Thich Nhat Hanh delivered the words on this cassette to an assembly of 700 gathered at Green Gulch Zen Center in Muir Beach, California, on November 3, 1985, and inspired the creation of the best selling book, Being Peace. The teachings contained on this cassette provide a crucial antidote to our busy lives, and because of his experience with the war and his willingness to face the realities of our time, these teachings are also about suffering, reconciliation, and peace.

Product Description: The Dalai Lama presents the basic worldview of Buddhism while offering answers to some of life’s most profound and challenging questions: Why are we in this situation? Where are we going? Do our lives have any meaning? How should we live our lives?Basing his explanation on the twelve links of dependent-arising as depicted in the Buddhist image of the Wheel of Life, His Holiness vividly describes how human beings become trapped in a counterproductive prison of selfishness and suffering, and shows how to reverse the process, changing the limiting prison into a source of help and happiness for others...read more

Product Description: Venerable Master Hsing Yun offers guidance in this book for developing the attitudes and approaches that allow us to face life's challenges successfully. Included are such topics as The Path to Happiness, How to Change Your Own destiny, Attaining Health and Longevity, and How to Add to Our Blessings...read more

The author of the best-selling When Things Fall Apart offers insightful and compassionate advice on uncovering inner wisdom and opening one's heart while refusing to allow resentfulness and fear to block one's inner light. Reprint.

Buddhists have enjoyed the benefits of meditation for millennia. Here, renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey Mingyur invites us to join him in unlocking the secrets behind this practice. Working with neuroscientists at the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imagingand Behavior, Yongey Mingyur provides insights into modern research indicating that systematic training in meditation can enhance activity in areas of the brain associated with happiness and compassion. He has also worked with physicists across the country to develop a scientifically based interpretation of the Buddhist understanding of the nature of reality. Yongey Mingyur weaves together the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience, and quantum physics in a way that will change the way we understand the human experience. Using the basic meditation practices he provides, we can discover paths through everyday problems, transforming obstacles into opportunities to recognize the unlimited potential of our own minds.--From publisher description.Brings together ancient Buddhist wisdom with the latest developments in Western medicine to present meditation techniques which are designed to change the directions of one's thoughts and perceptions in order to promote relaxation and happiness.

How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to love what we do year after year? How can we make lemonade when life gives us lemons? These are all questions best-selling author and beloved teacher Sylvia Boorstein asked herself when she started writing Happiness Is an Inside Job. The result is her best work to date, a warm, wise, and instructive book on how we can cultivate happiness even when the odds are against us.As Boorstein has discovered in over four decades of practice and teaching, the secret to happiness lies not in monastic solitude but in cultivating our connections with the world, with family, friends, colleagues, and even those we do not know well. In this beautiful book, she reminds us that our hearts want to console, appreciate, encourage, and love--and that restoring those qualities leads to a solidly grounded sense of happiness and the best way to live.

How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to love what we do year after year? How can we make lemonade when life gives us lemons? These are all questions best-selling author and beloved teacher Sylvia Boorstein asked herself when she started writing Happiness Is an Inside Job. The result is her best work to date, a warm, wise, and instructive book on how we can cultivate happiness even when the odds are against us.As Boorstein has discovered in over four decades of practice and teaching, the secret to happiness lies not in monastic solitude but in cultivating our connections with the world, with family, friends, colleagues, and even those we do not know well. In this beautiful book, she reminds us that our hearts want to console, appreciate, encourage, and love--and that restoring those qualities leads to a solidly grounded sense of happiness and the best way to live.

A Buddhist teacher shares her secret to happiness, explaining how the three parts of the Buddhist path--mindfulness, concentration, and effort--can draw us out of the confusion and struggle of daily life.

Product Description: The essence of the iconic book The Art of Happiness distilled into a beautiful new format. Don't miss the Dalai Lama's newest,  The Book of Joy, named one of Oprah's Favorite Things.  The Dalai Lama inspired millions around the world with his wisdom and compassion in The Art of Happiness...read more