Buddha's Little Instruction Book

Buddha's Little Instruction Book

Author: Jack Kornfield

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1994-05-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780553373851

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Just as the serene beauty of the lotus blossom grows out of muddy water, Buddha's simple instructions have helped people to find wholeness and peace amid life's crisis and distractions for more than 2,500 years. For this small handbook, a well-known American Buddhist teacher and psychologist has distilled and adapted an ancient teaching for the needs of contemporary life. Its practical reminders and six meditations can infuse smallest everyday action with insight and joy.


The Zen Book of Life

The Zen Book of Life

Author: Mark Zocchi

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1642970042

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Inspired by the teachings of the Buddha and other great masters, teachers, and writers, this is a book designed to help people connect to their inner divinity and find their spiritual path. It is overflowing with profound quotes, sayings, and insights, each presented alone, allowing the reader to dip in at any time. Each reading is guaranteed to inspire immediately and provide food for thought. Quotations and sayings have been chosen from Gautama Buddha and other "buddhas"--masters of spirituality and inspiration, such as Milarepa, Longchenpa, his Holiness the 14th Dali Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Sogyal Rinpoche, along with other "greats" including Cicero, Rumi, Lao Tzu, Mother Teresa, and Shakespeare. A wonderful book to place on your office desk, coffee table, or bookshelf or by your bed, it is designed to provide daily comfort, wisdom, and spiritual nourishment.


Baby Buddhas

Baby Buddhas

Author: Lisa Desmond

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0740746898

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Baby Buddhas: A Guide for Teaching Meditation to Children is the first book to show parents and educators how to teach meditation to preschool-age children. Through irresistible photos and easy-to-follow text, Lisa Desmond clearly explains her copyrighted method of teaching meditation to children 18 months to three years old. Baby Buddhas also highlights the benefits of meditation for parents and children and shows how to incorporate meditation into family life.Part One, Creating Your Space, explains how to create a simple meditation space in the home or school and explains the importance of sound, posture, and breathing. In Part Two, Adult Meditations, adults learn three meditations to give them an opportunity to learn and meditate on their own before teaching children. Part Three, Children's Meditations, includes 10 meditations suitable for children, organized from simplest to most complex. The children's meditations include the Sunshine Meditation, in which the child learns to breathe in a sunshine ball of light full of love. The Om Meditation helps children calm themselves and feel love, even when their parents are away. All the children's meditations use repetition and simple words and images that children can easily understand.Parents who have used Lisa's techniques marvel at how their children have become calmer and more focused since they started meditating. With Baby Buddhas parents and educators can give the children in their care a gift that will last a lifetime.


Tiny Buddha's Guide to Loving Yourself

Tiny Buddha's Guide to Loving Yourself

Author: Lori Deschene

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2013-10-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1781802750

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This new collection of stories from TinyBuddha.com creator Lori Deschene, shares 40 unique perspectives and insights on topics related to loving yourself. Featuring stories from Tiny Buddha readers, the book provides an honest look at what it means to overcome critical, self-judging thoughts to create a peaceful, empowered life. This is not a book of one-size-fits-all wisdom from experts in the field of self-love (though it includes some research-based suggestions); it's a book of vulnerable reflections and epiphanies from people, just like all of us, who are learning to love themselves, flaws and all. This book's themes are well chosen, with subjects that you will instantly relate to including: realizing you're not broken, accepting your flaws, releasing the need for approval, forgiving yourself, letting go of comparisons and learning to be authentic. Each chapter ends with action-oriented suggestions, based on the wisdom in the stories so you'll quickly be able to implement the powerful changes towards a more positive outlook on yourself.


Buddha's Nature

Buddha's Nature

Author: Wes Nisker

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0553379992

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The Buddha said that "everything we need to know about life can be found inside this fathom-long body." Then why is most people's spirituality--whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jewish--completely cut off from their body? In this provocative and groundbreaking book, you'll discover that enlightenment comes not from "out there," but from a deep understanding of our own personal biology. Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a traditional Buddhist meditation, Nisker shows how cutting-edge science is proving the tenets first offered by the Buddha. And he provides a practical program, complete with meditations and exercises, that enables readers to become mindful of the origins of emotions, desires, and thoughts. One of the great synthesizers of East and West, Nisker shows how to incorporate the traditional understanding of the Buddha with the latest scientific discoveries while on our spiritual journey. He shows that we are not separate from nature and the evolving universe. The way to enlightenment lies within our very biology. Most important, Nisker offers a practical program--complete with meditations and exercises--so readers can take their own evolutionary journey into their bodies to find the origins of emotions, desires, and thoughts. Nisker provides a liberating way for each of us to incorporate into our lives the understanding, proven by the latest scientific evidence and foretold in the great traditional teachings of the Buddha, that we are not separate from nature and the evolving universe. Our biology is not our destiny, but our way to enlightenment. -->


Buddha's Little Finger

Buddha's Little Finger

Author: Victor Pelevin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-12-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1101655844

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Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.


Buddha's Brain

Buddha's Brain

Author: Rick Hanson

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2011-07-13

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1459624157

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Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Gandhi, and the Buddha all had brains built essentially like anyone else's, yet they were able to harness their thoughts and shape their patterns of thinking in ways that changed history. With new breakthroughs in modern neuroscience and the wisdom of thousands of years of contemplative practice, it is possible for us to shape our own thoughts in a similar way for greater happiness, love, compassion, and wisdom. Buddha's Brain joins the forces of modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative teachings to show readers how they can work toward greater emotional well-being, healthier relationships, more effective actions, and deepened religious and spiritual understanding. This book will explain how the core elements of both psychological well-being and religious or spiritual life-virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom--are based in the core functions of the brain: regulating, learning, and valuing. Readers will also learn practical ways to apply this information, as the book offers many exercises they can do to tap the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time for greater peace and well-being.


The Beginner's Guide to Walking the Buddha's Eightfold Path

The Beginner's Guide to Walking the Buddha's Eightfold Path

Author: Jean Smith

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307421813

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“Writing a ‘nuts and bolts’ guide that is genuinely wise, charmingly conversational, and a pleasure to read requires a particular talent, and Jean Smith has proved once again that she has it.”—Sylvia Boorstein, author of Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There The third of Jean Smith’s Beginner’s Guides focuses on the Buddha’s Eightfold Path—the concepts central to practicing the Buddha’s teachings in daily life. The eight steps on the path are: right understanding, thought, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration. Smith explains exactly what the Buddha had in mind, using translations of his own words and then elucidating them for us. Throughout the book are wonderful quotes from a broad range of Buddhist teachers, giving a taste of the very best each of them has to offer. The Beginner’s Guide to Walking the Buddha’s Eightfold Path is a prescription for happiness, not just for overcoming suffering, which is how many people think of Buddhism. Here is a book for Buddhists of every tradition.


Little Buddhas

Little Buddhas

Author: Vanessa R. Sasson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 0199945616

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Edited by Vanessa R. Sasson, Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in Buddhist literature, in particular historical contexts, and their role in specific Buddhist contexts today.


Little Stone Buddha

Little Stone Buddha

Author: Guangcai Hao

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781933327051

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Little Stone Buddha awakes to enjoy the beauty of nature and to use his powers to hearten weary travelers and protect the foxes that share the forest with him.