Turning the Mind Into an Ally
10 best books like Turning the Mind Into an Ally (Sakyong Mipham): Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, The Way of the Bodhisattva, No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
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...
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570623449 |
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590304519 |
In this practical guide to enlightened living, Chögyam Trungpa offers an inspiring vision for our time, based on the figure of the sacred warrior. In ancient times, the warrior learned to master the challenges of life, both on and off the battlefield. He acquired a sense of personal freedom and power—not...
A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 0553372114 |
I can sincerely say this is an excellent book but that it is not the correct book for me at this time. Books tend to be time sensitive documents, meaning if you read one at the “right” time, it can light fireworks under your butt, while if you had read the same book at an earlier or later time of your life,...
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...
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 0007190611 |
Massmarket edition of this spiritual guide to making the most of life, through bad times as well as good, from bestselling author Pema Ch?dr?n. This accessible book has been on the US bestseller lists consistently for four years now. In The Wisdom of No Escape, bestselling author Pema Ch?dr?n shows...
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570628394 |
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön...
| 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 | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590301358 |
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, she invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth...
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1570629579 |
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
| Author | Mark Epstein |
| ISBN | 0767902351 |
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way. Going to Pieces Without...
| 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...
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
| Author | Sharon Salzberg |
| ISBN | 1590301870 |
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590302893 |
Freedom is generally thought of as the ability to achieve goals and satisfy desires. But what are the sources of these goals and desires? If they arise from ignorance, habitual patterns, and negative emotions, is the freedom to pursue these goals true freedom—or is it just a myth?
In this...
| Author | Sylvia Boorstein |
| ISBN | 0062512943 |
Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein demystifies spirituality, charts the path to happiness through the Buddha's basic teachings, shows how to eliminate hindrances to clear seeing, and develops a realistic...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590300513 |
Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others. They are revolutionary in that practicing them fosters abandonment of personal territory in relating to others and in understanding the...
Have you ever had an itch and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to scratch, great peace and happiness is available.
On Getting Unstuck, Pema Ch�dr�n introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher,...
