SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS
in-depth book previews with chapter excerpts
Gift Of Walking On The Wheel? Become What You Are: Alan Watts
“… Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal …” ~ Alan Watts
Thich Nhat Hanh: Gift Of Deep Listening? You Are Here
deep listening: “… Everything you are seeking, you should seek in the present moment …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Can Kindness Meditation Overpower The Daily Spin? Devon Nico Hase
kindness meditation: “… {can help} build a heart of kindness and then extend that to others … ” … “… {is} more than just calming the mind. It’s also about cultivating an atmosphere of warmth and positive regard—for yourself, for others …” ~ nico (& devon) hase
Passion For God? The Rumi Collection: Harvey & Helminski
“… The radiance of consciousness-bliss, in the form of one awareness shining equally within and without, is the supreme and blissful primal reality. Its form is silence …” ~ Ramana Maharshi
Unlock Living Power Of Seeing Clearly? Illumination Rebecca Li
“… The mind becomes still as we are no longer agitating the mind with habitual reactivity to the present moment. With this clarity and stillness, we are more able to see that in every moment there is a choice for us to not perpetuate the habit of suffering. …” ~ Rebecca Li
Fear, Habitual Thoughts To Freedom? Mindfulness By Oren Jay Sofer
“… Mindfulness is the only way to be free …” ~ Godwin Samararatne
Unveiling The Rumi Collection: Why Give Thanks? Kabir Helminski
“… In Rumi, the full rose of the human divine opened … He gave a sign to us all forever of what is possible in a life surrendered wholly to the light …” ~ Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch
What Is Yin Mountain Daoist Immortal Poetry? Levitt & Rebecca Nie
The Valley Spirit never dies.
It is called the Mysterious Female.
The gateway of this Mysterious Female
is the source of heaven and earth.
~ Dao De Jing
Sound of Every Element? Hazrat Inayat On Sound & Music Mysticism
“… Sound is the sign of life; in the temples of gods and goddesses, in Hindu churches, bells ringing show life even in the silence …” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Wonderment Despite Climate Crisis? Susan Bauer-Wu Future We Can Love
“… With a different kind of attention —curious, trusting, open, and loving— we can find the wonders of right where we are …” ~ Susan Bauer-Wu
How Do We Become The Unifying Solution? Rumi & Kabir Helminski
“… voluntary simplicity is the best road to health, happiness, justice, and humanity’s survival …” ~ Kabir Helminski
Value Of Silent Life? Hazrat Inayat On Sound & Music Mysticism
“… God is not in time … He is in the silence …” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
What Is The Longing For Divine Love? Almaas Nondual Love
“… The greatest romance is with the Infinite … When you suddenly find God everywhere … the romance of divine love has begun …” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Alan Watts Talking Zen: What Are The Taoist Ways & Its 3 Keys?
” … The philosophy of Tao sees humanity as a part of nature rather than dominating it …” ~ Alan Watts
Oneness: Self-Interest to Benefit of All? Mysterion, Rumi & Kabir Helminski
“… Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize … their oneness, with the universe … that at the center of the Universe dwells Wakan-Tanka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” ~ Black Elk
Nondual Love: Can We Awaken To Loving Nature of Reality?
“… The spiritual heart is the doorway to the next plane of consciousness . . . ‘soul land.’…” ~ Ram Dass
Alan Watts Taoist Ways: Seeing Through The Great Social Lie?
