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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the life you thought had passed you by was still waiting for you to enter it For those who have spent decades lowering their voice, hiding their gifts, avoiding the room, and mistaking silence for safety, You Were Never Too Small offers a dignified path back to presence.This is not a book about becoming loud, fearless, impressive, or socially polished. It is a book for the quiet soul who has survived by shrinking-and now longs to stand inwardly upright.Anchored in the luminous image of Uppalavanna, the elder Buddhist nun remembered as a blue-lotus figure of serenity and spiritual radiance, this book speaks to anyone who fears it is too late to become whole. Her radiance did not come from being admired. It came from stillness, discipline, and the freedom of no longer fleeing from herself.With the plain strength of Buddhist wisdom, You Were Never Too Small reveals that awakening does not belong only to the young, the bold, or the naturally confident. It can bloom in an aging body. It can bloom after years of avoidance. It can bloom in the person who has hidden intelligence, tenderness, humor, beauty, creativity, longing, or truth beneath the dust of shame.Through ancient-inspired stories, contemplative insight, and simple embodied practices, this book gently explores the roots of social fear: the inherited rooms we still carry, the watchful body, the inner accuser, and the holy disguises that make self-erasure look like peace.Then, with compassion and clarity, it offers a way forward: sit where you are, name the shrinking without shame, return to the unwatched breath, let one true gesture appear, and become radiant through stillness.If you have spent a lifetime feeling too small to be fully seen, this book is your invitation to begin again. Open these pages and remember: the bloom does not apologize for opening.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the very place you came to for refuge is the place where your body begins to tremble For the devoted practitioner who can bow before the Buddha but freezes before the tea table, A Seat in the Sangha offers a compassionate Buddhist path through the quiet suffering of social anxiety in Dharma centers, meditation halls, retreats, and spiritual communities.Many sincere seekers love the Dharma in solitude, yet feel unsafe among Dharma friends. They may sit peacefully at home, but become tense when entering a meditation hall. They may long for Sangha, yet avoid conversation after practice. They may understand compassion as a teaching, but still feel ashamed of their own trembling body, hesitant voice, and longing to belong.Rooted in the Buddha's formation of the first monastic community and his instructions on harmony, this reverent guide reframes the Five Precepts as living shelters for embodied belonging. The precepts become more than moral rules; they become gentle supports for protecting the anxious body, taking one's rightful seat, honoring sacred boundaries, speaking with truth and kindness, and returning through sober repair when shame or conflict arises.With a wise, grounded storyteller's voice, A Seat in the Sangha walks readers from the doorway of the Dharma hall into the shared field of community. Through Buddhist reflection, parabolic teaching, mindfulness verses, and practical micro-practices, it helps spiritual people meet comparison, silence, projection, awkwardness, and fear with compassion rather than self-judgment.This is not a book about becoming impressive in spiritual spaces. It is a book about becoming safely present.The Sangha was never meant to be a stage for perfection. It was meant to be a field of refuge where imperfect beings return, breathe, bow, repair, and share the path.If you have ever loved the Dharma but feared the circle of those practicing beside you, open this book and take your seat.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - You can carry the whole day with grace-so why does your mind turn against you at night By day, you are capable. You answer the messages, solve the problems, meet the deadlines, carry the responsibilities, and appear composed. Others may see you as steady, thoughtful, dependable, even strong. But when the world goes quiet and the lights go low, another presence arrives.Mara does not come with horns or thunder.He comes as one more thought. One more replay of what you said. One more imagined disaster dressed as preparation. One more unfinished task tapping at the door of sleep. One more remembered failure asking to be judged again.Midnight Mara is a Buddhist wisdom book for the high-functioning overthinker-the person who seems calm in daylight but lies awake at night beneath the weight of an untamed mind. Through ancient Buddhist stories, sacred evening rituals, compassionate reflection, and practical mindfulness practices, this book offers a gentle path for quieting nighttime rumination without shaming the busy mind.Inside, you will learn how to recognize Mara's midnight disguises: fear, self-judgment, restless planning, sensory overload, and the belief that you must solve the entire day before you are allowed to rest. You will discover how to close the gates of the senses, bow to the unfinished day, place worries down with respect, return to the breath, and enter sleep as a refuge rather than a collapse.Blending Buddhist wisdom, vivid narrative retellings, original mindfulness gathas, and simple micro-practices, Midnight Mara speaks in the voice of a grounded wise storyteller. It does not promise perfect sleep or instant silence. Instead, it teaches a wiser relationship with the night-one rooted in steadiness, tenderness, restraint, and peaceful wisdom.This book is for anyone who has ever looked calm on the outside while inwardly wrestling with regret, fear, planning, or self-punishment after dark.If you are ready to stop feeding Mara at midnight and begin meeting the night with clarity, compassion, and refuge, open this book, lower the lamp, and take the first quiet step toward peaceful sleep. …

