Product Description: 90 Meditations in 90 Days, and the images that captured the moment of simple mindfulness. Taken around Boston, Massachusetts, they can be a tool for all to contemplate, meditate on, or inspire.

Product Description: Often we feel as victims of others and circumstances outside of our control. We feel wounded, and, motivated by anger, we adopt defensive attitudes. We see each other as enemies and, in turn, end up becoming enemies ourselves. But what if we could learn to put aside those feelings, the hurt, and the defensiveness? Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, this book teaches us to identify the four classes of enemies that we face on a daily basis...read more

Product Description: Covers more than 200 places to stay in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and central Canada.

Product Description: Buddhism views human being as part of nature and if nature is destroyed humanity cannot live, and by abusing nature human being abuses he or herself. Environment may be made pollution free and development can be continued through the Buddhist approach by practicing compassion, interdependence, non-violence, human reverence for nature; by choosing simple life-styles which promote social justice and environmental sustainability for the present and future generations; by emphasizing, within the family and the community, religious values and ethical teachings which urge responsible use of material resources and which ensure just human relationships; by initiating practical activities to prevent pollution, renew forests, protect endangered species, correct climate change and enhance awareness about the global ecological crisis; by opposing and seeking to correct intolerance and injustice within and between different religious communities; by maintaining sustainable development and ecological responsibility; and by multiplying projects involving women and youth, which can be widely imitated and can give satisfying evidence of success in conservation...read more

Product Description: Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life probes the intersection, interplay, and interconnection of Asian and Asian American folklore and folklife in globally fluid and culturally creative landscapes among Asian American communities and subjects...read more

Product Description: How can we live a balanced life in unbalanced times? How can the practices of meditation and yoga support our relationships, our work lives, and the greater good? Author, teacher, and psychotherapist Michael Stone presents the essential insights of mindfulness and yoga, emphasizing the teachings of simplicity and the interdependence of all life...read more

In the wide range of Buddhist meditation and spirituality, a very special place is held by the practice of calling on the name of Amitabha, or in Japanese Amida Buddha, using the simplest of formulas, the nenbutsu. Japanese masters such as Honen, Shinran and others made this the core of a profound spiritual experience which has fascinated numberless followers ever since. The deeper meaning of the nenbutsu has therefore become a major topic in Buddhist thought which has been reflected on by various thinkers and teachers to this day, especially in the context of Shin Buddhism. In this book, which draws on classic articles first published in The Eastern Buddhist, major historic proponents and masters of the nenbutsu are introduced, in particular Shinran, Shoku, Ippen and Rennyo. Further contributions, which set the work of these masters into the wider context of Buddhist tradition, are in fact some of the earliest Buddhist "voices" to emerge from modern Japan into global view. Yet the presentations of writers such as Sasaki Gessho, Yamabe Shugaku and Sugihira Shizutoshi have a freshness and an immediacy which speaks to us today.

Product Description: Twelve years ago, the Sager Family Foundation, the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, and the Dalai Lama's private office began a groundbreaking program called Science for Monks to teach Western science to Tibetan monks and nuns...read more

Product Description: This book is an exploration of Zen Buddhism, from the "point of view" of blindness. It tackles subjects like the nature of the self, meditation practice, the nature and cause of suffering and the application of Zen to everyday life...read more

Product Description: Buddhism's deepest roots are in Bodh Gaya, where over 2,500 years ago, under a Bodhi tree, Siddhartha woke up from the sleep of endless rounds of birth and death and became the Buddha. Pilgrims from all over the world are still drawn to this place by the power of the Buddha's Enlightenment...read more