“… My inside is not separable from the outside world … the one who either dominates the world or suffers under it … has vanished … never was there …” ~ Alan Watts
Order & Li: What & Why Important? Alan Watts Taoist Ways
“… The tao is a certain kind of order, and this kind of order is not quite what we call order … when you look at a plant it is perfectly obvious that the plant has order … In the Chinese language this is called li …” ~ Alan Watts
Mind Training: Suffering To Opportunity? Heroic Heart Lojong Palmo
“… life itself is a gymnasium of the soul … Life is where we have our workout … where we train … ~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Practicing Two Kinds of Warmth? Pema Chodron Heart Advice
“… there are two kinds of warmth that soften us up and make us more decent, loving beings … both come from the warmth of the heart …” ~ Pema Chödrön
How To Practice Calm Abiding? – Tenzin Wangyal Bon Buddhism
calm abiding : “… Dream yoga practice cultivates the stability in awareness needed to free yourself of conditioning and reactivity …” ~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Mind Training: How To Value Adversity? Heroic Heart Lojong Palmo
“lojong {mind training} is all about developing … the qualities that will help with whatever happens to us in our lives as our practice. ~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Taoist Ways Alan Watts: What’s Wu-Wei And Why Is It Important?
” … Wu-wei means always acting in accord with the pattern of things as they exist …” ~ Alan Watts
Pema Chödrön: Being More Alive Via Refraining, Buddha’s 1st Step To Courage
“… knowing how to work with our emotions is really the key to finding balance and equanimity …” ~ Pema Chödrön
What’s Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way To Awakening? In Search of Being
“… The Fourth Way is sometimes called the way of the shrewd, astute man. The “shrewd man” knows a certain secret that the fakir, monk and yogi do not know …” ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
What Is Dream Yoga? – Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Bon Buddhism
“… Dream yoga practice cultivates the stability in awareness needed to free yourself of conditioning and reactivity …” ~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Lojong: How To Be Kind When Wronged: Heroic Heart – Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
“All experiences are preceded by mind, have mind as their master, are created by mind“ ~ The Buddha
In Search of Being: What Are Gurdjieff’s Four Ways To Awakening?
“… Look at the Milky Way. The earth cannot even be called a grain of sand in this infinity. It dissolves and vanishes. And with it, you—where are you? …” … and “… what are we? …” ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Lover & Love a la Rumi – Kabir Helminski
“… God is pleased when your love realizes it is part of something oceanic and begins to move with the whole …” ~ Rumi
Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns & Find Peace & Freedom
“… when we touch what is painful with awareness, the armoring around our heart melts and frees us to reconnect with our full aliveness, wisdom, and love.” ~ Tara Brach
Zen Is Right Now – Suzuki Roshi
“… Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way …” ~ Suzuki Roshi
Choosing A Vision: Life Part Two by David Chernikoff
“Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God.” ~ Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji)
Life Part Two: 7 Keys To Awakening… David Chernikoff
“… We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery …” ~ Huston Smith
Relationship: More On Zen by Norman Fischer
“… The most important thing is coming back to presence every day, back to the breath, to sitting, walking, and standing, and remembering that this is what we are …” ~ Norman Fischer
When You Greet Me I Bow
“… simply being together with warmhearted kindness, dropping story lines, and appreciating each other’s profound human presence is the whole of the teaching …” ~ Norman Fischer
Shambhala Publications Series Launch with Norman Fischer
“Enlightened society has to be real and good, honest and genuine.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa
Inquiry Continued … Book Excerpt Dominic Liber
By encouraging you to remain with your experience, whatever it is, {Dominic} takes you gently and gradually to deeper levels of your psyche and finally to the very presence of your spiritual nature …” ~ A. H. Almaas
The Diamond Inquiry – Book Excerpt Dominic Liber
Diamond “… inquiry is just like scuba diving in the ocean of your inner world. It is as utterly thrilling as lowering yourself into a coral reef or an underwater cave to discover …” ~ Dominic C. Liber
The Diamond Approach – John Davis
“… The Diamond Approach invites us to live in a way that both reflects and develops wisdom, love, joy … stillness, … trust, gratitude, and an unrelenting engagement with what is …” ~ John Davis
Love Unveiled: Afterword – A.H. Almaas
“… Love is the primary way the bliss of being expresses itself. Love is the perfume of union …” ~ A. H. Almaas
