Reviews for 05/13/10
Momentary Buddhahood, Anyen Rinpoche
In this book, esteemed scholar Anyen Rinpoche dispels a common misconception among Western Vajrayana Buddhists: that mindfulness is a Zen teaching and thus not essential for tantric practice. Rinpoche is adamant that Vajrayana practitioners should fully understand the crucial support that mindfulness brings to the practice of tantric meditation, especially to Dzogchen meditation. He also clarifies the concept of mindfulness itself, giving it the true depth and meaning that is often lost in Western teachings.
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Going on Being, Mark Epstein
Before he began training as a psychiatrist, Mark Epstein immersed himself in Buddhism through influential teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. Buddhism's positive outlook and the meditative principle of living in the moment profoundly influenced his study and practice of psychotherapy. Going on Being is an intimate chronicle of those formative years as well as a practical guide to how a Buddhist understanding of psychological problems can help anyone change for the better. Epstein gives readers a deeply personal look into his life, thoughts, fears, and hopes, while detailing the influences that have shaped his worldview. Inspiring in its honesty and humility, Going on Being is a compassionate, brilliant look at how uniting the worlds of psyche and spirit can lead to a new way of seeing reality.
$16.95 - Order
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That Which You Are Seeking Is
Causing You to Seek, Cheri Huber
The teachings of Zen are presented to Westerners in this
book, including subjects ranging from compassion and meditation to death.
Cheri Huber is the author of 19 books, including There Is
Nothing Wrong with You, When You're Falling, Dive,and Time-Out for
Parents. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View,
California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California, and
teaches in both communities. She travels widely and often, leading workshops and
retreats around the United States and abroad, most recently in Costa Rica and
Italy. She founded Living Compassion in 2003, a nonprofit group comprised of
There Is Nothing Wrong With You Retreats (based on the book); Global Community
for Peace: The Assisi Peace Project; The Africa Vulnerable Children Project; and
Open Air Talk Radio, her weekly call-in radio show originating from Stanford
University. She lives in Murphys, California.
$10.00 - Order
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$10.00 - Order Online from Quest
Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants,
Arnold Kozak
Not since Mindfulness in Plain English has there been a more accessible and user friendly book on mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness is a process of self-inquiry directed at what is happening in the moment, a focus on experience as it occurs without inner commentary or judgment. Metaphors are indispensable to mindfulness practice. They motivate us, help us bring mindfulness into daily life, and show us how to use mindfulness as a tool for self-improvement. Their imagery helps anchor understanding and provides a bridge from concept to experience. This book presents 108 metaphors for mindfulness, meditation practice, self-change, acceptance, and other related concepts. Compiled by the author over a 25-year period, they employ imagery as diverse as the inner mute button and Earl Gray tea. Many are original; others are selected from the classic literature on Buddhism and mindfulness. Each is a node in a network of interweaving concepts that enliven the experience of mindfulness while alleviating stress, anxiety, and depression.
$14.95 - Order
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Talks
With Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness by Maharshi
Ramana (Paperback -
Aug. 1, 2000)
"Highly recommended reading for
all students of Eastern Philosophy and spirituality who seek to awaken
themselves to a greater reality." The Bookwatch
"What we find in the life and
teachings of Sri Ramana is the purest of India . . .He is the whitest spot in a
white space."-Carl G. Jung
This spiritually significant work
is a profound series of dialogues betwen one of the great sages of our time and
his inquirers. These "Talks" offer a genuinely universal approach to Truth by
directly pointing to the certainty of our essential nature. By applying even a
few of these passages to our life, we can become aware of the ever-present,
abiding Reality..
The great Indian sage Ramana
Maharshi (1879-1950) had the unique gift of embodying the highest wisdom in the
most ordinary manner. His words, full of insight and understanding, express the
authenthic experience of Enlightenment. For decades, they have guided people
from diverse backgrounds and traditions to the Source of enduring peace and
happiness.
