Format: Trade Paperback, 252 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: September 6, 1994 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-75652-1 (0-679-75652-3)
Nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America
Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers—attention, emptiness, coming and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Trumpeter On Sale: October 12, 2010 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-828-8 (1-59030-828-X)
The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment. The problem is that addictions are often the result of our efforts to escape living in the present in the first place. Bill Alexander’s...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: December 30, 2003 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-44419-6 (0-345-44419-1)
Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the Dao de jing set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal. Daoism, as this subtle but enduring philosophy came to be known, offered a comprehensive view of experience grounded...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: April 10, 2007 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-72124-0 (0-385-72124-2)
From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to...
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Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: August 10, 2004 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-093-0 (1-59030-093-9)
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, a psychotherapist in private practice and a Buddhist meditation teacher, presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experiences by Westerners who...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 5, 2002 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-78157-8 (0-679-78157-9)
Richard Bernstein, Time magazine’s first Beijing bureau chief and currently a New York Times book critic, has written a profoundly original account of a journey that is as much a spiritual and intellectual odyssey as it is a physical one.
In 629, the great Buddhist monk Hsuan Tsang set out across Asia...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: June 12, 2012 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-902-5 (1-59030-902-2)
Millions of Americans suffer from mood problems and stress-related issues including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and trauma-induced emotions and behaviors; and most would prefer not to take medication for their conditions due to troublesome side effects, withdrawal symptoms, and disappointing success rates.
Drs. Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg provide a...
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Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
Publisher: Snow Lion On Sale: January 8, 2013 Price: $39.95 ISBN: 978-1-55939-395-9 (1-55939-395-5)
Maitreya’s Distinction between Phenomena and the Nature of Phenomena distinguishes the illusory phenomenal world of saṃsâra produced by the confused dualistic mind from the ultimate reality that is mind’s true nature. The transition from the one to the other is the process of “mining for wisdom within delusion.” Maitreya’s text calls...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: January 9, 2007 Price: $11.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7727-1 (0-8129-7727-0)
THE DHAMMAPADA introduced the actual utterances of the Buddha nearly twenty-five hundred years ago, when the master teacher emerged from his long silence to illuminate for his followers the substance of humankind’s deepest and most abiding concerns. The nature of the self, the value of relationships, the importance of moment-to-moment awareness...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: April 14, 2009 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-622-2 (1-59030-622-8)
This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly faithful to the meaning of the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: May 8, 2007 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-470-9 (1-59030-470-5)
David Chadwick began his Zen study under the legendary Japanese master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Much later, Suzuki Roshi’s successor said of Chadwick: “Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste.”
In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial education. In THANK YOU...
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Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Harmony On Sale: October 30, 2007 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-40774-0 (0-307-40774-8)
You don't have to believe in God in order to experience God. --- Deepak Chopra
The celebrated author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success has written his most ambitious and important work yet, a runaway international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to rethink...
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Harmony On Sale: June 3, 2008 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-40888-4 (0-307-40888-4)
In this refreshing new take on spirituality, bestselling author Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenment—with a lot of laughter along the way.
Meet Mickey Fellows. A successful L.A. comedian, he’s just a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: February 14, 2006 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-318-4 (1-59030-318-0)
The writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui are as immediately accessible as those of any contemporary teacher, and this book, which introduced them to the English-speaking world in the 1970s, has become a modern classic—a regular feature of recommended reading lists for Zen centers across America, even though...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: April 12, 2005 Price: $39.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-232-3 (1-59030-232-X)
The Blue Cliff Record is a translation of the Pi Yen Lu, a collection of one hundred famous Zen koans accompanied by commentaries and verses from the teachings of Chinese Zen masters. Compiled in the twelfth century, it is considered one of the great treasures of Zen literature and an essential...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: February 10, 2009 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-685-7 (1-59030-685-6)
Some types of meditation are aimed at promoting a sense of confidence and well-being in everyday life, while other types focus on producing altered states of consciousness, transcending the world, or developing skills for serving other people. The instructions in this book focus on the highest type of all, “pure, clear...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: June 12, 2012 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-59030-950-6 (1-59030-950-2)
Taoist teachings have arisen in many forms: abstract aphorisms, philosophical discussions, legends, fables–even jokes. All are represented here, culled from the most popular Taoist classics: the Tao-te Ching, Chuang-tzu, Huai-nan-tzu, and Wen-tzu, stories from the “Tales of Inner Meaning,” and teachings of the Taoist patriarch Ancestor Lü.
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: February 14, 2012 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-59030-946-9 (1-59030-946-4)
This book presents a thousand years of Zen teaching for the modern reader in a way that preserves the dynamic flavor of these talks, sayings, and records of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the last of the great masters, The Zen Reader is a compendium of Zen at its...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: February 11, 2003 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-017-6 (1-59030-017-3)
“An important book for both caregivers and patients. Coberly compellingly demonstrates how terminally ill people can experience emotional and spiritual healing, even when they cannot be cured.” —Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing
“A much-needed, wise, and helpful guidebook.”–Barbara Dossey, R.N., Director of Holistic Nursing Consultants
Margaret Coberly has been a nurse for...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 24, 2001 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72600-2 (0-375-72600-4)
A Vintage Spiritual Classic
A landmark publication from the its first appearance more than forty years ago, Buddhist Wisdom offers Western readers a unique combination of what Buddhists worldwide consider the holiest of holy texts—The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, two sutras, or scriptures, ascribed to the early centuries of the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 25, 1996 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74363-7 (0-679-74363-4)
This fascinating and colorful book takes students into a world that is just emerging from the middle ages and peering warily into the millennium ahead: the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan which remains true to that religion's riotous marriage of esoteric theology and gorgeous ritual, serenely meditating Buddhas and snarling deities entwined...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: April 21, 2009 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-693-2 (1-59030-693-7)
The Dalai Lama explains how to follow the spiritual path of the bodhisattva by commenting on a beloved Tibetan Buddhist text.
Many people consider the Dalai Lama to be a living embodiment of the spiritual ideal of the bodhisattva–someone who dedicates their life to freeing all beings from suffering and confusion. Here...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 2, 2012 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-94890-8 (0-307-94890-0)
From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness”...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 14, 2011 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-47446-9 (0-307-47446-1)
From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today.
In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explore the challenges faced by practitioners...
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