Shambhala imprint: 827 books
This Is Getting Old
Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over sixty, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she keeps her reader fully engaged. Among the pieces she has included here are an essay on the gratitude...
The Great Spring
Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
From beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones: a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys—inner and outer—zigzagging around the world and home again.
Here, Natalie Goldberg, "a writer both energized and enlightened"...
Art Is a Way of Knowing
A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment through Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1995
Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus...
No More Secondhand Art
Awakening the Artist Within
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1989
This book is about using art as an instrument of personal transformation, enabling us to move from an inherited to a chosen state of being. Peter London offers inspiration and fresh ideas to artists, art students, and art teachers—as well as to people who think they can't draw a straight line but...
Imagination in Action
Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
He’s spent a career helping people access their creative potential, and now Shaun McNiff is sharing the secrets he’s learned from observing his own creative process as well as that of others—both those who identify as artists and those who don’t. The result is nothing less than a master class...
Bridge of Waves
What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A. Mathieu, music bridges mind and heart, self and other, and affirms our place in the world. Everyone...
The Eternal Drama
The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athena—do the gods and goddesses of Greece have anything to say to us that we haven't already heard? In this book, based on a series of his lectures, the eminent Jungian analyst and writer Edward F. Edinger revisits all the major figures, myths, oracles, and legends...
by Marie-Louise von Franz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Twelve essays by the distinguished analyst Marie-Louise von Franz—five of them appearing in English for the first time—discuss synchronicity, number and time, and contemporary areas of rapprochement between the natural sciences and analytical psychology with regard to the relationship between...
by Marie-Louise von Franz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
In twelve essays—eight of which appear here in English for the first time—the internationally known analyst Marie-Louise von Franz explores important aspects of psychotherapy from a Jungian perspective. She draws on her many years of practical experience in psychotherapy, her intimate knowledge...
The Places That Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Lifelong guidance for learning to change the way we relate to the scary and difficult moments of our lives, showing us how we can use all of our difficulties and fears as a way to soften our hearts and open us to greater kindness.
We always have a choice in how we react to the circumstances...
Woman Awake
Women Practicing Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Because women have been conditioned to live according to traditional feminine values—conformity, passivity, and surrender of the self—they often feel powerless to transform their lives and afraid to lose their sense of worth. In Woman Awake, Christina Feldman suggests that it is possible for women...
The Life-Giving Sword
Secret Teachings from the House of the Shogun
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
The legendary seventeenth-century swordsman Yagyu Munenori was the sword instructor and military and political adviser to two shoguns—and a great rival to Miyamoto Musashi. Despite his martial ability and his political power, Munenori's life was spent immersed in Zen teachings. These teachings formed...
The Undying Lamp of Zen
The Testament of Zen Master Torei
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The Undying Lamp of Zen is a pure and powerful distillation of Zen doctrine and practice written by Torei Enji (1721–1792), a Zen master and artist. Torei was best known as one of two "genius assistants" to Hakuin Ekaku, a towering figure in Zen Buddhism who revitalized the Rinzai school,...
Vivid Awareness
The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In the summer of 1957, the revered Buddhist teacher and scholar Khenpo Gangshar foresaw the difficulties that would soon fall upon Tibet and began teaching in a startling new way that enabled all those who heard him to use the coming difficulties as the path of Dharma practice. The teaching consisted...