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

Hell Is Other People
City Dharma
by Arthur Jeon
My main impetus in writing this book is to help other people in the way that I have been helped by the teachings of the Dharma. There is no getting around the fact that most of life's difficulties, excepting illness, are caused by people's relationships

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.

Making Room for Miracles
The Book of Miracles
by Kenneth L. Woodward
A miracle is an unusual or extraordinary event that is in principle perceivable by others, that finds no reasonable explanation in ordinary human abilities or in other known forces that operate in the world of time and space

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.

Everyday Meditation
Ordinary Magic
by John Welwood, Ph.D.
Spiritual practice and meditation are often thought of as being the province of priests, monks, and nuns-those few individuals who have returned from the preoccupations of day-to-day life. This inspiring book reveals how the simple practice of mindfulness

Integrating Psychology and Spirituality
Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
by John Welwood, Ph.D.
Can the meditative traditions of Buddhism be integrated with the practice of Western psychology? John Welwood's latest book addresses this question with new comprehensiveness and depth, building on the innovative psychospiritual approach of his six

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

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

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.

Spiritual Intelligence - Connecting to the Bigger Picture
Awakening The Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life
by Lama Surya Das
Life is about relationship - the relationship we have with ourselves, with each other, with the world, as well as the connection to that which is beyond any of us yet immanent in each of us. When our relationships are good, we feel good; when they are bad

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?

The Trance of Unworthiness
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
by Tara Brach, Ph.D.
For years I've had a recurring dream in which I am caught in a futile struggle to get somewhere. Sometimes I'm running up a hill; sometimes I am climbing over boulders or swimming against a current.

Melting Snow
The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
by John Daido Loori
In the fall of 1980, after I completed Zen training in Los Angeles with my teacher, Maezumi Roshi, I came to the East Coast with the intention of establishing a Zen arts center-a place where Zen training would be used as the vehicle for studying

The Lama in the Lab
Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
by Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., The Dalai Lama
Lama Öser strikes most anyone who meets him as resplendent-not because of his maroon and gold Tibetan monk's robes, but because of his radiant smile. Öser, a European-born convert to Buddhism, has trained as a Tibetan monk in the Himalayas

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)

Nibbana
Buddhism in a Nutshell
by Narada Mahathera
This process of birth and death continues ad infinitum until this flux is transmuted, so to say, to Nibbanadhatu, the ultimate goal of Buddhists. The Pali word Nibbana is formed of Ni and Vana. Ni is a negative particle and Vana means lusting or craving.

Anatta or Soul-lessness
Buddhism in a Nutshell
by Narada Mahathera
This Buddhist doctrine of re-birth should be distinguished from the theory of re-incarnation which implies the transmigration of a soul and its invariable material rebirth. Buddhism denies the existence of an unchanging or eternal soul created by a God

Paticca Samuppada
Buddhism in a Nutshell
by Narada Mahathera
Paticca means because of, or dependent upon: Samuppada arising or origination. Paticca Samuppada, therefore, literally means - Dependent Arising or Dependent Origination. It must be borne in mind that Paticca Samuppada is only a discourse on the process