The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
8 best books like The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra (Thomas Cleary): Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions, Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives, Warriors of Ultramar
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
| Author | Marshall B. Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 1892005034 |
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and...
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;...
| 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:...
This book is both a summary of various mystic traditions and practices, as well as a guidebook to a life in mystic spirituality. It is well-written, well-researched, with a style and tone equally balanced between scholarly neutrality and personal conviction. It is a book worthy of re-reading.
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John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanics — and meaning — of mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific...
| Author | Bodhidharma |
| ISBN | 0865473994 |
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual...
Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
| Author | Jane Brox |
| ISBN | 0544702484 |
From the author of the “dazzling epic”* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind—in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives
Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox...
| Author | Graham McNeill |
| ISBN | 1844160009 |
Book two in Black Library's iconic Ultramarines series returns
In the cold darkness of space, the voracious alien Tyranids travel from world to world, consuming all in a futile attempt to slake their hunger for bio-matter. Lying directly in their path is the industrial planet Tarsis Ultra,...
