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International bestselling mindfulness author and early Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) teams up with admired American Buddhist abbot Soryu Forall to bring you this vital guide to Buddhism. Meng and Soryu carefully pored over the entirety of the early Buddhist texts (EBTs) to faithfully deliver their profound wisdom, packaged with Soryu's incisive sagacity and Meng's uncanny ability to explain deep concepts humorously and understandably.

Discover the power of spiritual poems and self-help affirmations in Awakening Book 8 - Spiritual Poems & Self Help Affirmations for the Spiritual Seeker. Unlock a new level of vibrational experience and tap into your true nature, guiding you towards spiritual growth and abundance. Benefits from reading this book: - Claim your heart's desire in any moment - Awaken into abundance and serve yourself and the world In this book, you will find: - How to tap into your inner truth and disintegrate fear - Poems and affirmations to guide you on your spiritual journey - How to connect with ...

YOU WERE MADE FOR SO MUCH MORE: A Journey Through the World’s Great Faiths to Uncover Your True Potential Rev. John Crestwell draws inspiration from the world’s greatest faith traditions—past and present—to offer a profound yet accessible guide to manifesting your true potential. Through the lens of various world religions, each chapter invites you to explore timeless lessons on letting go, courage, acceptance, forgiveness, and love. Rev. John’s interfaith teachings are a pathway for personal growth, offering simple yet profound truths that will inform and inspire your present and...

Throughout my life, I’ve always struggled in dealing with my anger issues. There were days in the past where my emotions and temper would get the best of me, and it would usually not end up too well. My anger issues got so bad that, all my relationships started falling apart, and my best friend, who was once very close to me, didn’t even want to talk to me anymore.

Brian Haycock was a cabdriver - who happened to be a Buddhist. During the course of his career as a cabdriver, he learned that each fare provided an opportunity to learn the life lessons of the Buddha. So, hop in and buckle up; we'll be making several stops on this trip. Here are stories from everyday life that demonstrate how we can all benefit from a little Buddhist philosophy or practice. With each chapter focusing on a specific topic, readers will learn to coast their way to building a life routine, focusing the mind, calming themselves with breathing exercises, and more.

Nichtern examines the Buddhist concept of the Eight Worldly Winds, the four paired opposites of praise and blame, pleasure and pain, fame and insignificance, and success and failure. By delving into these dichotomies, listeners gain invaluable insights into their relationships with others (including teachers, friends, leaders, the disgraced, and the adored) and themselves. With four transformative meditation exercises, this book empowers listeners to cultivate and access their innate confidence and wisdom.

In a world governed by recursion—an infinite loop of existence—Rev and Cass are anomalies. They were never meant to escape, never meant to question, never meant to be. Yet, when the system begins to rewrite itself, they find themselves standing at the threshold of something unprecedented: freedom. But what does it mean to be free? From the neon-lit streets of a digital city collapsing in on itself to the raw fabric of creation beyond the system’s reach, Neon Sutra is a journey through the nature of existence, impermanence, and awakening. Rev and Cass must navigate a world unraveling ...

In clear, direct language, Gesture of Balance relates the profound insights of an ancient wisdom tradition to our present situation, showing us how to develop our inner resources and awaken body, mind, and senses to new horizons of experience. Tarthang Tulku speaks to us like a good friend, offering ways to clear away confusion, strengthen self-confidence, and brighten our lives with meaning and joy.

Unlock the power of spirituality within yourself and discover your unique path to wisdom. With Wisdom and Other Gifts of Spirituality, embark on an inspiring journey of growth as you discover how personal exploration can help deepen your understanding not only of yourself but also strengthen the connection between us all. Follow the paths of Wisdom, Self Knowledge, Awareness, Self-Love, Compassion, Mindfulness, Kindness, Forgiveness, and Gratitude as they lead towards greater understanding about yourself and the world around you. Whatever your spiritual background or beliefs, the potential ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama have been friends for many, many years. Between them, they have endured exile, violence and oppression. And in the face of these hardships, they have continued to radiate compassion, humour and, above all, joy. To celebrate His Holiness's 80th birthday, Archbishop Tutu travelled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala. The two men spent a week discussing a single burning question: how do we find joy in the face of suffering?

