In a widely praised translation, Stephen Mitchell provides an accessible understanding of a classic guide for living, now in an attractive, pocket-size trim designed to fit in a purse, briefcase, backpack, or pocket. The English, as 'fluid as meling ice, ' is a joy to read throughout.--New Republic.

An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to the bestselling Tao Te Ching.

- The Upanishads - The Book of Psalms - Lao-tzu - The Bhagavad Gita - Chuang-tzu - The Odes of Solomon - Seng-ts'an - Han-shan - Li Po - Tu Fu - Layman P'ang - Kukai - Tung-shan - Symeon the New Theologian - Izumi Shikibu - Su Tung-p'o - Hildegard of Bingen - Francis of Assisi - Wu-men - Dogen - Rumi - Mechthild of Magdeburg - Dante - Kabir Mirabai - William Shakespeare - George Herbert - Bunan - Gensei - Angelus Silesius - Thomas Traherne - Basho -...

Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and create versions that are definitive for our time. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular edition in print, and his translations of Jesus, Rilke, Genesis, and Job have won the hearts of readers and critics alike. Stephen Mitchell now brings to the Bhagavad Gita his gift for breathing new life into sacred texts.
The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core...

Cremna, a ruined city of southern Turkey, has one of the most spectacular sites in Asia Minor, high in the Taurus mountains. For a long time a stronghold of hellenised Pisidians, Cremna was refounded as a veteran colony by the emperor Augustus. From the age of Hadrian until the early third century AD the colony enjoyed a boom in public buildings, whose remains still adorn the site. Disaster struck in the late third century when Cremna became a centre for a regional insurrection against Roman rule. Roman forces staged a major siege of the city, and recaptured it in AD 278. A bishopric in Late...

Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do? This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn is fond of posing to his American students who attend his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master s actual...

A radical book with its roots in a very traditional understanding of God. God is omni-present, so he is everywhere. We are already in God. What does that mean? Here is a radical orthodoxy to give confidence to those who have given up on the fundamentalist expressions of faith that dominate the church today.

Inspired by the "Tao Te Ching", Byron Katie present a pragmatic approach to achieving an awakened mind and living more simply. Using the template of the 81 chapters of the "Tao Te Ching", here, she also talks about her experience of living in harmony with the way things are, and and the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.

Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together.

Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make contemporary psychoanalytic thinking--the body of work that has been done since Freud--available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at...

`Very illuminating...on the cutting edge of current biological research' Jon Kabat-ZinnIn A Mind At Home With Itself (her first full-length book since 2007), Byron Katie explains that emotions such as sadness, anger and resentment come from believing our stressful thoughts.