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the life you thought had passed you by was still waiting for you to enter it?For those who have spent decades lowering their voice, hiding their gifts, avoiding the room, and mistaking silence for safety, You Were Never Too Small offers a dignified path back to presence.This is not a book about becoming loud, fearless, impressive, or socially polished. It is a book for the quiet soul who has survived by shrinking-and now longs to stand inwardly upright.Anchored in the luminous image of Uppalavanna, the elder Buddhist nun remembered as a blue-lotus figure of serenity and spiritual radiance, this book speaks to anyone who fears it is too late to become whole. Her radiance did not come from being admired. It came from stillness, discipline, and the freedom of no longer fleeing from herself.With the plain strength of Buddhist wisdom, You Were Never Too Small reveals that awakening does not belong only to the young, the bold, or the naturally confident. It can bloom in an aging body. It can bloom after years of avoidance. It can bloom in the person who has hidden intelligence, tenderness, humor, beauty, creativity, longing, or truth beneath the dust of shame.Through ancient-inspired stories, contemplative insight, and simple embodied practices, this book gently explores the roots of social fear: the inherited rooms we still carry, the watchful body, the inner accuser, and the holy disguises that make self-erasure look like peace.Then, with compassion and clarity, it offers a way forward: sit where you are, name the shrinking without shame, return to the unwatched breath, let one true gesture appear, and become radiant through stillness.If you have spent a lifetime feeling too small to be fully seen, this book is your invitation to begin again. Open these pages and remember: the bloom does not apologize for opening. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the very place you came to for refuge is the place where your body begins to tremble?For the devoted practitioner who can bow before the Buddha but freezes before the tea table, A Seat in the Sangha offers a compassionate Buddhist path through the quiet suffering of social anxiety in Dharma centers, meditation halls, retreats, and spiritual communities.Many sincere seekers love the Dharma in solitude, yet feel unsafe among Dharma friends. They may sit peacefully at home, but become tense when entering a meditation hall. They may long for Sangha, yet avoid conversation after practice. They may understand compassion as a teaching, but still feel ashamed of their own trembling body, hesitant voice, and longing to belong.Rooted in the Buddha's formation of the first monastic community and his instructions on harmony, this reverent guide reframes the Five Precepts as living shelters for embodied belonging. The precepts become more than moral rules; they become gentle supports for protecting the anxious body, taking one's rightful seat, honoring sacred boundaries, speaking with truth and kindness, and returning through sober repair when shame or conflict arises.With a wise, grounded storyteller's voice, A Seat in the Sangha walks readers from the doorway of the Dharma hall into the shared field of community. Through Buddhist reflection, parabolic teaching, mindfulness verses, and practical micro-practices, it helps spiritual people meet comparison, silence, projection, awkwardness, and fear with compassion rather than self-judgment.This is not a book about becoming impressive in spiritual spaces. It is a book about becoming safely present.The Sangha was never meant to be a stage for perfection. It was meant to be a field of refuge where imperfect beings return, breathe, bow, repair, and share the path.If you have ever loved the Dharma but feared the circle of those practicing beside you, open this book and take your seat. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. You can carry the whole day with grace-so why does your mind turn against you at night?By day, you are capable. You answer the messages, solve the problems, meet the deadlines, carry the responsibilities, and appear composed. Others may see you as steady, thoughtful, dependable, even strong. But when the world goes quiet and the lights go low, another presence arrives.Mara does not come with horns or thunder.He comes as one more thought. One more replay of what you said. One more imagined disaster dressed as preparation. One more unfinished task tapping at the door of sleep. One more remembered failure asking to be judged again.Midnight Mara is a Buddhist wisdom book for the high-functioning overthinker-the person who seems calm in daylight but lies awake at night beneath the weight of an untamed mind. Through ancient Buddhist stories, sacred evening rituals, compassionate reflection, and practical mindfulness practices, this book offers a gentle path for quieting nighttime rumination without shaming the busy mind.Inside, you will learn how to recognize Mara's midnight disguises: fear, self-judgment, restless planning, sensory overload, and the belief that you must solve the entire day before you are allowed to rest. You will discover how to close the gates of the senses, bow to the unfinished day, place worries down with respect, return to the breath, and enter sleep as a refuge rather than a collapse.Blending Buddhist wisdom, vivid narrative retellings, original mindfulness gathas, and simple micro-practices, Midnight Mara speaks in the voice of a grounded wise storyteller. It does not promise perfect sleep or instant silence. Instead, it teaches a wiser relationship with the night-one rooted in steadiness, tenderness, restraint, and peaceful wisdom.This book is for anyone who has ever looked calm on the outside while inwardly wrestling with regret, fear, planning, or self-punishment after dark.If you are ready to stop feeding Mara at midnight and begin meeting the night with clarity, compassion, and refuge, open this book, lower the lamp, and take the first quiet step toward peaceful sleep. