Drawing from traditional Buddhist meditative practices, His Holiness the Dalai Lama presents step-by-step contemplative exercises designed to expand the reader's capacity for spiritual growth, along with clear milestones to mark the reader's progress.
Kornfield, a psychologist and Buddhist monk, offers this inspirational reminder for those on the path to Enlightenment. AFTER THE ECSTASY, THE LAUNDRY speaks to the importance of the daily, the simple, the quotidian in the search for higher consciousness, reminding us that what we're after is all around us.
In a practical, uplifting, and deeply relevant new work, His Holiness the Dalai Lama guides readers along the path to self-knowledge using the traditional Buddhist steps of meditative reflection.
A Buddhist with a scientific background and a scientist with a Buddhist background compare notes on the intersection of the disparate worldviews, highlighting remarkable similarities between the two.
More and more people today have had a glimpse of genuine spiritual awakening, only to see it slip away after a few hours or days. Adyashanti calls this the 'I got it/I lost it' phenomenon, and it perplexes many of his students. For those caught between what he calls 'non-abiding' awakening and the ultimate state of 'abiding' enlightenment, ...
Diane Perry led an average childhood in London's East End until, in her teens, in the 1950s, she converted to Buddhism. Journalist Vicki Mackenzie explores Perry's quest for spiritual enlightenment in a Buddhist monastery in India and the 12 years she spent in a remote cave, 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
Everyone dreams of a better life. All the things you've ever wanted - happiness, loving relationships, well-being, abundance, and peace of mind - are all qualities of enlightenment, a way of embracing our fullest potential that seemed unavailable to us, until now.
This collection of essays on various facets of Buddhism explores the religion's relevance, philosophy, and practice in the modern world. Writers include David Brazier, Francisco J. Varela, Geshe Thubten Jinpa, Jon Kabat Zinn, and Mark Epstein.
Swami Beyondananda, whose syndicated column, hilarious tapes, and live performances have delighted millions, has collected his crazy wisdom in book form. Readers will learn about FUNdamentalism, Non-Judgment Day, groups like Feels on Wheels and Oms for the Omless.
This collection of dialogues and excerpts taken from Andrew Cohen's teachings, is a manual for personal liberation. It explores every question crucial to the spiritual quest in a deeply illuminating way. Love, renunciation, surrender, humility, detachment, the mind, spiritual practice and many other topics are addressed with a clarity so powerful ...
Buddhism teaches that bodhisattvas have attained enlightenment, but have postponed nirvana in order to remain on earth to help others attain enlightenment as well. The essence of those teachings is summarized magnificently in "The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas", the newly translated and interpreted verses of Gyelsay Togmay Sangpo, a Buddhist sage ...
James Harpur's fourth collection includes intimate responses to love, birth and death, and explores faith and vision in searching and unsentimental terms. His powerful poetry gives a new perspective on the travels and travails of early Irish saints and on the Syrian pillar hermit St Symeon Stylites. In these and other poems - about the "Book of ...
When does enlightenment come? At the end of the spiritual journey? Or the beginning? On After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, Jack Kornfield makes sense out of the paradoxes, joys, and failings we inevitably face-even after years of spiritual practice. What is the truth about enlightenment today? To find out, Jack talked to more than 100 Zen masters, ...
Drawing on over 20 years' experience of Buddhist meditation and study, the author of this book offers a straightforward description of the path of the Buddha and his followers towards "awakening". The word "Buddha" means "one who is awake", and the book aims to alert readers to the Buddha's wake-up call, and to illustrate how his teachings can ...
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. "Beyond Enlightenment" is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, ...
Buddhism teaches that the mind can function in two ways: reactively, by habit and reflex or in a more constructive and independent manner. In this book, Sangharakshita challenges us to look at what holds us back from being truly alive to the present moment, as well as challenging us to overcome barriers of habit with energy and awareness. For over ...
In this new edition of an authoritative and critically acclaimed book, Rupert Gethin traces the path to enlightenment as it is found in 37 pieces of Buddhist psychological analysis, collectively known as the bodhi-pakkhiya dhamma. The result is a thorough and engrossing piece of work, which approaches the topic of spiritual awakening from a ...
Among the world's great religions, Buddhism is unique in its development of a rich psychology based not on metaphysics, but on the human predicament. Through its strategies, you can discover for yourself how to find true freedom from worldly suffering. Jack Kornfield opens this eternal view of the mind for all listeners on this detailed, ...
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