Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

Pema Chodron

"Start Where You Are" is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chodron presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"--embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chodron frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: "Always apply only a joyful state of mind," "Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own happiness," and "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment." Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, "Start Where You Are" shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide

Kathleen McDonald

In a world seemingly moving at hyperspeed, it can be daunting to simply slow down -- or stop -- even briefly to try to make sense of things. Meditation has been proven to help. But exactly what is it? Why practice it? Which techniques are best? This popular guide answers these and many more questions for anyone who wants to begin -- or is struggling to maintain -- a meditation practice. Written by a Western Buddhist nun with solid experience in both the practice and teaching of meditation, "How to Meditate" contains a wealth of practical advice on a variety of authentic techniques, from what to do with the mind, to how to sit, to visualizations and other traditional practices. Best of all, McDonald's warm, encouraging approach is as close to the intimacy of private instruction as a book can be.

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle

Much more than simple principles and platitudes, "The Power of Now" takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light.

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Beginning Mindfulness: Learning the Way of Awareness: A Ten Week Course

Andrew Weiss

Intended for laypeople practicing in their work and family lives without the luxury of long meditation retreats, "Beginning Mindfulness" is deeply rooted in Buddhist practice but remains unbound by one particular Buddhist tradition.

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The Power of Stillness

Tobin Blake

Thirty days worth of step-by-step instruction for developing a regular meditation practice is outlined in this book specially geared to the needs of the beginning meditator. The Power of Stillness is the first book to be organized into a hands-on, experience-based program. Tobin Blake has been meditating regularly for nearly a decade. He received training in Kriya Yoga through Self-Realization Fellowship; Kriya Yoga is their highest meditation technique. For the past 8 years he has studied and taught the principles outlined in A Course in Miracles.

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