The Tibetan Book of Meditation

The Tibetan Book of Meditation. Meditation helps us relax, sharpens our minds, and increases our creativity. In The Tibetan Book of Meditation, Lama Christie McNally demonstrates that meditation also provides a much greater gift. It awakens our innate potential to shape our reality, to make moments of joy last forever, and to bring us the [...]

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How to Be Happy

How to Be Happy . Lama Zopa Rinpoche is considered one of the most remarkable Buddhist teachers alive, and How to Be Happy represents him at his most engaging and inspiring. Here Rinpoche helps readers find their Good Heart, the heart that can easily rejoice in the happiness of others. He also gives sage advice [...]

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Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill

Happiness . For millennia, philosophers, writers and artists have sought the key to human happiness. A Buddhist monk and former cell biologist, Ricard offers his own musings about the nature of happiness and tips on how to attain it in his sometimes tedious, sometimes dynamic guide. Happiness, for Ricard, cannot be found in fleeting experiences [...]

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Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body. How is it that a person can meditate for five, ten, twenty years or more–and hardly change? Because they’ve reduced it to “a mental gymnastic,” explains Reggie Ray. In Touching Enlightenment, the esteemed author of five books on Buddhist history and practice guides readers back to the original [...]

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Never Turn Away: The Buddhist Path Beyond Hope and Fear

Never Turn Away: The Buddhist Path Beyond Hope and Fear. The title for this stimulating book comes from the author’s belief that humans should always turn toward the things that scare them, rather than away. This path of openness, clarity, and sensitivity is a hallmark of Dzogchen practice, and Shikpo has lived its truth so [...]

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