No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
10 best books like No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Pema Chödrön): Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, The Way of the Bodhisattva, What Makes You Not a Buddhist, Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life, Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism
Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD]
| Author | Nguyen Anh-Huong |
| ISBN | 1591794730 |
What if every step you took deepened your connection with all of life and imprinted peace, joy, and serenity on the earth? With Walking Meditation, listeners enjoy the first comprehensive instructional program in this serene spiritual practice to help them walk with presence and peace of mind whether...
| Author | Yongey Mingyur |
| ISBN | 0307346250 |
For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation. But how does it work? And why? The principles behind this ancient practice have long eluded some of the best minds in modern science. Until now.
In this groundbreaking work, world-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey...
| Author | Śāntideva |
| ISBN | 1590300572 |
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, 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. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines...
| Author | Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse |
| ISBN | 1590304063 |
Dzongsar Khyentse is one of the most creative and innovative young Tibetan Buddhist lamas teaching today. The director of two feature films with Buddhist themes (the international sensation The Cup and Travelers and Magicians), this provocative teacher, artist, and poet is widely known and admired...
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0767902777 |
Surya Das illustrates how to develop authentic presence, how to connect to our own life experience, build deeper relationships, embrace life's lessons, as well as learn how to love what we don't like.
Everyone needs to feel connected, to love and feel loved, to reach out to others and communicate...
| Author | Patrul Rinpoche |
| ISBN | 1570624127 |
My favorite quote so far...
There is not a single being in samsara, this immense ocean of suffering, who in the course of time without beginning has never been our father or mother. When they were our parents, these beings' only thought was to raise us with the greatest possible kindness, protecting...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1570628181 |
Chögyam Trungpa had a vision of a society of enlightened people, or at least of people on the path to enlightenment. These are the Shambhala warriors, people "brave enough not to give in to the aggression and contradictions that exist in society." A companion volume to Trungpa's classic Shambhala:...
| Author | Michaela Haas |
| ISBN | 1559394072 |
What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years, and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the daughter...
| Author | Sakyong Mipham |
| ISBN | 0767920805 |
You’re stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn’t moving. You’re angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you’re irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you’re mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place. By the time...
| Author | Reginald A. Ray |
| ISBN | 1570629102 |
Indestructible Truth is one of the most thorough introductions to the Tibetan Buddhist world view ever published; at the same time it is also one of the most accessible. The author presents complex and sophisticated teachings and practices in nontechnical language, using engaging stories and personal...
| Author | Dzigar Kongtrül III |
| ISBN | 1590303814 |
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 experiences...
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 0877739714 |
Compassion is the guiding principle of the bodhisattvas, those who vow to attain enlightenment in order to liberate all sentient beings from the suffering and confusion of imperfect existence. To this end, they must renounce all self-centered goals and consider only the well-being of others. The...
| Author | Gampopa |
| ISBN | 1559390921 |
In all his studies, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is one of the texts that Khenpo [Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche, the translator of this edition] found to be most inspiring. Lord Gampopa lays out the teachings in a clear and systematic way that is understandable to beginners. At the same time, the work...
| Author | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0060957549 |
Practising the true spirit of Zen.
Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency...
| Author | David Chadwick |
| ISBN | 0767901053 |
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing...
