Wisdom Publications: 444 books
Real Meditation in Minutes a Day
Enhancing Your Performance, Relationships, Spirituality, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Got a few minutes? You can:
Reduce your stress, even when under pressure
Sleep better
Get re-energized
Think more clearly, and more creatively
Reconnect with the people who count on you
Learn to recognize and encourage the best in yourself
You know that meditation would probably be good for...
by Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche was a renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism with students worldwide. Revered as a teacher by even the Dalai Lama, he was known especially as a master of Buddhist tantra, the powerful esoteric methods for attaining enlightenment swiftly. The teachings in this book are a singular...
Transcending Time
An Explanation of the Kalachakra Six-Session Guru Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Inspired by years of scholarly training and decades of solitary retreat, Tibetan monk Gen Lamrimpa offers a concise overview of all phases of the Kalachakra practice: the preliminaries, the initiation, and finally, the stages of generation and completion. With remarkable clarity, he makes the Six-Session...
Being-Time
A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen’s most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable.
“Impermanence is time itself, being itself—yet time and being are not at all as we imagine them to be. To really understand and fully embrace this point...
Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path
A Life of Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
In his Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path, Takamaro Shigaraki examines Shin Buddhism anew as a practical path of spiritual growth and self-transformation, challenging assessments of the tradition as a passive religion of mere faith. Shigaraki presents the core themes of the Shin Buddhist path in fresh,...
Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo, Volume 4: Samatha
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
An exploration of the practice of samatha, the style of meditation devoted to focus and attention
Geshe Sopa continues his elucidation of Lama Tsongkhapa's masterwork on the Buddhist path with an explanation of the core meditative practice of samatha, or calm abiding.
Showing how it...
The Book of Kadam
The Core Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Kadam school of Tibetan Buddhism emerged in the eleventh century from the teachings of the Indian master Atisa and his principal Tibetan student, Dromtonpa. Although it no longer exists as an independent school, Kadam's teachings were incorporated into the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism...
Mud and Water
The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time. Accessible and eloquent, these teachings cut to the heart of the great matter of Zen, pointing directly to the importance of seeing our own original nature and recognizing it as Buddhahood...
The Four Noble Truths
A Guide to Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The Buddha’s profound teachings on the four noble truths are illuminated by a Tibetan master simply and directly, so that readers gain an immediate and personal understanding of the causes and conditions that give rise to suffering as well as the spiritual life as the path to liberation.
Experiential...
A Gathering of Brilliant Moons
Practice Advice from the Rime Masters of Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Deepen your meditation with advice on Buddhist practice from celebrated masters of Tibet’s nonsectarian rimé tradition.
For generations, Buddhist masters in Tibet have composed sheldam, poignant instructions tailored to the needs of their disciples in the form of short works of advice. Often...
by Mahasi Sayadaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The most comprehensive manual of the practice of insight meditation (vipassana), written by one of its foremost 20th century proponents, is translated into English for the first time.
Manual of Insight is the magnum opus of Mahasi Sayadaw, one of the originators of the “vipassana movement”...
Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants
108 Metaphors for Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
This engaging and accessible little book is filled with both humor and profound teaching. It presents 108 metaphors for mindfulness, meditation practice, the nature of the self, change, deep acceptance, and other related concepts that Dr. Kozak has cultivated over twenty-five years of meditating,...
Walking the Way
81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Walking the Way affirms that, like yin and yang, the flowing spontaneity of Tao and the precise simplicity of Zen find perfect balance with one another. Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum brings the two traditions together in a unique presentation that elicits Zen insights from his fresh interpretation of verses...
Steps on the Path to Enlightenment
A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo, Volume 2: Karma
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This second volume of the five-volume commentary by the renowned Buddhist scholar Geshe Lhundub Sopa focuses on the key Buddhist concepts of karma, or cause and effect, and dependent origination. Considered one of the finest living Buddhist scholars, Geshe Sopa provides commentaries essential for...