Drawing on her expertise as a yoga teacher who has used yoga to recover from knee pain and to keep her knees healthy, Sandy Blaine presents a comprehensive yoga program to help you understand...
The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished--from Morocco to India to China--and as varied as their distinctive forms of art, music, poetry, and dance. They are said...
An understanding of the symbolism of the child in dreams can help us make contact with our own inner child--both the child we once were and the spontaneous, childlike side of our nature. Using...
The Tibetan teaching of Dzog-chen (pronounced ZOAK-chen), also known as Ati yoga, is considered aby its adherents to be the definitive and most secret teaching of the Buddha. Primordial Experience...
In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, devotion to one's guru or spiritual master is considered to be of the utmost importance in spiritual practice. The instructions of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,...
In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen--perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosophers, and the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect--wrote a practical manual of "Instructions...
Use this in-depth guide to correctly design benchmarks, measure key performance metrics of.NET applications, and analyze results. This book presents dozens of case studies to help you understand...
"Inner Christianity" is the first introduction to mystical and esoteric Christianity for the general reader. It speaks from a nonsectarian point of view, unearthing insights from the whole...
The new edition of this influential book shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive effect on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain. Jeanne...
The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration...
Master swordsman, calligrapher, and Zen practitioner, Yamoaka Tesshu is a seminal figure in martial arts history. John Stevens's biography is a fascinating, detailed account of Tesshu's...
Gain the skills to begin developing Raku applications from the ground up in this hands-on compact book, which includes a foreword from Larry Wall, creator of Perl. You'll learn enough to get...
A modern Zen classic--reissued with new material: An introduction to the great tenth-century Chinese master, with translations of his key works. Yunmen Wenyan (c. 864-949) was a master of the...
Parents have a unique opportunity to harness their children's curiosity and channel it into the development of habits of heart and mind that will serve them throughout their lifetime. Playful...
At a time of growing environmental crisis, a pioneer of Green Buddhist thought offers challenging and illuminating perspectives. With species rapidly disappearing and global temperatures rising,...
Working with Emotions Using Buddhist Teachings and Western Psychology. A psychologist and longtime practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism shows how emotions relate to spiritual practicethat our feeling...
The tradition of composing spontaneous songs that express spiritual understanding has existed in Tibet for centuries. Over one hundred of these profound songs are found in this collection of the...
In one of the first attempts to bring an integral dimension to sociology, Ken Wilber introduces a system of reliable methods by which to make testable judgments of the authenticity of any religious...
Erzählung von Hermann Hesse, erschienen 1922. Die Erzählung ist das Ergebnis der andauernden Auseinandersetzung Hesses mit Philosophie und Religion Indiens, die in seine Kindheit zurückreicht...