Shambhala: 1067 books
It's Up to You
The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
On the spiritual path we speak of enlightenment. But how do we reconcile the idea of enlightenment with what we see when we look in the mirror—when insecurities, doubts, and self-centered tendencies arise in our minds? Dzigar Kongtrül suggests that we need not feel "doomed" when these...
No Time to Lose
A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, she invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in...
by Chogyam Trungpa
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others. They are revolutionary in that practicing them fosters abandonment of personal territory in relating to others and in understanding the world...
by Chogyam Trungpa
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...
Start Where You Are
A Guide to Compassionate Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2001
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives....
Work, Sex, Money
Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money. We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they are also always sources...
by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
So you think you're a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies. With wit and irony, Khysentse...
by Shantideva
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. This text has been studied, practiced, and expounded upon in an unbroken tradition...
A Plea for the Animals
The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness...
Quantum Questions
Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2001
Here is a collection of writings that bridges the gap between science and religion. Quantum Questions collects the mystical writings of each of the major physicists involved in the discovery of quantum physics and relativity, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Max Planck. The selections...
by Natalie Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A powerful memoir from Natalie Golderg--the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country--sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen.
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home begins at the grave of Katagiri Roshi, Natalie's Zen teacher, in...
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major...
Indian Herbalogy of North America
The Definitive Guide to Native Medicinal Plants and Their Uses
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1991
For more than twenty years this pioneering work had served as a bible for herbalists throughout the world. It is an illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than two hundred medicinal plants found in North America, with descriptions of each plant's appearance and uses, and directions for methods of...
A Handbook of Native American Herbs
The Pocket Guide to 125 Medicinal Plants and Their Uses
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1992
This authoritative guide—based on the author's classic reference work, Indian Herbalogy of North America—is a portable illustrated companion for the professional and amateur herbalist alike. It provides detailed descriptions of 125 of the most useful medicinal plants commonly found in North America,...