Paley Ellison, Koshin
Summary: "We live in a shallow "junk" pleasure-seeking culture, searching for connection in the wrong places, keeping our restlessness and anxiety at bay with unfulfilling distractions. The results of our junk pleasure culture are obvious: hundreds of articles have been published about the rise of loneliness and its detrimental effects on our mental, emotional, and physical health. Even those of us who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balance 2022
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Summary: "A Buddhist master's guide to cultivating dignity through meditation, in order to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life. The notion of dignity is crucial to questions of how best to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, particularly for people who feel self-doubt and low self-esteem as well as those who can feel trapped by their anxiety, dissatisfaction, or even success. In today's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 RINSummary: Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 GREGoldstein, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 194.39 GOLKhandro
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.374 RINArmstrong, Guy
Summary: If everything is empty, then what ceases in Nirvana and is born in rebirth? How can you live in the world without feeling trapped by it? Guy Armstrong tackles these questions and more in this richly informed, practical guide to emptiness for the meditator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 ARMMatthiessen, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 MATBstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit BstanBstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.344 BSTGlassman, Bernard (Bernard Tetsugen)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bell Tower 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3378 GlassNhá̂t Hạnh
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help NhatMorinaga, Sōkō
Contents: Pt. 1. Novice -- The prospect of my own death -- Nothing is certain -- The encounter at misery's end -- There is no trash -- Consumed with cleaning -- Confucius gives Jan Yu a scolding -- Working it out for myself -- "I can't do it" -- Between teacher and student -- That's between him and me -- Tree types of students -- "For the disposal of your corpse" -- The meaning of courage -- What am I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications. 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.35 BATBstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
Summary: One of the world's greatest spiritual leaders teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for the first time, how he achieved his hard-won serenity and how readers can attain the same inner peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3444 BSTKhema, Ayya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3444 KHERudloe, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3444 RUDRahula, Walpola Sri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.38 RAHRevel, Jean François.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 REVSantideva
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2006
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Summary: "Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva is a guide for anyone seeking to cultivate the mind of enlightenment and the qualities of love, compassion, patience, and generosity. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines the path of the Bodhisattvas--those who renounce the peace of individual enlightenment, and vow to work for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.3 SHASuzuki, Shunryū
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.342 SUZTitmuss, Christopher.
Contents: The four noble truths. Suffering -- Desire : a cause of suffering -- Liberation from suffering -- The path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.34 TITKerouac, Jack
Summary: Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing. Published for the first time in book form, this is Kerouac's retelling of the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.363 KERNhá̂t Hạnh
Contents: Peace is every step : the path to mindfulness in everyday life / edited by Arnold Kotler -- Teachings on love -- The stone boy and other stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Spirit 2001