Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha. A psychotherapist and Buddhist meditation teacher in the tradition of Jack Kornfield (who contributes a foreword), first-time author 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 [...]

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Insight Meditation: A Step-By-Step Course on How to Meditate

Join Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein — two of America’s most respected instructors — for a step-by-step course in Insight Meditation. Learn at home, at your own pace, with this complete curriculum. The course includes:
-A 240-page Insight Meditation workbook: This workbook is designed as a complete self-guided curriculum. Organized into nine lessons, your workbook features [...]

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Voices of Insight

You don’t have to be a practicing Buddhist to thoroughly appreciate these informative and engaging essays written by members of The Insight Meditation Society. Like a carefully prepared cup of green tea, each of these pieces is quieting to the psyche while energizing to the soul. The teachings of IMS revolve around Theravada Buddhism, which [...]

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The Meditator’s Atlas: A Roadmap to the Inner World

The Meditator’s Atlas truly is a comprehensive and trustworthy “roadmap of the inner world” for anyone who meditates. What makes this book unique is the way Flickstein uses two classic Buddhist texts — the Path of Purification, and the Four Foundations of Mindfulness—to help readers make clear sense out of the new, fascinating, and often [...]

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In This Very Life : The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha

Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita shows us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep. In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation. Enlivened by numerous case histories and anecdotes, In This Very Life is a matchless [...]

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