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Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything10 reviews
Deborah Schoeberlein, Suki Sheth

Wisdom Publications, 2009

Educators, this book is for you.
Even educators with well established mindfulness practices can find it a challenge to maintain mindfulness at work. What might mindful teaching look like? What can one do to support it? Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything by Deborah Schoeberlein (Wisdom Publications, available in early September) answers these questions. It's an important new ... 		  
  







  
  
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon (Teachings of the Buddha)30 reviews

Wisdom Publications, 2005

What Did He Really Say?
In the west, those of us who have begun to investigate Buddhism will have probably read several readily available, mass-marketed books by semi-celebrity Buddhists. Many of these are very good, and very useful. Eventually, if you are serious about understanding Buddhism, you will have to read these discourses from the Pali Canon. All of the beautiful parables you've seen referenced or paraphrased ... 		  
  







  
  
Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory guide to Deeper States of Meditation4 reviews
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Wisdom Publications, 2009

The Best Way to Peace.
This book, the most recently published of Bhante G's is so clear, so comprehensive regarding Jhanas; the states of meditation through practice. There are so many books out there that are just gimmicks to the real thing. Bhante Gunaratana is so REAL that reading his words penetrate to carry you further on the path of insight; a critical key to our liberation along with practice of 8 Fold Path. ... 		  
  







  
  
Wisdom of Listening6 reviews
Mark Brady

Wisdom Publications, 2003

hit the jack-pot
Listening well is hard work. There is no immediate reward for doing it. In fact, the problem of listening well is that we will hear things we don't want to hear. Which is why we don't listen well in the first place. It may even be harder than dieting and exercising. When we think of listening well, we think of listening to others. But how easy is it to apply those great listening skills to ... 		  
  







  
  
Moody Cow Meditates2 reviews

Wisdom Publications, 2009

Great! Funny and Relevant, and Introduces a Meditation Many Children Will Love
I liked the author's prior book on meditation for kids, Peaceful Piggy Meditation, but I think I like this one even better. It is funnier, and teaches a meditation that many preschool and elementary age children will love. The story centers around a young cow/boy who has had a VERY bad day (thus earning him the nickname 'moody cow'). He has a bad dream, his sister bugs him, he misses the school ... 		  
  







  
  
Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea60 reviews
Jaimal Yogis

Wisdom Publications, 2009

Great book even if your not into Zen or Surfing.
This is a great book for most individuals to use as a gauge for their own lives. Jaimal is a wonderful person and does a great job at keeping the reader interested without coming off as ego driven, it's real life where the author exposes himself to the reader in ways most don't, and therein lies the ability for humans to tap into true strength, by exposing our own weaknesses in order to be rid of ... 		  
  







  
  
Introduction to Tantra : The Transformation of Desire18 reviews
Lama Thubten Yeshe, Jonathan Landaw

Wisdom Publications, 2001

Great Tantra Introduction book
I recently started to learn Tantra and my teacher recommended me to buy this book and start reading and learning from it. I'm about 1/2 way thru the book and it is well written and has a great wisdom in it. I would recommend this book to get inner look on what is Tantra about! 		  
  







  
  
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path21 reviews
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Wisdom Publications, 2001

Insightful, wonderful book
For those who want to learn more about the Eightfold Path in a very practical way, this book fits the bill. Bhante Gunaratana, author of Mindfulness in Plain English, offers a very down to earth approach to understanding and being able to apply the tenets of the eightfold path which is stated in the Fourth Noble Truth. I have read this book many times and use it in my classes. Highly ... 		  
  







  
  
Essence of the Heart Sutra: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings12 reviews
The Dalai Lama

Wisdom Publications, 2005

One of the best commentaries on the Heart Sutra
The Heart Sutra is one of the shortest, yet one of the most complex and difficult to interpret buddhist sutras. In his typical clear, organized, analytical style, HHDL provides the reader with an excellent, understandable commentary. I have read several commentaries on this sutra over the years, and I hold this book as one of the treasures in my library. I also appreciate the commentary The ... 		  
  







  
  
Mindfulness in Plain English, Updated and Expanded Edition109 reviews
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Wisdom Publications, 2002

One of the most profound and useful books ever written
How do you even begin to review a book that changed your life? Especially when you can count on one hand, the number of books that have done this. I came to this book during a hard time in my life, having it recommended to help me with dealing with a plague of traumatic experiences that had occured. I came away from this book a changed person; on a path or re-discovery of my spiritual self ... 		  
  







