The Path of Individual Liberation

The Path of Individual Liberation
Author: Chögyam Trungpa
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 960
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1590308026

Second volume of a compilation of Ch'ogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Vajradhatu Seminary teachings in three volumes.

Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness

Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness
Author: Henepola Gunaratana
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2001-06-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0861711769

The sequel to "Mindfulness in Plain English" delivers a simple message: Living a happy life is not a theory or dream, but something eminently practical and achievable through the Buddha's Eightfold Path.

Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom

Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom
Author: Gerry Spence
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2002-11-16
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1429909005

Beloved author of, among many other books, the bestsellers How to Argue and Win Every Time and The Making of a Country Lawyer, Gerry Spence distills a lifetime of wisdom and observation about how we live, and how we ought to live in Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom. Here, in seven chapters, he delivers messages that inspire us first to recognize our servitude-to money, possessions, corporations, the status quo, and our own fears-and then shows us how to begin the self-defining process toward liberation. Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom is a powerfully affirming, large-hearted, and life-changing book that asks us all to take the greatest risk for the greatest reward-our own freedom.

12 Steps on Buddha's Path

12 Steps on Buddha's Path
Author: Laura S.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2006-03-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0861712811

"When you hit rock-bottom with an addiction, life seems hopeless, yet in truth it's anything but...the author describes her own journey of recovery from alcoholism--an astonishing passage through frightening territory. She marks out the path that allowed her to emerge into a life that is joyous and free" -- Page [4] cover.

Liberation Unleashed

Liberation Unleashed
Author: Ilona Ciunaite
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1626258082

Liberation Unleashed introduces you to the process of unraveling the false sense of a separate self at the center of your existence. With insightful metaphors, personal stories, and guided dialogues, this book points directly to our lack of separation and helps you move toward a new, more open reality of selfless bliss. Using the seven clear and focused steps presented, you’ll find liberation in realizing there is no individuated “I” and marvel at the true nature of things. Author Ilona Ciunaite’s search for the truth began when she first “experienced silence of the thinking mind, a sweet sense of being, contentment, peace,” and “feeling at home.” Driven by a desire to reach that state of oneness once more, her path led her through spiritual writings to the process of deconstruction and non-dual self-inquiry and finally to a peaceful emptiness of not knowing, but of simply being. It’s from that place that Ciunaite cocreated the popular Liberation Unleashed forum—a global Internet-based community helping people see through the illusion of a separate self—and it’s just that sense of unknowing peace she wishes to impart with this book. Liberation Unleashed is a lively, fresh, and moving account of the author’s own searching, liberation, and transformation, woven together with the stories of fellow seekers and a clear exposition of the simple, focused tools you can use to go through the “gateless gate.” With its conversational tone, provocative questions, and the presentation of the seven steps—“Clearing the path—meeting the fear,” “Strip away ALL expectations,” “Get in touch with the real,” “‘I’ is a thought,” “There is no separate self,” “How does it feel to see this?” and “Falling”—this book serves as an introductory how-to guide, demonstrating how to use the process of self-inquiry to get free from the falseness of the separate self and realize a blissful oneness. So many of us go through life feeling isolated, searching for ourselves, or seeking a more authentic reality through religion, spirituality, or other, more unconventional means of expanding consciousness. Now, with this book and its guiding principles, you’ll learn how to look deeply into the nature of self and existence; combat the anxieties, fears, mental blocks, and reservations that can arise in self-inquiry; and see the simple beauty of the everyday moment.

The Issue at Hand

The Issue at Hand
Author: Gil Fronsdal
Publisher: Insight Meditation Center
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2008-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 061516286X

Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice. An inspiring and very accessible compilation of essays and edited talks on the Buddhist practice of mindfulness. As Gil Fronsdal states, "the search for the issue at hand is the search for what is closest at hand, for what is directly seen, heard, smelt, tasted, felt, and cognized in the present." Gil brings the practice of mindfulness not only to formal meditation but to all the varying aspects of every day life.

Love and Rage

Love and Rage
Author: Lama Rod Owens
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1623174090

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation? White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger--and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it--needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness, or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else. Instead, it is one that offers a potent vision of anger that acknowledges and honors its power as a vehicle for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation. Love and Rage weaves the inimitable wisdom and lived experience of Lama Rod Owens with Buddhist philosophy, practical meditation exercises, mindfulness, tantra, pranayama, ancestor practices, energy work, and classical yoga. The result is a book that serves as both a balm and a blueprint for those seeking justice who can feel overwhelmed with anger--and yet who refuse to relent. It is a necessary text for these times.