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Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation

By Brian Hodel (editor) and B. Alan Wallace

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9781590309575 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, May 29, 2012), cover price $17.95

The Seven-point Mind Training: A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind and Heart

Product Description: The Seven-Point Mind Training is a thousand-year-old set of Tibetan teachings for cultivating an open mind and a compassionate heart (the same kinds of practices currently being studied at Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin for their stress reduction effects)...read more

By B. Alan Wallace

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9781559393935 | Reprint edition (Snow Lion Pubns, May 16, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Seven-Point Mind Training is a thousand-year-old set of Tibetan teachings for cultivating an open mind and a compassionate heart (the same kinds of practices currently being studied at Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin for their stress reduction effects).

Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice

Product Description: Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind's role in the natural world. Raising profound questions about human nature, free will, and experience versus dogma, Wallace challenges the claim that consciousness is nothing more than an emergent property of the brain with little relation to universal events...read more

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9780231158343 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 4, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Renowned Buddhist philosopher B.

How to Realize Emptiness

Product Description: People have pondered the true nature of existence through recorded history. Buddhism's philosophical take on this is known as emptiness - the single most important and unique concept for practitioners to study and understand. How to Realize Emptiness gives an inspiring presentation that is aimed at the beginning student...read more

By Gen Lamrimpa, Ellen Posman (editor) and B. Alan Wallace (trans)

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9781559393584 | Reprint edition (Snow Lion Pubns, September 16, 2010), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: People have pondered the true nature of existence through recorded history.

Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence

Product Description: Across more than a millenium, the lamas, meditators, and scholars of Tibet created a vast literature dedicated to revealing the profound truths about who we are and how we should make use of our lives. Sages living in mountain caves and monastics pursuing their daily rituals used these texts to wear down their obscurations and make space for innate clarity and wisdom to manifest...read more

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9780861716906 | Wisdom Pubns, August 16, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Across more than a millenium, the lamas, meditators, and scholars of Tibet created a vast literature dedicated to revealing the profound truths about who we are and how we should make use of our lives.

Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness

Product Description: The ability to sustain close mindfulness is a learned skill that offers profound benefits in all situations. This book explains the theory and applications of the practice the Buddha called the direct path to enlightenment. These simple but powerful techniques to cultivate mindfulness will allow anyone, regardless of tradition, beliefs, or lack thereof, to achieve genuine happiness and freedom from suffering...read more

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9781559393690 | Snow Lion Pubns, July 16, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The ability to sustain close mindfulness is a learned skill that offers profound benefits in all situations.

The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart

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

By Zara Houshmand (editor) and B. Alan Wallace

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9781559393539 | 3 edition (Snow Lion Pubns, September 16, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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.

Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness

Product Description: Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are conditioned by the brain, but do not emerge from it...read more

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9780231141505 | 1 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, September 15, 2007), cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B.

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9780231141512 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 2010, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B.

Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

Product Description: By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world...read more

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9780231147309, titled "Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, & Christianity" | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B.

Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality

Product Description: What is Mind? For this ancient question we are still seeking answers. B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel propose a science of the mind based on the contemplative wisdom of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity, and Islam. The authors begin by exploring the history of science, showing how science tends to ignore the mind, even while it is understood to be the very instrument through which we comprehend the world of nature...read more

By Brian Hodel and B. Alan Wallace

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9781590304822 | Shambhala Pubns, February 12, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: What is Mind?

Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism And Neuroscience Converge

Product Description: Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of being integrated into a single discipline: contemplative science...read more

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9780231138345 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 24, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe.

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9780231138352 | 1 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 2009), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe.

The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

Citing the benefits of meditation as a means of improving and honing concentration skills, the author of Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up is aimed at contemporary readers and offers advice on how to address the challenges of today's hectic world, overcome depression and other mental disorders, and more. Original.

By Daniel Goleman (foreword by) and B. Alan Wallace

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9780861712762 | Wisdom Pubns, March 31, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Citing the benefits of meditation as a means of improving and honing concentration skills, the author of Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up is aimed at contemporary readers and offers advice on how to address the challenges of today's hectic world, overcome depression and other mental disorders, and more.

Balancing The Mind: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach To Refining Atention

Based on centuries of Buddhist practice in Tibet, this guide to honing attention introduces Tsongkapa methods for achieving unusually elevated levels of attention stability and clarity of mind. Original.

By B. Alan Wallace

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9781559392303 | Snow Lion Pubns, June 1, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Based on centuries of Buddhist practice in Tibet, this guide to honing attention introduces Tsongkapa methods for achieving unusually elevated levels of attention stability and clarity of mind.

Genuine Happiness: Meditation As The Path To Fulfillment

Product Description: Discover your personal path to bliss"This book will give anyone interested in the spectrum of core meditative practices stemming from the Buddhist tradition but in essence universal the deepest of perspectives on what is possible for us as human beings as well as excellent guidance in the essential, time-tested attitudes and practices for actualizing our innate capacity for wisdom, compassion, and well-being, right here and right now...read more

By B. Alan Wallace

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9780471469841 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 8, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Discover your personal path to bliss"This book will give anyone interested in the spectrum of core meditative practices stemming from the Buddhist tradition but in essence universal the deepest of perspectives on what is possible for us as human beings as well as excellent guidance in the essential, time-tested attitudes and practices for actualizing our innate capacity for wisdom, compassion, and well-being, right here and right now.

