as frustrated, spiritually barren, utterly disoriented, and lost as we are. We are the forgotten children of existence. We are walking alone in the dark wilderness of life, carrying our little gadgets and gizmos into an unknown future, searching for meaning, purpose, and connection. The individual is lost amidst the collective ideas and concepts of humanity. We have buried the individual under a mountain of social, political, philosophical, religious, and economic rubble. An individual has to fight his way through this enormous systemic burden before discovering himself.The question, "What exactly does it mean to be an individual?" is more important now than ever before. We have to explore this question carefully. The answer to this question holds the future hope of humanity......"