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January 22, 2018The Hush at the End of the World
Join these 3 senior Buddhist monks from the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah as they embark on a pilgrimage in search for hush at the end of the world.
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January 22, 2018Without and Within
Ajahn Jayasaro wrote this book Without and Within to introduce the practice of Buddhism and to elaborate on various topics to people about Buddhism.
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January 22, 2018Who Is Pulling The Strings?
Read “Who Is Pulling The Strings?” as it elaborates the fourth of the Brahma-vihāras – upekkhā or equanimity to explain why things happen as they do.
Beginners
January 22, 2018Meditation – An Outline
“Meditation – An Outline” follows the tradition of Theravada Buddhism to get you started with the practice of meditation. Read it now!
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January 22, 2018Just One More
“Just One More” explores the third Brahma-vihāra – muditā which helps you awaken your joy at the good fortune of others and avoid being self-centered.
Compassion
January 22, 2018Don’t Push
Read about the Buddha’s teaching on caring in action as explained by this book by Ajahn Amaro.that investigates the second of the brahma-vihāras – karuṇā.
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January 22, 2018Dhammapada Reflections Volume 3
This third volume of the Dhammapada Reflections brings you new pearls of wisdom by the Buddha that you can learn, to take you through your daily life.
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January 22, 2018Dhammapada Reflections Volume 1
Read the 1st volume of the Dhammapada Reflections, which contains 52 verses of the Buddha’s wisdom, complemented by comments for a better understanding.
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January 22, 2018Ajahn Sumedho Volume 2 – Seeds of Understanding
Learn from this 2nd volume of Ajahn Sumedho’s anthology, “Seeds of Understanding”, which introduces the technique of mindfulness of breathing.
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January 22, 2018Ajahn Sumedho Volume 5 – The Wheel of Truth
Read this collection of Ajahn Sumedho’s Dhamma talks which revolves around the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path of practice.
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January 22, 2018Ajahn Sumedho Volume 4 – The Sound of Silence
Learn from “The Sound of Silence” as it explores in detail the topic of silence itself along with intuitive awareness ever-present inside all of us.
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January 22, 2018Ajahn Sumedho Volume 3 – Direct Realization
The subject of the 3rd volume of Ajahn Sumedho’s anthology, “Direct Realization” is the dependent origination as shown through the Dhamma.
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January 22, 2018Ajahn Sumedho Volume 1 – Peace is a Simple Step
Read about this “Peace is a Simple Step”, the first book of Ven. Ajahn Sumedho’s series of written teachings focused on the approach to Buddhist practice.
eBooks
December 11, 2017Finding Me (A Journey To Get To Know Yourself & Where You Want To Be)
Get to know yourself through guided meditations and reflections to yourself. Find your way to yourself with this mindfulness exercise.
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July 27, 2017The Mindful Leader
Ebook by Hult Research, The Mindful Leader: Developing the capacity for resilience and collaboration in complex times through mindfulness practice.
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February 6, 2017Trump And A Post-Truth World
How do we treat truth in the Trump era? In this free ebook, Ken Wilber addresses mindfulness and attempts to go beyond the basic divide and dig into something deeper.
Confidence
November 14, 2016Beginning Our Day, Volume 1
A free mindfulness ebook on teachings that one can reflect on daily to achieve a better sense of reflection and recollection at the end of the day.
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November 14, 2016Adyashanti: The Way of Liberation
A free ebook focusing on practical guidelines for achieving awakening and enlightenment – also known as a form of spiritual liberation.
Contentment
November 13, 2016On Meditation
A free ebook to help you understand the basic principles of meditation so you can easily incorporate it into your daily life.
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November 13, 2016Venerable Ajahn Chah: Still Flowing Water
This free ebook is a thought-provoking talk by Ajahn Chah to nourish one’s heart and mind. This leads us to seek the immaterial gifts of Dhamma and peace.
Confidence
November 13, 2016Re-Awaken The Giant Within
A superb eBook by acclaimed success coach Tony Robbins that will help you realize your dreams and spur your drive to go after each and every one of them.
