Satori Keeping A Peaceful Heart In Chaotic Times

Satori is not a religion. It is not a belief system. It is not even a lifestyle. Satori is simply a mindset that delivers you from anxiety, frustration and suffering. A clear and concise guide that can help anyone learn to live a joy-filled life. Includes companion Satori Music CD.

The word satori literally means understanding. It is that "a-ha" moment, when you finally "get it." It is a word that can, and will, change your life forever. This fun, compassionate, and practical guide will teach you to navigate the stressors in your world and learn to listen to the intelligence that resides in your heart, rather than the programming in your head. Only then can you experience true and lasting joy in your life.

This is the story of friendship, carved out by the universe--destined. It is the coming together of two unlikely souls, colliding in a celestial moment and setting in motion the rest of their life's journey. It is only true if you believe it is, and sad, only if you cannot see past tomorrow.

Help Your Teenagers and Yourself to a Saner, Safer Life. This book offers immediate and clear help to parents, family members and teachers who are angry, confused, frustrated, sad, or at their wit’s end in dealing with their teenagers. Topics include: • Understanding the real anxieties of 21st-century teenagers • Creating and maintaining boundaries (and consequences) that work • What to do about lying and manipulation • Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll – their choices and your guidance • Maximizing their safety in: driving, working, use of the Internet ... etc. • Helping kids cope with societal and peer pressures The blinders have been on long enough! This book allows readers to see exactly what is going on in teenagers’ thoughts, actions and lives, and offers workable ways of dealing with behavioral issues. – Susie Emerson, R.N. With strong conviction, the authors present compelling reasons for establishing a solid parental presence in the life of our children. As parents of four, we found this book to provide direct and practical advice. Readers will walk away feeling more competent, capable, and definitely well supported in their role as parents. – Dominick Scotto, STM (Sacred Theology), MSW, high school teacher; and Pandora Scotto, MSW, LCSW This concise treatise on the highly emotional, chaotic and downright frightening teenage years defines and enumerates the responsibilities and actions of both parents and teenagers; it is easily read and eminently useful. – John Blackard, D.D.S. This book gives parents a no-holds-barred approach to keeping a step ahead of their teen, and by that I mean keeping them safe, establishing boundaries, and enforcing rules until they develop the proper skills necessary for independence. – Uwe W. Geertz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology

A Chronicle of Friendship If you have ever had a really good friend Experienced the elation of being understood And the frustration of not being heard The qualms of trusting a perfect stranger Only to realize that your friend is the one person you can trust... If you have ever had a really good friend And one day had to say good-bye Wherever the Wind Blows Me Will tickle your funny bone And tug at your heartstrings This is the story of friendship, carved out by the universe -- destined. It is the coming together of two unlikely souls, colliding in a celestial moment and setting in motion the rest of their lifes' journey. It is only true if you believe it is, and sad, only if you cannot see past tomorrow.

We can use whatever life presents, Ezra Bayda teaches, to strengthen our spiritual practice—including the turmoil of daily life. What we need is the willingness to just be with our experiences—whether they are painful or pleasing—opening ourselves to the reality of our lives without trying to fix or change anything. But doing this requires that we confront our most deeply rooted fears and assumptions in order to gradually become free of the constrictions and suffering they create. Then we can awaken to the loving-kindness that is at the heart of our being. While many books aspire to bring meditation into everyday experience, Being Zen gives us practical ways to actually do it, introducing techniques that enable the reader to foster qualities essential to continued spiritual awakening. Topics include how to cultivate: • Perseverance: staying with anger, fear, and other distressing emotions. • Stillness: abiding with chaotic experiences without becoming overwhelmed. • Clarity: seeing through the conditioned beliefs and fears that "run" us. • Direct experience: encountering the physical reality of the present moment—even when that moment is exactly where we don't want to be. Like Pema Chödrön, the best-selling author of When Things Fall Apart, Ezra Bayda writes with clear, heartfelt simplicity, using his own life stories to illustrate the teachings in an immediate and accessible way that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers.

There is a value in seeing how spiritual awakening and being human meet in an ordinary Life, in relationship with our partners, kids, families and friends, with our busy lives, in illness, transitions, death, careers and in every area of our lives. This book is a call to awakening and embracing and transforming our humanity. It is a radical guide to spiritual awakening in the modern world. Not written from the monastery or ashram, but from someone who has lived in the pain of samsara, from someone who after years of seeking and meditation found surrender in the depths of pain, while life was falling apart around him. Craig Holliday is both a nondual teacher and a therapist. He teaches in a way that instructs us to not run from life, but to face life head on through embracing every moment as it is. Through this absolute embracing, we are given the gift of discovering that our Beauty-our innate Divinity is right here within us; that our very humanity is the doorway to our freedom. Craig has spent 20 years intensely seeking, meditating and studying with some of the world's greatest nondual teachers. Beyond his spiritual training, he has also bridged the gap between eastern spirituality and western psychotherapy. After years of trying to transcend his humanity through meditation and spirituality, his search brought him to the study of psychology and the emphasis on working with our humanity instead of simply trying to transcend it. Through this combined work of psychology and nondual spirituality, Craig offers a seamless transmission of nondual spirituality which fully acknowledges our humanity and our overwhelming Beauty and Divinity. His work is dedicated to the discovery of our innate Divinity in every aspect of our lives. He works in a way that addresses our everyday human suffering as a doorway to our inherent freedom. Craig offers Satsang, workshops, retreats and meets with individuals from around the world via Skype. For more information about Craig visit: craigholliday.com If you want to examine with me, what it means to be awake and how to work with a huge amount of karma and egoic conditioning-read on. If you want to know how to work with repetitive difficult emotions, with anxiety and pain, with a career, kids and relationships read on. If you want to examine what life before, during and after awakening is; what enlightenment is beyond ancient mythological or a dogmatic understandings read on. If you are compelled to examine with me, what it means to be human and Divine-not in some philosophical sense, but in the context of a down to earth awakened practicality, join me in this.

The very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in self-absorbed mind-noise. Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. Its easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram's assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide, and to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.In this new edition of the bestselling book, the author rearranges, revises and expands upon the original material, as well as adding new sections that bring further clarity to his ideas.