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Buddhist Practice on Western Ground
Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
This is the first book to offer Buddhist meditators a comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Asian and Western cultural and spiritual values. Harvey B. Aronson presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experienced by Westerners who look to Eastern...
Pranayama beyond the Fundamentals
An In-Depth Guide to Yogic Breathing
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
For serious students of yoga who have an established pranayama practice, this book is a follow-up to Rosen’s previous book, The Yoga of Breath. Here he picks up where he left off, offering a selection of traditional yogic techniques for those who wish to deepen their practice of pranayama and their...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The samurai of Japan, who were the country’s military elite from medieval times to the end of the nineteenth century, were synonymous with valor, honor, and martial arts prowess. Their strict adherence to the code of bushido ("the way of the warrior"), chivalry, and honor in fighting to...
by Thomas Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
This compact collection of Taoism's greatest masterpieces introduces its most fundamental teachings and reveals the essential spirit of Tao.
From the time of its earliest sages in prehistoric China, Taoism has looked to the underlying Way of all things (the Tao) as a guide to thoughts and actions....
Living and Dying with Grace
Counsels of Hadrat Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1996
Living and Dying with Grace is a book of aphoristic Sufi teachings on how to make one's way in the world—especially on how to bring spiritual insight to the affairs of daily life. Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, contains a vast body of knowledge concerning the inner development of the complete...
An Open-Hearted Life
Transformative Methods for Compassionate Living from a Clinical Psychologist and a Buddhist Nun
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A life overflowing with compassion. It sounds wonderful in theory, but how do you do it? This guide provides practical methods for living with this wonderful quality, based on traditional Buddhist teachings and on methods from modern psychology—particularly a technique called Compassion-Focused...
An Ocean of the Ultimate Meaning
Teachings on Mahamudra
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
In this new book, Khenchen Thrangu provides an exhaustive commentary on the longest and most comprehensive of the three classic treatises on Mahamudra composed by the sixteenth-century scholar Wangchuk Dorje, the Ninth Karmapa. Khenchen Thrangu's teachings encompass the entire path of Mahamudra, including...
Advice from a Yogi
An Explanation of a Tibetan Classic on What Is Most Important
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The urgency of spiritual practice has seldom been as simply and powerfully conveyed as it is in Padampa Sangye’s One Hundred Verses. This Tibetan Buddhist classic is an antidote to the tendency we all have to waste our precious human lives. Khenchen Thrangu’s lively commentary on the text brings...
In the Presence of Masters
Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Thirty of the most creative, eloquent, and energetic Tibetan Buddhist teachers of Westerners in recent decades are featured in this collection of teachings that are certain to be highly treasured by all students of Buddhism. The contributors are masters who helped establish Buddhism in the West, founding...
Food of Bodhisattvas
Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Based on the teachings of the Buddha, this book offers the most compelling and impassioned indictment of meat-eating to be found in Tibetan literature and is pertinent to anyone interested in vegetarianism as a moral or spiritual issue. The Buddha's teachings show how destructive habits can be examined...
by John Daido Loori
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
In this treasury of Zen wisdom based on his talks, the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York, explores the eight areas of study that are the focus for training in his community: meditation, study with the teacher, liturgy, art practice, body practice, the study of scriptures, work...
Welcoming Flowers from across the Cleansed Threshold of Hope
An Answer to Pope John Paul II's Criticism of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Welcoming Flowers is a pointed critique of the Buddhism chapter of Pope John Paul II’s 1994 best seller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, written by the highly respected Buddhist teacher Thinley Norbu. In responding to the false charges of Buddhists’ indifference to the world and rejection of reality,...
The Life and Times of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
The Great Biography by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
An biography of one of the most outstanding Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century.
The foremost torchbearer of the ecumenical Rime movement, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959) dedicated his life to the study, practice, and propagation of all the schools and lineages that...
The Awakening Body
Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Many of us experience life through so many conceptual filters that we never recognize the freedom and joy that are inherent in us—and are in fact the essence of who we are. We can grow old not realizing that one of the most powerful tools to escape the painful knots we tie ourselves in is, literally,...