Presence Meditation
The Practice of Life Awareness
Written by Jens-Erik Risom, Introduction by Peter A. Levine Ph.D.
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First developed as a short manual for students in a yearlong meditation course, Presence Meditation offers a step-by-step program for increasing self-awareness through simple but revelatory exercises. The practice of presence meditation involves becoming present to whatever is going on and letting things be just as they are. This awareness is...
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Mind Body Zen
Waking Up to Your Life
Written by Jeffrey Maitland, Foreword by Harold D. Roth
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In Mind Body Zen, long-time Zen student, world-renowned Rolfer, and former philosophy professor Jeffrey Maitland combines his expertise across the mind-body-zen spectrum to help bridge the East-West gap in spiritual practice.
Tackling the prevailing misconception that Zen is a philosophy, Maitland provides an in-depth explanation of why Zen is an eminently practical...
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Spiritual Bypassing
When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters
Written by Robert Augustus Masters
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Spiritual bypassing—the use of spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs—is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed. The spiritual ideals of any tradition, whether Christian commandments or Buddhist precepts, can provide easy justification for practitioners to duck uncomfortable feelings in favor of more seemingly...
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The Book of Not Knowing
Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness
Written by Peter Ralston
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Over decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not-knowing. Even the most sincere investigation of self and spirit, he says, is often sabotaged by our tendency to grab too quickly for answers and ideas as...
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Heart Lamp
The Heart of the Matter and Lamp of Mahamudra
Written by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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Tsele Natsok Rangdröl is renowned in the Kagyü and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism for his brilliant scholarship, profound exposition, and meditative accomplishment. Comprised of two of his most important texts, this collection presents four essential Buddhist strands of philosophical viewpoint and meditation technique: the teachings of the Prajnaparamita (Perfection of...
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The Circle of Fire
The Metaphysics of Yoga
Written by P.J. Mazumdar
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The Circle of Fire examines the eternal metaphysical questions “What is God?” and “What is the purpose of life?” The book discusses the answers to these questions given by Western science and different schools of Indian thought, specifically detailing the answers to be found in India's two most developed atheistic traditions...
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Uncommon Happiness
The Path of the Compassionate Warrior
Written by Dzigar Kongtrul, Rinpoche, Foreword by Marcia Binder Schmidt
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From 2005 to 2007, teacher Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche gave classes on Buddhist scholar Shantideva’s The Way of the Boddhisattva at a noted retreat center in Northern California. His commentaries revealed such a deep understanding that practitioner Marcia Binder Schmidt decided to collect them for other students of Buddhism as an independent...
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Treasures from Juniper Ridge
The Profound Instructions of Padmasambhava to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
Written by Padmasambhava and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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Treasures from Juniper Ridge is a collection of “hidden” or terma teachings given by Padmasambhava, the Tantric master who brought Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet. According to Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Padmasambhava hid many teachings to be uncovered later by “revealers of hidden treasures.” The special quality of the terma teachings is that...
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The Great Gate
A Guidebook to the Guru's Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles
Written by Tsikey Rinpoche Chokling, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Dudjom Rinpoche
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Vajrayana Buddhism differs from other branches of Buddhism in providing an accelerated path to enlightenment based on Dzogchen principles. The word dzogchen, translated variously as Great Perfection and Great Completeness, conveys the idea that our nature as intrinsic awareness has many qualities that make it “perfect”: indestructibility, incorruptible purity, non-discriminating openness...
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Skillful Grace
Tara Practice for Our Time
Written by Marcia Binder Schmidt and Erik Pema Kunsang
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Tara is one of the most inspiring of Buddhist deities, embodying the most compelling and vital qualities of the feminine: beauty, grace, and the ability to nurture, care for, and protect. This complex goddess, whose practice transcends sect and class, is also a true warrior, vanquishing fear and ignorance–in a sense...
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Orthodox Chinese Buddhism
A Contemporary Chan Master's Answers to Common Questions
Written by Master Sheng Yen, Translated by Otto Chang and Douglas Gildow
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As a well-known scholar and meditation master—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama called him “extremely modest, a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning”—Sheng Yen is uniquely qualified to guide Western seekers into the world of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. Written while the author was secluded in solitary retreat in southern...
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Buddha Takes No Prisoners
A Meditator's Survival Guide
Written by Patrick Ophuls, Foreword by Jack Kornfield
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This insightful, easy-to-read handbook offers a non-traditional perspective on meditation. Written primarily for American insight meditation students, it delivers the Buddha's essential teachings clearly, straightforwardly, and without spiritual jargon, and helps make sense of practices often laden with traditional terminology. Practical explanations of the meditation process, its benefits and applicability to...
