Review:Pema Chodron is insightful, spritual and funny. She takes a spiritual text dealing with anger from many years ago, and makes it current. For those trying to be a better person this is a must, as we all struggle with frustration and anger in our daily lives. Read more

Review:A treasure of wisdom and insights in how to navigate through our emotions in the river of life. Pema Chodron expands your conscience and open new ways for exploring the reality of being presence. It's a gift for the spirit. Read more

Review:An excellent addition to my library. Awesome author, will look for more of His work . Hope to learn more of this man and His awesome style of Combat. A truer Samurai has yet to breath the air of life. It's a shame the man isn't alive anymore. We could all learn alot from this Soul. Both warfare and life in General. A very Wise one indeed. Read more

Review:Jack Kornfield gives the Westerner a guide to living from the Heart....with widsom ...that is understandable and can fit into ANY spiritual path. One can open it to any chapter and feel a connection to a power greater than themselves. I recommend it to any one wanting healing and connection. Read more

Review:This book was life changing for me. It really made me consider things about myself that I hadn't before and gave a lot of insight toward making positive changes. It gives great perspectives and suggests different ways to maintain balance in your life. I highly recommend this book. Read more

Review:I love reading anything by Thich Nhat Hanh and this was no exception. Great little book. However, I was surprised when I received it in the mail because it was so small. I am disappointed in this book. It is smaller than the size of a journal wrapped up into a book with a very basic message. Not what I expected. I now go to the library before purchasing any of his books. Read more

Review:First never admitted how angry I am and have been ever since can remember. This book helped me understand not only that but also why, which in turn internally convinced me of my lack of righteousness in remaining so. Nevertheless lol I am sure will be reading it again for reinforcement. Read more

Review:You can read the gushing praise in other reviews, so I'll only mention the major failing.
He advises staying with the dominant religious beliefs of your culture. That means accepting the idea of free will, which is critical to the justification for the prevalence of violence and torture under Judeo-Christian(JCM) rule. (Buddhism too has faults, although this one may be less significant; Communism we all know; of others I know nothing.) Free will means that anyone who does bad things mu... Read more

Review:This book is pretty easy to read and understand but seems to cover the essentials points. It helps to read a few paragraphs and ponder over the ideas-at least this is what I did. I'm not really familiar with Buddhism so I can't comment the scholarly content but I like the book and don't regret buying it. Read more

Review:I could see this maybe being helpful for someone completely new to Buddhism as a starting point to get familiar with the vocabulary of Buddhism, but I found the content and presentation style to be a bit odd. In some places it seems like the rich storytelling tradition behind Buddhism gets flattened into single sentences. The story of the life of Siddhārtha Gautama (of which countless volumes have been written) gets condensed into literally half an awkward paragraph. In other places the author d... Read more