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Buddha’s Teachings on Prosperity At Home, At Work, In the World Bhikkhu Rahula Basnagoda, Author Arthur C. Clarke, Foreword Money and investing. Family. Relationships. Work and business. Sex. What could the Buddha tell us about such worldly concerns? Actually, quite a lot, and you'll find it all here. Some of it might well surprise you. All of it will guide you...

When it comes to business, everyone wants to do well. But can we do good at the same time? Lloyd Field (and, indeed the Dalai Lama, who provides the foreword here) says, unequivocally, Yes. Field's Business and the Buddha lays out the guidelines for putting ideas about individual and corporate social responsibility into practice without sacrificing the bottom line....

DEAR LAMA ZOPA: Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems into Happiness by Lama Zopa Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a master at explaining Buddhism's radical but effective methods for transforming suffering into happiness, which have been practiced and taught by Tibetans for a thousand years. It's a challenging way to think--how can it be that the things that cause us pain...

More than any other collection of his stories and songs, Drinking the Mountain Stream reveals Milarepa's actions as scathingly direct, his humour and wisdom more actually penetrating as he cuts through the veil of illusion. Verse after verse, like Milarepa's original followers you too will bedrawn to the deepest source of inspiration.

THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, trans. by Elizabeth M. Callahan In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgon Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as it was preserved in Tibet. This...

Self-compassion. Positive social relations. An enduring sense of freedom and peace. They're essential parts of our everyday lives, or should be. But each of us struggles with difficult emotions and mental blockages: we might lash out when we should know better, or regress in negatively familiar situations, or struggle with our confidence. These types of problematic...

LETTING GO: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits by Martine Batchelor How can we break free of negative behaviors, addictions, and painful states? Long-time meditation teacher Martine Batchelor (wife of well-known author Stephen Batchelor) offers practical, tested methods for reclaiming our freedom. Her lively style and approach, deeply based in Buddhism, is...

Teachings From the Medicine Buddha Retreat Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel, California, October-November 2001 Lama Zopa Rinpoche "Because bodhisattvas have unbelievable merit, they can understand the limitless skies of benefit and qualities that Medicine Buddha has. The fortunate one who has good karma and much merit and the one who has miraculous psychic powers is...

A rare collection of previously untranslated narratives of the famous Tibetan poet-yogi, Milarepa. This work is an untampered compilation of Milarepa's songs as preserved and sung by wandering yogi's of the Kagyu sect. From advice for local villagers and nomads to his most profound precepts given to his disciples, Milarepa both informs and delights us.

In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet.