Product Description: By inviting the Dalai Lama and leading researchers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience to join in conversation, the Mind & Life Institute set the stage for a fascinating exploration of the healing potential of the human mind...read more

Product Description: For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers—members of the Mind and Life Institute—have met regularly to explore the intersection between science and the spirit. At one of these meetings, the themes discussed were both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and the ethics we bring to biotechnology? And how does an ancient spiritual tradition throw new light on these questions?Pier Luigi Luisi not only reproduces this dramatic, cross-cultural dialogue, in which world-class scientists, philosophers, and Buddhist scholars develop a holistic approach to the scientific exploration of reality, but also adds scientific background to their presentations, as well as supplementary discussions with prominent participants and attendees...read more

Product Description: The Four Immeasurables is a rich suite of practices that open the heart, counter the distortions in our relationships to ourselves, and deepen our relationships to others. Alan Wallace presents a unique interweaving of teachings on the Four Immeasurables - the cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity - with instruction on quiescence (shamatha) meditation practices to empower the mind...read more

Product Description: In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born...read more

A female Iranian artist describes growing up in privilege in pre-World War II Persia, her rebellion against tradition, arrival in America during the war, training as an artist, disastrous first marriage and happy second marriage, artistic endeavors, return to Iran, and the rise of radical fundamentalism that led her and her husband to begin a new life in New York. 25,000 first printing.

Filled with proven techniques for retraining the mind, a practical guide to meditation offers a seven-step program for achieving a higher level of consciousness, without joining a monastery. Original.

Product Description: This book is a rich suite of practices that open the heart, counter the distortions in our relationships to ourselves, and deepen our relationship to others.

Product Description: What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian? This book is the carefully edited record of the fascinating discussions at a Mind and Life conference in which five leading physicists and a historian (David Finkelstein, George Greenstein, Piet Hut, Arthur Zajonc, Anton Zeilinger, and Tu Weiming) discussed with the Dalai Lama current thought in theoretical quantum physics, in the context of Buddhist philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book addresses some of the most fundamental and troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between the realms of Western science and religion for centuries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Boundless Heart presents a unique interweaving of teachings on the Four Immeasurables and instruction on quiescence, or shamatha, meditation practices. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: The Lhasa Moon is one of the finest Tibetan restaurants in the West.

Product Description: A user-friendly exposition of the Tibetan seven-point mind training.--Yoga Journal