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Wellsprings of the Great Perfection
The Lives and Insights of the Early Masters
Compiled by Erik Pema Kunsang, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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For centuries, Dzogchen, often translated as the "Great Perfection," was a secretly transmitted teaching, unknown beyond the Tibetan culture. Wellsprings of the Great Perfection explains how the Dzogchen teachings came into the world, who received them, and through whom they passed. This impressive collection of translations, many of which have never...
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Quintessential Dzogchen
Confusion Dawns as Wisdom
Written by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Translated by Marcia Binder Schmidt and Erik Pema Kunsang
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This hands-on guidebook adapts the Dzogchen path for the modern student while adhering to traditional principles. The book is based on the direct, accessible style of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and offers a thorough grounding in how to study, contemplate, and meditate in this rich spiritual environment. Guided by an introductory teaching...
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Repeating the Words of the Buddha
Written by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche spent many years in retreat, assimilating the teachings within his experience. He spoke with humor and true understanding, expressing plainly and simply what he himself had undergone. Consequently, his teachings are uniquely accessible, with a powerfully beneficial impact on those who hear or read his words. This book...
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Blazing Splendor
The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Written by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Foreword by Sogyal Rinpoche, Introduction by Daniel Goleman
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With unsurpassed honesty and humility, the highly influential meditation master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche offers a glimpse into the remarkable reality of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as an in depth portrait of the lost culture of old Tibet. This grand narrative stretches across generations, providing an inspiring glimpse into a realm of...
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Getting the Buddha Mind
On the Practice of Chan Retreat
Written by Master Sheng-Yen
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Chan—or in Japanese, Zen—involves studying, practicing, acting, and being, but beyond words and ideas, the true Chan cannot be described, only learned. Under the guidance of authentic teachers like Chan Master Sheng Yen, many students in the West have learned how to follow the path. Collected from a series of talks...
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Dzogchen Essentials
The Path That Clarifies Confusion
Written by Padmasambhava, Edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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Dzogchen Essentials offers a collection of teachings which are principally about clarifying confusion, the mistaken ways we normally relate to our perceptions of environment, body, and senses. Rather than continue the habits of insisting on a solid reality, we are given skillful alternatives and practices and the method to integrate them...
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The Lotus-Born
The Life Story of Padmasambhava
Written by Yeshe Tsogyal, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, Foreword by Dilgo Rinpoche
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In English for the first time is the complete story of how Buddhism was planted in Tibet. The Lotus-Born is a translation of a biography that was concealed as terma treasure—as protection from the changes of time—and revealed centuries later ba a tertön, a reincarnation of an accomplished student of Padmasambhava...
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As It Is, Volume 1
Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
Written by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, Introduction by Chokyi Rinpoche
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The teachings presented in As It Is, Volume I are primarily selected from talks given by the Dzogchen master, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in 1994 and 1995, during the last two years of his life. The unambiguous Buddhist perception of reality is transmitted in profound, simple language by one of the foremost...
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Dakini Teachings
A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal
Written by Padmasambhava, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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Padmasambhava, the Indian mystic and tantric Buddhist master, is second only to Buddha Shakyamuni as the most famous personage in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. In the ninth century, he made the journey across the Himalayan Mountains to establish Buddhism for the people in that country. Now, more than 1,000 years...
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The Light of Wisdom, Volume 2
A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Togyal and Other Close Disciples
Written by Padmasambhava, Edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt, Commentaries by Jamgon Kongtrul
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The Light of Wisdom Vol. II contains the root terma - hidden treasure text – of Padmasambhava, The gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence and its commentary The Light of Wisdom by Jamgon Kongtrul the Great. Annotations on the commentary Entering the Path of Wisdom spoken by Jamyang Drakpa and recorded...
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Advice from the Lotus-Born
A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
Written by Padmasambhava, Edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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Padmasambhava is the primary master of Vajrayana, the teachings for our time. Out of his great compassion and wisdom, he instructed his main disciple Yeshe Tsogyal to conceal terma treasures to be revealed at the destined time for future practitioners. The profundity of this advice is meant to be personally applied...
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The Bardo Guidebook
Written by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
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Existence is an endless cycle of experience called the four bardos. These four periods include our present life, the process of dying, the after-death experience, and the quest for a new rebirth. Drawing from his intimate knowledge of the innermost Vajrayana teachings, the Tibetan master Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche presents in The...
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Empowerment and the Path of Liberation
Written by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, Foreword by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
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Empowerment and the Path of Liberation presents an in-depth clarification of the key points of Vajrayana by one of the most accomplished masters of 17th-century Tibet. The empowerment ritual is sometimes called the indispensable entrance door to Vajrayana Buddhism. It activates our natural right to an enlightened rule over our life...
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