Thich Nhat Hanh
Under a bodhi tree in India 2500 years ago, Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: ignorance, obsessive desire and anger. All are equally difficult to control but, in one instant of anger lives can be ruined and our spiritual development can be destroyed. Now, in the 21st century, medical science tells us Buddha was right: anger can also ruin our health. This text offers a different perspective on taking care of our anger, by treating the anger as we would a crying baby - by picking it up and talking to it, trying to find out why the baby is crying. Filled with stories and techniques this book offers a wise and loving look at transforming anger into peace in order to bring harmony and healing to all areas of our lives affected by this difficult emotion.
228pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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The practice of mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh teaches, is like the power of the sun. It allows you to illuminate the aspects of your life that are in darkness. Instead of suppressing anger, fear, and guilt, mindfulness welcomes all experience into the space of awareness. The Art of Mindful Living is Thich Nhat Hanh's most popular recording about how to bring mindful awareness into all aspects of daily life. Recorded with amazing clarity on state-of-the-art digital equipment, these rare moments were gathered during a family meditation retreat. Kind - purposeful - illuminating - here is an abundant treasure of traditional gathas(teachings) that unify meditation practice with the challenges we face in our world today. Highly recommended.
LEARN MORE ABOUT: Vipassana and shamatha meditation; Techniques for stopping the mind; The five remembrances; True love vs. possessive love; Concept of interbeing; Meditating with children; Communication between fathers and sons; Handling hurt feelings; Impermanence, and much more.
2 CDs
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Osho
Many know him as the guy with the 92 Rolls Royces; others are still calling him the "sex guru." Now you can hear all about it directly from the only man who knows the whole story. Drawn from nearly 5000 hours of Osho’s recorded talks, we hear the story of his youth and education, his life as a professor of philosophy and years of travel teaching the importance of meditation, and the true legacy he sought to leave behind: a religiousless religion centered on the act of meditation and the teaching of "Zorba the Buddha", a celebration of the whole human being. "Osho was not afraid to tackle the world’s major religions, pointing out inconsistencies and hypocrisy where he found them and simultaneously drawing together their best aspects into a synthesis grounded in meditation. Osho also answers some of the criticisms leveled at him for his seemingly outrageous behavior and his iconoclastic tendencies. He proves a fascinating man: a prolific writer and lecturer, highly educated, and deeply passionate about his own search for truth. Whether or not one is interested in Osho’s teachings or in the controversies surrounding his movement, his autobiography is entertaining, insightful and for some, perhaps, even enlightening." - Booklist.
288pp, 9½x6½, illus. ... Hardback
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Summarising his core teachings, this Dharma talk, given by Thich Nhat Hanh to the residents at a correctional institution, shows how mindfulness practice cultivates freedom no matter where you are. As Thich Nhat Hanh says: 'Freedom is not given to us by anyone, we have to cultivate it ourselves.' Included is a description by Sister Chan Kh'ng of how Thich Nhat Hanh's visit influenced those that attended and encouraged their practice.
80pp, 6x4 ... Paperback
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Ram Dass
Be Here Now is the book that opened a whole generation of Westerners to the teachings of the East. Ram Dass detailed his personal journey from a Harvard professor of psychiatry who had reached the pinnacle of success, known as Richard Alpert, to becoming a devotee of Neem Caroli Baba with the new name of Ram Dass. Along the way he took a lot of acid and drew a lot of pictures. Much of the the book is filled with very cool psychedelic art and much is filled with recipes for getting straight and leading a sacred life. Chapters include discussion of the the guru teacher relationship, use of asana, pranayam and mantra. Sexual energy and right livelihood are discussed and much much more. It remains a great manual for bringing spirituality into everyday life.
416pp, 7.8x7.8, illus. ... Paperback
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In this classic collection of lectures to peace activists and students of meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh explores with his customary simplicity, precision and clarity the importance of being at peace with ourselves in order to make peace in the world.
128pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
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In Breathe! You are Alive, Thich Nhat Hanh outlines the methods of conscious breathing presented in this sutra and offers exercises for practising them today. The author's commentary gives the reader access to the profound nourishment available when we slow down and get in touch with our breath along with each act of daily life.
70pp ... Paperback
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Compassion is a word that has been used to describe a range of human behaviors and attitudes, from sympathy and forgiveness to mercy and charity. In this tenth volume of the popular Insights for a New Way of Living series, Osho examines the nature of compassion from a radically different perspective. He points out that passion lies at the root of the word, and then proceeds to challenge assumptions about what compassion really is. Many so-called acts of compassion, he says, are tainted by a subtle sense of self-importance and desire for recognition. Others are based in the desire not really to help others, but to force them to change. Using stories from the life of Jesus, Buddha, and the world of Zen, Osho shows how the path to authentic compassion arises only from within, beginning with a deep acceptance and love of oneself. Compassion includes an original, 120-minute talk by Osho on DVD. This visual component enables the reader to experience the direct wisdom and humor of Osho straight from the source.
