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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, Shetty headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk's path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Moving back home to north London, Shetty found his old friends were experiencing tremendous stress, pressure,...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
With species rapidly disappearing and global temperatures rising, there is more urgency than ever to act on the ecological crises we face. Hundreds of millions of people around the world, including unprecedented numbers of Westerners, now practice Buddhism. Can Buddhists be a critical voice in the green conversation? Leading Buddhist environmentalist Stephanie Kaza has spent her career exploring the intersection of religion and ecology. With so much...
Author
Series
Library of wisdom and compassion volume 1
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been publicly teaching Buddhism for decades. This series collects his presentations of every step of the path to enlightenment, compiled and coauthored by one of his chief Western disciples, the American nun Thubten Chodron. The Buddha wanted his students to investigate, to see for themselves whether what he said were true. As a student of the Buddha, the Dalai Lama promotes the same spirit of investigation, and as...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"How to practice mindfulness meditation and bring awareness into everyday life--from the best-selling author of many classic works on meditation. Mindfulness in Action is a book about meditation, about the practice and experience of mindfulness and awareness, and about how these meditative qualities influence our everyday lives. It is a practitioner's book: a book for people who want to practice meditation and also apply meditative insight to their...
5) The shamanic bones of Zen: revealing the ancestral spirit and mystical heart of a sacred tradition
Author
Publisher
Shambhala Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""I often felt my ancestors at ease with my practice of Zen. I felt they had led me through other traditions to this practice of ritual and ceremony. I had participated in rituals and ceremonies of African and Native American traditions but was not trained completely in those traditions. I had not been fused into priesthood with my Orisha (spirit) over my head in the African tradition. While I was a drum and song leader in the Native American Sundance...
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice"-- Provided by publisher.
Ballard deconstructs the ways mainstream yoga perpetuates queer- and transphobia and other systemic oppressions, exploring the intersections of yoga, capitalism, cultural appropriation, and sexual violence. Ballard addresses the trauma perpetuated against queer communities. In response, he offers tools for self-compassion, lovingkindness,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This book illuminates distinct Buddhist practices amongst meditators of African descent. It includes interviews, dharma talks, and writings of more than sixty-five Black Buddhist teachers and long-term practitioners. In lifting up the distinctive voices and practices of Black Buddhists within American Buddhism, this book emphasizes the interpretations and practices of Black Buddhists. This book identifies specific causes and conditions for suffering,...
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