Using the garden as metaphor, The Seeds of Love offers a process for creating mindfulness. Through the development of the practice of mindfulness, and using its tools to maintain a state of awareness and openness to self and others. Readers will learn how to nurture such seeds as compassion, joy and generosity and to use personal challenges such as jealousy, anger and self doubt as a means of growth. Using precepts from many faiths and trad... read more>>>
The Compelling Personal Story of the Spiritual Life of the Dalai Lama
“’Spirituality’” may be the most nebulous word in the English language, but My Spiritual Journey provides a definition that both devotee and atheist might approve: ‘the full blossoming of human values that is essential for the good of all.’”
“This gathering of insights on a variety of topics should ...please the Dal... read more>>>
We all want life to go smoothly but things rarely go as expected.
Whether mere bumps in the road or genuine crises, we live in a world of unwanted events that no willpower can prevent. In The Art of Disappearing, Ajahn Brahm helps us learn to abandon the headwind of false expectations and follow instead the Buddha’s path of understanding. Releasing our attachment to past and future, to self and other, we can directly experience th... read more>>>
A thought-provoking mix of the most notable and insightful Buddhism-inspired writing published in the last year.
The Best Buddhist Writing 2011 includes:
• Karen Miller's story of love, marriage, and dishes • Joanna Macy on the First Noble Truth and healing from the legacy of Chernobyl • Brian Haycock's taxi ride on th... read more>>>