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Recommended Reading
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A Whole-Life Path: A Lay Buddhist’s Guide to Crafting a Dhamma-Infused Life
by Gregory Kramer
Many lay Buddhists struggle to carry the benefits of their studies and meditation practice into their twenty-first-century lives. Drawing on decades of meditation, study, and teaching, Gregory Kramer explores the essence of each factor of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. He then looks at modern life with fresh eyes, calling out the myriad opportunities it offers to put all the Buddha’s teachings into practice. With A Whole-Life Path as a starting point and touchstone, our lives and our spiritual path can become one.
Fully Human: A new way of using your mind.
by Steve Biddulph
In Fully Human, Steve Biddulph draws on deeply personal stories from his own life, as well as those of his clients, and from the frontiers of thinking about how the brain works with the body and the wisdom of the 'wild creature' inside all of us.
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body.
by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.
Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering.
by Phillip Moffitt
Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Noting that human beings have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Phillip Moffitt has found answers for his own life in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist meditation teacher, Moffitt provides a fresh perspective on the Buddha's ancient wisdom.
Dancing with Life offers a prescriptive path for finding joy and peace that will appeal to meditation students and readers of "Dharma Wisdom," Moffitt's column in Yoga Journal, as well as anyone searching for a more authentic life.
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