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November 13, 2016Ajahn Chah: It’s Like This
A free mindfulness ebook of Ajahn Chah, discussing the realness of genuine mindfulness practice as a way of achieving peace and serenity.
Contentment
November 12, 2016Peace is a Simple Step (Ajahn Sumedho)
Vol 1 of Ajahn Sumedho’s Peace Is A Simple Step focuses on achieving peace & serenity through visual imagery that will help improve one’s meditation.
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November 12, 2016Rain on the Nile
A free mindfulness ebook Rain on The Nile by Ajahn Amaro talks about people’s creative instinct, where it comes from and what it means in our daily lives.
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November 9, 2016On Love
A free, downloadable ebook On Love by Ajahn Jayasaro. It’s about mindfulness and the different types of love to make better sense of your relationships.
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September 4, 2016Parami
Parami. A way of talking about transcendence, liberation or however you conceive of a spiritual path, is to use the metaphor of ‘crossing the floods.’
Contentment
September 1, 2016Mindfulness Meditation Guide and Journal
Mindfulness meditation guide and journal are useful tools to bring awareness and peace of mind in your day-to-day work and personal life.
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August 1, 2016Teachings On Nature
Teachings on Nature. One of Ajahn Chah’s unique qualities was his ability to explain & encourage people in ways that made the practice tangible.
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May 12, 2016Small Boat, Great Mountain
Small Boat, Great Mountain by Amaro Bhikkhu contains Theravadan Reflections on the Natural Great Perfection. It has references to Ajahn Amaro, et al.
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May 11, 2016Intuitive Awareness
Intuitive Awareness is an essential aspect of the spiritual path. Meditation techniques for beginners can increase one’s ability to feel and respond.
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May 2, 2016Don’t Hold Back
When we realize that our basic needs are satisfied, it is much easier for contentment to arise. Actually, what we have is enough.
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March 14, 2016Integral Life Practice
Our Integral Life Practice kit turns Integral learning into accessible, applied practices for gaining more perspective and control of your life.
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March 1, 2016Rude Awakenings
Rude Awakenings is Part 1 of the eBook Where Are You Going- A Pilgrimage on Foot tot he Buddhist Holy Places by Ajahn Sucitto and Dr. Nick Scott.
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February 9, 2016Great Patient One
Great Patient One is Part 2 of Where Are You Going- A Pilgrimage on Foot to the Buddhist Holy Places by Ajahn Sucitto and Dr. Nick Scott.
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November 14, 2015Integral Life Practice Version 1.0
This Starter Kit will guide you in adopting Integral Life Practice, a whole and balanced approach to well-being, awareness, and transformation.
Confidence
November 14, 2015Beginning Our Day, Volume 2
Find out how mindfulness can help you reflect on your reactions to unpleasant feelings, and to identify your habits and tendencies, throughout your day.
Confidence
July 12, 2015Mindfulness Meditation Guide and Journal
This ebook is designed with the beginner in mind. It can be difficult starting out on a new journey, and trying to incorporate a new practice into our lives. Oftentimes, we’re unsure of how to proceed. Particularly with something as unfamiliar as mindfulness meditation, you’ll likely encounter some hurdles along the way. For that matter, […]
Compassion
July 8, 2015Simple Kindness
Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: The Four Noble Truths There’s a story with which many of you are probably familiar, that begins with the Buddha walking in the woods with some of his disciples. At one point the Buddha bends down and picks up a […]
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April 9, 2015Meditation: A Way of Awakening
Meditation: A Way of Awakening. Meditation can be a very deep inquiry into the mind. It can be undertaken in intensive retreats. Practice it anytime too!
