Product Description: Road Sage Sylvia Boorstein Take a seat next to Insight Meditation Society teacher Sylvia Boorstein for the driver’s education course you never heard in school: the essential techniques of mindfulness meditation, presented especially for anyone who drives a car...read more

A pseudonymous account by a well-known author describes the spiritual journey through which she recovered from alcoholism, describing how she endured numerous electroshock treatments in a mental hospital after being misdiagnosed and her embrace of the 12 Step Program and Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism, which she synthesizes for recovering readers. Original.

Seeking the common ground that unites all religious traditions, the author identifies sixty-five virtues she considers to be universal among the world's faith communities, including 'feel what other people feel,' 'don't harm others,' 'be honest,' and 'practice what you preach.' Original.

The author of That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist integrates traditional Buddhist teachings and parables with anecdotes from her own life and easy-to-follow meditations to demonstrate how the practice of Mindfulness, or paying attention in everyday life, can lead to Generosity, Energy, Wisdom, Morality, Patience, Determination, and Equanimity. Reprint.

The author of That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist integrates traditional Buddhist teachings and parables with anecdotes from her own life and easy-to-follow meditations to demonstrate how the practice of Mindfulness, or paying attention in everyday life, can lead to Generosity, Energy, Wisdom, Morality, Patience, Determination, and Equanimity.

An inpirational collection of essays celebrates the power of generosity to transform one's life, encouraging readers to promote a giving and loving heart and explaining how giving love, energy, time, kindness, and forgiveness can mean more than a financial gift. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Continuing in the vein of her bestselling That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist, the author further explores what it means to be a 'faithful Jew and a passionate Buddhist,' consolidating the wisdom of both traditions into a substantial guide to to living joyfully.

Product Description: In recent years Buddhist nuns from Asia and the West have met together to become more active in improving their status in the female sangha. At "Life As A Buddhist Nun," the 1996 conference in Dharamsala, His Holiness the Dalai Lama supported this effort of Buddhist nuns to clarify their purpose in taking vows, widening their context, broadening community beyond their own abbeys, and supporting one another on their quest to achieve greater equality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Buddha Smiles is a delightful gathering of Mari Gayatri Stein’s cartoons, or dharmatoons. The book follows a group of human and non-humans as they seek their enlightenment, exposing their strengths and weaknesses (and ours as well) in the process. T...read more

Product Description: Road Sage Sylvia Boorstein Take a seat next to Insight Meditation Society teacher Sylvia Boorstein for the driver’s education course you never heard in school: the essential techniques of mindfulness meditation, presented especially for anyone who drives a car...read more

With wit and charm, a best-selling author shares her experiences as a Buddhist teacher and Jewish follower, from her Jewish childhood in New York to her meeting with the Dalai Lama, illuminating the possibilities of practicing both religions. Reprint.

A Buddhist teacher brings the message and tenets of the religion to a larger audience through a collection of simple stories and anecdotes that seek to imply rather than tell the reader the Buddha's wisdom. Reprint. PW.

Explores the intriguing relationship between Jewish and Buddhist traditions and discusses the reasons why so many Jews are drawn to Buddhism and become practicing Buddhists. 50,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Get away from doing and into being with this lively, down-to-earth guide to your own meditation retreat by beloved mindfulness meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein. Presenting what Jon Kabat-Zinn has called "endearingly personal mindfulness wisdom," she offers a three-day retreat plan accompanied by timeless lessons -- always grounded in real life -- on how anyone can achieve calm, clarity and joy through meditation practices...read more