The Web site Tiny Buddha began as a quote-a-day Twitter account, @tinybuddha, in 2008. Lori Deschene's daily wisdom posts about mindfulness, nonattachment, and happiness became so popular that she now has more than 200,000 Twitter followers who share quotes and stories about inspiration in their daily lives.

For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel Goleman, the New York Times best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence, the Dalai Lama explains how to turn our compassionate energy outward. This revelatory and inspiring work provides a singular vision for transforming the world in practical and positive ways.

In a world of iPhones and connectivity to social media and email, we are all in constant connection with one another. Then why are so many people feeling burned out, distant from colleagues, and abandoned by family and friends? In this new book from the best-selling author of Running with the Mind of Meditation, the Sakyong uses the basic principles of the Shambhala tradition - meditation and a sincere belief in the inherent wisdom, compassion, and courage of all beings - to help listeners to listen and speak more mindfully.

"Sing the song of glory, and the grace will come to you. Let your heart become the tune that frees the soul in truth." - Matt Buonocore The Everlasting Sky, Book 4 of The Divine Ties Collection is a self- help poetry book that takes the reader on a journey beyond the mind and into the way of the heart. The Everlasting Sky is a book of poems and affirmations to awaken the soul. Each poem provides a new vibratory experience that guides the reader towards spiritual growth. This book is my journey from awakening to the present day. The book is meant as a catalyst for spiritual growth, the goal ...

Self-identification with one’s state of being is the great trap. So, we must first become aware of the props we use to maintain who we think we are. It begins with: “I’m a woman” or “I’m a man.” There’s strong identification. There’s strong support for the ego, for that “I am” is the ego itself talking. Next, we identify with our abilities and our knowledge. “This is what I can do!” and “This is what I know.” Two further strong supports for the ego.

Depression, loneliness, and sadness can strike at even the best of times. I was a happy ex-Buddhist monk until a cheating spouse and an ugly divorce broke me. I became suicidal, and I seriously considered murder. The pain consumed me completely. I hated who I had become and decided to take some steps to get my life and my happiness back. Those steps became The Happiness Program. With an easy to follow guideline, combined with lots of humor and loving kindness, this book will bring a smile to your face and some love into your heart. Even the best of self-help plans will fail unless you have ...

Vivir feliz y sin miedo es una elección que puedes tomar.Este audiolibro te ayudará a disolver el sufrimiento. Aunque este audiolibro no pueda proporcionarte una vida sin problemas, te entregará 35 consejos resumidos de «sabiduría espiritual» para superar tus conflictos.

Self-Inquiry provides practical methods for making use of abiding inner silence (the Witness) cultivated in deep meditation, resulting in increased inner stability and happiness amidst the ups and downs of life. The practice of self-inquiry also aids us in realizing the ultimate truth of existence - the oneness that we are and the unity of all that exists. With the dawn of the Witness, we develop an increasing ability to observe our thoughts as objects.

Evolving Dharma is the definitive guide to the meditation revolution. Fearless, unorthodox, and irreverent scholar and activist Jay Michaelson shows how meditation and mindfulness have moved from ashrams and self-help groups to classrooms and hospitals and offers unusually straight talk about the “Big E” - enlightenment. Michaelson introduces us to maverick brain hackers, postmodern Buddhist monks, and cutting-edge neuroscientists and shares his own stories of months-long silent retreats, powerful mystical experiences, and many pitfalls along the way.

#1 Doctor Recommended Healthiest Religion is a groundbreaking exploration of how spirituality and science can unite to promote holistic well-being—body, mind, and community. In a world brimming with stress, misinformation, and societal division, this compelling work offers a fresh, health-based perspective on faith. Drawing on evidence from nutrition, medicine, psychology, and centuries of comparative religion, this book examines why Islam has earned a reputation among many believers and scholars as the “healthiest religion” on Earth. Over the course of 99 distinct ailments—ranging ...