Personality Type: An Owner's Manual by Lenore Thomson If you've ever taken the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and gotten your result (INFJ? ESTP?), you probably read the description of your type and moved on. Few know that the MBTI is actually based on ideas of personality typology developed by C. G. Jung. This book fleshes
My Name Is Chellis, and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization by Chellis Glendinning It's a funny title, and Chellis Glendinning is a fun gal, to be sure-but she's also very serious in her assertion that our relationship to the Earth bears traces of traumatic stress syndrome. Chellis was one of the pioneers in the
Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism by Judith Simmer-Brown Dakinis-those semi-wrathful feminine figures of Tibetan Buddhist cosmology-get a bum rap today. They often end up serving as poster-girls for goddess-spirituality or as exemplars of the "shadow" for proponents of Jungian psychology. The reality is a lot more complex than that-and much more
In Buddha's Kitchen: Cooking, Being Cooked, and Other Adventures in a Meditation Center by Kimberley Snow Anyone who's ever sat a meditation retreat knows how that much time on the cushion can cause one's inner absurdities to spew like Mount Vesuvius. It can be agony when it's happening, but hilarious to recall later. Kimberley Snow's
Mountain Record of Zen Talks By John Daido Loori This book, now more than a quarter-century old, is one of the best ways to get acquainted with the late esteemed Zen master John Daido Loori (1931-2009). He was a lineage holder in both Soto (a dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi) and Rinzai schools, and
Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by J. C. Cleary The writings of the twelfth-century Chan Buddhist master Ta Hui Tsung Kao are testimony to the timelessness of Zen teaching. His letters, sermons, and lectures, often addressed to laypeople, are utterly simple-and utterly effective in helping us to
The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, by Traleg Kyabgon The lojong slogans-those fabric-softeners of the heart-have been the focus of much attention in the West the past couple decades, with good reason. They're a particularly effective practice for disciplining the mind in a way that makes compassion bloom. But they're sometimes
The Cloud of Unknowing with the Book of Privy Counsel: A New Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher What makes Carmen's translation of this classic of Christian mysticism stand out from the others is that she puts it in a modern voice that aims to be the equivalent of the original Middle English: the simple and
Personality Type: An Owner's Manual by Lenore Thomson If you've ever taken the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and gotten your result (INFJ? ESTP?), you probably read the description of your type and moved on. Few know that the MBTI is actually based on ideas of personality typology developed by C. G. Jung. This book fleshes
My Name Is Chellis, and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization by Chellis Glendinning It's a funny title, and Chellis Glendinning is a fun gal, to be sure-but she's also very serious in her assertion that our relationship to the Earth bears traces of traumatic stress syndrome. Chellis was one of the pioneers in the
Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism by Judith Simmer-Brown Dakinis-those semi-wrathful feminine figures of Tibetan Buddhist cosmology-get a bum rap today. They often end up serving as poster-girls for goddess-spirituality or as exemplars of the "shadow" for proponents of Jungian psychology. The reality is a lot more complex than that-and much more
In Buddha's Kitchen: Cooking, Being Cooked, and Other Adventures in a Meditation Center by Kimberley Snow Anyone who's ever sat a meditation retreat knows how that much time on the cushion can cause one's inner absurdities to spew like Mount Vesuvius. It can be agony when it's happening, but hilarious to recall later. Kimberley Snow's
Mountain Record of Zen Talks By John Daido Loori This book, now more than a quarter-century old, is one of the best ways to get acquainted with the late esteemed Zen master John Daido Loori (1931-2009). He was a lineage holder in both Soto (a dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi) and Rinzai schools, and
Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by J. C. Cleary The writings of the twelfth-century Chan Buddhist master Ta Hui Tsung Kao are testimony to the timelessness of Zen teaching. His letters, sermons, and lectures, often addressed to laypeople, are utterly simple-and utterly effective in helping us to
The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, by Traleg Kyabgon The lojong slogans-those fabric-softeners of the heart-have been the focus of much attention in the West the past couple decades, with good reason. They're a particularly effective practice for disciplining the mind in a way that makes compassion bloom. But they're sometimes
The Cloud of Unknowing with the Book of Privy Counsel: A New Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher What makes Carmen's translation of this classic of Christian mysticism stand out from the others is that she puts it in a modern voice that aims to be the equivalent of the original Middle English: the simple and