192pp, 8.25x5.5 ... Paperback + DVD
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Dalai Lama
With poignant simplicity the Dalai lama offers his perspectives on such enduring themes as peace, love, religion, justice and human rights, as well as the social issues of poverty, cultural discrimination and the destruction of the environment. His gentle yet profound insights offer encouragement for anyone seeking a more peaceful and liberating way of life.
272pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
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The Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is both inside and all around us. In these lively and penetrating commentaries, Hanh shows how this understanding leads to a reverence for the environment and applies these teachings to community and family life, couple relationships, and social service.
128pp, 8x5.5 ... Paperback
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Andrew Harvey
The Direct Path is a major work by an author hugely respected, not only for the quality of his writing, but also for his ability to put across profound ideas in an astonishingly accessible way. Andrew Harvey uses his own twenty-five-year search amongst the mystical systems of the world to show readers how it is possible to follow a direct path to the Divine, without teachers, gurus or intermediaries. Full of concrete practices, and rich in mystical feeling, the book shows gently and simply how direct contact can work in very powerful transformative ways to change completely the quality, direction and inner meaning of one's life.
288pp, 9.25x6 ... Paperback
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Ramesh Balsekar
A Duet of One is a translation and interpretation of the most touchingly beautiful of all the Advaitic texts. It provides us with an illuminating and in-depth look at the nature of duality and dualism.
224pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
Eckhart Tolle
When Eckhart Tolle came to Findhorn, true magic happened, and the whole weekend is captured on audio CD in Eckhart Tolle’s Findhorn Retreat. The CD is carefully edited down to create a deeply moving experience for listeners. Tolle provides simple tools for transformation - the clear guidance needed to deeply realize the magic of every moment. The main topic of Tolle’s talk at the retreat is stillness. He explains how compulsive thoughts become as we analyse, interpret, and label every conscious experience we have. In such a state we can no longer perceive the sacredness in ourselves and in that of the natural world around us. Our experience of life becomes nothing but a never-ending reel of thoughts, opinions, and viewpoints. Tolle’s light-hearted delivery provides sparkling highlights to the jewels of wisdom that he shares with us. When we enter the deeper dimension of stillness that lies dormant in each one of us, we find peace. Stillness reconnects us to the sacredness of life. Tolle says “ This is why we’re here - to deepen our awareness of that dimension. If you become truly present, you find the sacred is everywhere.”
3.5 hours ... ISBN 1577315081 ... 3 CDs
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H W Poonja
This is a completely new collection of teaching dialogues between Papaji and visitors who came to see him in Lucknow in the middle of 1991. At that time only about fifteen people would come each day, and all the satsangs were held in the living room of Papaji’s house. Ramana Maharshi, Papaji's teacher, had advocated doing self-inquiry as a long and continuous practice, but in the early 1990s Papaji tended to use it as a battering ram to break down the sense of individuality in the people who came to see him. Visitors would approach him one by one in satsang and ask their questions. He might humour them for a while by talking about whatever they were interested in, or he might tell stories about some of his adventures in the Himalayas, but sooner or later he would come back to the question `Who am I?' and make the person he was talking to try to find the answer to that question as he or she sat in front of him. This was no intellectual game. He would compel people to look inside themselves to the place where thought itself arose, and by doing so he would frequently give these people a glimpse of the permanent substratum that underlay their sense of personal identity. Papaji was one of those rare beings who not only not only had the experience of the Self, he also had the power and the authority to give glimpses of that state to the people who came to see him. In this new collection of dialogues one can see him bearing down on his interlocutors, making them focus on their inner sense of `I', and dismissing everything else they had to say as superfluous intellectualization. The results were remarkable and outstanding: day after day he brought about awakenings in people who came to see him, some of whom had had little or no spiritual background.
292pp, illus. ISBN 9780963802262 ... Paperback
This series represents an opportunity to participate in a one week retreat with Eckhart and so to go deeper into stillness " becoming one with who you are in the depth of your Being. A certain degree of spiritual maturity, however, is required of anyone wishing to participate fully in this retreat series. What is spiritual maturity? You know the meaning of presence, not as a concept, but as a living reality. The retreat will help you to enter that dimension more deeply, to always know yourself as consciousness (rather than “this” or “that”), and to manifest this realization " your true purpose - in your daily life.
