This book provides a process for dealing with "the dull pain of depression." It employs a custom hand lettered font and many lighthearted illustrations. A self-guided "retreat" has been added to assis
This is a Zen guide to the principles of compassionate communication. Communication is among the most common yet difficult challenges humans face. Effective communication is rarely a simple give and t
This self-discovery workbook contains 16 short essays interspersed with writing and drawing exercises on numerous topics, including money, body image, relationships, and career.
Admirers of Cheri Huber’s books will enjoy seeing Zen practice through the eyes of the monks under her guidance. The same simplicity and clarity for which her teaching is known shines through the stor
Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book examines how fear is an experience, how to recognize that experience as nothing more than conditioned reaction to circumstance,
A follow-up to the perennial bestseller There Is Nothing Wrong with You, this book gives readers the opportunity to pinpoint the practices in their lives that hinder their happiness and success and re
A personal account of one woman's spiritual journey, this memoir examines what happens when a talented female teacher takes the masculine assumptions of Zen practice and turns them inside out. Setting
Chosen for impact, clarity, and humor,these one-per-day quotations come from awide variety of sources:Zen masters; Christian and Sufi mystics; Eastern and Western philosophers;
This book combines the psychological concept of acceptance with ancient Buddhist teachings about the chain of interdependent origination, which provides immediately usable tools for looking at how s
This book reveals the origin of self-hate, how self-hate works, how to identify it, and how to go beyond it. It provides examples of some of the forms self-hate takes, including taking blame but not c
Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy centers around three basic aspects of Zen practice: pay attention, believe nothing, and don’t take anything personally. As ending suffering requir
Offering the unusual perspective on the softness and sweetness to be discovered in the Zen path., which has long been associated with formality and even harshness, this book includes the traditional r
Buddha Facing the Wall presents firsthand accounts of life in an American Zen monastery. Interviews with fifteen monks offer vivid personal glimpses of how everything about the monastery—from the dail
These insights from many years of Zen meditation practice appeal to a wide range of spiritual traditions and explore topics such as the difference between process and content, notions of right and wro
This guide to self-discovery through intimate relationships offers a spiritual perspective on healing childhood wounds and destructive patterns that are learned early on and later cause relationship d
Answering questions such as "What is meditation?" "I can't clear my mind. What should I do?" "What do I focus on?" and "How can I meditate when I have no time?" this guide answers more than 50 of the
This funny, engaging guide to the basics of Buddhist meditation presents the idea that people are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human. That is, instead of
