Wisdom Publications

Preparing to Die is for anyone interested in learning how to prepare for death from a Buddhist perspective, both spiritually and practically. It is also for those who want to learn how to help someone else who is dying, both during the time of illness and death as well as after death.

In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom forged through personal experience and practice to rethink problems of identity and privilege.

The Yoga Sutras, a foundational text of yoga philosophy and practice, written by the guru Patanjali over two thousand years ago, are made up of 196 aphorisms that offer potent teachings on how to deal with loss and pain, and guidance on how to lead a healthy and fulfilling life. Kelly DiNardo and Amy Pearce-Hayden offer an entrée to this yoga training for the mind and spirit by introducing a sutra or group of sutras on a related theme.

An inspiring audiobook that will help listeners rediscover their values and discover a way to truly live life to the fullest. Each of us has an enormous capacity for love - a deep well of attention and care that we can offer to ourselves and others. With guidance that is both simple and wholly transformative, Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher and psychotherapist, shows us how to uncover it: pay attention, be of service, and be with others.

As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controlling a child’s entire environment and keeping all pain at bay isn’t feasible—we can’t prepare the world for our children, so instead we should focus on preparing our children for the world.

Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over 40 of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact.

If you are new to Tibetan Buddhism, this short work will help you get started with your practice; and if you are well steeped in these teachings, it will inspire and motivate you to practice them. Originally delivered in the form of advice to retreatants, Pema Wangyal’s teachings cover developing a proper motivation, settling the mind, mantra recitation, and relating to the suffering of others. In the last part of the book, he provides guidance about the preliminary practices in the Dudjom Rinpoche lineage.

In her long-awaited debut, a beloved master teacher shows us how to move from the “constant squeeze” of suffering to a direct experience of enoughness. The magnanimous heart is a heart of balance and buoyancy, of generosity and inclusivity. It allows us to approach each moment exactly as it is, in a fresh and alive way free from agendas and “shoulds,” receiving all that arises. It has the capacity to hold anything and everything, transforming even vulnerability and grief into workable assets.

It’s true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves and we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain. The key to understanding these truisms lies in remaining open to life in all circumstances, and here Pema Chödrön shows us how. Because when we embrace the happiness and suffering, intelligence and confusion that are a natural part of life, we can begin to discover a wellspring of courageous love within our hearts.

The Best Ideas Can Come from the Strangest Places—Even the Kitchen Sink. Kitchen Sink Revelations is a powerful and transformational guidebook that weaves deep spiritual insight with personal testimony to ignite healing and growth—especially for Christians navigating purpose, ministry, and everyday life. Author C. Ruth Taylor shares 21 life-changing revelations that emerged from moments of mess, motion, and divine clarity—many received at her kitchen sink, where soap suds met silent prayers and breakthrough followed inner battles. From business to missions, money to self-worth, these ...

One of the world's most popular Tibetan lamas shares accessible advice for working with adversity and living a spiritual life. Enjoy a variety of meditations on topics from flattery and jealousy to karma and compassion. In each brief chapter, Khenpo Sodargye weaves in stories from ancient classics and modern headlines. Drawing on adages from the Buddha, Confucius, and even Mark Twain, he delivers simple and timeless insights about facing adversity and developing a good heart.

Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, 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, from the warm Pacific to 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.

In 2001, Toni Bernhard got sick and, to her and her partner’s bewilderment, stayed that way. As they faced the confusion, frustration, and despair of a life with sudden limitations - a life that was vastly different from the one they’d thought they’d have together - Toni had to learn how to be sick. In spite of her many physical and energetic restrictions (and sometimes, because of them), Toni learned how to live a life of equanimity, compassion, and joy.

EMDR Phase 2 Resourcing Tools Client Stabilization and Preparation for Trauma Processing addresses stress, trauma and emotional coping skills every individual needs and provides proven, effective resourcing tools for EMDR therapists to bring clients to peaceful and positive resolution. For EMDR therapists: This book presents effective and essential EMDR Phase 2 resourcing tools for all our clients/patients. These tools build the client’s ability to connect with functional information and to integrate helpful, positive experiences. The book includes effective self-care options for patients...

Life is happening right in front of us, and within us—but still, we manage to miss so much of it. Awake Where You Are provides the antidote, inviting us to go deep into our own bodies, to inhabit our sensory experience carefully; to learn the art of living from the inside out, and, in the process, to find ease, clarity, and an authentic, unshakeable freedom. The practices in the book literally bring us back into our skin, where we can reconnect with a more rich, meaningful, and peaceful life.

The Upanishads are a vital thread in the evolution of Indian philosophy. Hindu philosophical thinking predates the Upanishads, dating back to the period of the Rig Veda. Even in the Rig Veda, issues about the genesis of the world and the origins of life are expressed. The sanctity of the Vedas is upheld by all six early orthodox traditions and philosophical schools. Despite the fact that Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, and Yoga did not explicitly remark on them, they did absorb certain parts of the Vedic Samhitas. In this book, we provide the reader with an overview of the major Upanishadic ...

Two novellas by John Fraser, described by the Whitbread Award winning poet John Fuller, as 'the most original novelist of our time'. Stardust examines the adventures of the journalist, Hadar. At sea, he and the odious Pietro, a banker cum sailor, are marooned by the shipboard scientists whose expedition has lost contact with land. Hadar's lover, Doctor Chin, is the principal in an experiment into the conversion of humans into marine creatures. The mission is desperate, the participants self-destructive in their wish to make world-saving discoveries. The story explores two connected themes -...

A unique guide for parents, educators and even teens themselves to understand the world from the eyes and emotions of teens, learn down-to-earth strategies to make healthy choices, and build strong, connecting relationships between teens and adults. This book is the distilled wisdom and understanding Susie Vanderlip has gleaned from 20 years of touring to middle schools and high schools all across the US and Canada. She has spoken to and coached over one million teens, parents, educators, counselors and law enforcement officers in the underlying emotional motives teens have for the choices ...

Filled with inspirational quotes... ... this is the book you wish your parents gave you. Have you ever questioned what you believe to be true? Many unasked questions are answered from nine topics: Leadership, Morality, Logic, Facts, Liberty, Criticism, Character, Education, and Politics. Do you regret not asking a parent, grandparent, or mentor about certain life lessons? Get this book now for the answers. TRIGGER WARNING This book contains unapologetic content that could be emotionally and intellectually challenging to the reader. If you are easily triggered, this book provides the ...

Have You Heard of the Forbidden Wisdom of Matangi? Unlock the Secrets of the Wild Tantric Goddess Do you crave knowledge beyond the ordinary? Are you drawn to the fringes of spirituality? Matangi, the Hindu goddess of forbidden knowledge and untamed power, offers a path for those seeking transformation. Within this book, you'll discover: The captivating mythology of Matangi, a wild and enigmatic goddess. How to embrace the "extraordinary" knowledge hidden within the occult aspects of Hinduism. Practical applications of Matangi's power: mastering puja (worship), unlocking mantras, and sacred...