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Uncontrived Mindfulness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Uncontrived Mindfulness

A comprehensive guide to ending suffering through the practice of mindfulness In Uncontrived Mindfulness Vajradevi guides us in the practice of exploring our experience as it happens. The emphasis is on cultivating wisdom, using the tools of attention and curiosity to see through the delusion that is causing our suffering.

Free Time!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Free Time!

In our fast moving world many people can feel their time is wound tight, their lives constantly hassled and hectic. 'Fast-forward' seems to be the collective default setting. So often we can be over busy and over stimulated, and this can send stress levels higher and higher. In Free Time!, Vajragupta Staunton shows us that investigating our experience of time, and considering our relationship with it, can be deeply and powerfully transformative.

Not about Being Good
  • Language: en

Not about Being Good

A teacher of meditation and ethics, Subhadramati gives us the principles and practical guidelines of Buddhist ethics.

The Dark Side of the Mirror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

The Dark Side of the Mirror

This new commentary by Buddhist teacher and author David Brazier draws back the curtain revealing the deeper meaning of the text in language that will be as transparent to the general reader as it is informative to the specialist.

I Hear Her Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

I Hear Her Words

Is there gender equality in Buddhist traditions? What do Buddhist texts say about women? This book tells the stories of many inspiring Buddhist women who overcame attempted constraint to gain liberation and become esteemed teachers. An ideal introduction to gender studies in Buddhism and the history of women in the tradition.

The Burning House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

The Burning House

How does Buddhism respond to the climate emergency? The Burning House asks how we can wake up and respond to the climate crisis from a Buddhist perspective. It will be of interest to Buddhists concerned about the climate and to eco-activisms wishing to ground their work in a spiritual context.

Riding Windhorses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Riding Windhorses

The first book written about Mongolian and Siberian shamanism by a shaman trained in that tradition. • A thorough introduction to Mongolian and Siberian shamanic beliefs and practices, which, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, were banned from being practiced. • Includes rituals for healing and divination techniques. In traditional Mongolian-Buryat culture, shamans play an important role maintaining the tegsh, the "balance" of the community. They counsel a path of moderation in one's actions and reverence for the natural world, which they view as mother to humanity. Mongolians believe that if natural resources are taken without thanking the spirits for what they have given, those re...

Sangharakshita Complete Works
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 732

Sangharakshita Complete Works

The first part of this volume describes the arising of the bodhicitta and the bodhisattva's path to Enlightenment in a weaving together of the sublime and the inspiringly practical, and the second part is a commentary on Santideva's classic 8th-century text, the Bodhicaryavatara, based on a seminar given in 1973.

Riding the Windhorse
  • Language: en

Riding the Windhorse

Spiritual intelligence is not a static product, but a dynamic and fluid process that can transform one's personal and community life."--BOOK JACKET.

Windhorse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Windhorse

To restore their religion in its home, they have to first relinquish their faith. A group of Tibetan rebels set up an armed resistance movement against Chinese occupation - defying the instructions of their spiritual head, the Dalai Lama.Lhasang grew up in Eastern Tibet but was forced to flee after the Chinese occupation, making the death-defying trek across the Himalayas with his family. Fighting poverty and frustration, he finds solace in the armed resistance that is being cobbled together in the refugee camps in India. Norbu, the scion of an affluent Tibetan expatriate family, befriends Dolma, a young college student, and interacts with the newly arrived refugees from Tibet. He is drawn towards the resistance.