Category: Nirvana
Overview
The book is a memoir of how a skeptical, fast-talking New Yorker became Thich Nhat Hanh’s editor, turned forty, realized she was aging, and slowly and reluctantly started to absorb mindfulness practice and grow up. Scenes with Thich Nhat Hanh and the author’s two vividly exuberant older parents, illustrate how the author adapts mindfulness techniques for the busyness of her life, without losing her edge. With honest and vivid stories about dealing with difficult relationships with family members, death, illness, vanity, exhaustion, and creating a safety net of joy, the author explores and offers guidance for three key mindfulness practices: Knowing When You’re Available and When You’re Not; Full-Attachment Living; and Interbeing (Other People are Not a Hobby).
This book is designed for adults who are new to mindfulness practice, Buddhism, curious skeptics, people familiar with the practice who want a personal story, and those interested in memoir.
Rachel Neumann has worked with a number of leading Buddhist and mindfulness authors, including His Holiness the Dalai Llama, Sylvia Boorstein, Sulak Sivaraksa, and others. For the past ten years, she has been the primary editor for the bestselling author and Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Her writing focuses on the intersection of mindfulness, parenting, and the poli- tics of everyday life. She is a regular contributor to AlterNet and has written for various newspapers and magazines including Shambhala Sun, The Village Voice, and The Nation. Read her blog at http://www.peaceandsleep.org.
Designed to provide powerful transformational healing through the words of the Buddha,”the Indian spiritual leader who lived more than two thousand years ago” this book explores how the wisdom of the past can be understood and applied in the here and now, providing important insights into our world.
Author Rashmi Khilnani, an expert on the Ascended Masters, emphasizes many of the historical Buddha’s teachings on detachment and the causes of pain, suffering, and ignorance, placing them in a contemporary context for the modern reader. Topics include bringing meditation into every aspect of your life, including eating, sleeping, and waking; and becoming centered in detached awareness.
Buddha Speaks is a simple, highly accessible, down-to-earth road map for everyone who seeks spiritual wisdom.
Rashmi Khilnani – Buddha Speaks to the Buddha Nature Within
Ultimately the Buddha is not a person with a small “i” or a big “I”; the Buddha is a force field of wisdom energy, a wisdom available within the deepest inner space of silence that exists within each and every one of us.
This books provides powerful transformational healing through the keys of the Buddha teachings, and brings deep insights into the present time about how the wisdom of the past can be translated into the here and now. It emphasizes many of the historical Buddha’s teachings on detachment and the causes of pain, suffering and ignorance, while placing them in a contemporary context. If you wish to bring meditation into your eating, sleeping, waking states of being; inf your intention is to become centered in detached awareness in all realms of your life; if you wish for practical down-to-earth and simple ways in which to walk your talk and bring spiritual wisdom into the here and now, this is the book for you.
For all students of the Buddha teachings, for those who seek peace and conscious awareness, and for all souls seeking grounded enlightenment in the run-up to the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, here is the road map to follow.
RASHMI KHILNANI is the author of The Divine Mother Speaks: The Healing of the Human Heart. She is an international teacher of Usui, Tibetan, Karuna, Raku Kei, and Original 7 Degree Reiki Master Teachers and practitioners. She has been channeling the Ascended Masters for the last fifteen years, and making these teachings simple and accessible to people at all levels.
Samsara means “to wander on endlessly”. Peter Russell discusses how we wandering on through life seeking one transient satisfaction after another, not realizing that that which we seek is our true nature. Nirvana means “to extinguish” as in blowing out a flame. Knowing our true nature blows out the flame of desire that drives the endless wandering on.
