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Life With Full Attention: A Practical Course in Mindfulness

In this eight-week course on mindfulness, Maitreyabandhu guides you through a series of exercises that help you to pay closer attention...

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The Journey and the Guide

Maitreyabandhu takes us on a journey of practical week-by-week exercises, focusing on cultivating mindful awareness, being happy, integrating and simplifying...

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Not About Being Good

Buddhist ethics are not about conforming to a set of conventions, not about ‘being good’ in order to gain material,...

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Who is the Buddha?

In Who is the Buddha? Sangharakshita puts forward an image of the Buddha as a historical figure, as the pinnacle of human...

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Buddhism: Tools for Living Your Life

In Buddhism: Tools for Living Your Life, Vajragupta gives clear explanations of Buddhist teachings and guidance on how to apply these...

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Wisdom Beyond Words : The Buddhist Vision of Ultimate Reality

Ever since the Buddha’s lifetime, people have been trying to express the ultimate meaning of Buddhism in a form that...

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It’s Not Out There

Most of us constantly look outside ourselves for something: happiness, love, contentment. But this something is not out there. ‘It’...

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The Myth of Meditation

A grounded approach to Buddhist meditation and practice. Paramananda offers an approach that is a challenge both to the way we...

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What is the Dharma? The Essential Teachings of the Buddha

To walk in the footsteps of the Buddha we need a clear and thorough guide to the essential principles of...

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The Crumb Road

Maitreyabandhu’s thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes...

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Yarn

Yarn is about the stories we tell. Collected around three dramatic monologues – The Cattle Farmer’s Tale, The Travellers from Orissa and Aaron’s Brother – Yarn includes an...

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Sailing the Worldly Winds

In Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life Vajragupta gives guidance on how to find greater equanimity...

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Living with Kindness: The Buddha’s Teaching on Mettā

Living with Kindness is a pithy commentary on the Buddha’s teaching of metta in the Karaniya Metta Sutta. In it, Sangharakshita...

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Change Your Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation

In the best-selling Change Your Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation Paramananda teaches us how to exchange stress and anxiety for calm and...

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Uncontrived Mindfulness

In Uncontrived Mindfulness Vajradevi guides us in the practice of exploring our experience as it happens. The emphasis is on cultivating wisdom,...

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After Cézanne

After Cézanne is a sequence of fifty-six poems exploring the life and work of the post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne. Reimagining his...

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A Guide to the Buddhist Path

In A Guide to the Buddhist Path, Sangharakshita sorts out fact from myth and theory from practice to reveal the principal ideals...

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Confessions of a Transvestite Buddhist: A Quest for Manhood

”What drives a man to dress as a woman? What kind of man is a cross-dresser? Is he even a...

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Tales of Freedom

A Zen monk strides empty-handed into a tiger’s cage. An Indian master spontaneously empties a bag of gold dust into...

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A Cézanne Haibun

Combining memoir, anecdote, travel journal, prose poem, diary and essay Maitreyabandhu’s A Cézanne Haibunrecords a month spent alone in the Sierra...

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Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

Weaving ancient sources and modern understanding into a compelling narrative, Gautama Buddha places his birth around 484 BCE, his Enlightenment in 449...