The Buddha in Jail

The Buddha in Jail
Author: Cuong Lu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781949017137

52 vignettes contain stories and teachings about Cuong Lu's six years as a prison chaplain in the Netherlands.

Prisoners of Shangri-La

Prisoners of Shangri-La
Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 022648548X

Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapter Three: The Eye -- Chapter Four: The Spell -- Chapter Five: The Art -- Chapter Six: The Field -- Chapter Seven: The Prison -- Notes -- Index

The Buddhist on Death Row

The Buddhist on Death Row
Author: David Sheff
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0008395454

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places.

The Buddha Pill

The Buddha Pill
Author: Miguel Farias
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1786782863

Millions of people meditate daily but can meditative practices really make us ‘better’ people? In The Buddha Pill, pioneering psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm put meditation and mindfulness under the microscope. Separating fact from fiction, they reveal what scientific research – including their groundbreaking study on yoga and meditation with prisoners – tells us about the benefits and limitations of these techniques for improving our lives. As well as illuminating the potential, the authors argue that these practices may have unexpected consequences, and that peace and happiness may not always be the end result. Offering a compelling examination of research on transcendental meditation to recent brain-imaging studies on the effects of mindfulness and yoga, and with fascinating contributions from spiritual teachers and therapists, Farias and Wikholm weave together a unique story about the science and the delusions of personal change.

Razor-Wire Dharma

Razor-Wire Dharma
Author: Calvin Malone
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2008-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0861719549

Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how one man found Buddhism—and real, transformative meaning for his life—despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.

A Fierce Heart

A Fierce Heart
Author: Spring Washam
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1401959393

With stories from south central LA to the jungles of Peru, A Fierce Heart offers deep and honest reflections on compassion and suffering by one of the country's most powerful mindfulness teachers. Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, the most diverse and accessible meditation center in the United States. In A Fierce Heart, she shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha's 2,500-year-old teachings that get to the heart of mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion. Woven throughout the book are stories from her life, family, and community, along with soulful and unexpected stories of compassion in action from all over the world. The life-saving teachings of this charismatic teacher are universal; her honesty, enthusiasm, and energy are a balm.

Let Go

Let Go
Author: Martine Batchelor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007-06-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0861718925

When we break free from the habits that limit us, a new world of possibilities opens up. In Let Go, Martine Batchelor leads the way there. Negative patterns of mind may manifest as fear, avoidance, depression, addiction, judgment of self or other, and any of a host of other physical, mental, or psychological forms. Let Go aims at understanding what really lies at the root of these behaviors so we can reclaim control. Each chapter concludes with an exercise or guided meditation as a tool for the reader to work with negative habits in new and creative ways. You don't have to be a Buddhist for them to work. You just need to want to move on. Helpful exercises and guided meditations - designed to build understanding of our negative habits, as well as the confidence and skill needed to instead embrace our greatest qualities - appear throughout the book. Batchelor also looks at Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz's use of meditation to deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), successful combinations of meditation and Twelve-Step programs, and offers her own innovations.

Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in the Buddhist Tradition

Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in the Buddhist Tradition
Author: Erol Čopelj
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2022-06-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000605477

This book offers an original phenomenological description of mindfulness and related phenomena, such as concentration (samādhi) and the practice of insight (vipassanā). It demonstrates that phenomenological method has the power to reanimate ancient Buddhist texts, giving new life to the phenomena at which those texts point. Beginning with descriptions of how mindfulness is encountered in everyday, pre-philosophical life, the book moves on to an analysis of how the Pali Nikāyas of Theravada Buddhism define mindfulness and the practice of cultivating it. It then offers a critique of the contemporary attempts to explain mindfulness as a kind of attention. The author argues that mindfulness is not attention, nor can it be understood as a mere modification of the attentive process. Rather, becoming mindful involves a radical shift in perspective. According to the author’s account, being mindful is the feeling of being tuned-in to the open horizon, which is contrasted with Edmund Husserl’s transcendental horizon. The book also elucidates the difference between the practice of cultivating mindfulness with the practice of the phenomenological epoché, which reveals new possibilities for the practice of phenomenology itself. Phenomenological Reflections on Mindfulness in the Buddhist Tradition will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in phenomenology, Buddhist philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

Prisoner of Conscience

Prisoner of Conscience
Author: Ma Thida
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9786162151231

From childhood, Ma Thida dreamed of helping others--caring for the sick, sharing information despite censorship, and standing up for people's rights. To stand against the oppression that had been stifling Myanmar's progress for decades, she joined Aung San Suu Kyi and the many other activists in the National League for Democracy, campaigning steadfastly despite intimidation, harassment, and worse. Because of her efforts, the regime sent her to Insein Prison, where she faced serious illness and bleak conditions. However, it was in fighting the obstacles of her imprisonment and following the Buddha's teachings that Ma Thida found what it means to be truly free. In this memoir, readers join Ma Thida on her path through captivity and witness one remarkable woman's courageous quest for truth and dignity.

Dharma in Hell

Dharma in Hell
Author: Fleet Maull
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0971814317

"Prison activist and meditation teacher Fleet Maull shares his journey of transformation and service amidst the anger, violence, darkness and despair of a maximum security federal prison"--Back cover.