We have excerpted a portion of chapter one entitled, “Suffering and the End of Suffering,” from Touching the Infinite: A New Perspective on the Buddha's Four Foundations of Mindfulness here. To order the full book, click here. During a question-and-answer period after a meditation session I was leading, a student asked where meditation was taking us. He

We join our palms and say goodbye to a teacher who had an immense impact on the world. S.N. Goenka was a pioneer in making Vipassana meditation widely available to a secular audience. Over 170 meditation centers have been established around the globe under his auspices. His legacy will resound indefinitely.   29 January 1924

Voices of Insight, edited by Sharon Salzberg This book was actually put together as a benefit project-with the royalties to benefit Ram Dass to help pay his medical bills-but it turned out better than expected. It's basically a digest of American Insight Meditation teachers-some of them appearing in print for the first time before they

Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being Truly Alive by Larry Rosenberg Here's a preview of the rest of your life: you're gonna get old and/or sick and you're gonna die. A great remedy for not forgetting that pesky fact is repetition of the Buddhist text known as the Five Subjects

Awakening$24.95 - PaperbackBy: Rodney Smith Add to Cart4 reviews on Amazon An Interview with Rodney Smith, author of Awakening: A Paradigm Shift of the Heart Shambhala: In your new book you take on the possibly daunting task of describing what enlightenment is and how it happens. To what extent can it even be described? Rodney