Yuko Akita had two passions.Haikuand snow.It is April 1884 and Yuko Akita has reached his seventeenth birthday on the Island of Hokkaid in the North of Japan. The time has come to choose his vocation, warrior or monk, but against the wishes of his father, Yuko settles on a third option: he will be a poet. Yuko begins to write the seventeen-syllable poems we know as haiku--all celebrating the beauty of snow, his one great subject.One day, the I...

Watch and wait are two well known maxims from the world of meditation. Osho responds her to questions on 'Relaxing and Waking Up' and 'The Difference between Instinct and Intuition'.It is the simplicity and personal impact which makes Osho's works so accessible for every reader."In meditation you are not going anywhere. You are simply being here, relaxed, utterly centered in yourself. Everything stops. For this, no "how" is needed."

What happens when I die? is the question every human being asks, usually in private, sometimes in the middle of the night, and almost always without receiving a satisfying answer. In this compact and startlingly direct book, David Tuffley PhD turns to one of the oldest and most sophisticated accounts of dying ever compiled, the Bardo Thodol, better known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and distils its wisdom into a guide a modern reader can actually use.Rather than tre...

Take your fate into your own hands by facing death, not fleeing from it.Easwaran is one of the twentieth century's great spiritual teachers and an authentic guide to timeless wisdom. Understand death, Easwaran writes, and you’ll live more wisely – you’ll learn more, love more, and contribute more to all around you. By facing death, not fleeing from it, you take your fate into your own hands.With stories from East and West, and quotes from the world’s mystic...

This small eBook deals with 'grieve' in connection with the death of a son. Osho uses a Zen story and unfolds a unique and different way of dealing with grieve, death and dying. He acknowledges that it is very difficult not to grieve when somebody you loved has died. Not to grieve is possible only if you have an understanding and an experience of the essential, something of the deathless.

Ram Dass has always been a master of the one-liner. Here is the nitty-gritty by the author of Be Here Now—more than 200 penetrating observations and pithy spiritual instructions on such topics as How It All Is, Love and Devotion, Suffering, Aging, Planes of Consciousness, Death and Dying, Service and Compassion, Psychedelics, Social Awareness, and Liberation.“This book is a kind of spiritual brandy, a distillation of the lectures I’ve given over the course of the p...

10,000 years ago, a cataclysm nearly destroyed the entire planet. (Worldwide geological evidence of this cataclysm is undeniable.) This cataclysm laid waste to dozens of super civilizations whose level of technological attainment far surpasses that of our own. (Archaeologists all over the world, are still stumbling upon exotically engineered artefacts, some of which are hundreds of millions of years old.) Based on exciti...

This short but impacting book is a discourse by Craytus Aurelia M. on the light beings, shadow beings and extra dimensional entities that he has come into contact with. Craytus also discusses the different levels of existence as well as the truth of the dream states etc. This book was created to help individuals who may be on a spiritual path or having contact with higher or lower extradimensional entities. I hope that this book will help you and bring goodness to your life. Please read t...

IntroductionThe Order of Creation is a book about you. It is designed to help you understand yourself; who you are, and how you handle experiences in your life, depends on how you understand the essence of your own being-ness. Every experience is a spiritual experience, and is happening for a specific reason: to move you to become that special person, who was put on this physical earth for a purpose.You already are who you are supposed to be, but you may not be conscious of t...

One of the greatest mysteries that have baffled the living is the knowledge of where we go after this life is over. . . . Manifestations, Life after Death takes you on a journey into this afterlife. It explores a new plight of existence, an existence that presents complex challenges; challenges that cannot be mirrored on Earth. While you travel, you will learn more about yourself; why you’re here; and, ultimately, where you’re going—after this life.

The Buddha in Hell? Gossipy monks? A Karmic superhero? A lady reborn as a fly with strange likings? A Tibetan lake filled with vanishing gold? A kin who barks like a houn? The Buddha's enlightening advice for cleaning sandals? Merit from a pig's muddy tail?Who among us doesn't need some laughing gas for our karma-laden mind-stream, as we journey inexorably toward The Great Whatever? Magically illustrated by Charles A. Filius, the limericks in this book poke fun at a superficial und...

There are still many of our members who do not fully understand the problem of the higher and the lower self. Nor is this wonderful; for we are repeatedly told that there is only one consciousness, and yet we often clearly feel two, so it is not remarkable that students should be uncertain as to the real relation between these two, and should wonder whether the ego is entirely dissociated from his physical body and has an existence of his own among his fellows on his own plane...