Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life by Sylvia Phd Boorstein Average Rating: "Dr. Boorstein books and essays are like a franchise. You know what to expect before you even open the cover. However, like individual franchise locations, some are better than others. Her current book should win the franchise of the month award.
Dr. Boornstein strikes just the right balance between conveying several fundamental Buddhist principles from original or near sources, then describes them very well in her own words. ..."
The Lotus Still Blooms: Sacred Buddhist Teachings for the Western Mind by Joan Gattuso Average Rating: Buddhism made simple!
The Lotus Still Blooms is ideal for any reader who wants to understand Buddhist principles but doesn’t know where to start.
Eastern wisdom traditions are often baffling for Western minds—where do you begin when trying to understand the often complicated steps, precepts, concepts, and ideas? Aimed at people who are curious about Buddhism and want a basic guide that will help them understand—and apply—Buddhist principles, The Lotus Still Blooms is a practical book that goes through all the major tenets of Buddhism, step-by-step, and then shows how to apply these concepts to our busy, hectic lives.
Filled with Joan Gattuso’s trademark delightful stories and warmth, as well as exercises to help readers begin using the principles right away, The Lotus Still Blooms is a welcome introduction to this exciting spiritual tradition. ...
The Simple Feeling of Being: Embracing Your True Nature by Ken Wilber Average Rating: "zakmeg@ecoisp.comWriting as someone who's read everything of Wilber's, I can attest that this book is a welcome addition to Wilber's corpus. The volume is finely edited and superbly designed. It is a compilation so it contains no previously unpublished materials (although it does bring to light some obscure but valuable passages). ..."
The Vimalakirti Sutra Average Rating: "Vimalakirti is not only one of the most popular sutras in Buddhism, but it is also one of the easiest to read, most enlightening and at the same time full of humor. Vimalakirti was a Boddhisattva who decides to pretend he is sick so that others will come to him, learn, and achieve enlightenment. ..."
The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs by Robert Beer Average Rating: "I would like to recommend this book to anyone who is seriously interested in practising Vajrayana Buddhism, as it accurately decribes and illustrates every ritual item. Appropriate guidance is given throughout the book in terms of usage, purpose and source of origin for each motif. A treasure to be kept before it vanishes from this world. ..."
How to See Yourself As You Really Are by Ph.D, Jeffrey Hopkins Average Rating: "This is a very comprehensive guide to Buddhist meditation practices. Delivered as always in the Dalai Lama's distinctive style - full of humor, joy, and gentle compassion.
The one proviso regarding this book - unlike many of the Dalai Lama's other books, this book is actually intended as a guide to practitioners of Buddhist meditation, and not as an informative source for interested non-practitions (like "The Art of Happiness). ..."
Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices) by Paul Williams Average Rating: "Mr. Williams has done a fantastic job of clearly and effectively laying down the foundations of the Mahayana movement. This movement, arguably the most colorful of the incarnations of Buddhist thought and theory, has a convoluted past, and Mr. Williams has expertly shown the reader the origins of the Mahayana and the origins of modern Buddhism. ..."
The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet by Matthieu Ricard Average Rating: ""If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science," Einstein said, "it would be Buddhism" (p. 282). Drawn from their extraordinary dialogues, Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Thuan explore Buddhist teachings and modern science in THE QUANTUM AND THE LOTUS. "Buddhism is basically a science of enlightenment," Ricard writes in the Introduction to this book. ..."
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