Shambhala: 1067 books
Mindfulness on the Go
Simple Meditation Practices You Can Do Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
If you’ve heard about the many benefits of mindfulness practice but think you don’t have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be proven delightfully wrong. Mindfulness is available every moment, including right now, as Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays shows with these twenty-five mindfulness exercises...
by Ken Wilber
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Breve historia de todas las cosas es una excursión extraordinaria a través del Kosmos. En un viaje para cortar el aliento, desde el Big Bang hasta el mundo postmoderno en que vivimos, Ken Wilber analiza el universo y nuestro lugar en él –y nos brinda una crónica accesible y entretenida de cómo...
The Power of an Open Question
The Buddha's Path to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
How do we find a resting place in a world that is complex and always changing? How do we practice spirituality beyond the limits of blind acceptance and doubt? Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel proposes that when we ask challenging questions like these, we access our deepest intelligence and most powerful...
Pure Appearance
Development and Completion Stages in Vajrayana Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A complex topic is here made crystal clear through the heartfelt teaching of one of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. With Pure Appearance Dilgo Khyenste Rinpoche offers an overview of Tibetan tantric practice that explains its concepts, clarifies its terminology, and shows...
Boundless Healing
Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2001
This book offers simple meditation techniques to awaken healing energies in the body and mind. Using Buddhist principles as a basis, Tulku Thondup has created a universal guide that anyone can use. It will benefit those who want to preserve good health as well as those who need comfort and relief...
The Third Turning of the Wheel
Wisdom of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In his previous book, Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson Roshi described how we must become thoroughly grounded in conventional truth through the practice of compassion before we can receive the teachings of the ultimate truth. In The Third Turning of the Wheel,...
Living, Dreaming, Dying
Wisdom for Everyday Life from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the best-known Tibetan Buddhist texts. It is also one of the most difficult texts for Westerners to understand. In Living, Dreaming, Dying, Rob Nairn presents the first interpretation of this classic text using a modern Western perspective, avoiding arcane religious...
Buddhist Yoga
A Comprehensive Course
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1995
The word yoga has many meanings, including "meditation," "method," and "union." While the physical exercises of Hindu yoga are familiar to Westerners, the subtle metaphysics and refined methods of spiritual development that characterize Buddhist yoga are not yet well...
Riding the Ox Home
Stages on the Path of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
"Maps and guideposts are helpful when we undertake a journey. The ten Ox-Herding Pictures, the accompanying ancient poems, and a modern commentary by John Daido Loori, sketch the spiritual path encountered in Zen training, a path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate...
Embracing Mind
The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
What is Mind? For this ancient question we are still seeking answers. B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel propose a science of the mind based on the contemplative wisdom of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity, and Islam.
The authors begin by exploring the history of science, showing how science...
by Ken Wilber
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1998
Ever since the publication of his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, written when he was twenty-three, Ken Wilber has been identified as the most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times. This introductory sampler, designed to acquaint newcomers with his work, contains brief passages...
Thoughts Are Not the Enemy
An Innovative Approach to Meditation Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In most forms of meditation, the meditator is instructed to let go of thoughts as they arise. As a result, thinking is often taken, unnecessarily, to be something misguided or evil. This approach is misguided, says Jason Siff. In fact, if we allow thoughts to arise and become mindful of the thoughts...
Integral Buddhism
And the Future of Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An edifying view of Buddhism from one of today's leading philosophers: a look at its history and foundational teachings, how it fits into modern society, and how it (and other world religions) will evolve.
What might religion look like in the future? Our era of evolution in social consciousness...
How to Be an Adult in Love
Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
We were made to love and be loved. Loving ourselves and others is in our genetic code. It’s nothing other than the purpose of our lives—but knowing that doesn’t make it easy to do. We may find it a challenge to love ourselves. We may have a hard time letting love in from others. We’re often...