  
  
Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties25 reviews
Ajahn Brahm

Wisdom Publications, 2005

Who Ordered thisTruckload of Dung
inspiring in a kind and sometimes humerous way. Ajaan Brahm brings his point home nicely, and although he is Buddhist, all faiths can relate. 		  
  







  
  
The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind12 reviews
B. Alan Wallace

Wisdom Publications, 2006

A Fine Introduction to a Useful and Little Known Technique
It often seems as if half the population has a problem with paying attention. Apart from the different types of attention deficit disorder, a former Apple and Microsoft executive called Linda Stone has identified another problem: continuous partial attention. We have all been multitasking since before our ancestors came down from the trees, but now people's attention is constantly being ... 		  
  







  
  
The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus18 reviews
Dalai Lama

Wisdom Publications, 1998

A meaningful and successful exchange
This book does not aim at giving a thorough treatment in comparing Christianity and Buddhism, or presenting how a Buddhist monk views Christianity. It is a documented proceedings of a seminar sponsored by the World Community for Christian Meditation, in memory of John Main, the Irish Benedictine monk who taught and spread meditation in the Christian community. And John Main learned his ... 		  
  







  
  
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide12 reviews
Kathleen McDonald

Wisdom Publications, 2005

An excellent book for non-spiritual meditation
You may think 'an excellent book for non-spiritual meditation' is a strange recommendation, but as a mostly non-spiritual (agnostic) person who nevertheless recognizes the benefits of meditation this is one of the few books out there that is suitable as a practical guide; the subtitle is spot on. I apologize to those of you who are spiritual, but I just can't sit through a book that starts ... 		  
  







  
  
Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness6 reviews
Arnold Kozak

Wisdom Publications, 2009

Just Outstanding
I have practiced some form of Buddhism (or nonduality) much of my adult life. Frankly, I have found the practice of "mindfulness" which is the purpose of this book, to be somewhat limiting since it often sustains a belief in a "me" that is independent of the field of awareness. This book straightened me out on the practice. It is extremely well written and its greatest power is its consistent ... 		  
  







  
  
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha)28 reviews
Bhikkhu Nanamoli

Wisdom Publications, 1995

Available now directly from publisher for $39.96
The fourth edition of this essential reference has just been released by the publisher Wisdom Publications. Until amazon.com can obtain a new supply, it can be obtained directly from Wisdom Publications for $39.96, a 20% discount from the new list price of $49.95, reduced from the $65 list for the third edition. There is a small publishing oversight on the title page which identifies it ... 		  
  







  
  
Wholesome Fear: Transforming Your Anxiety About Impermanence and Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kathleen McDonald

Wisdom Publications, 2010

The subject of death makes a lot of people uneasy. Most of us just don?t know much about death ? especially how to handle it and how to prepare for it ? and we may feel anxious and afraid whenever we start to contemplate either the death of a loved one or our own death. But as Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the founder and spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, tells us in this powerful and moving little book, ... 		  
  







  
  
The Middle Way: Faith Grounded in Reason3 reviews
Dalai Lama

Wisdom Publications, 2009

One Master of Buddhist Philosophy Explains Two
In "The Middle Way" His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama takes on the daunting task of explaining works by two of the greatest figures in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, NagarjunaThe Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika and Tsongkhapa. His explication of their ideas is both clear and concise. The evident good heart and humor in his voice comes through the written ... 		  
  







  
  
12 Steps on Buddha's Path: Bill, Buddha, and We3 reviews
Laura S.

Wisdom Publications, 2006

A captivating and insightful read
This an insightful book, a true story and a quick study about both Buddhism and AA. Recommended for anyone interested in AA and a solution to alcoholism from a spiritual standpoint. A very heartfelt and well written book... 		  
  







  
  
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality98 reviews
Brad Warner

Wisdom Publications, 2003

Direct, funny, profane, challenging and a bit irreverent
I thoroughly enjoyed Warner's writing style - direct, funny, profane, challenging and a bit irreverent. I think his books will appeal to a whole generation of younger people who don't want to read the stuffy, esoteric Buddhist books. 		  
  







  




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