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February 16, 2015Clarity and Calm – For Busy People
Clarity and Calm – For Busy People is an essential aspect of the spiritual path. These meditation techniques can increase one’s ability to feel and respond. Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: Relax the muscles … Widen your perspective … Float the question: ’What’s happening for […]
Compassion
February 11, 2015Food for the Heart
Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: j Detachment Within Activity Given at Wat Pah Pong during the rains retreat, 1977. Take a look at the example of the Buddha. Both in his own practice and in his methods for teaching the disciples he was exemplary. The […]
Calm
January 7, 2015Finding the Missing Peace
Finding the Missing Peace describes a selection of meditation tools and techniques for beginners that will help you find peace and live a harmonious life. Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: Posture and Focus The themes for the first lesson are posture and focus, the […]
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August 3, 2014Direct Realization
Volume 3 Direct Realization. This volume contains material gathered from talks given by Ajahn Sumedho in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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July 14, 2014Meditations 5
Meditations 5, or Wisdom for Dummies, comes with the purpose to present you the teachings of the Buddha in a simple, easy-to-understand way.
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May 30, 2014Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha
The 3 basic principles of Buddhism are the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. You’ll be given a full introduction into the act of “refuge” itself.
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May 30, 2014Skill in Questions: How the Buddha Taught
The central role of questioning in the Buddha’s teaching may be connected to the fact that his teaching starts not with a first principle but with a self-evident problem: how to put an end to suffering.
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May 29, 2014The Mind Like Fire Unbound (ebook)
The Mind Like Fire Unbound revolves around the idea that the mind released is like a fire that has gone out. Read & learn how to extinguish it yourself.
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May 29, 2014The Wings to Awakening
“The Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon” is the 1st organized set of teachings that the Buddha said formed the heart of his message.
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May 28, 2014The Paradox of Becoming
The Buddha’s analysis of becoming throws a great deal of light on how imaginary, fictional, or dream worlds are created. He was more interested in seeing how the process of becoming relates to the way suffering
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May 28, 2014The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising
The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising presents a clear explanation of “dukkha” – the suffering and stress we’re all trying to deal with.
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May 27, 2014Self & Not-Self: The Buddhist Teaching on YOU
Selves & Not-self: The Buddhist Teaching on Anatta deals with the mystifying teaching on “not-self” crucial to understanding the spiritual path.
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May 27, 2014The Truth of Rebirth: And Why It Matters for Buddhist Practice
The Truth of Rebirth: And Why It Matters for Buddhist Practice ebook teaches Rebirth, Awakening, and release from Suffering in the Buddhist practice.
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May 26, 2014Right Mindfulness: Memory & Ardency on the Buddhist Path
Right Mindfulness: Memory & Ardency on the Buddhist Path. The premise of this book is that these two theories are highly questionable. Learn why!
Calm
May 26, 2014With Each & Every Breath: A Guide to Meditation
Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: MEDITATION: WHAT & WHY Meditation is training for the mind, to help it develop the strengths and skills it needs to solve its problems. Just as there are many different remedies for the various illnesses of the body, there […]
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May 25, 2014A Burden Off the Mind: A Study Guide on the Five Aggregates
One of the new concepts most central to the Buddha’s teaching was that of the khandhas, usually translated into English as “aggregates.”
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May 25, 2014A Meditator’s Tools: A Guide on the 10 Recollections
The Ten Recollections (A Study Guide) are a set of meditation themes that highlight the positive role that memory and thought play in training the mind.
Beginners
May 24, 2014Study Guide on the First Stage of Awakening
Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: Excerpt: PART ONE The Way to Stream Entry The Pali Canon recognizes four levels of Awakening, the first of which is called stream entry. This gains its name from the fact that a person who has attained this level […]
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May 23, 2014Mindful of the Body: A Guide
Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: “Monks, I lived in refinement, utmost refinement, total refinement. My father even had lotus ponds made in our palace: one where red-lotuses bloomed, one where white lotuses bloomed, one where blue lotuses bloomed, all for my sake. I used […]
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May 23, 2014Recognizing the Dhamma: A Guide
Any interpretation of the Dhamma or Vinaya must be judged. Perhaps the most important point that these principles make is that it has to be judged by the results that come when putting it into practice.
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May 22, 2014The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness
Discernment: The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness II is an introduction to the Buddha’s teachings on how to use discernment to find unending happiness.
