Focusing on the pursuit of happiness, the book explores how to maintain engagement with life amidst its challenges. Sylvia Boorstein shares insights from her extensive experience in practice and teaching, emphasizing the importance of nurturing connections with others. By incorporating mindfulness, concentration, and effort—key components of the Buddhist path—readers are guided away from negative emotions like anger and anxiety, fostering a sense of calm, clarity, and joy in the present moment.
A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein
This guide offers a practical three-day meditation retreat plan, designed to help readers transition from doing to being. With insights from renowned mindfulness teacher Sylvia Boorstein, it emphasizes personal wisdom and real-life applications of meditation. Readers will discover timeless lessons aimed at achieving calm, clarity, and joy, making meditation accessible and relatable for everyone.
A lively, topical guide on how to respond to life’s inevitable difficulties—from personal crises to broader societal challenges The issue of difficulty in life is at the very essence of Buddhism. One can reasonably translate the first noble truth as, “life is full of difficulties,” with the remaining noble truths serving as Buddhism’s analysis of those difficulties and how to work with them. In Solid Ground, celebrated Buddhist teachers Sylvia Boorstein, Zoketsu Norman Fisher, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche use their diverse wisdom to address the immediate and practical concerns of our lives, including individual crises as well as the political, economic, and social challenges society is currently facing. Together, they explore the most basic and profound questions of Buddhism: the difficulty of life in general and how we can work with that and ameliorate it. Filled with humor and personal stories, Solid Ground offers specific teachings for concrete situations as well as a way to explore the larger questions of finding equanimity in difficult times.
Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein demystifies spirituality, charts the path to happiness through the Buddha's basic teachings, shows how to eliminate hindrances to clear seeing, and develops a realistic course toward wisdom and compassion. A wonderfully engaging guide, full of humor, memorable insights, and love.
This “touching and funny” book by a Jewish Buddhist “giv[es] a sense of the richness that comes with opening to more than one way of spiritual observance”(San Francisco Chronicle). “How can you be a Buddhist and a Jew?” It’s a question Sylvia Boorstein, author of It’s Easier Than You Think, has heard many times. Can an authentic Jewish faith be wedded with Buddhist meditation practice? In this landmark national bestseller, the esteemed Buddhist teacher addresses the subject in a warm, delightful, and personal way. With the same down-to-earth charm and wit that have endeared her to her many students and readers, Boorstein shows how one can be both an observant Jew and a passionately committed Buddhist. “An incisive exploration of the process of religious participation—one that will be widely read and intensely important to many people.” —Elaine Pagels, New York Times-bestselling author of The Gnostic Gospels “A beautiful book for Jews and Buddhists alike—warm, honest, heartfelt.” —Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart Includes a foreword by Stephen Mitchell
Sylvia Boorstein führt den westlichen Leser lebendig in die Zehn Paramitas, die Vollkommenheiten des Buddhismus, ein. Sie schildert ihren Werdegang und zeigt, wie Achtsamkeit uns hilft, Güte, Mitgefühl und inneren Frieden zu entwickeln.
Buddhismus zeitgemäß im Leben verankert Ein inspirierendes Buch, um die Herausforderungen des modernen Lebens in Einklang mit sich selbst und der Welt zu bringen. Wie Situationen unseres Daseins - die bedeutenden wie die banalen - in kleine Kunstwerke eines voll bewussten Lebens verwandelt werden können. Sylvia Boorstein versteht es, die Geisteshaltung und Lebensregeln des Buddhismus für Menschen, die mitten im Leben stehen, umzusetzen, um dem Alltag zu entfliehen und ihn souverän zu meistern. Gelassen und freudvoll zu leben, konzentriert zu sein und dabei doch entspannt zu bleiben ist möglich! Gerade um seinen Mitmenschen und der Umwelt bewusster und mitfühlender zu begegnen, findet man eine Fülle von Anregungen in lebendigem Erzählstil, mit einleuchtenden Beispielen und einfachen und effektiven Übungen.