wisdompubs.orgHome - The Wisdom Experience

Home Explore Books Courses Movies Reading Room Lecture Series The Wisdom Podcast The Wisdom Journal Videos Articles Authors Donate JOIN log in/join Log in Forgot password Join Discover May Content Discover the exciting offerings that are available to you in the Wisdom Experience this May! START EXPLORING New Online Course In The Foundations of Mindfulness with renowned scholar-monk Ven. Bhikkhu Anālayo, discover the most profound meanings and applications of mindfulness. ENROLL Welcome to the Wisdom Experience Welcome to the new online home of Wisdom Publications. Click below to start exploring our rich collection of books, videos, podcasts, and more. START EXPLORING Books by the Dalai Lama Wisdom is proud to be one of His Holiness's primary publishers. Start exploring his books today! LEARN MORE The Wisdom Podcast Discover a profound collection of interviews with the most brilliant minds in Buddhism. START LISTENING Featured MEDIA Books Courses Movies Reading Room Lecture Series Podcasts Videos Articles All Media Topics Academic & Translations Classics of Indian Buddhism Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism Teachings of the Buddha (Pali Canon) The American Institute of Buddhist Studies The Library of Tibetan Classics Children's Books Mindfulness Theravada Jhana tradition Meditation Pali Canon Vipassana Tibetan Buddhism Bön Dalai Lama Gelug Kagyu & Mahāmudrā Library of Tibetan Classics Nyingma & Dzogchen Sakya Zen Classical Zen Dōgen Studies Koans Zen, Chan, & Sŏn All Topics read Buy 4 Creating a Life of Integrity Listen 4 Norman Fischer: A Poet’s Path to Awakening See More 0 The Foundations of Mindfulness Buy 15 Dharma Matters read Buy 19 The Long Discourses of the Buddha read Buy 14 The Buddha’s Single Intention Watch 7 Bodhisattva Listen 12 Gil Fronsdal: The Wisdom of Many Traditions Enroll 48 Tibetan Yoga Buy 23 The Tantra Without Syllables (vol 3) and The Blazing Lamp Tantra (vol 4) Listen 7 Daniel Goleman: The Mind and Meditation read Buy 15 Freeing the Heart and Mind read Buy 15 The Six Perfections Watch 40 Robert Thurman: Lecture 1 – Buddha’s Cool Revolution read Buy 13 The Rice Seedling Sutra Buy 5 Beyond Tranquility Enroll 40 Varieties of Buddhist Meditation Listen 13 Tara Brach: Radical Compassion Creating a Life of Integrity Creating a Life of Integrity is our personal trainer for strengthening our integrity muscles. When we don’t speak or act from our own sense of integrity, we feel lousy. Find out how you can live with more integrity—and subsequently more joy—as you follow these lively conversations between Joseph Goldstein, a founder of the modern mindfulness movement, and Gail Stark, a businesswoman and his student and friend of twenty-five years. As Joseph and Gail unpack the components of integrity—generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, courage, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness, and equanimity—we discover each is a step on a path that transports us to an empowered place of clarity, commitment, and, consequently, more joy. As we strengthen and weave these qualities into our daily lives they become our trusted first response in a world that needs our integrity now. Read Now Buy 4 Norman Fischer: A Poet’s Path to Awakening For this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Norman Fischer, American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest. Norman is the author of many popular books including his most recent publication, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path . In this fascinating conversation, you’ll hear Norman share stories from his own spiritual journey—from aspiring young poet living in the woods of Northern California, to meditation teacher and celebrated writer. Norman talks about how early encounters with death predisposed him to religious and philosophical inquiry, and how reading the existentialists would pave the way for a fascination with Zen. You’ll also hear Norman discuss the topic of doubt. Rather than providing faith or certainty, Buddhism for Norman provides a path—a set of questions in which we discover what life is and who we are. Lastly, Norman talks about what it means to be a teacher of the Dharma, as well as his own relationship to himself as a teacher of Buddhism. Listen 4 The Foundations of Mindfulness See More 0 Dharma Matters Jan Willis was among the first Westerners to encounter exiled Tibetan teachers abroad in the late sixties, instantly finding her spiritual and academic home. TIME Magazine named her one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium,” both for her considerable academic accomplishments and for her cultural relevance. Her writing engages head-on with issues current to Buddhist practitioners in America, including dual-faith practitioners and those from marginalized groups. This collection of eighteen scholarly and popular essays spans a lifetime of reflection and teaching by Willis. Grouped in four sections—Women and Buddhism, Buddhism and Race, Tantric Buddhism and Saints’ Lives, and Buddhist-Christian Reflections—the essays provide timeless wisdom for all who are interested in contemporary Buddhism and its interface with ancient tradition. Buy 15 The Long Discourses of the Buddha This book offers a complete translation of the Dīgha Nikaya, the long discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection—among the oldest records of the historical Buddha’s original teachings, given in India two and a half thousand years ago—consists of thirty-four longer-length suttas, or discourses, distinguished as such from the middle-length and shorter suttas of the other collections. These suttas reveal the gentleness, compassion, power, and penetrating wisdom of the Buddha. Included are teachings on mindfulness ( Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta ); on morality, concentration, and wisdom ( Subha Sutta ); on dependent origination ( Mahānidrāna Sutta ); on the roots and causes of wrong views ( Brahmajāla Sutta ); and a long description of the Buddha’s last days and passing away ( Mahāparinibbāna Sutta ); along with a wealth of practical advice and insight for all those travelling along the spiritual path. Venerable Sumedho Thera writes in his foreword: “[These suttas] are not meant to be ‘sacred scriptures’ that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience, with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.” Introduced with a vivid account of the Buddha’s life and times and a short survey of his teachings, The Long Discourses of the Buddha brings us closer in every way to the wise and compassionate presence of Gotama Buddha and his path of truth. Click here to return to the Teachings of the Buddha series. Read Now Buy 19 The Buddha’s Single Intention This book presents an influential and extraordinary teaching of the Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism known as the Single Intention by the master Drigung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön (1143–1217), along with its chief commentaries, principally the Light of the Sun by Rikzin Chökyi Drakpa (1595–1659). Early in the history of the Kagyü school, the teachings of Jikten Sumgön were condensed into 150 core formulations called vajra statements . These pithy, revelatory statements comprise the Single Intention ( Dgongs gcig ), which presents the thought of the Buddha and the nature of the ineffable ( brjod du med pa ) in concise and direct expression. The Single Intention weaves the thread of ineffable mahāmudrā through the entire fabric of Buddhism. It presents mahāmudrā as pervading disciplined conduct, meditative concentration, and discriminative knowledge; ground, path, and result; view, practice, and conduct; and the “three vows” of prātimokṣa, of the bodhisattvas, and of mantra. Jikten Sumgön teaches how the fundamental values and insights revealed by the B...