If you are feeling stuck between the thoughts of your mind and the feelings of your body, healing insight is readily accessible to you here. Go beyond hope and hopelessness by taking Buddha Dhamma into your spacious heart and allowing reflection and contemplation to occur naturally.
A personal view of the relationship between science and religion explains how the two fields can work together to alleviate human suffering, arguing that we need to see and understand the connections between science and faith and that such enlightenment holds the key to achieving peace both within oneself and the world at large. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Through Zen meditation it is possible to find stillness of mind, even amidst our everyday activities—and this practical book-and-CD set reveals how. John Daido Loori, one of America's leading Zen teachers, offers everything needed to begin a meditation practice.
We all want to be fearless, joyful, and fully alive. And we all know that it’s not so easy. We’re bombarded every day with false promises of ways to make our lives better—buy this, go here, eat this, don’t do that; the list goes on and on. But Pema Chödrön shows that, until we get to the heart of who we are and really make friends with ourselves, everything we do will always be superficial.
The Mind Illuminated is a comprehensive, accessible and - above all - effective book on meditation, providing a nuts-and-bolts stage-based system that helps all levels of meditators establish and deepen their practice.
Just as groundbreaking today as it was when it first appeared, Behold the Spirit is philosopher Alan Watts's timeless argument for the place of mystical religion in today's world. Drawing on his experiences as a former priest, Watts skillfully explains how the intuition of Eastern religion can be incorporated into the doctrines of Western Christianity.
In the thirty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much re-read, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen.
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. Included is a description of how Thich Nhat Hanh's visit influenced those that attended.