Some types of meditation are aimed at promoting a sense of confidence and well-being in everyday life, while other types focus on producing altered states of consciousness, transcending the world, or developing skills for serving other people. The instructions in this book focus on the highest type of all, -pure, clear meditation- a state of true objectivity that enables the practitioner to use all the other types of meditation freely and consciously, without becoming fixated or obsessed. Minding Mind is based on traditional texts by renowned teachers from various Buddhist schools of...
Some types of meditation are aimed at promoting a sense of confidence and well-being in everyday life, while other types focus on producing altered st...
The story of the Buddha and his awakening is more than an account of the birth of a religious tradition: it is also one of the great archetypal tales of the spiritual quest, colorful in its many details and thrilling in its depiction of the world transformed by an enlightened human being. Sherab Chodzin Kohn s retelling of the Buddha s life is both readable and historically informed, and presents the Buddha s teachings along with the events of his past lives to final nirvana. "Library Journal" called it a splendid combination of biography and instruction. This new edition of the book...
The story of the Buddha and his awakening is more than an account of the birth of a religious tradition: it is also one of the great archetypal tales ...
