by Sanjiv Manifest | Feb 25, 2026 | Books
Uncover your innate capacity for love, presence, and wisdom with compassion training adapted from Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary psychology.
Everything we care about—our mental and physical well-being, our relationships, our spiritual life, our ability to be useful to others—depends on our ability to access love and compassion within ourselves first. This clear, step-by-step guide offers a way to cultivate this power through an evidence-based meditation method called Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT).
With practices drawn from Tibetan traditions, attachment theory, and cognitive science, How Compassion Works uses a progressive series of meditations to gradually build our capacity for mindfulness and presence—and to help us avoid empathic distress, compassion fatigue, or burnout. Organized into three categories—receptive mode, deepening mode, and inclusive mode—these practices help us cultivate unconditional care and discernment from within.
With a flexible framework that allows practitioners to integrate their own religious or spiritual beliefs, this book offers practices suitable for people of all faiths and those seeking a purely secular path.
by Sanjiv Manifest | Feb 10, 2026 | Books
The First and Last Belief offers a lucid and grounded account of what many traditions call liberation or awakening—stripped of mystique yet retaining its depth. Drawing from her own unexpected and irreversible experience, Monica Khosla explores how the deeply ingrained sense of being a separate “I” can dissolve, revealing life as immediate, unowned, and whole.
Interwoven with personal narrative is a theory that bridges ancient insight with modern neuroscience. Khosla examines how the brain constructs the felt sense of self, and how recent understandings of memory reconsolidation, brain networks, and perceptual processing might explain the sudden disappearance of that sense. Along the way, she illuminates the fears, habits, and emotional learnings that bind us to our most fundamental assumption—the First Belief—and how its dissolution changes nothing in reality, yet transforms everything in experience.
by Sanjiv Manifest | Jan 28, 2026 | Books
“Being fully present to fear, to gratitude, to all that is—this is the practice of mutual belonging. As living members of the living body of Earth, we are grounded in that kind of belonging. Even when faced with cataclysmic changes, nothing can ever separate us from Earth. We are already home.”—Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired people around the world. In this collection of writings, leading spiritual teachers, deep ecologists, and diverse writers and activists explore the major facets of Macy’s lifework. Combined with eleven pieces from Macy herself, the result is a rich chorus of wisdom and compassion to support the work of our time. To learn more, visit www.joannamacy.net
by Sanjiv Manifest | Dec 15, 2025 | Books
“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in life when our compensatory activities, the accumulation of money, learning and objects, leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. We may find ourselves asking, ‘Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?’ Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions.
What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.”
by Sanjiv Manifest | Dec 8, 2025 | Books
A new edition of this sought-after book.
“Dialogues between Jean Klein and his students and friends, during seminars in the United States and Europe, form the text of this illuminating book. In many different settings and circumstances, Jean Klein casts and re-casts the teaching of Advaita, addressing each individual in his or her own uniqueness, while at the same time demonstrating the oneness of being. These far-reaching exchanges—exploring almost every aspect of self-knowledge—show that it is only through living fully in “not knowing” that we can awaken to our real nature: the “I AM” of pure consciousness.
In addition, Jean Klein discusses for the first time his early life, his meetings with his teacher in India, and the moment of his awakening. The result is an inspiring prologue that not only gives us an intimate look at this remarkable teacher and the discoveries he made in his search for truth, but also makes clear the immediate accessibility of these discoveries to every earnest seeker.”
by Sanjiv Manifest | Nov 17, 2025 | Books
One of the most consistently popular titles by Dr. Klein, The Ease of Being is a collection of dialogues with seekers in the mid-1980s at seminars in Europe and the United States.