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the smile you wear so well is also the place where your sorrow has been hiding?Some people suffer loudly. Others suffer politely. They smile at the table, answer messages with warmth, remember everyone's needs, and quietly carry a storm no one else can see. Their faces say, "I am fine," while their hearts whisper, "I am afraid." If you have spent years appearing calm, kind, and capable while inwardly worrying, grieving, or bracing for what might go wrong, this book was written for you.You Are Not Alone is a tender Dharma guide for worried hearts who smile through sorrow. Through the beloved Buddhist story of Kisagotami and the mustard seed, this book reveals a truth many hidden sufferers forget: your pain is not proof of failure, weakness, or personal shame. It is part of the human field. Every house has known loss. Every face has hidden weather. Every heart has, at some time, waited to be seen with gentleness.When Kisagotami asks for medicine to restore her dead child, she is told to bring a mustard seed from a house untouched by death. Door by door, she discovers that no home is free from sorrow. What first appears as heartbreak becomes a doorway into kinship, compassion, and release.Written in a grounded Wise Storyteller voice, You Are Not Alone guides readers through a linear healing arc: from concealed worry, into the shared truth of suffering, and finally toward a softer, more honest way of living. Through Buddhist stories, public-domain teachings, contemplative reflections, mindfulness verses, and simple daily practices, you will learn to stop performing peace and begin touching it.This is not a book about becoming fearless. It is a book about no longer being alone with fear. It is an invitation to honor the smile that helped you survive, soften the worry beneath it, and remember that your hidden suffering deserves tender acknowledgment.Open these pages and begin the Mustard Seed Path toward a heart that no longer has to hide. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the version of you everyone likes is the very one keeping you unseen?Some people do not simply enter a room. They become acceptable to it. They laugh too quickly, agree too easily, soften their opinions, hide their discomfort, and speak in a voice shaped by other people's expectations. From the outside, they may seem kind, calm, and easy to be around. Inside, they may feel exhausted, divided, and quietly absent from their own life.Breath Beneath the Mask is a sincere Buddhist wisdom book for people who lose themselves in social settings and long to return to their natural presence. Rooted in the ancient practice of Anapanasati-mindfulness of breathing-this book offers a gentle but honest path for releasing social pretense and coming home to yourself.Anchored in the story of Channa releasing pretense on his deathbed, these pages ask a simple but sobering question: when performance can no longer protect you, what remains?Through grounded teachings, contemplative stories, mindfulness verses, and practical breath-based exercises, this book explores why masking becomes a survival strategy, how the body carries the cost of pretending, and how the breath can become a faithful guide back to truth.This is not a book about becoming louder, harsher, or more impressive. It is not about rejecting others or escaping the world. It is about becoming less divided. It is about learning to notice the borrowed face, listen to the body, release one false gesture at a time, and re-enter life with quiet courage.For the one who smiles while disappearing, says yes while shrinking, and leaves gatherings tired from being acceptable, this book offers a compassionate way home.Begin the journey back to your real presence-one honest breath at a time. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the painful future you keep rehearsing is not the life that is actually coming?For anyone who has replayed a future conversation before it happens, imagined rejection in advance, or turned silence into a story of disaster, The Calm of the River offers a wise and compassionate refuge.Narrative anxiety can make ordinary life feel like a series of trials. A delayed reply becomes proof of abandonment. A gathering becomes a stage for embarrassment. A difficult conversation becomes a verdict before a single word has been spoken. The mind, trying to protect us, rehearses every possible wound-yet the more it rehearses, the smaller life becomes.Drawing from Zen's Not Knowing Mind and inspired by Master Dogen's vision of time as a living river rather than a trap, this book guides readers out of anxious rehearsal and into a more spacious relationship with uncertainty. Through Buddhist stories, grounded reflections, and simple contemplative practices, The Calm of the River teaches that the future is not a courtroom, other people are not fixed characters in our fear, and no single awkward moment can imprison the whole self.Inside, readers will learn how to recognize the anxious mind's worst-case narratives, return to the body when fear begins building a stage, loosen the inner narrator, wait without turning silence into certainty, and respond to real life rather than rehearsed disaster.This is not a promise that life will become predictable. People will still surprise us. Conversations will still unfold beyond our control. Silence will still ask for patience. But unpredictability does not have to be treated as danger.If you are ready to stop living inside conversations that have not happened yet, let The Calm of the River guide you back to the unwritten moment-one breath, one step, one honest encounter at a time. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…