Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume

Chapter headings: Foreword: Paul Hawken Introduction: Stephanie Kaza Part One Getting Hooked: Desire and Attachment 1. Desire, delusion and DVDs: Joseph Goldstein 2. How we get hooked, how we get unhooked: Pema Chödrön 3. The inner pursuit of happiness: Ruben L.F. Habito 4. Young Buddhists in shopping Shangri-la: Sumi Loundon 5. Marketing the Dharma: Thubten…

Hi, I’m Bill and I’m Old: Reinventing My Sobriety for the Long Haul

Chapter headings: Acknowledgments Preface Aging Reverie: Oblivion No Escape Two Truths The Downward Slope Old Is Good We Are Addicts The God of Time The End Naked Burial Remembering Story/Memory Interlude Memory/Story Interlude Growing Down Interlude The Mind of my Grandmother Interlude Rocking Chair Forgetting Silence Big Mind Resurrection Transfiguration Communion Reverie: The Mind of…

Eight Step Recovery

Interviews and videos: Link to an interview with Valerie Mason-John: View here… And various links to YouTube® videos:Vimalasara aka Valerie Mason-John – Twelve StepsVimalasara aka Valerie Mason-John – The Vicious CycleVimalasara aka Valerie Mason-John – The Four Basic Needs Of The Heart Contents: About the authors Acknowledgements Audio downloads Author’s note Dedication List of figures Foreword…

Doing Time Doing Vipassana

(Vipassana in Tihar Jail, New Delhi)www.vri.dhamma.org Distributed by Dhamma Books. Selected excerpts: “Continuous awareness of physical sensations, without reacting, is the core of the Vipassana practice. Every sound, vision, taste, smell, everything that contacts the body, instantly produces some sensation. The technique focuses on natural physical sensations, as the crucial link between mind and body, the…

Dharma Punx

Chapter headings: 1. Suicide Solution 2. Kids of the Black Hole 3. It’s in My Blood 4. Fuck Authority 5. Teenage Wasteland 6. No Remorse 7. Live Fast Die Young 8. Nailed to the X 9. I Need Your Shelter 10. Serve the Truth, Defy the Lie 11. My Friends Look Out for Me Like…

Cool Water: Alcoholism, Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery

Update from the Publisher: Shambhala has re-published a newer edition of this book, under the title “Ordinary Recovery: Mindfulness, Addiction, and the Path of Lifelong Sobriety”.You can find a link to it here. Chapter headings: Introduction: something’s happening here Breakdown, ordinary recovery and autumn prayers Coming home Off the cushion and out the door My liver, my…