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May 21, 2014Ten Perfections: A Study Guide
For people in the modern world facing the issue of how to practice Dhamma in daily life, the 10 perfections provide a useful framework for how to do it.
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May 21, 2014The Sublime Attitudes: A Study on Love
Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: The sublime attitudes (brahmavihāras) are the Buddha’s primary heart teachings—the ones that connect most directly with our desire for true happiness. They’re the qualities of heart that motivated the Buddha to find awakening and then to teach the path […]
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May 20, 2014Noble Strategy
The essays in this book present views on basic elements in the Buddhist path: the attitudes, concepts, & practices that lead to total freedom for the mind.
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May 20, 2014The Karma of Questions
The Karma of Questions. There’s no such thing as a totally idle question. Every question, even the most casual, carries an intention: Let’s look deeper why!
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May 19, 2014Head and Heart Together
Head & Heart Together. “How can I ever repay you for your teaching?” Good meditation teachers often hear this question from their students, the best answer I know for it is one that my teacher, Ajaan Fuang, gave every time.
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May 18, 2014Beyond All Directions
Beyond All Directions – Essays on the Buddhist Path by Thanissaro Bhikkhu deals with the idea of “protection in all directions” offered by teachers towards their students.
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May 18, 2014Dhamma Talks, vol. I
Dharma talks vol 1. Coming out to a place like this is very important for the mind because the mind needs time to get away from its day-to-day issues.
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May 17, 2014Dhamma Talks, vol. II
Dhamma Talks Vol II. When you can bring a fresh attitude toward the breath, you start seeing things you didn’t see before. Highly recommended for Beginners!
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May 16, 2014Meditations 1
Meditations 1. The Dhamma talks included in this volume were given during evening meditation sessions, & in many cases covered issues raised at interviews.
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May 16, 2014Meditations 2
Meditations 2. The Dhamma talks included in this volume were given during the evening meditation sessions, and in many cases covered issues & interviews.
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May 15, 2014Meditations 3
When we look for happiness, we tend to look far away. Even when we’re meditating, we tend to look far away from where things actually are.
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May 15, 2014Meditations 4
Meditations 4. Right concentration forms the heart of the path. The other factors of the path serve two functions. One is to get you into concentration; the other is to make sure you don’t get stuck there.
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May 14, 2014Meditations 6
Meditations 6. The Buddha’s own search was a search for true happiness, a happiness that doesn’t age, grow ill, or die. That’s what he was looking for.
eBooks
May 13, 2014Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless
Mindfulness is the path to the deathless, heedlessness is the path to death. The mindful do not die, but the heedless are as if dead already – Dhammapada 21
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May 13, 2014A Tree in a Forest
This free ebook A Tree in A Forest is a collection of Ajahn Chah’s similes. Talking about Dhamma via similes is a creative way to understand the teachings.
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May 12, 2014The Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon
The Wings to Awakening is an Anthology from the Pali Canon translated & explained by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. It’s the 1st organized heart of Buddha’s Teachings.
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May 10, 2014Kamma and the End of Kamma
Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech and mind. And what is the cause by which kamma comes into play? Contact, bhikkhus.
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May 8, 2014Now is the Knowing
The Buddha said the greatest gift is the gift of Dhamma. This small book represents the wish of some of those fortunate enough to have received Dhamma teachings from Ajahn Sumedho to share them with others.
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May 3, 2014In Simple Terms
Ajahn Chah was a master at using the apt & unusual simile to explain points of Dhamma. Sometimes he would make an abstract point clear with a simple image.
eBooks
February 22, 2014Merit: The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness
Develop a wise sense of self through the pursuit of Merit. The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness is an essential aspect of the spiritual path and Qoya guides you through. Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook on Merit: Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness: OF ALL THE CONCEPTS […]
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May 14, 2012Purity of Heart
Start walking the path of your self-awakening with purity of heart as your first step. We can help you learn the ways to enlighten and purify your heart.
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