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Unconditional Self Acceptance by Cheri Huber

“If self-improvement worked, it would have by now,” teaches Cheri Huber. “Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.” On Unconditional Self-Acceptance, this Zen-trained teacher offers us an effective process to release the blocked energies and conditioned messages that keep us from attaining our personal and professional goals.

In this full-length audio retreat, listeners will learn more about:

Insight Meditation Kit by SHARON SALZBERG & JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

The number of Buddhist meditation centers in North America has doubled in little more than a decade, confirming the ever-widening appeal of this ancient approach to inner peace and self-understanding.

Designed to respond to this burgeoning interest, Insight Meditation makes it simple to start meditating in the Buddhist tradition. This elegant gift-boxed set includes two exclusive compact discs with authentic guided meditations, complemented by study cards and a special instruction book with the beginner in mind.

Join the popular cofounders of America's oldest center for the study of Buddhist vipassana (or "insight") meditation, Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, for this complete introduction to meditation as the Buddha first taught it. If you are curious about meditation but don’t know how to get started, here is the answer in a box.

Insight Meditation kit is a good sampler or starter series. If you are very much self-initiating, and a beginner start with this series. If you want a more in-depth, mentoring, long standing experience, see the course below. AW00553, $29.95

Insight Meditation: 12 Month Meditation Correspondence Course by Sharon Salzburg and Joseph Goldstein. This the the premiere meditation course thousands of people have benefited from..

When you seek to live a spiritual life, what matters most is not what you know, but the actions you take. How do you best embody the spiritual principles that uplift you and those whose lives you touch? On Insight Meditation, you will learn one of the world's great contemplative practices, as it was taught by the Buddha himself and then passed "candle to candle" for over 2,500 years.

Based on the curriculum developed at the Insight Meditation Society's retreat center in Bar, Massachusetts, this audio correspondence course is presented by IMS co-founders Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, who are among the West's most respected meditation teachers.

Students will learn with a qualified meditation instructor how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice. As each lesson unfolds and the principles of mindful living are revealed, students learn to see past the illusion of life's obstacles and move toward an awakened mind state - the true freedom we seek to achieve. Now you can experience this rich and sacred retreat environment in your own home, with these same masterful instructors.

You will receive a complete 90-page workbook created expressly for the Insight Meditation course. Organized to accompany the audio curriculum, your workbook features exercises that you complete and return to your insight meditation instructor. Easy to follow and a pleasure to learn from, this unique resource comes with your 12 audio tapes - it is available nowhere else.

Over 18 hours of personal instruction in daily meditation practice spread out over 12 months. Using this method, you can build up a gradual, and progressive level of skill in the art of meditation.

INSIGHT CURRICULUM:

• LESSON 1: The insight tradition; how happiness arises; the power of mindfulness; the five precepts for ethical living; six aspects of correct posture; eight breathing exercises.
• LESSON 2: "Bare attention' and awareness in the present moment; working with thoughts during practice; traditional walking meditation — "mindfulness in motion"; seven walking meditations.
• LESSON 3: The five hindrances to mindfulness; understanding attachment to desire and aversion; "working with Pain."
• LESSON 4: Working with sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt; the antidotes to the hindrances; Mara, the tempter; four exercises for working with hindrances.
• LESSON 5: Concepts and reality; myths of time, place, and self; six exercises for mindful eating; the roots of mind; "wrong view."
• LESSON 6: The truth of suffering; painful experience, change, and conditionally; seven exercises for working with emotional states; the Four Noble Truths.
• LESSON 7: How we create delusion; "wise attention" and freedom from delusion; "clear seeing"; working with thoughts and images; exercises for recognizing delusion.
• LESSON 8: The awakened mind; karma defined; intention and action; self and karma; the Four Heavenly Abodes; the Six Realms of Existence; seven exercises for working with intention.
• LESSON 9: Equanimity as a spiritual force; conditioning, pleasure, and pain; the Eight Vicissitudes; the Six Sense Doors; eight exercises for working with pleasant and unpleasant feelings.
• LESSON 10: Saddha; the nature of faith and wisdom; the five spiritual powers; testing faith yourself; "Big Mind" exercise.
• LESSON 11: Metta,or loving-kindness; distortion of "self" and "other"; strength without anger; benefits of lovingkindness; eight Metta exercises.
• LESSON 12: Bringing meditative awareness into your everyday life; lessons of daily sitting; the three fields of training; eight exercises for taking practice to the world.

