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Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good.
In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world. This work contains the entire 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne’s researching of 10 of the most well-respected translations of text that have survived for more than 25 centuries. Each chapter is designed for actually living the Tao or the Great Way today. Some of the chapter titles are “Living with Flexibility,” “Living Without Enemies,” and “Living by Letting Go.” Each of the 81 brief chapters focuses on living the Tao and concludes with a section called “Doing the Tao Now.”
Wayne spent one entire year reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them each day and ultimately writing down these essays as he felt Lao-tzu wanted you to know them.
This is a work to be read slowly, one essay a day. As Wayne says, “This is a book that will forever change the way you look at your life, and the result will be that you’ll live in a new world aligned with nature. Writing this book changed me forever, too. I now live in accord with the natural world and feel the greatest sense of peace I’ve ever experienced. I’m so proud to present this interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, and offer the same opportunity for change that it has brought me.”
Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
by Richard Brodie
If you've ever wondered how and why people become robotically enslaved by advertising, religion, sexual fantasy, and cults, wonder no more. It's all because of "mind viruses," or "memes," and those who understand how to plant them into other's minds. This is the first truly accessible book about memes and how they make the world go round.
Of course, like all good memes, the ideas in Brodie's book are double-edged swords. They can vaccinate against the effects of cognitive viruses, but could also be used by those seeking power to gain it even more effectively. If you don't want to be left behind in the co-evolutionary arms race between infection and protection, read about memes.
Anyone who wants to be involved in media in the next ten years must understand memetics and must read Virus of the Mind.
The Tantric Path of Purification
by Lorenz Books
Lama Yeshe presents the Dharma with both ease and straightforwardness that is very rare to find. He seems to know Westerners so well that he not only gets his points across but generates in the reader an honest motivation to get out of our intellects and practice live and honor the Path. He is joyously relentless in his criticisms of our dualist mental state.
This book reveals the strength of his personality in such a a way that I felt that I had Met the Master. The teachings in the back of the book or the actual sadhanas or meditation practices are not what I was initiated into, I don't use them so I can not comment on them, other than I acknowledge and thank Lama Yeshe for his very clear and generous explanation of each verse line by line. My only question is the cover of the book displays and image of Vajradhara and not Vajrasattva. This might have to do with Lama Yeshe lineage.
Some misguided practitioners try to experience emptiness simply by rejecting the existence of all phenomena, obsessed with the idea that sunyata is some kind of vague nothingness. If you want to actualize the right view on emptiness in accordance with, for example, the Madhyamaka or Zen schools of Buddhist philosophy, you have to practice both method and wisdom. Many people have great interest in wisdom but none at all in method. They are like a bird trying to fly with a broken wing. Whenever you encounter interruptions and obstacles to your practice, don't get discouraged or depressed. Realize instead that you need to purify. In due course you will gain the realization that you seek.
The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa
by Lama Thubten Yeshe
In the classic bestseller, Introduction to Tantra, Lama Yeshe offered a profound glimpse into the authentic and sophisticated practices of Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. The Bliss of Inner Fire may be considered a perfect follow-up to that book. Lama Yeshe follows Tsongkhapa's (1357-1419 a.d.) text, Having the Three Convictions, and introduces the renowned Six Yogas of Naropa, focusing mainly on the first of these six, the practice of "inner fire" (tummo).
Mastery of inner fire quickly brings the mind to its most refined and penetrating state — the experience of clear light, an extraordinarily powerful state of mind that is unequaled in its ability to directly realize ultimate reality. Lama Yeshe felt that twentieth-century Westerners could easily grasp the often misunderstood ideas of this esoteric tradition: His aim was for his students to actually taste the experience of inner fire rather than merely gain an intellectual understanding. Lama's own realization of the transformative power of these practices comes through, inspiring his students to discover for themselves their own capacity for inexhaustible bliss.
The Words of My Perfect Teacher
by Patrul Rinpoche, Padmakara Translation Group
A favorite of Tibetans and recommended by the Dalai Lama and other senior Buddhist teachers, this practical guide to inner transformation introduces the fundamental spiritual practices common to all Tibetan Buddhist traditions."The Words of My Perfect Teacher" is the classic commentary on the preliminary practices of the Longchen Nyingtig-one of the best-known cycles of teachings and a spiritual treasure of the Nyingmapa school-the oldest Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Patrul Rinpoche makes the technicalities of his subject accessible through a wealth of stories, quotations, and references to everyday life. His style of mixing broad colloquialisms, stringent irony, and poetry has all the life and atmosphere of an oral teaching. Great care has been taken by the translators to render the precise meaning of the text in English while still reflecting the vigor and insight of the original Tibetan.
A preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, insightful introductory essays, explanatory notes, and classic illustrations enhance this quintessential introduction to Tibetan Buddhist practice. This new edition includes translations of a postface to the text written a century ago (for the first printed edition in Tibetan) by the first Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, and a new preface by the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. The notes, glossary and bibliography have been expanded and updated, Sanskrit names and terminology have been given their proper transliterated form, and the illustrations have been improved in quality and supplemented with new material.
Meditations for Soul Realization (Hardcover)
by Grand Master Choa Kok Sui
 These groundbreaking concepts, explained in prose a child can understand, can inspire the plain and simple to leap onto higher bounds of what the orthodox and conventional mind would consider absurd, trackless, unnerving. With unique candidness that can take us off balance, this book spurts pure insights of realizations on the soul.
Experience blissful union with your divine nature and the universal source as you take this practical journey towards spiritual transformation.
Meditations for Soul Realization is based on several lectures given by Mater Choa Kok Sui to the public in different parts of the world. It has been designed in such a way that the reader can finish the book in just one or two days, instead of taking several months or years to study and understand what mediation is all about. It is written in a clear, concise, and straight-to-the-point manner.
The meditation techniques have also been designed in a simple and effective manner to enable yogis or spiritual practitioners to apply them immediately and easily. Most students should get results within one or two years of regular practice.
SuperBrain Yoga (Paperback)
by Grand Master Choa Kok Sui
 A scientific breakthrough has demonstrated conclusively that the human brain can give rise to new brain cells and spawn new neurons to regenerate itself and repair broken circuitry caused by again, damage or disease.
Master Choa Kok Sui, the foremost present day authority in utilizing energy or Prana/Qi in healing, wellness and spirituality, gifts us with this book on brain-power that is unlike any other in the breadth and depth of information, understanding and simplicity that have always been hallmarks of all his books.
He shows how Superbrain Yoga can provide the ‘energy fuel’ that can keep our brain fit and functional, and how these can help counter the common mental effects of aging, memory loss, as well as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Consciously Creating Circumstances (Paperback)
by George Winslow Plummer
When talking to your subjective mind, remember one thing above all. Do not attempt to tell it its own business, which is the means of carrying out your order. It knows far more than you can possibly know. It manipulates forces that you cannot even dream of. -from "Impressing Your Desire" If you can dream it, you can achieve it. That mantra of the modern self-help movement may have seen its earliest expression in this slender little book "full of metaphysical dynamite." First published in 1935, this is a guide to personal and financial success, filtered through the contemporary alchemical philosophy of the Christian mystics order of the Rosicrucians, which decrees that there are hidden natural powers in all of us. But be warned! The author admonishes us that the power you may unleash via this unassuming volume is so overwhelming that it must only be used for good. American businessman and writer Dr. George Winslow Plummer (1876-1944) founded the Society of Rosicrucians in America in 1909. He also wrote The Art of Rosicrucian Healing, Principle and Practices for Rosicrucians, and The Science of Death.
The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit: A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart
by Joseph Chilton Pearce
Building on Darwin, Pearce pleads that humanity rise above its lower, instinctual "brain" to allow "our newest brain"—the "fourth brain"—to flourish. This will bring about a higher stage in evolution that prizes love and altruism. According to Pearce (The Biology of Transcendence), the biggest roadblocks to this new order are religion and science, which together promote violence and arrogance. These "two mongrels" of culture have long forced civilized people into a false either/or choice, one that Pearce characterizes as a choice "between being hanged or shot."
For Pearce, the two disciplines have produced "a single monoculture sweeping the globe and bringing a mounting tide of irrational and ever more intense violence," and leaving us—and especially our children—"spiritually starved."
To overcome the terrible evils of science and religion and fulfill the promises of the fourth brain, we must cultivate what Pearce calls "the dynamic of the heart-brain-mind relationship," literally listening to our heart as a kind of brain itself that prioritizes love and intimate relationship above all else. Heavy on the science, Pearce's overall argument is slow going but worthwhile because of his fluid prose and intriguing understanding of human evolution.
The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit
by Joseph Chilton Pearce
It is not often that lifelong spiritual seekers are ever open to new possibilities rather than being content to believe that they have arrived and/or becoming gurus. Likewise most spiritual seekers are inimical to scientific research and knowledge. However, Joseph Chilton Pearce does not fit that bill. Here in this remarkably comprehensive synthesis he demonstrates that even as he nears 80 years of age he is still seeking, still exploring, and still being the humble visionary that he has been for almost 50 years. (He started writing his first book, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, in the late 1950s).
In this brilliant book he points out the pitfalls of how we raise, educate and enculturate our children and more often than not short circuit their fullest possible development. Similarly, he presents methods of overcoming those errors and of moving ourselves into an ever-present spiritual mode of perception and behavior. Do we dare? Let's hope so!
The Teacher-Student Relationship
by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
It is crucial for students of vajrayana Buddhism to find an authentic wisdom teacher, and know how to properly rely upon that teacher in order to awaken to their buddha nature and thereby attain full enlightenment. |
