Meditation category: 34000 books
How to Free Your Mind
The Practice of Tara the Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Tara, the feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, is a Buddhist deity whose Tibetan name means "liberator," signaling her ability to free beings from the delusion and ignorance that keep them trapped in ever-recurring patterns of negativity. She embodies a challenge, but one that is...
by Annette Sprouls Reasoner
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
The Stations of the Cross historically maps out Jesus' journey from his trial to the time his body is placed in the tomb. This book covers 14 stations, with each station comprised of either an Old Testament or New Testament passage, a meditation and a drawing illuminating the passage. This particular...
365 Tao
Daily Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Place the word Tao
Into your heart.
Use no other words.
The Tao is constantly moving, the path that all life and the whole universe takes. There is nothing that is not part of it—harmonious living is to know and to move with the Tao—it is a way of life, the natural order of things, a force...
by Alexander Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Written in simple language, these 108 ‘kung-an’ (koan in Japanese) embodying the experience and wisdom of the Chinese Ch’an masters have found their way into hearts of many Westerners over a century. This is because Ch'an (Zen) is not something that can be explained in words, but is a special...
Everyday Tao
Living with Balance and Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The Taoist spirit comes to life, made vibrant and contemporary through the Chinese ideograms whose images and stories speak of living in harmony with the Tao. Everyday Tao revives an ancient approach to meditation and reflection by using these stories as sources of insight for spiritual growth.
Tao...
by Thomas Kempis, Carl Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul II. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas à Kempis...
My Other Self
Conversations with Christ on Living Your Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In My Other Self Clarence Enzler—author of the multi-million copy seller Everyone’s Way of the Cross—guides readers in prayerful conversation with Christ wherein the reader is personally addressed as “my other self” and is urged to embody Christ’s love and compassion to others. Modeled on...
by Francois Fénelon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
François Fénelon was a seventeenth-century French Catholic archbishop who rose to a position of influence in the court of Louis XIV. He became a wise mentor to members of the king's court, his writings preserved by the many people whom he counseled. These words have inspired Christians of all backgrounds...
Scars
Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Paul Murray is not only an academic, a preacher and published poet, he is also a superb pastor. During his ministry, he has dealt with some extraordinary people - not least a South African who was convicted of murder and hanged under Apartheid. Drawing on this remarkable experience, the reader is...
7 Treasures of Awakening
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Among the Buddha's many teachings, his instruction on the Seven Factors of Awakening stands alone for the cumulative benefits it makes available to us. When we are firmly established in mindfulness, the Buddha explained, these seven "treasures" serve to steer the mind away from delusion...
Mind in Comfort and Ease
The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Here, in a teaching of outstanding completeness and clarity, the Dalai Lama sets out the key principles of Buddhism, showing how the mind can be transformed, and suffering overcome, through love, compassion, and a true understanding of the nature of reality. By illustrating his brilliant overview...
Minding Closely
The Four Applications of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Bringing his experience as a monk, scientist, and contemplative, Alan Wallace offers a rich synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions along with a comprehensive range of meditation practices interwoven throughout the text. The guided meditations are systematically presented, beginning with very...
Steps to the Great Perfection
The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The mind-training practices contained in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism have never before been presented in the English language. The main text translated here, The Steps to Liberation, will be of great interest to Western practitioners, since its instructions are pithy and direct, and...
Shin Buddhism
Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Interest in Buddhism continues to grow throughout North America, and more and more readers are moving beyond the familiar Zen and Tibetan traditions to examine other types of Buddhism. In Shin Buddhism, Taitetsu Unno explains the philosophy anc practices of "Pure Land" Buddhism, which dates...