"There is no greater mystery than
this: Being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality. '------Ramana
Maharshi
9781878019004
$26.95
Healing Wise, Wise Woman Herbal
Series, Susun S. Weed
The Wise Woman tradition is the way of nourishment and
sustenance, rather than of "fixing" and "curing." With that in mind, Susun Weed
introduces us to seven herbs and encourages us to get to know these Green Allies
by spending time with them. Food and medicine recipes are given for each herb,
as well as fun facts and literary references. Susun also includes detailed
instructions for making herbal preparations such as infusions, tinctures, oils
and poultices. Her knowledge of herbs is quite evident, as is her commitment to
the Wise Woman way of life. Even though only seven herbs are presented here, I
felt that I gained more usable information from Healing Wise than I have
from any of the encyclopedic herbals I own.
The Wise Woman tradition is the way of nourishment and
sustenance, rather than of "fixing" and "curing." With that in mind, Susun Weed
introduces us to seven herbs and encourages us to get to know these Green Allies
by spending time with them. Food and medicine recipes are given for each herb,
as well as fun facts and literary references. Susun also includes detailed
instructions for making herbal preparations such as infusions, tinctures, oils
and poultices. Her knowledge of herbs is quite evident, as is her commitment to
the Wise Woman way of life. Even though only seven herbs are presented here, I
felt that I gained more usable information from Healing Wise than I have
from any of the encyclopedic herbals I own.
$17.95 - Order
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The Circle of Grace [Paperback]
The Fear Book, Cheri Huber
Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book
focuses on examining how fear is experience, how to recognize that experience as
nothing more than conditioned reaction to circumstance, and how to mentor
oneself into letting go of beliefs about "appropriate" responses to
fear.
Cheri Huber is the author of 19 books, including There Is Nothing
Wrong with You, When You're Falling, Dive, and Time-Out for
Parents. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View,
California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California, and
teaches in both communities. She travels widely and often, leading workshops and
retreats around the United States and abroad, most recently in Costa Rica and
Italy. She founded Living Compassion in 2003, a nonprofit group comprised of
There Is Nothing Wrong With You Retreats (based on the book); Global Community
for Peace: The Assisi Peace Project; The Africa Vulnerable Children Project; and
Open Air Talk Radio, her weekly call-in radio show originating from Stanford
University. She lives in Murphys, California.
Saltwater Buddha, Jaimal Yogis
Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.
A journalist, photographer, surfer and Zen Master, Yogis began the life of a roving seeker his junior year of high school, when he ran away from his Sacramento, Calif. home to learn how to surf in Hawaii. His subsequent travels include a handful of prime surfing spots, but Yogis's more arresting journey is spiritual, taking him to monasteries in France and Berkley, Calif., and deep into the living tradition of Zen Buddhism. Captured here in short chapters and wonderful, visual prose, Yogis's coming-of-age odyssey also takes readers into the culture of indigenous Hawaiians, who believe the gods were surfers. Yogis's long-time surfing mentor Rom provides insight into the science of surfing, ocean swells, the bathymetry of the continental shelf, deep water canyons and sea mounts. Even land lovers will find Yogis's lessons resonant and entertaining, but surfers will find this a quick, surprisingly deep tribute to the quest for surf and serenity. -Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -Publishers Weekly
Mindful Teaching and Teaching
Mindfulness, Deborah Schoeberlein
Mindfulness is going mainstream, and author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in K-12 education. By showing teachers how to tune into what’s happening, inside and around them, she offers educators fresh, straightforward approaches to training attention and generating caring in the classroom. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness seeds the ground for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. The book follows a teacher from morning to night on typical school day. The schedule provides a practical context for applying and promoting mindfulness throughout the day. Brief, readable segments focus on a full range of topics including classroom procedures, lesson structure, and pacing, as well as social and emotional learning. This approach familiarizes the reader with mindfulness and fosters gradual and steady skills development. Reading the book catalyzes readers’ insights and inspires the teacher’s self-confidence in applying mindfulness — personally and professionally.
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Nonviolent Communication, Nonviolent
Communication Guides, Marshall B. Rosenberg
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.
In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, NVC offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life one interaction at a time.
Over 150,000 copies sold and now available in 20 languages around the world. More than 250,000 people each year from all walks of life are learning these life-changing skills.
Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. is the founder and educational director of the
Center for Nonviolent Communication. Deemed international peacemaker, mediator
and healer, he spends more than 250 days each year teaching these remarkably
effective communication and conflict resolution skills in local communities, at
national conferences and in some of the most impoverished, war-torn areas of the
world. He is based in Wasserfallenhof, Switzerland.
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