Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Zen

The Zen of Chocolate combines original bittersweet wisdom with succulent photos. Written by an award-winning author, these delectable and meaningful sayings convey the insights found in every square of chocolate and every dusting of cocoa.

Chocolate has inspired wonder and delight for millennia. Long considered a healthy drink and now proven to be a healthful food, chocolate triggers an intense experience.

Imagine a chocolate fantasy like chocolate pizza, a chocolate store where everything is free, or a chocolate restaurant that makes everything with...

One of America's most respected Buddhist teachers distills a lifetime of practice and teaching in this groundbreaking exploration of the new Buddhist tradition taking root on American soil.

Society in the West is now at a crossroads, and is facing a stark choice – to evolve or degenerate. In these timely essays Advayacitta explores the predominant ideas and beliefs that  have shaped modern Western society, and which have come from classical thought, Christianity and physical science. He looks at how these have had both beneficial and harmful effects.

As a basis for healthy evolution, he discusses the beginnings of a radical alternative to deeply flawed, harmful Western ideas that come particularly from the nineteenth century – ideas that underpin much...

In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh completed a profound and beautiful new English translation of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, one of the most important and well-known sutras in Buddhism.

The Heart Sutra is recited daily in Mahayana temples and practice centers throughout the world. This new translation came about because Thich Nhat Hanh believes that the patriarch who originally compiled the Heart Sutra was not sufficiently skillful with his use of language to capture...