Seven-point Mind Training: The Tibetan Seven-point Mind Training

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.

By Zara Houshmand and B. Alan Wallace

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9781559392228 | Snow Lion Pubns, September 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Four Immeasurables: Cultivating a Boundless Heart

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.

By Zara Houshmand (editor) and B. Alan Wallace

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9781559392099 | Revised edition (Snow Lion Pubns, April 1, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Taboo of Subjectivity: Towards a New Science of Consciousness

Product Description: This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism, and scientism...read more

By B. Alan Wallace

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9780195132076 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 9, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion.

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9780195173109 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 12, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion.

Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue With the Dalai Lama on How Can We Overcome Them?

A fascinating dialogue between the Dalai Lama and a group of leading international scientists and philosophers unites cutting-edge research in education, psychology, and neuroscience with Buddhist practice to discuss how to cope with, transform, and eliminate negative emotions. Reprint.

By Richard J. Davidson (contributor), Paul Ekman (contributor), Owen Flanagan (contributor), Daniel Goleman, Mark Greenberg (contributor), Somchai Kusalacitto (contributor), Matthieu Ricard (contributor), Thupten Jinpa (contributor), Jeanne Tsai (contributor), Francisco J. Varela (contributor) and B. Alan Wallace (contributor)

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9780553381054 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, March 1, 2004), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A dialogue between the Dalai Lama and a group of scientists and philosophers unites research in education, psychology, and neuroscience with Buddhist practice to discuss how to cope with, transform, and eliminate negative emotions.

The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues With the Dalai Lama

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)

By Dalai Lama XIV, David Finkelstein (contributor), George Greenstein (contributor), Zara Houshmand, Piet Hut (contributor), Thupten Jinpa (contributor), B. Alan Wallace (contributor), Tu Weiming (contributor), Arthur Zajonc and Anton Zeilinger (contributor)

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9780195159943 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 25, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian?

Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind

Product Description: For centuries scientists and philosophers have pondered the relationship between scientific theory and reality. Analyzing two major positions, the author points out the many assumptions required to adopt the realist view, and nihilism implicit in the instrumentalist position.

By B. Alan Wallace

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9781559391993 | Subsequent edition (Snow Lion Pubns, September 1, 2003), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: For centuries scientists and philosophers have pondered the relationship between scientific theory and reality.

9781559390637 | Snow Lion Pubns, April 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Shares the podium with The Tao of Physics & The Dancing Wu Li Masters, and wears the gold medal.

Buddhism With an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind-Training

Using Tibetan Buddhism as the source, the author offers accessible advice on how to develop attitudes that are in line with reality. Reprint.

By B. Alan Wallace

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9781559391597 | Snow Lion Pubns, May 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Using Tibetan Buddhism as the source, the author offers advice on how to develop attitudes that are in line with reality.

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9781559392006 | Reprint edition (Snow Lion Pubns, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Using Tibetan Buddhism as the source, the author offers accessible advice on how to develop attitudes that are in line with reality.

Buddhism & Science: Breaking New Ground

Product Description: Buddhism and Science brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Eastern spirituality. This compilation was inspired by a suggestion made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, himself one of the contributors, after one of a series of cross-cultural scientific dialogues in Dharamsala, India, sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute...read more

By B. Alan Wallace (editor)

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9780231123341 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Buddhism and Science brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Eastern spirituality.

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9780231123358 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Buddhism and Science brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Eastern spirituality.

Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga

Product Description: Guidelines for calm abiding and insight meditation are presented from the dzogchen perspective.

By Gyatrul (editor), Sangye Khandro (editor), Gyatrul Rinpoche and B. Alan Wallace (editor)

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9781559391832 | Snow Lion Pubns, November 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Guidelines for calm abiding and insight meditation are presented from the dzogchen perspective.

Realizing Emptiness: Madhyamaka Insight Meditation

Product Description: Gen Lamrimpa explains in a practical and down-to-earth fasion how to analyze experience to fathom how it has been mispercieved and misunderstood because of our many delusions, and how to use Madhyamaka reasoning to experience how all things only exist as dependently related events rather than in themselves...read more

By Gen Lamrimpa, Ellen Posman (editor) and B. Alan Wallace (trans)

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9781559391801 | Snow Lion Pubns, October 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gen Lamrimpa explains in a practical and down-to-earth fasion how to analyze experience to fathom how it has been mispercieved and misunderstood because of our many delusions, and how to use Madhyamaka reasoning to experience how all things only exist as dependently related events rather than in themselves.

Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine

Product Description: Dr. Yeshi Donden, the long-time personal physician of HH the Dali Lama, draws from over fifty years of practicing and teaching this ancient tradition of healing. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By B. Alan Wallace (trans) and Yeshi Donden

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9781559391481 | Snow Lion Pubns, May 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Dr.

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