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CONTENTS OF VOL. I Introduction Abbreviations Notes Chapter 1 – Birth Chapter 2 – Youth Chapter 3 – Seeking the…

BOOK ONE Chapter One – Walking Just to Walk Chapter Two – Tending Water Buffaloes Chapter Three – An Armful…

The title The Historical Buddha indicates both the subject of the present work and the limits of its scope. It…

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist, renowned for his powerful teachings and…

While in recent years in the West oceans of ink have been expended onbooks dealing with the Buddha and his…

In this work, all the discourses addressed to lay people in the four main nikāyas of the Pāli Canon, and…

Soon after Mindfulness in Plain English was published, several of my friends and students asked me to write a book about the Buddha’s path to happiness in the same straightforward style. This book is my response. Mindfulness in Plain English was a meditation manual, a guide for students in the practice of mindfulness meditation.

In Seeking the Heart of Wisdom Goldstein and Kornfield present the central teachings and practices of insight meditation in a clear and personal language. The path of insight meditation is a journey of understanding our bodies, our minds, and our lives, of seeing clearly the true nature of experience. The authors guide the reader in developing the openness and compassion that are at the heart of this spiritual practice.

In the myriad of documents, books and records of the Buddha’s talks, there are no words written by the enlightened one called Sakyamuni Buddha during his forty-five years of walking and teaching in northeast India. He spoke his messages of living a life of loving-kindness and compassion to kings, high intellectuals and the poor and ignorant, and their gaining the wisdom to achieve salvation from the rounds of birth and death, and for each person to lead others to achieve that wisdom. Texts written in the Pali and Sanskrit languages purport to contain the teachings of this Sixth Century, Before Common Era (B.C.), Indian enlightened one.

The present translation of the Vinaya-Pitaka is based upon Hermann Oldenberg’s extremely careful edition of the Pali text of the Vinaya-Pitaka, published in five volumes in the year 1879-1883…