Shambhala imprint: 827 books
Insight Dialogue
The Interpersonal Path to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Insight Dialogue is a way of bringing the tranquility and insight attained in meditation directly into your interactions with other people. It’s a practice that involves interacting with a partner in a retreat setting or on your own, as a way of accessing a profound kind of insight. Then, you take...
Walking the Kiso Road
A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Take a trip to old Japan with William Scott Wilson as he travels the ancient Kiso Road, a legendary route that remains much the same today as it was hundreds of years ago. The Kisoji, which runs through the Kiso Valley in the Japanese Alps, has been in use since at least 701 C.E. In the seventeenth...
One Taste
Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
As one who has written extensively about the interior life, meditation, and psychotherapy, Ken Wilber—the leading theorist in the field of integral psychology—naturally arouses the curiosity of his numerous readers. In response to this curiosity, this one-year diary not only offers an unprecedented...
The Butterfly Hours
Transforming Memories into Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Sometimes all it takes is a single word to spark a strong memory. Bicycle. Snowstorm. Washing machine. By presenting one-word prompts and simple phrases, author and writing teacher Patty Dann gives us the keys to unlock our life stories. Organized around her ten rules for writing memoir, Dann’s...
Samurai Wisdom Stories
Tales from the Golden Age of Bushido
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A collection of samurai stories, drawn from traditional sources, of battles, strategy, conflict, and intrigue--featuring some of the greatest warriors and military leaders of the samurai era.
Martial artist and samurai scholar Pascal Fauliot has collected and retold twenty-eight wisdom...
When the Buddha Was an Elephant
32 Animal Wisdom Tales from the Jataka
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Buddhist Jataka tales are simple lessons in living with honesty, wisdom, and compassion that contain the power to transform the hearts and minds of those who hear them. They are stories of the Buddha’s past lives—in such forms as a boar, a parrot, a monkey, or a peacock—that have enchanted...
The Wisdom Jesus
Transforming Heart and Mind--A New Perspective on Christ and His Message
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teachings for yourself.
Teachings of the Earth
Zen and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
According to Zen teaching, everything in the universe exists interdependently, so valuing the welfare of one being over another, or of humans over the planet, makes no sense at all. This teaching, which can empower us to care passionately about the earth and its future, is not only a Zen principle,...
Integral Meditation
Mindfulness as a Way to Grow Up, Wake Up, and Show Up in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Prepare to encounter your mind in a radically new way as Ken Wilber introduces Integral Mindfulness, a meditative approach based on Integral Theory and Practice. This leading-edge technique combines, for the first time in history, the ancient paths of meditation and mindfulness—or Waking Up—with...
Krishnamacharya
His Life and Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Here is a personal tribute to "the father of modern yoga" Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), written by one of his longtime disciples. Krishnamacharya was a renowned Indian yoga master, Ayurvedic healer, and scholar who modernized yoga practice and whose students—including B....
The Healing Power of Mind
Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1998
The true nature of our minds is enlightened and peaceful, as the depth of the ocean is calm and clear. But when we mentally grasp and emotionally cling to our wants and worries with all our energy, we lose our own enlightened freedom and healing power, only to gain stress and exhaustion, suffering...
The Complete Cold Mountain
Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A fresh translation--and new envisioning--of the most accessible and beloved of all classic Chinese poetry.
Welcome to the magical, windswept world of Cold Mountain. These poems from the literary riches of China have long been celebrated by cultures of both East and West—and continue to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses...
by J. Krishnamurti
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Widely recognized as one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, Jiddu Krishnamurti taught that in order for there to be peace in the world, we must each first make peace with ourselves. No spiritual path, leader, or personal or political philosophy will guide us in this...