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Product Description: A selection of dharma blogs and stories from 2015 by Michael Erlewine on various topics, including Yidams, Terma, Khenpo Gangshar, Rebirth, Lunar Cycle, Impermanence, Vipassana, Karma, Shines, Gaps… fifty articles in all.

Product Description: The “Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind Toward the Dhama,” also called the Common Preliminaries and the Four Reversals are considered by many as the place to begin understanding, learning, and practicing the Dharma. Not some scholarly doctrine or list of imperatives, the Four Thoughts are already familiar to most people as part of their deepest inner sense of reality...read more

Product Description: Here are a series of nineteen articles written in 2015 by Michael Erlewine, all focused on Tibetan Buddhist mind-training methods, and geared for the beginning and intermediate practitioner. They are easy to read and understand and are based on hands-on practical experience rather than abstract theory...read more

Product Description: A series of easy-to-read and understand articles on how get started practicing dharma, where and how to begin.

Product Description: There is no doubt that the first North American all-out blues festival for modern, electric city blues (in fact all types of blues) was the Ann Arbor Blues Festival held in the fall of 1969. It featured artists like Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, B...read more

Product Description: A series of dharma articles, and essays including, pilgrimage stories: Drugs and the Dharma Secular Meditation Mantras Pointing Out “Pointing Out” The Lama of Appearances Emptiness Appearing Visiting the Golden Child Finding Vajrapani Mind Treasures Tilopa’s Words of Advice Spiritual Gaps Fire and Brimstone Dharma Measuring Spirt Free Fall Stop Accumulating Karma True Dreams Cranes and the Toothache From Natural Causes … and others...read more

Product Description: Asian philosophy and especially Tibetan Buddhist teachings have a very different take on the Self than we do here in the West, where we struggle with the conundrum of being told to “Be your self, but don’t be selfish.” Which is it? The Tibetan teachings point out that the Self, while always with us, has no permanent existence...read more

Product Description: There appears to be a common or communal vision that occurs around the time of major eclipses. While....

Product Description: This book contains articles on the later 1950s and early 1960s and my attempts to follow the Beat Movement at that time. Most of this took place in Ann Arbor, but also in Berkeley, California and the Bay Area, plus Greenwich Village, New York...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of articles on the psychological effects of intense solar activity, the inner or personal effect of solar flares, Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) events, and related phenomena. In my experience the active Sun provides internal indicators of a different order of magnitude compared to traditional outer techniques...read more

Product Description: Mind-Training, using the mind to look at the mind, is not just for meditators anymore, but is going secular. Tibetan Buddhist methods of mind training are useful to anyone willing to learn them. Here is a series of very-short, easy-to-read, articles on training the mind, many of which can be used at any time in our busy work schedule, and not just on the cushion...read more

Mind-Training, using the mind to look at the mind, is not just for meditators anymore, but is going secular. Tibetan Buddhist methods of mind training are useful to anyone willing to learn them. Here is a series of very-short, easy-to-read, articles on training the mind, many of which can be used at any time in our busy work schedule, and not just on the cushion.

Product Description: Tong-Len is an essential part of Tibetan Buddhist Mind-Training known as Lojong, the key to what is called Bodhicitta or “Enlightened Heart.” Tong-Len has been said by the Tibetan lamas to be the most powerful and easiest dharma technique to learn for Westerners...read more

Product Description: “Mahamudra, A Story” is a personal history of how Erlewine learned Mahamudra Meditation, including both the Common Preliminaries and Uncommon Preliminaries, as well as Lojong mind training, as his introduction to Mahamudra Meditation...read more

Product Description: Author Michael Erlewine writes: "Poetry for me has been a way to record my inner changes and spiritual experiences. I don't write poetry that often, but when I do it is always in response to some inner realization or other, something I am going through that finally becomes clear to me...read more

Product Description: "The Lama of Appearances" provides an introduction to an important Tibetan teaching that is little known here in the West, and that is that nature herself, the world of appearances, is a perfect reflection of the mind, and can be a trusted guide to learning and practicing dharma, in particular where there is no dharma teacher available...read more

Product Description: I have been doing astrological readings for some forty-plus years. Back in the day, my most-used book was a little volume by Hugh McCraig called the "200-Year Ephemeris," which basically was a list of geocentric planets giving the planet positions at the first of each month...read more

Product Description: Most dharma practitioners have a meditation or practice schedule based on the lunar calendar, including not only New and Full Moon times, but exact times for the 30 lunar days in each lunar month. Here is a 150-year lunar calendar (1900-2054) that provides the following information for each lunar day: Day of Week Standard Calendar Date Lunar Day (1 to 30) Event Time to Nearest Minute Lunar Month (Karmapa style) Lunar Month (Dalai Lama style) Tibetan New Year (Karmapa) Tibetan New Year (Dalai Lama) Eclipses Indicated by Type Tidal Force Also included are several articles by Michael Erlewine on the lunar cycle and how it relates to Tibetan astrology and dharma practice...read more

Product Description: In the long history of astronomy eclipses are perhaps the preeminent celestial phenomena, visually striking in their effect and witnessed by all humanity. It is no wonder that astrology, the cultural form of astronomy, has built up a long history on the lore of the eclipse and what they mean for nations and in natal charts of individuals...read more

Product Description: I have been doing astrological readings for some forty-plus years. Back in the day, my most-used book was a little volume by Hugh McCraig called the "200-Year Ephemeris," which basically was a list of geocentric planets giving the planet positions at the first of each month...read more