A Buddhist teacher draws from her years of experience in caring for the dying to provide inspiring lessons on how to face death with courage and compassionThe Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated by Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. A Zen priest and a world-renowned pioneer in care of the dying, Halifax has helped countless people face death with courage and traine...

"The wisdom of cultures that live harmoniously with nature spoken through the heart and mind of a true gnostic intermediary." —Ram DassIn this "masterwork of an authentic spirit person," Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into "the fruitful darkness"—the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation (Thomas Berry).In this highly personal and insightful ...

**"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive GlobalStanding at the Edge is an evocative examination of how we can respond to suffering, live our fullest lives, an...

Transform suffering into the power of compassion through embracing life's edges."Joan Halifax is a clearheaded and fearless traveler and in this book…she offers us a map of how to travel courageously and fruitfully, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings." —From the foreword by Rebecca SolnitStanding at the Edge is an evocative examination of how we can respond to suffering, live our fullest lives, and remain open to the full spectrum of...

A story for kids ages 4–8 about a young girl and her encounters with a dog that teaches her friendship, presence, loss, and bravery.This story follows a young girl named Sophie and a sweet old dog who cross paths in the midst of a storm. “Breathing in, I am safe; breathing out, I am free,” Sophie repeats again and again to remind herself and the "old one" to stay present and brave when feeling scared or unsettled. In helping each other through their fears, a deep k...

A profound exploration of the power of storytelling to shape our shared reality, reveal our fundamental interbeing, and transform our future for the better.Stories show us who we really are. Really good stories show us what it means to be alive. This is a book about storytelling. A book that explores how the stories we tell shape the realities we live in. What if our most far-fetched stories, the ones we dismiss, sideline, and even pathologize, could be doorways to...

On his deathbed, Plato was asked to summarize his life's work. He replied: "Practice dying." In the 2,000 years since Plato offered this wise admonition, we have developed many practices associated with living. But what of the practices associated with dying? Being with Dying is a response to this question: an approach to death that is kind, open, and dignified, and that allows us to explore the meaning of death in the experience of our own lives and through the lives of others.Fou...

An illuminating in-depth study of one of the most well-known and recited Buddhist texts, by a renowned modern translatorThe Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra is among the best known of all the Buddhist scriptures. Chanted daily by many Zen practitioners, it is also studied extensively in the Tibetan tradition, and it has been regarded with interest more recently in the West in various fields of study—from philosophy to quantum physics. In just a few lines, it expresses...

An indispensible guide to koans, teaching the reader about the importance of lineage, the practice of “just sitting,” and koan practice as paths to awakening.“This marvelous book opens the treasure house of Zen and yet, happily, does not dispel its mystery*.* James Ford, an excellent storyteller and longtime Zen practitioner, presents a detailed and beautiful description of the craft of zazen, including “just sitting” and various forms of breath me...

Edited by the founding publisher of Parallax Press, the editor of Worlds in Harmony by the Dalai Lama and the original editor of Thich Nhat Hanh.At once easy-to-read, substantive, and surprisingly cheerful, The Buddha in Jail is comprised of 52 teachings by a monk in the Zen tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

If you missed the Love Serve Remember retreat last spring with Ram Dass and Friends in Hawaii, this is your opportunity to listen to the almost 8 hours of dharma talks from the wonderful event. BetterListen! is quite proud to offer the complete set of these recordings. The BetterListen! version has been digitally edited and remastered - for your listening pleasure!This program features Ram Dass, Krishna Das, Roshi Joan Halifax, Raghu Markus , Duncan Trussell and Rameshwar Das

New from the RAM DASS Archives.In this lecture from 1975 "Stages of a Journey," Ram Dass discusses our Journey through plains of consciousness and degrees of fate towards simplicity and quietness – to a kind of joy that is beyond time – a journey where we leave behind all our models of who we are. It is a journey that involves the transformation of our beings such that our thinking mind becomes our servant rather than master.