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**Please
click the format you wish to order** This
real-life adventure is the story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian who,
during World War II, escaped from a British internment camp in India
and walked across the Himalayas. Harrer eventually arrived in Tibet,
where he spent seven years with the Dalai Lama.
**Please
click the format you wish to order** A
comprehensive guide to Tibetan Buddhism introduces the concepts of the
religion and shares advice on how to incorporate this ancient religion
into everyday life, find peace in personal relationship, and meditate
more effectively.
**Please click the format you wish to order** Hanh's
Being Peace integrates spiritual practice with social action. "If
we are peaceful . . . our entire society will benefit from our peace."
His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual and political leader of the
Tibetan people, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. The Dalai Lama's
gentle, accessible, and eloquently phrased teachings are one of the
world's great spiritual treasures. In the third volume of the landmark
Library of Tibet series on Buddhist spiritual wisdom, the Dalai Lama
offers his teachings on death and dying and living a meaningful life.
From
Booklist , 09/15/95 Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, author of more than
70 books, is truly a universal spiritual teacher whose mission is to
translate Buddhist precepts into language everyone can understand and
to explain the practice of mindfulness in terms of contemporary life.
These efforts are in keeping with the Buddhist belief in open-mindedness
and the acceptance of change, as is Nhat Hanh's recognition of Jesus
as "one of his spiritual ancestors." As he carefully compares
key aspects of Christianity with Buddhism, Nhat Hanh distinguishes between
the historical and the living Jesus and Buddha, celebrates common ground
shared by their teachings, and explicates important differences. His
ability to see beyond dogma is in sharp contrast to the rigidity of
certain Christian perspectives, a contrast Nhat Hanh discusses with
respect and urgency. If there is to be understanding, compassion, and
peace in the world, spiritual teachers must learn to honor the "jewels,"
or "best values," at the heart of diverse traditions, and
to keep their own alive by interpreting them in light of the here and
now. Donna Seaman Copyright© 1995, American Library Association.
All rights reserved --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this
title.
A
reader from Freeport, Maine , 03/10/98
One
associate says: "The definitive guide to the meditation experience.
Though I know it isn't beneficial, I spent years trying to fit all the
pegs in their proper holes in my meditative practice. Questions like
"If they feel that why do we feel this?" or "Is this
experience the same as that, only named differently?" or "Who's
really correct?". With one read this book resolved all my issues
and doubts about the validity of my own path, Vipassana, and how my
practice relates to all others. I've learned how everything does sort
of fit together, at least generally so, and much to my teachers' delight
I am able to plunge more deeply into practice without reservation. I
have no more doubts!"
This
step by step guide to Insight meditation is truly practical and direct.
Venerable Gunarantana's conversational style and use of everyday
examples imbue the basic teachings of Vipassana meditation with unsurpassable
clarity and wit. His deeply spiritual yet nondenominational approach
invites readers of all backgrounds to experience the fruits of meditative
awareness.
In
the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is
available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader,
and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the
very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing
telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty
dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path
to "mindfulness" -- the process of keeping our consciousness
alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions,
the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as
our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.
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Seven Years in Tibet / by Heinrich Harrer
Awakening the Buddha Within : Eight Steps
to Enlightenment / by Surya Das, Lama Surya Das, Surya Das
Being Peace / by Thich Nhat Hanh, Arnold
Kotler (Editor), Mayumi Oda (Illustrator)
