The Omega Institute, the nation's largest holistic education and retreat center, has helped tens of thousands of people in their search for well-being, personal growth, and spiritual development through its world-renowned workshops and retreats. Now the experts at the Omega Institute share their wisdom with you in a unique series of books that provide the guidance, the inspiration, and the skills you need to bring increased meaning and vitality into your life. . . . More than ever before, Americans are seeking sanctuary, looking for ways to lead a more thoughtful, balanced, and meaningful life. Contemplative Living draws upon a wide range of spiritual traditions to help you both deepen your sacred connections and bring calm and clarity to your day-to-day existence. Drawing upon the collective wisdom of revered teachers, ancient practices, and the findings of modern research, one of the Omega Institute's foremost experts shows you: How to begin and deepen a spiritual practice in meditation, prayer, chanting, contemplation, or movement Exercises to help you reap the rewards of silence and solitude, balance and focus your life, and approach problems more creatively How to let go of anger, practice forgiveness, and improve concentration Ways mindfulness can transform your everyday activities, your health, and your life

Contemplative Living (OMEGA INSTITUTE MIND, BODY, SPIRIT)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Oliver, Joan Duncan

Alternative Medicine

Dell

A modern guide to the teachings of Buddhism 
 Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha’s Life, Teachings, and Practices is an indispensable guide to a 2,600-year-old wisdom tradition that has transformed the lives of millions across centuries and around the world. Readers will learn how Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, one of the most influential spiritual leaders of all time, and discover how they too can follow his revolutionary methods to attain happiness and inner freedom. Along with accessible overviews of central teachings―the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, karma, core virtues like kindness and compassion, and more―Buddhism covers such basics as:
- the three main Buddhist traditions―Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana―historically and their relevance today - the role of meditation and mindfulness in Buddhist practice - step-by-step instruction in key Buddhist practices 
Writing in an engaging, approachable style, author Joan Duncan Oliver outlines the fundamentals of Buddhism for every reader, revealing its timeless truths and their relevance for finding peace in uncertain times. A practitioner of Buddhist meditation for forty years, Oliver has written extensively on Buddhist wisdom and its application to daily life. Her practical approach makes Buddhism an essential modern guidebook to an ancient tradition.

Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha's Life, Teachings, and Practices (The Essential Wisdom Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

St. Martin's Essentials

Siddhartha Gautama (aka The Buddha) was a 6th century BCE Indian sage whose spiritual teachings led to the founding of Buddhism, the fourth-largest religion in the world.

An Interview With the Buddha (Meet the Masters)

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

Cavendish Square

Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Buddhism, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of its famously wise founder. A relaxed chat with the Buddha tells us what he thought about impermanence, karma, mindfulness, compassion, love, and everything else that leads us toward a true understanding of ourselves and the cosmos. We know him as the Buddha, the "Awakened One". Born Siddhartha Gautama 2,500 years ago in northern India, he became one of the world's greatest spiritual leaders. He suffered as we do, then by his own efforts found the key to liberation from the bonds of desire, hatred and ignorance. As Westerners living in relative prosperity, we can identify with this man who had it all - love, success, money, talent, privilege - but set these things aside to search for something deeper and more enduring. This book presents an account of the Buddha's life followed by a series of plausible and illuminating but imagined conversations, which probe all aspects of his philosophy for living. The insights he conveys here offer us practical wisdom for a better life.

Conversations with Buddha: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts

Watkins Publishing

Happiness uses fictional dialogues, in the manner of Plato's famous philosophical writings, to convey a compelling mix of Eastern wisdom and Western philosophy. This enlightening guide is organized into 20 dialogues, each dealing with a common source of unease. At the start of each one, the seeker asks a question, such as "How can I stop worrying so much about small things?" or "How can I feel more confident in my own abilities?" In the conversation that follows, the sage looks at the question from all sides, realistically and imaginatively. The seeker reacts with further questions, bringing readers into the process of discovering what makes them happy and how to attain it.

Happiness: How to Find It and Keep It

Self-Help

Happiness

Karma has become a buzzword for fatea glib way to explain away everyday calamities, disappointments, and triumphs. But, in fact, karmawhich means action” in Sanskritinvolves free will and conscious choice. It’s a fundamental concept in Eastern thought, with an underlying principle similar to the law of cause and effect: everything we say and do has consequences. Good Karma shows us how to take responsibility for our words and deeds, to listen to what our conscience is telling us, and to behave in a way that won’t undermine our prospects for happiness. It forces us to examine specific actions closely and untangle the right from the wrong. For instance, where would you draw the line on stealing: is it OK to bring home paper and pens from the office but not the bathrobe from a hotel bathroom? How can we find our way through the karmic labyrinth, clear up past mistakes, and start the future clean? The karmic view on decision-making discussed so intriguingly here is one of the trickiest, most essential forms of self-analysis that we can undertakeand one of the most rewarding.

Good Karma: How to Find it and Keep it

Karma has become a buzzword for fatea glib way to explain away everyday calamities, disappointments, and triumphs. But, in fact, karmawhich means action” in Sanskritinvolves free will and conscious choice. It’s a fundamental concept in Eastern thought, with an underlying principle similar to the law of cause and effect: everything we say and do has consequences.Good Karma shows us how to take responsibility for our words and deeds, to listen to what our conscience is telling us, and to behave in a way that won’t undermine our prospects for happiness. It forces us to examine specific actions closely and untangle the right from the wrong. For instance, where would you draw the line on stealing: is it OK to bring home paper and pens from the office but not the bathrobe from a hotel bathroom? How can we find our way through the karmic labyrinth, clear up past mistakes, and start the future clean? The karmic view on decision-making discussed so intriguingly here is one of the trickiest, most essential forms of self-analysis that we can undertakeand one of the most rewarding.

Good Karma: How to Find It and Keep It

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Duncan Baird Publishers

The earth trembles. Lions, tigers, and scorpions grow tame. Humans shower one another with kindness. Such marvels herald a wondrous event: Siddhartha Gautama, known as The Buddha. What knowledge would such a sage have to impart? The Way of the Bodhisattva becomes clear as The Buddha speaks here about suffering and the hardships of life (reminding us that help is always near), impermanence, reincarnation, karma, desire, morality, mindfulness, compassion, love, and the body. Joan Duncan Olivereditorial director of the One Spirit book club and contributor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Reviewconducts the interview,” while singer/composer Annie Lennox, a practicing Buddhist, provides the enlightening preface.

Coffee with The Buddha (Coffee with...Series)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Duncan Baird

In 1986, the New York Times called William Zeckendorf Jr. “Manhattan’s most active real-estate developer,” a judgment borne out by Zeckendorf’s fascinating memoir.\nThe second generation of a legendary family of developers, “Bill” Zeckendorf was a developer with a social conscience, not only putting up buildings but opening neglected parts of the city and transforming whole communities. Among the projects Zeckendorf chronicles in detail―and with rich documentary illustrations―are the Columbia, which set off a building boom on the Upper West Side; the four-acre Worldwide Plaza, a landmark in West Midtown; Queens West, the first residential project on the waterfront in Queens; the enormous Ronald Reagan Office Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.; and numerous projects in Santa Fe, his beloved second home.

Developing: My Life

Arts & Literature

ORO Editions

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