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From how to build your own stool to how a raisin can help you meditate, this illustrated guide offers information you need to know to start or strengthen your meditation practice.

A lively and engaging guide for Westerners who want to learn more about Buddhism as a path of spiritual growth.

An eight-week course on mindfulness, that teaches readers how to enrich their experiences by paying close attention to them. It introduces a different aspect of mindfulness - such as awareness of the body, feelings, thoughts and the environment - and recommends a number of easy practices; from trying out a simple meditation to reading a poem.

Ever since the Buddha's lifetime, people have been trying to express the ultimate meaning of Buddhism in a form that makes rational sense. This book offers a guide to texts that seem to express the goal and justification for Buddhist practice in a "breath of nonsense, a touch of Lewis Carroll".

Focussing, body therapies, and yoga are growing fields which often have a cross over interest in meditation. Focusing on the body, this book is suitable for broader yoga, relaxation and stress reduction fields in addition to the more traditionally Buddhist and spiritual markets.

The Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha's first teaching is a timeless truth. One starts with a vision, a moment of insight and then transformation of thoughts and acts follows in the light of that truth. This book explores it in relation to various aspects of life.

Drawing from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of approaching and preparing for death, this work offers descriptions of the attitudes, the practices and the considerations that surround death, caring for those dying and also care-givers. It is aimed at those seeking a positive yet realistic coming to terms with death.

Features tools which comprise of teachings, exercises and reflections which can be applied to everyday life. These tools draw on the Buddhist tradition to guide us along a progressive path of ethics, meditation and wisdom in the context of our day-to-day living.

This series of essays on Buddhist practice shows how simple exercises, reflections and meditations can awaken us to the magic of being fully present in each moment of our lives.

Breathe in, breathe out. Explore the mindfulness of breathing and your growing awareness.

Cultivate the many-faceted virtue of loving kindness in ordinary everyday life.

Exploring Karma & Rebirth is a vigorous and thought-provoking inquiry into two important but often misunderstood Buddhist doctrines.

Provides traditional practices for the readers to learn how to exchange stress and anxiety for calm and clarity of mind, and transform anger and fear into kindness and self confidence. The author guides on meditation with anecdotes and tips, from his experience of teaching meditation of more than 15 years.

Queens and crones, Buddhas and goddesses, mothers and wild women. The female deities of Buddhism inspire, beguile, rouse and protect us. Vessantara invites us to learn more about ourselves as women and men by reflecting on these figures, for within us lie the seeds of love and wisdom.

In a world of increasingly confused ethics, Sangharakshita looks back over the centuries for guidance from Nagarjuna, one of the greatest teachers of the Mahayana tradition. Living Ethically explores the relationship between an ethical lifestyle and the development of wisdom.

An introduction to the history of Buddhism which explains the development of the religion's basic concepts over 2500 years, and describes Buddhism's diverse manifestations in its homeland, India, and its spread across Asia, from Mongolia to Sri Lanka, and from Japan to the Middle East.