Lesson 1: Freeing Yourself from Addictive Thinking
Lesson 2: Conscious Living
Lesson 3: Do you know Who You Are?
Lesson 4: The Power of Life
Lesson 5: Freedom from the World
Lesson 6: Eternal Life
Lesson 7: Give up the Search!
Lesson 8: Questions & Answers: Fear, Anxiety, Suicide, Choices and more
Lesson 9: Questions & Answers: Surrender, Enlightenment, Ego
5 DVDs (Region Free)
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On this original audio, bestselling author Eckhart Tolle continues to teach us how to let go of the past and future to live in the now. Tolle urges to shed our mind-based sense of self, enter the portals of the eternal present, and live vividly in the present moment. He guides us through these gateways: The Gateway of the Inner Body; The Gateway of Silence; and The Gateway of Accepting This Moment. By moving through these openings, we will let the power of now transform our lives and achieve spiritual and psychological enlightenment. Gateways to Now includes a Musical Reflection CD which offers quiet contemplation time - a chance to acquire a reflective anchor that intensifies the integration of the listening experience into our lives.
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Thich Nhat Hahn is well-known for the simplicity and clarity with which he presents Buddhist teachings. Now he brings that spirit to his own introduction to Buddhism, introducing--in a way that is at once utterly lucid and entirely original--the life of Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the Doctrine of Emptiness, and the integral role suffering plays in creating joy. “Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.” – Sogyal Rinpoche.
272pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Telling his story in “three chapters,” Ram Dass explains how he moved from the structured academic world to wide-open experiences with psychedelics (and Timothy Leary). This thirst for knowledge led him to India, where he encountered a man who taught him to “just be here now.” Ram Dass shares with us how we can all attain a state of well-being. The result is that we’ll become more centered, and we’ll learn to see the God in each other, which ultimately leads to an overwhelming sense of oneness with, and love for, our fellow humans. As Ram Dass says, "We’re all the same . . . and here we all are."
4 CDs ... ISBN 1401910440
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Cheri Huber
In the straightforward, engaging style for which she is known, Zen teacher Cheri Huber presents a process for getting where you want to go in life. This process, which is based on Zen awareness training, is explained here in ordinary language. It is demonstrably effective for all who are willing to look honestly at themselves. The book tells precisely how to examine an issue that is causing us difficulty, how to discover the source of the problem, and how to free ourselves from the suffering that is created. Step by step, readers will be able to follow this path to freedom. Each step is illustrated with examples from Cheri's life and spiritual practice, as well as information elicited in personal "surveys" about readers' own experiences, emotions, beliefs, and patterns of behavior.
256pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
Stuart Wilde
The simple, yet powerful concepts contained in this revolutionary book will take you from the world of ego, superficiality and illusion to the higher spirituality of your ‘Infinite Self’. Author Stuart Wilde, one of the most original thinkers and motivational speakers of the personal development and new spirituality movements, shows you how to access your inner power and transcend all limitations. One of the 33 steps to reclaiming your inner power reads: “Step 19: The Power Rises From Within - the harder you try, the harder you struggle. It is wiser to let things come naturally. The power you have is like a magnetic force. You can pull to you whatever you want. In pushing you tend to move things away from you.” “With profound brilliance and humorous irreverence, Stuart Wilde choreographs the mysteries of life into a series of practical steps we can use and master for ourselves.” - Deepak Chopra
240pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Intuition deals with the difference between the intellectual, logical mind and the more encompassing realm of spirit. Logic is how the mind knows reality, intuition is how the spirit experiences reality. Osho's discussion of these matters is wonderfully lucid, occasionally funny, and thoroughly engrossing. All people have a natural capacity for intuition, but often social conditioning and formal education work against it. People are taught to ignore their instincts rather than to understand and use them as a foundation for individual growth and development-and in the process they undermine the very roots of the innate wisdom that is meant to flower into intuition. Includes many specific exercises and meditations designed to nourish and support each individual's natural intuitive gifts.
192pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
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This amusing little book helps you to identify the cause of struggle in your life and shows how to eliminate it quickly, through a concerted action plan. Your heritage is to be free. To achieve that you have to move gradually from struggle into free flow.
64pp, 5.4x3.5 ... Paperback
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Both the Buddha and Christ left behind a legacy of teaching which has shaped the lives of billions over the course of two thousand years. In appealingly lucid prose, world-renowned Zen master and spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh explores the cross-roads of compassion and holiness at which Christianity and Buddhism meet and re-awakens our understanding of both.
238pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
Brings together over two decades of Thich Nhat Hanh's writings and reflections on nonviolence, peace, and reconciliation. Nhat Hanh speaks eloquently of the necessity of mindfulness and a spiritual motivation for political action. He shows us methods of looking deeply to examine the roots of war in ourselves, in our destructive patterns of living, and in greed and deluded self-interest on a global scale.
146pp, 8x5.5 ... Paperback
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Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to acquire the skills of mindfulness - of being awake and fully aware - through meditation and relaxation. A modern classic.
160pp ... Paperback
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Our biggest fear is that we will become nothing when we die. If we think that we cease to exist when we die, we have not looked very deeply at ourselves.’With his usual blend of stories, exquisite analogies and guided meditations, Thich Nhat Hanh takes the reader through the same examination of death, fear and the nature of existence that Buddhist monks and nuns have been performing in their meditations for 2500 years. The understanding of no death comes from exploding the myth of how we think we exist. Knowing how we actually exist produces the state of no fear. This is a new subject for Thich Nhat Hanh and many people will turn to him for his help with fear and death.
204pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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J Krishnamurti
"We do not want to know what death is; we do not want to know the extraordinary miracle, the beauty, the depth, the vastness of death...All we want is to continue."
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This is a translation and commentary on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone, the earliest teaching of the Buddha on how to live fully in the present moment.
54pp, 8x5.5 ... Paperback
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In this modern spiritual classic, a world leader and Zen master shows how to adapt simple Zen principles for daily living and the way to peace. "This is a very worthwhile book. It can change individual lives and the life of our society." - The Dalai Lama.
134pp, 8.5x5.5 ... ISBN 0712674063 ... Paperback
Eckhardt Tolle
Eckhart Tolle is emerging as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a word-of-mouth bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory but is also eminently practical. Eckhart shows listeners how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living present, fully and intensely, in the Now.
206pp ... Paperback
Eckhart Toll
In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle shared the enlightenment he himself experienced after a startling personal transformation. This book extracts the essence of his teachings about how to free oneself from enslavement to the mind. His views go beyond any particular religion, doctrine, or guru. The goal is to be able to enter into and sustain an enlightened state of consciousness throughout everyday life. Through meditations and simple techniques, Eckhart shows readers how to quiet their thoughts, see the world in the present moment, and find the truest path to happiness.
128pp, 8x5½ ... Paperback
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"This small volume of verses - simply and unassumingly wise - is a true miracle that gently reminds us who we are and what we are doing...subtle ballast that settles our racing minds and transports the mundane into the spiritual." - East West Journal
88pp ... Paperback
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Sex matters to us all. The Osho approach to sex begins with an understanding of how important love is in our lives, while at the same time acknowledges that the journey into love cannot exclude our innate biological energies. With this perspective, it becomes clear that the tendency for religions, and for society in general, to associate sex with sin and morality has been a great misfortune. Sex Matters begins by deconstructing the layers of sexual repression that the condemnation of sex has inflicted on humanity. Throughout Sex Matters - in response to questions about everything from jealousy to premature ejaculation, the role of intimacy and the differences between men and women - Osho proposes a vision that embraces sex as a fundamental gift from nature. We learn how orgasm offers a glimpse of timelessness, thoughtlessness, and pure awareness - biology's way of pointing toward the consciousness that helps us to understand ourselves. Finally, we are presented with a clear choice: a repressed sexuality that leads to pornography, perversion, and a stunted humanity or a playful, respectful, and relaxed innocence that supports us in becoming fulfilled and whole, as nature intended.
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In Still Here, Ram Dass offers a philosophy for aging that teaches us how to diminish our suffering despite the aches, pains, and limitations of age. This becomes possible when we step away from the ego-self and into the soul-self, where we can witness our thoughts and emotions and evaluate their effects on us. If aging has brought challenges to Ram Dass, it has also brought him wisdom, which, through his personal anecdotes and stories of others in the struggle against aging, he shares with great generosity.
208pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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The Sun My Heart was written as the sequel to Thich Nhat Hanh's enduringly popular The Miracle of Mindfulness. In his simple, compassionate style, Thich Nhat Hanh draws from Buddhist psychology, epistemology and contemporary physics, and uses many anecdotes to accompany the reader on this journey from mindfulness to insight.
152pp ... Paperback
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This wise book shows us that we already are where we want to be. What we are looking for is causing us to look. That's why we need not go anywhere, do anything, learn more, figure anything out, worry about going wrong. We need only to stop, sit down, be still and pay attention . With its simple wisdom on how we miss the obvious, this little book will assist you in doing just that.
144pp. 8½x5½ ... Paperback
