Peacock in the Poison Grove (Sopa Geshe Lhundub)

Full Title: Peacock in the Poison Grove: Two Buddhist Texts on Training the Mind
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Translations of and commentaries on two Kadampa texts, the Wheel-Weapon and the Poison-Destroying Peacock. Mind training involves cultivating a way of approaching and experiencing life that rubs against our ordinary self-centered attitudes. The key [...]

Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks)

Full Title: Essential Rumi
Major Topic: ecstatic spiritual poetry
Level: all levels
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Rumi’s poetry always illuminates and inspires. Ecstatic, loving and devotional in tone, beautiful and inspiring for the heart and mind. Read a stanza or two. Then read it aloud. You will find that it often elicits an emotional [...]

As It Is (Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche)

Full Title: As It Is: Volumes 1 and 2
Major Topic: Using traditional practices and methods to know mind nature directly.
Level: all levels
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Urgyen Tulku, even among Tibetans, had a special gift for leading people into the experience of mind and explaining in simple language how to practice deeply. In [...]

Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)

Full Title: Denial of Death
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Classic discussion of the psychology of the fear of death, including the construction of social reality. Many people have found this detailed discussion highly illuminating, shedding light on many of the problems we create for ourselves when we endeavor to ignore the fact [...]