In The Mind of the Guru Rajiv Mehrotra presents dialogues with twenty contemporary sages and masters who have illumined the minds of millions around the world. Ranged here are gurus as diverse as B. K. S. Iyengar, who brought yoga from the world of esoteric to our living rooms, and Mata Amritanandamayi, whose mere presence invokes an overwhelming awareness of low. There is Deepak Chopra discussing a quantum healing of mind and body, Sogyal Rinpoche encouraging us to look at death so that we might live a better life and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar reaffirming each person’s right and access to happiness. And there is the unique and contrary voice of U. G. Krishnamurti telling us that all talk of transformation is poppycock. There are no grand narratives or final solution, only guide who can show the way to the light within. Underlying the dialogues is their wisdom on how we make ourselves unhappy – and guidance on how we can turn our lives around to achieve happiness.
As Vipassana guru S. N. Goenka says, ‘The teacher shows the way. One must walk in the path and experience it step by step.’ This book is a remarkable journey both for those looking to take their first tentative steps and those already well on the path.
Rajiv Mehrotra was educated at the universities of Delhi, Oxforc and Columbia. For over three decades he has been a familiar face on public relevision, notably as the anchor of an in-depth one-on-one talk show that has been through several incarnations. He is presently secretary /trustee of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and managing trustee of the Public service Broadcasting Trust. He is a trustee of the Norbulinka Institute of Tibetan Culture and has served on the governing councils of the Sri Aurobindo Society and the Film & Television Institute of India.
As an independent documentary film-maker, he has won several international and three national awards from the President of India. He was nominated a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Word Economic forum at Davos.
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Interview by Rajiv Mehrotra for Doordarshan TV, India
His Holiness the Dalai Lama in conversation with Rajiv Mehrotra for Doordarshan National TV of India originally broadcast on March 31st, 2009.
A brilliant forecast of our global future, looking at human, social and technological evolution, predicting what will happen to our social structures, to our resources, to our infrastructures – but also to our minds and hearts – in the years to come.
Tao and Dharma: Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda explores the enduring features of humanity’s longest and continually practiced systems of medicine. These two indigenous healing arts arising independently in China and India communed and exchanged experience, techniques, and therapeutic substances over the epochs of their development. This book’s interesting and valuable comparison provides a pioneer effort in examining side by side two great systems of medicine, studying closely the historical, theoretical and practical relationships. In so doing, it offers these ancient paradigms into the practice of modern healing for a synergistic, inclusive approach.
Robert E. Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda (in 1980) and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training, his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda, tutored him in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore. After moving to India in 1973, he lived there for more than a decade. Since 1985 he has traveled the world lecturing, consulting, teaching and writing. The author of more than a dozen books and audio works, he has served as Adjunct Faculty at the Ayurvedic Institute, Albuquerque, NM, and Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA. To read more about Dr. Svoboda and his travels, visit his website 
Arnie Lade RMT, RAC is an internationally known acupuncturist, author and teacher specializing in energetic healing. Arnie has been in practice for more 30 years, having originally trained in Polarity, massage and manipulative therapies before studying acupuncture in China in the early 1980′s. More recently, Arnie graduated from the professional Feldenkrais Teacher Training Program in 2001. Arnie is well known for his rich clinical experience and his innovative, eclectic methods of helping clients recover their health and wellbeing, often being able to offer help and hope to many people who’ve “tried everything”.
More and more people are “waking up” spiritually. And for most of them, the question becomes: now what? “Information about life after awakening is usually not made public,” explains Adyashanti. “It’s most often shared only between teachers and their students.” The End of Your World is his response to a growing need for direction on the spiritual path. Consider the book you hold in your hands Adyashanti’s personal welcome to “a new world, a state of oneness.”….ADYASHANTI (whose name means “primordial peace”) dares all seekers of peace and freedom to take the possibility of liberation in this life seriously. He began teaching in 1996, at the request of his Zen teacher with whom he had been studying for fourteen years. Since then, many spiritual seekers have awakened to their true nature while spending time with Adyashanti. 
We are spiritual beings living in a human experience. Our souls are energy, but each time we incarnate we take on a human body. We have relationships with other embodied beings; we must concern ourselves with the issues, situations, and circumstances of life here on Earth. 
In the fourth book in a series of contemporary Zen studies, Intrinsic Awakened Nature, Venerable Master Miao Tsan of the Vairocano Zen Monastery explores the manner in which many Western and Eastern religions share common principles, despite the distinct ways in which they spread their teachings. Buddhism focuses on the Buddha nature, or the Mind, which creates and animates the world around us. Though it is the source of everything, it has neither substance nor form. Western religion uses the more anthropomorphic “God” to define the functionality of creation and has therefore tended to label Buddhism as a kind of atheism.
Venerable Master Miao Tsan breaks through attachment and dogma to show the Universal Truth that lies at the heart of both Western and Eastern religions and ideologies. The abbot of Vairocana Zen Monastery in Garden Grove, California, he has conducted hundreds of meditation courses as well as several Zen-Seven and Zen-Three retreats in the United States, Mexico, and Taiwan. He lectures extensively and has given meditation courses and interviews at universities and medical centers around the world. He has a large, devoted following in both Asia and the West. He is the author of Just Use This Mind and The Origin Is Pure and several other books published internationally.
Bhante Gunaratana was ordained at the age of 12 as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from The American University, and has led meditation retreats, taught Buddhism, and lectured widely throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. He lives in High View, West Virginia. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is the president of the Bhavana Society in West Virginia.
