Wild Chikens and Petty Tyrants: 108 metaphors for Mindfulness, by Arnie Kozak, has been included in Spirituality and Practice’s list of The Best Spiritual Books of 2009 (so far). Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants received top honors in the Mindfulness category. To read a review of Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants on Spirituality and Practice’s [...]
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Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants included in list of The Best Spiritual Books of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saltwater Buddha, The Film
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wisdom Publications is very excited to announce that Jaimal Yogis’ Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea is being made into a movie. You can watch the trailer and learn more about the film by visiting saltwaterbuddha.org.
New Holiday Catalog
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Due to a technical glitch our holiday catalog is running late, you should be receiving it in the coming weeks. In the meantime you can take advantage of our free shipping offer and browse timely titles like A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency, Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness and the wonderful new book for [...]
Elephant Journal on Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Deborah Shoeberlein, education, Elephant Journal, mindfulness on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Schools are a whirlwind of activity. Teachers and students, caught up in the hustle and spin of activity, rarely take the time to just notice what is going around them, let alone within them, all in the name of raising standardized test scores. And yet, mindfulness in education is seen by many as important [...]
Prison Dharma
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calvin Malone, dharma, prison, Shambhala on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Shambhala Sunspace
Prison Dharma: Meet the Buddhas who practice it — on both sides of the bars
Buddhist principles and teachings, put into practice to give comfort and guidance to the incarcerated. What could be a more worthy cause? Anyone who’s practiced prison dharma will tell you: It works.
Sunspace has collected some excellent prison dharma [...]
Dogen’s Extensive Record Now 40% Off.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Get your copy of the beautiful hardcover edition now for a special 40% discount.
Dogen’s Extensive Record is the first-ever complete and scholarly translation of the monumental Eihei Koroku into English. This
edition contains extensive and detailed research and annotation by scholar, translator, and Zen teacher Taigen Dan Leighton, as well as forewords by the eighteenth-century poet-monk [...]
Free Shipping on all Orders of $25 or More
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a special holiday discount and thank you for all of your support Wisdom is offering free shipping within the U.S. on all orders of $25 or more that are placed through our website.
Each time you purchase a book directly from Wisdom Publications you play a key roll in supporting the publication of authentic Buddhist [...]
New from the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series: Buddhist Teaching in India
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“In this wonderful contribution to the field of Buddhist studies, Johannes Bronkhorst provides a historical context for the earliest centuries of the Buddha’s teachings in India. He delineates what the Buddha inherited, transformed, and originated, and the ways that scholars, both American and European, have struggled to make sense of Buddhist doctrine and its [...]
“What Mindfulness Does” — An excerpt from Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Deborah Schoeberlein, education, mindfulness, teaching on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Shambhala SunSpace.
In this excerpt from Deborah Schoeberlein’s new book, Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything, we learn what mindfulness is, what it isn’t, and how the benefits of its practice might show themselves.
Mindfulness isn’t a panacea for the world’s problems, but it does provide a practical strategy for [...]
How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged medicine, mindfulness, The New York Times on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From The New York Times
PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
Published: October 15, 2009
One night during my training, long after all the other doctors had fled the hospital, I found a senior surgeon still on the wards working on a patient note. He was a surgeon with extraordinary skill, a doctor of few words whose folksy quips had [...]
