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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Joseph Arpaia & Lobsang Rapgay
Caught up in the frantic pace of modern life, inner peace seems to be ever more out of reach. This book aims to solve that by presenting basic techniques for developing specific mental qualities and improving personal growth. This valuable guide teaches the basic meditative techniques - centering, attending, concentrating, and opening - as exercise for the mind, without religious jargon. Practical applications for personal development are explained in an accessible, conversational style that readers will find absorbing and easy to apply.
286pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
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The Dalai Lama
In this accessible book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama considers such well-known Gospel passages as the Sermon on the Mount, the Healing of the Sick and the Resurrection. He offers fresh perspectives on these familiar Christian sources of faith, and also considers such widespread concerns as inner transformation, meditation, ritual, and the ideas of reward and punishment, heaven and hell. His exploration of the parallels and differences between Buddhism and Christianity gives us a model of dialogue for the coming era of global spirituality, which will open the windows of understanding for the modern spiritual seeker of any faith.
288pp ... Paperback
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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In the Shamanic world-view of Tibetan Bon, the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are accessed through the raw powers of nature and through non-physical beings associated with the natural world. In the Tibetan tantric view, the elements are recognized as five kinds of energy in the body and are balanced with yogic movements, breathing exercises, and visualizations. In the highest teachings, Dzogchen, the elements are understood to be the radiance of being and are accessed through pure awareness. Healing with Form, Energy and Light offers the reader healing meditations and yogic practices on each of these levels. Tenzin Rinpoche's purpose in this book is to strengthen our connection to the sacred aspect of the natural world and to present a guide that explains why certain practices are necessary and in what situations practices are effective. This is a manual for transforming an anxious, narrow, uncomfortable identity into one that is expansive, peaceful and capable. And the world, too, is transformed from dead matter and blind processes into a sacred landscape filled with an infinite variety of living forces and beings.
176pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
Sharon Salzberg
The author of "Lovingkindness" offers encouragement and inspiration for anyone on the spiritual path. In short sections that include many stories, anecdotes and musings drawn from her 25 years as a student and teacher of Buddhist meditation, Sharon Salzberg reveals how an individual's own happiness is found in the capacity to open one's heart to others--and that this capacity is far more vast than most would imagine. "It is rare to find a voice of such majesty and simplicity and rarer still to find one that is so useful." – Mark Epstein.
208pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
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Many people have asked the Dalai Lama to speak on the current difficulties facing humanity. In these talks given in London he speaks about a wide range of issues, including war in Bosnia, the population explosion, racial hatred, gender and environmental protection. He describes clearly and simply how to live and die well, and how to infuse one's life with wisdom and compassion.
224pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
Tara Brach
Brach offers readers a rich compendium of stories and techniques designed to help people awaken from what she calls "the trance of unworthiness." The sense of self-hatred and fearful isolation that afflicts so many people in the West can be transformed with the steady application of a loving attention infused with the insights of the Buddhist tradition, according to Brach. Interweaving stories from her own life as a hardworking single mother with many wonderful anecdotes culled from her therapy practice and her work as a leader of meditation retreats, Brach offers myriad examples of how our pain can become a doorway to love and liberation. "Radical Acceptance offers us an invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion. Please enjoy this nourishing and healing book." Thich Nhat
192pp ... Paperback
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From the teachings of the world-renowned leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, comes a practical, seven-step guidebook for developing your love for others and transforming each and every one of your relationships in life. Widening the Circle of Love offers readers a simple and illuminating programme for transforming self-centred energy into outwardly directed concern. Basing his views on the human capacity to improve, and drawing on exercises and techniques established in India and then refined in Tibetan monasteries over more than a thousand years, the Dalai Lama’s teachings are supremely relevant to our lives today. In showing us how to widen the circle of our love, he guides us through seven key steps: ·The First Step: Recognising Friends ·The Second Step: Appreciating Kindness ·The Third Step: Returning Kindness ·The Fourth Step: Learning to Love ·The Fifth Step: The Power of Compassion ·The Sixth Step: Total Commitment ·The Seventh Step: Using the above in the service of others.
224pp, 7.25X5.25 ... Hardback
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