Shambhala imprint: 827 books
Vivir bellamente (Living Beautifully)
en la incertidumbre y el cambio
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Vivimos en épocas difíciles. En ocasiones la vida parece un río turbulento que amenaza con ahogarnos y destruir al mundo. ¿Por qué entonces no deberíamos aferrarnos a la certidumbre de la orilla —a nuestros patrones y hábitos familiares? Porque, según nos enseña Pema Chödrön, ese tipo...
Bringing Home the Dharma
Awakening Right Where You Are
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
If you want to find inner peace and wisdom, you don't need to move to an ashram or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be. Jack Kornfield, one of America's most respected Buddhist teachers, shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty years of committed study...
Insight Meditation
A Psychology of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
The fruit of some twenty years' experience leading Buddhist meditation retreats, this book touches on a wide range of topics raised repeatedly by meditators and includes favorite stories, key Buddhist teachings, and answers to most-asked questions.
Light Comes Through
Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Buddhahood, says Dzigar Kongtrül, is nothing but an unobstructed experience of the nature of mind, boundlessly spacious and limitlessly compassionate. The trick is that in order to see the mind accurately, we must use the particular aspect of mind he calls natural intelligence. Natural intelligence...
When Awareness Becomes Natural
A Guide to Cultivating Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The flame of wisdom can be kindled in the midst of any life, even one that might seem too full of personal and professional commitments to allow for it. Such is the teaching of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, who himself learned to cultivate awareness in the raucous years he spent in the Burmese textile business...
Compassion
Listening to the Cries of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Do you turn away from your own physical and emotional pain? Do you withhold empathy or give yourself away when witnessing another’s pain? Do you lash out or withdraw when you feel that someone has harmed you? Is it possible to learn to respond to rather than react against what feels unbearable?...
A Little Book of Love
Heart Advice on Bringing Happiness to Ourselves and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
In the Buddhist tradition, love is not just a feeling but a way of being present with ourselves and others. This book offers practical advice on how to cultivate love, how to deepen it, and how to let it flower in our lives.
We may feel great love for our partners, our children, and our friends,...
Zen Training
Methods and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Zen Training is a comprehensive handbook for zazen, seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path. The book marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at...
Zen in the Age of Anxiety
Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
**Best Spiritual Books of 2018 - Spirituality & Practice
Zen wisdom for identifying the causes of mental and emotional anxiety epidemic in today's world and for finding the path to a peaceful heart in the midst of them--a path that leads directly though the center of the anxiety we're trying...
Ten Gates
The Kong-an Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Zen is famous for koans (called kong-ans in Korean, and in this book), those bizarre and seemingly unanswerable questions Zen masters pose to their students to check their realization (such as "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"). Fear of koans keeps some people from ever giving Zen...
by Gavin Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1994
In this book a teacher of insight meditation offers personal testament, healing words, and wise instruction to help meet the suffering that comes with catastrophic life events. Speaking openly about his own struggles with memories of childhood sexual abuse and with the HIV diagnosis he received in...
Comer atentos (Mindful Eating)
Guía para redescubrir una relación sana con los alimentos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 18, 2015
El arte de la atención plena puede transformar nuestros conflictos con la alimentación –y renovar nuestro sentido del placer, valoración y satisfacción con la comida. Recurriendo a investigaciones recientes e integrando sus experiencias como médica y maestra de meditación, la Dra. Jan Bays...
Awakening
A Paradigm Shift of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
What is enlightenment? Rodney Smith’s answer to that elusive question offers an explanation not only of the radical shift in perception that the word enlightenment connotes, but of the entire topography of the journey from beginning to end, of the multiple ways we undermine the very growth we seek, and of the awakened life that ultimately arises out of the new consciousness.
Spacecruiser Inquiry
True Guidance for the Inner Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Over the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology....