Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala

7 best books like Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala (Chögyam Trungpa): Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Turning the Mind Into an Ally, The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Author	Tara Brach
ISBN	0553380990

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become...

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Author	Jon Kabat-Zinn
ISBN	1401307787

Dear Brother,

When you first asked me about how to practice meditation (was it last week?), I gave you a few vague answers and then dismissed it from my mind, thinking that while it is impressive that you consider it seriously, it is not really vital to you right now. But, yesterday when you...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Author	Christopher Ryan
ISBN	0061707803

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science--as well as religious and cultural institutions--has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility...

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author	Bessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN	0670785938

A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
 
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Author	Pema Chödrön
ISBN	1590304497

We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom...

Turning the Mind Into an Ally

Author

Sakyong Mipham

Strengthening, calming, and stabilizing the mind is the essential first step in accomplishing nearly any goal. Growing up American with a Tibetan twist, Sakyong Mipham talks to Westerners as no one can: in idiomatic English with stories and wisdom from American culture and the great Buddhist teachers....

The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind

Author	Traleg Kyabgon
ISBN	1590303784

For many centuries Indian and Tibetan Buddhists have employed this collection of pithy, penetrating Dharma slogans to develop compassion, equanimity, lovingkindness, and joy for others. Known as the lojong—or mind-training—teachings, these slogans have been the subject of deep study,...