How To Meditation

These specially written meditations are both inspiring and reassuring for mothers of all ages. Roni Jay touches on many of the issues that are central to child-rearing, from keeping your temper to the importance of magic, and from the value of patience to learning to live in the moment. This is an accessible, useful and up-beat companion for all busy mothers. The relaxing music on the accompanying CD can be used in conjunction with the meditations to aid concentration or on its own as a tool for relaxation.

Paramananda's light style helps to answer the bigger picture of 'why meditate?' as well as walk us through the mindfulness of breathing and the lovingkindness meditations. With key reminders on the importance of our body and suggestions on working with it in meditation, he also considers the distractions, how to set up and maintain a regular meditation practice, insight and further levels of consciousness. Born John Wilson in London, Paramananda was curious about Asian ideas but it was not until the death of his father that his interest in Buddhism was aroused. Ordained in the Western Buddhist Order in 1985, he has been teaching meditation, Buddhism and body awareness full-time in San Francisco and London since then.

In his hard hitting book, author Keith Loy refers to the spiritually awakened mind as being the true natural state of humanity. He draws deeply from his own life experience as he exposes many of the beliefs, teachings and distractions which he found to pollute the simplicity of spiritual awakening. With a little humour and a lot of boldness he speaks in the lay mans tongue, as he takes the uncommon risk of delving psychologically into the mindset of the average spiritual seeker, uncovering many reasons why they remain as seekers and not finders. He has written this book only for those who have finally reached that `crunch time' in their search, and now feel daring enough to leave behind the spiritual search, in favour of awakening with ease to their present Reality! IN HIS OWN WORDS: - If we could only give up searching for the extraordinary - for the weird, the wonderful and the mysterious. If we could only come to our senses, attentive to the present, uniting our attention with life just as it is; then we would find much to our surprise, that the mystery which we have been seeking for all along - will no longer be a mystery!

What is the beginning and end of our practice? Simply, to create a little shift from the spinning world we've got in our heads to right-here-now." So begins Charlotte Joko Beck on Living Everyday Zen, the first audio program from this cherished voice in American Zen. Living Everyday Zen collects essential insights from Charlotte Joko Beck's half-century of teaching into three vivid CDs. Here, this legendary Zen teacher and bestselling author talks to people from every spiritual tradition on the topics of: * Zen: to clearly see you are life itself and not separated from life * Wearing out your "if onlies" to discover for yourself that fulfillment is only in the moment * Meditation: awareness of what is--directly perceived * Closing the gap between the "I" and the "That," and more "We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way," explains Charlotte Joko Beck. "Ultimately the result of Zen practice is working better in the office, raising our kids better, and having better relationships." With Living Everyday Zen, she offers the timeless wisdom of this venerable tradition in an accessible, down-to-earth style that will help students new and old lead lives of benefit to all.

Collections of Thoughts by Kahlil Gibran, author of The ProphetDimensions: 21x14x1 cm.

Known throughout the world as the intellect behind The Chronicles of Narnia and as the twentieth century's most influential Christian writer, C. S. Lewis has stirred millions of readers through his probing insights, passionate arguments, and provocative questions about God, love, life, and death. Gathered from the mass of his published works -- including The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves, and God in the Dock -- as well as from letters, essays, and less familiar writings, this compendium contains a cross section of Lewis's finest work.