Shambhala: 1067 books
Being True to Life
Poetic Paths to Personal Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Psychotherapist David Richo offers a fresh and inspiring approach to personal growth: we can use the process of writing and reading poetry to move toward greater self-understanding and emotional healing. Even if you’ve never written a poem before, you can learn to use poetry to explore your feelings,...
Cool Mind
11 Easy Ways to Relieve Stress, Boost Self-Confidence, and Improve Concentration in School, Sports, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The demands of school, sports, exams, and relationships can be so stressful. This toolkit of simple mindfulness techniques can help! Designed to be used any time you are stressed or upset—or need to boost your energy and confidence—these short practices can help you feel calmer, happier, more focused, and more able to get the most out of life.
The Knowing Heart
A Sufi Path of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2000
As human beings we stand on the threshold between two realities: the world of material existence and the world of spiritual Being. The "knowing heart" is the sacred place where these two dimensions meet and are integrated.
In Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor...
The Art of Haiku
Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is...
The Mysticism of Sound and Music
The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1996
Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition...
by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A spirited collection of poems inspired by the Zen practice of one of America's most celebrated authors, Jim Harrison, a New York Times best-selling author.
The popular novels of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) represent only part of his literary output—he was also widely acclaimed for the “renegade...
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
An authoritative new translation of the complete Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, the teaching songs and stories from Tibet's most beloved Buddhist yogi, poet, and saint.
Powerful and deeply inspiring, there is no book more beloved by Tibetans than The Hundred Thousand Songs, and no figure...
by Dainin Katagiri
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For twenty-five hundred years Buddhism has taught that everyone is Buddha—already enlightened, lacking nothing. But still there is the question of how we can experience that truth in our lives. In this book, Dainin Katagiri points to the manifestation of enlightenment right here, right now, in our...
Passing Through the Gateless Barrier
Koan Practice for Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Gateways to awakening surround us at every moment of our lives. The whole purpose of kōan (gong’an, in Chinese) practice is to keep us from missing these myriad opportunities by leading us to certain gates that have traditionally been effective for people to access that marvelous awakening. The...
Bringing the Sacred to Life
The Daily Practice of Zen Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Zen rituals—such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue—are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life. A ritual is simply a deliberate and focused moment that symbolizes the care with which we should be approaching all of life, and practicing the Zen liturgy is...
Zen Words for the Heart
Hakuin's Commentary on the Heart Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1996
Hakuin Zenji (1689-1769) was one of the most important of all Japanese Zen masters. His commentary on the Heart Sutra is a Zen classic that reflects his dynamic teaching style, with its balance of scathing wit and poetic illumination of the text. Hakuin's sarcasm, irony, and invective are ultimately...
Desert
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The first collection of original poetry by the renowned nature writer and highly lauded translator of the Chinese classics.
Traveling today I
found a river
somewhere inside
me, wondered
how far it
wanders there
and how much
sky it
mirrors. All day
long, wind and desert
light, I
followed...
No-Gate Gateway
The Original Wu-Men Kuan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A new translation of one of the great koan collections--by the premier translator of the Chinese classics--that reveals it to be a literary and philosophical masterwork beyond its association with Chan/Zen.
A monk asked: “A dog too has Buddha-nature, no?” And with the master’s enigmatic...
Close to the Ground
Reflections on the Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
After the bliss and emptiness we might be lucky enough to experience along our spiritual path, what’s left are the karmic knots of conditioning that still need to be undone if we are going to be of any genuine help to anybody. Untying them is the work of spiritual warriors: that is, all of us. The...