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Exploring the intersection of ancient Eastern traditions and Western spirituality, this guide reveals how our darkest moments can lead to profound wisdom and joy. Through real-life stories, Zen tales, and Greek myths, Tarrant illustrates the transformative journey from daily life into the depths of the soul. His empathetic writing encourages readers to embrace life's challenges, ultimately returning with a deeper appreciation for its simple, vibrant gifts. This work offers a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the spiritual journey.

Andrew Magrane, a senior British SAS agent who is the victim of botched psychedelic-drug experiments, escapes from a hospital in Scotland, which he mistakenly believes to be a top-secret medical facility in Siberia, and Major Donaldson is assigned to stop Magrane's deadly mission

A provocative and playful exploration of the Zen koan tradition that reveals how everyday paradoxes are an integral part of our spiritual journey Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. Author and Zen teacher John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.

For many years, Peter Ashton was a successful, if unorthodox and controversial agent for Britain's SIS. But he was sent out to pasture by the agency when his cover was blown by his own government and now he is trying to live a quiet new life in hiding with his family. But someone amongst Ashton's old enemies is not content to let bygones be bygones and breaches SIS security in an attempt to locate the former agent's hiding place. When his former home is blown up, Ashton realizes that his SIS colleagues aren't going to protect him and that the safest guard for his family is himself. At the same time, an assassination in Russia leaves an old friend of Ashton's running from the mafiozniki. With a price on her head and no safe place to hide, she is desperate for Ashton's help. But with no help from the SIS and his old contacts denying that they've ever heard of him, Ashton is out in the cold and barely able to stay one step ahead of the terrorists out to retire him for good. It will require all of his resourcefulness and skill to uncover the identity of the person or group who are out for revenge, and protect his friend, family, and ultimately himself.

In this landmark guide to the spiritual journey, respected Zen teacher and Jungian psychotherapist John Tarrant brings together ancient Eastern traditions and the Western view of the soul to offer a new understanding and a vivid description of the depths and heights of our inner landscape. The Light Inside the Dark shows us how we can look into our darkest experiences and find the sources of joy there. In leading us on the journey of the interior life--the part of us that lies below the everyday life of work, family, and the physical world--Tarrant distinguishes between soul and spirit and shows how we can overcome the dichotomies of inner and outer, light and dark. To attain the deepest spirituality, he explains, no emotion need be denied: pleasure, anguish, desire, and contentment all form a part of the soul's great quest. Using real-life stories as well as the teachings of Zen Buddhist masters and the ancient Greeks to illuminate his discoveries, Tarrant shows us how to live fully through difficulty and discover deep happiness in all aspects of daily life.

Intelligence operative Peter Ashton returns in a complicated plot of murder, deception and high technology leading straight to a controversial royal visit to India. And both the IRA and the Russians seem to be helping the enemy

The narrative offers a fresh retelling of the Buddha's life, exploring profound themes of mind and consciousness. It highlights the Buddha's interactions with various figures, including kings, gods, and wise teachers, during his spiritual journey. Drawing inspiration from Egyptian and Greek myths, the author, an experienced Zen teacher and poet, enriches the story with a unique perspective, making it appealing to enthusiasts of mythology and folklore.

Peter Ashton finds himself back in Russia, now the enemy has changed. In the new Moscow, even the KGB cannot control the criminals in its ranks. In order to save the life of an innocent employee at the British Embassy, Ashton takes a risk to help her emigrate to England