Buddhism

A seminal text for the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand offers the complete translation of Pabongka Rinpoche’s famous twenty-four day teaching, given in 1921, on the stages of the path to enlightenment.

“Better than sex!” That’s how Ajahn Brahm describes meditation, and his enthusiasm is contagious. A self-described meditation junkie, Brahm, the author of the popular Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?, shares his recipe for inconceivable bliss in his practical, energizing new book.

Meditation offers, in addition to its many other benefits, a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace has nearly thirty years’ practice in attention-enhancing meditation, including a retreat he performed under the guidance of the Dalai Lama.

12 Steps on the Buddha’s Path is the extraordinary spiritual journey of a woman once trapped in the downward spiral of alcoholism. Misdiagnosed, Laura Keene was put in a mental hospital and given more than 40 electroshock treatments. Left incapable by the treatments of even speaking a coherent sentence,