  18 hours, 24 CD's in binder, $198.00

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  Prayers, Mantrams and Invocations gathered by Torkom Saraydarian and the staff of AEG. This text represents the most comprehensive and diverse collection of prayers and mantra from every major spiritual and religious tradition. Many of these are rare prayers and difficult to find. This collection has taken three decades to compile. A total of 106 prayers and mantra collected from many sacred writings. A perfect companion to use during your times of meditation and prayer. 109 pages, spiral bound. Included is a set of 5 prayer flags, with an explanation of the meaning of the flags, $20.95

Best-selling title! Radical Self-Acceptance: A Buddhist Guide to Freeing Yourself from Shame by Tara Brach.

In the same tradition as such best-selling authors as Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, Insight Meditation teacher Tara Brach has cultivated one of the largest and most active Buddhist meditation communities in the Eastern United States. With Radical Self-Acceptance, this gifted guide brings her enthusiasm and depth of experience to a wide new arena of listeners for the first time.

"Imagine what it would be like to be without anxiety about your imperfections," begins Brach. Employing her skills in two worlds, this clinical psychologist and meditation instructor takes on what she considers to be the most difficult – and pervasive – challenge to Westerners today: the suffering caused by our feelings of unworthiness and deficiency.

Here, Brach teaches the specific practices we need to become more mindful and compassionate toward the "unforgivable" parts within ourselves – and how to free ourselves from "the prison of shame and self-aversion." Practical and supportive, Radical Self-Acceptance marks the debut of one of the most capable new voices today on the marriage between Eastern meditation and Western psychology. 3 hours, 2 CDs. $24.95

Seventy Times Seven takes us back to the time of Jesus, when this prophet and teacher first emerged as the embodiment of a then little-known spiritual principle: forgiveness. When Jesus was asked how many times we must forgive one another, he replied: "Seventy times seven." Within this response, biologist and mind/body authority Dr. Joan Borysenko shows, is an overlooked truth of profound significance to our spiritual growth, emotional wellness, and physical health.

With ancient numerological origins, it is an emblem for completion at the highest possible level - the spiritual and physical outcome of the forgiveness process. Through step-by-step meditations, historical examples, and bio-spiritual insights, Seventy Times Seven will help you rediscover this treasured, sacred practice.

Forgiveness IS NOT:

Forgiveness IS:

BEGINNER'S MIND, an excellent compilation audio series by these three leading meditation teachers...Jack Kornfield / Sharon Salzberg / Pema Chodron.

The secret of meditation practice, taught the great Zen master Suzuki Roshi, is shosin,"beginner's mind," a boundless and original mind that is compassionate and alert, and open to receive all possibilities. Three leading voices in American Buddhism have been gather together to teach the traditional meditation techniques that make this beneficial meditative awareness available to anyone who wishes to practice what they are teaching. Over four hours of instruction from three of America's most respected meditation teachers. Offered for the first time as a collection, Beginner's Mind is a excellent for new and old meditation students alike that includes:

Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield. Easy-to-try meditations for anyone who has ever thought about learning to meditate, but didn't know how to get started. Covers the basics of breathing, postures, overcoming distractions, and much more.

Loving-Kindness Meditation by Sharon Salzberg, the author of the bestseller, 'A Heart as Wide as the World,' teaches metta practice, or compassionate thinking, the classic Buddhist meditation method for using love to heal yourself and your relationship to the world around you.

Pure Meditation by Pema Chodron. “Chödrön demonstrates how effective the Buddhist point of view can be in bringing order into disordered lives.” —Publishers Weekly Pema Chödron, one of the West’s most beloved teachers of Buddhism, makes the Tibetan vajrayana tradition accessible in today’s world. Now three of her most popular teachings are available in one boxed set. The Pema Chödrön Collection includes: Pure Meditation—step-by-step instruction in Tibetan Buddhism’s pinnacle practice for transformation and letting go.

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• With the vibrant clarity, humor, and insight her students have come to expect from her, Pema Chödrön takes listeners step by step through the three elements of meditation – posture, breathing, and thoughts – delivering a complete, three-hour training course that is ideal for beginners and a welcome refresher for more advanced practitioners.
• As an authoritative guide to Buddhism’s fundamental practice, Pure Meditation is destined to become a cornerstone of Pema Chödrön’s body of work – a collection already treasured throughout the English-speaking world, 6 CD's, $69.95

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