Buddhism

Love
Sex, Love, and Dharma: Finding Love Without Losing Your Way
by Arthur Jeon
We all search for love. We want it. We think it will make us whole. We think that we can finally be happy if we can find the love we desire. We all make the mistake of looking outside of ourselves for that love, looking for somebody who will fulfill

The Path to Nibbana
Buddhism in a Nutshell
by Narada Mahathera
How is Nibbana to be attained? It is by following the Noble Eight-fold Path which consists of Right Understanding (Samma-ditthi), Right Thoughts (samma-sankappa), Right Speech (samma-vaca), Right Actions (samma-kammanta), Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)

In Inner Alchemy
Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart
by Tara Bennett-Goleman
From the window of my London hotel room Big Ben displays itself, a prominent, elegant presence amid the vista of river, billowing clouds, and spreading jumble of skyline. Big Ben has a grandeur as a piece of architecture, but I find my eye drawn more to

Leaving Cyclic Existence
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
by The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland
Once we finally recognize the suffering state we are in, the all-pervasive suffering that the afflictive emotions such as attachment and anger inflict upon us, we develop a sense of frustration and disgust with our present predicament.

Introduction
Find a Quiet Corner : A Simple Guide to Self-Peace
by Nancy O'Hara
I used to wish my life away. I lived my life thinking ahead to the next thing-the next day, when I had a date with so-and-so and wouldn't that be nice; the next job, because I hated my current one so much; the next year, when I was planning to take

Ramayana
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
The grandest and most vivid portrayal in all of Indian mythology - indeed, in all of the world's mythologies - of the enlightening potential of desire can be found in an ancient Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

Right Speech: Speaking the Truth
Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
by Lama Surya Das
Once the holy Hasidic master Baal Shem sent Yacov Yosef, his second-greatest pupil, an outstanding scholar and Kabbalist, to test the learning of Yechiel, a prospective son-in-law for Baal Shem's daughter, Udel.

The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
by Kaiten Nukariya
Buddhism is geographically divided into two schools - the Southern, the older and simpler, and the Northern, the later and more developed faith. The former, based mainly on the Pali texts is known as Hinayana (small vehicle), or the inferior doctrine

Bringing an Unworthy Self into Spiritual Life
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
by Tara Brach, Ph.D.
Buddhism offers a basic challenge to this cultural worldview. The Buddha taught that this human birth is a precious gift because it gives us the opportunity to realize the love and awareness that are our true nature.

Making Sense of the Madness
Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
by Lama Surya Das
Why is there illness, death, and suffering? Why are we separated from those we love? Why is there pain? Why do bad things happen? Why do people hurt each other? Why is life so filled with loss? And the universal question: Why do bad things happen to me?

Transforming Dissatisfaction At Work
The Art of Happiness at Work
by The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
It had been a long day for the Dalai Lama. Even by the time he had eaten his meager breakfast of tsampa and tea at 7:30 a.m., he had already been up for four hours, completing his rigorous daily regimen of prayer, study, and meditation.

What Is True Peace?
Creating True Peace
by Thich Nhat Hanh
True peace is always possible. Yet it requires strength and practice, particularly in times of great difficulty. To some, peace and nonviolence are synonymous with passivity and weakness. In truth, practicing peace and nonviolence is far from passive.

The path of desire
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
The Buddha's path did not focus on desire as an enemy to be conquered but rather as an energy to be perceived correctly. The Buddha was interested in teaching us not only how to find our own freedom, but in how to stay in affectionate relationship

Awakening to desire
Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
What distinguishes the tantric, or left-handed, path is its recognition that desire itself can be transformed through a process that is at once mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual.

The Abhidhammattha Sangaha of Acariya Anuruddha
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: Buddhist Publication Society
by Bhikkhu Bodhi
The nucleus of the present book is a medieval compendium of Buddhist philosophy entitled the Abhidhammattha Sangaha. This work is ascribed to Acariya Anuruddha, a Buddhist savant about whom so little is known that even his country of origin

Generosity
Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake : The Buddhist Path of Kindness
by Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D.
I say this chart to myself this way: If I intend to perfect my capacity for Generosity, I need to be alert for every opportunity that presents itself in which I can share. The sharing itself, the generous act, will become the habit by means of which I can

Awakening to the Bigger Picture
Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life
by Lama Surya Das
If you have picked up this book, then in all probability you are a seeker. My dictionary has a simple definition of a seeker as one who seeks: a seeker of truth. In practical terms, a seeker is a spiritual traveller or wayfarer, a pilgrim who has embarked

What about Me?
Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life
by Sakyong Mipham
For the first time ever, revered spiritual leader Sakyong Mipham brings the lessons of the ancient Shambhala warriors and rulers to the Western world and shows us how to live our lives with confidence.

Experiencing the Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness
Passionate Presence
by Catherine Ingram
Over the millennia the search for meaning and belonging has been humankind's most fervent pursuit, and to that end religions and philosophies abound. Yet, in our time, many people feel alienated from all religion and philosophy.

The Last Days of Puu Jih
Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia
by George Crane
In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted,