May 2013
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Featured Titles: ‘The Breath’ and ‘The Heart’ by...
“The breath is your most fundamental experience of life, and bringing awareness to it can make you more alive.”
“Loving-kindness will have a transformative effect on your heart and mind. It will also transform your relationships with other people.”
In these two pocket-sized guides, Vessantara introduces various methods from the Buddhist tradition that can help us savour our presence in the...
April 2013
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An interview with Dhivan Thomas Jones, author of...
What is the Buddha’s teaching on conditionality? Why is this teaching so important?
Conditionality is the basic principle of understanding reality, according to the Buddha’s teaching. This sounds very grand, but actually what it amounts to is something very practical: how suffering arises in human experience and how we can bring about the ceasing of that same suffering. Of course this is what...
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New ebooks from Windhorse Publications!
Some of our best-selling new releases are now available as ebooks! Kamalashila’s Buddhist Meditation, Jinananda’s Meditating, Robin Cooper’s (Ratnaprabha’s) Finding the Mind and Sarvananda’s Solitude and Loneliness are all available to purchase at Kindle, Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo. Sangharakshita’s classic A Guide to the Buddhist Path is also up for sale on these sites.
Also with Detox...
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WatchDhivan Thomas Jones introduces his book ‘This Being, That Becomes: The Buddha’s Teaching on Conditionality’
Find out more about ‘This Being, That Becomes’
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Featured Title: This Being, That Becomes by Dhivan...
Available from the Windhorse online store, £12.99
“This being, that becomes; from the arising of this, that arises.” This succinct formula, recorded in texts and carved in inscriptions throughout the Buddhist world, is said to summarise the whole of the Dharma, the teaching of the Buddha. But how can such a simple summary be the conceptual formulation that characterises the...
March 2013
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“If we think of nirvana as a fixed point, however subtle or sublime, we are...”
– Sangharakshita, Living Wisely: Further Advice from Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland
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An interview with Sangharakshita, author of...
Is Living Wisely a book for those new to Buddhism or for advanced practitioners?
The book is for all serious students of Buddhist thought, especially those interested in Mahayana philosophy.
You write that you do not need to be old to be wise. Where does wisdom come from if not from life experience?
The wisdom that comes from life experience is worldly wisdom. Prajnaparamita or transcendental...
February 2013
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“You can change the realm in which you live by setting up the conditions that...”
– Sangharakshita, Living Ethically: Advice from Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland
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An interview with Sangharakshita, author of...
Nagarjuna lived in the second or third century AD. Does living ethically in the 2nd century mean the same thing as living ethically in the 21st century or are there new ethical dilemmas facing humanity today?
The basic principles of ethics remain the same throughout the centuries. In modern times, however, life is much more complicated than it was in Nargarjuna’s time, so that the application...
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Featured Title: Living Ethically by Sangharakshita
Available from the Windhorse online store, £12.99
In a world of increasingly confused ethics, Living Ethically looks back over the centuries for guidance from Nagarjuna, one of the greatest teachers of the Mahayana tradition. Drawing on the themes of Nagarjuna’s famous scripture, Precious Garland of Advice for a King, this book explores the relationship between an ethical lifestyle and...
January 2013
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“I think it’s quite important to think of meditation not only in terms of...”
– Sangharakshita, The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation
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Read an excerpt from Sangharakshita’s ‘The Purpose...
Sangharakshita’s ‘The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation’ is available to purchase at your local Triratna bookshop and on the Windhorse online store.
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WatchA talk given at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre to launch Sangharakshitas’ book The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation.
Sangharakshita’s The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation is available to purchase at your local Triratna bookshop or in the Windhorse online store.
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Sangharakshita’s ‘Living Wisely’ is now available!
We are very happy to announce the release of Sangharakshita’s Living Wisely!
In this companion volume to Living Ethically, Sangharakshita offers further advice from Nagarjuna’s famous text, Precious Garland. He suggests that although the development of wisdom is not an easy task, learning to live wisely is ultimately the most satisfying of all human endeavours.
Living Wisely: Further Advice...
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Sangharakshita’s new source book on meditation is...
We are pleased to announce that Sangharakshita’s The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation is now back in stock on the Windhorse Publications website. This major new book by Sangharakshita brings together many of his most significant teachings on meditation, some drawn from previously published works, and many extracted from previously unpublished seminar transcripts. They reveal how...
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Lists of recommended books – free to download from...
We would like to draw your attention to our new lists of recommended books, available to view and download on our website. There are six lists, each designed for readers with a particular level or type of interest in Buddhism: Recommended Books 1 is for introductory books, for example, and Recommended Books 2 is for books on meditation.
We hope you will find them useful. Happy reading!
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WatchMaitreyabandhu shares his thoughts on secular mindfulness in the context of his book, Life With Full Attention.
You can purchase Life With Full Attention from your local Triratna Bookshop or on our website.
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40% off selected titles in the Windhorse online...
As part of our New Year promotions, we are pleased to offer you a 40% discount on the following titles: Sangharakshita’s Buddha Mind, Sara Jenkins’ Hello at Last, Sarvananda’s Meaning in Life, Sara Burns’ A Path for Parents and Kulananda’s Principles of Buddhism. Happy 2013 and happy shopping!
December 2012
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Friendship and gender: A discussion with...
In ‘Thicker than Blood’ you strongly encourage friendships within the sexes and not between them. Why is an ideal spiritual friendship a same-sex friendship?
This was the one really controversial part of the book. In fact I was giving a talk last night and somebody was so incensed about it that they refused to come and meet me! I think it’s unfashionable to encourage single-sex...
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An interview with Maitreyabandhu, author of...
Thicker than Blood is a book about friendship. What is the role of friendship on the Buddhist path?
A lot of people think that Buddhism is essentially about meditation. People will say ‘I haven’t had time to do my practice’ and by this they mean meditation, so people’s idea of spiritual life becomes all about meditation. But that isn’t Buddhism at all. You could say that these people are...
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An excerpt from Sangharakshita’s ‘Living Wisely’,...
“But even for the faith follower, a basic level of intellectual understanding is indispensable to spiritual progress, and this is something Nāgārjuna goes on to illustrate later in the Precious Garland. It is not enough to store up merit by making offerings to shrines and stūpas, by chanting the sacred scriptures, or even by moral action. You have to engage with the deeper truth of things, and...
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WatchMaitreyabandhu introduces his book ‘Thicker Than Blood: Friendship on the Buddhist Path’.
You can purchase ‘Thicker Than Blood’ from your local Triratna Bookshop or on our website
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Ebooks available from Windhorse Publications –...
You may have recently purchased an e-reader, or you may be giving a friend or a family member one for Christmas. You may also be looking at the ebooks on Buddhism that are available.
We are very pleased to announce that a large number of Windhorse Publications’ books are now available to purchase in ebook format from Kindle, Apple and your favourite etailer. You can visit our website for a full...
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Featured Title: ‘Thicker than Blood: Friendship on...
Available from the Windhorse online store, £8.50
This is a book about friendship – about the Buddhist ideals of spiritual friendship and the author’s personal experience. By turns moving, funny, and inspirational, Maitreyabandhu’s account is as compelling as a good novel.
Woven into the tapestry of the many different aspects of friendship, such as openness, communication, fidelity, and...
November 2012
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Sangharakshita's new source book on meditation is...
We are happy to announce that Sangharakshita’s The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation: A Source Book of Teachings is now available!
The book is a collection of texts drawn from previously published works and unpublished transcripts of Sangharakshita’s seminars. It offers practical, inspiring and encouraging advice for new and experienced meditators alike.
You can purchase...
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WatchOver the last couple of months, Robin Cooper has been launching his new book Finding the Mind: A Buddhist View at Buddhist centres across the UK. If you haven’t been able to attend one of these events, here is the talk that he gave at the Manchester Buddhist Centre.
In this talk, Robin Cooper tells the entertaining story from the Shurangama Sutra of Ananda and Matangi falling in love. The Buddha...
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An interview with Amy Schmidt, author of ‘Dipa Ma:...
Who was Dipa Ma? What inspired you to write a book about her?
Dipa Ma was a Bengali woman living in Burma, who began practicing meditation in her 40’s after her husband died. Prior to her husband’s death, she had also experienced the death of two children and was diagnosed with a terminal heart condition. It was actually her doctor who advised her to practice meditation. And as soon as Dipa Ma...
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Featured Title: ‘Dipa Ma: The life and legacy of a...
Available from the Windhorse online store, £9.99
Read the life story and spiritual teachings of Dipa Ma, a major figure in contemporary Buddhism. She was the teacher of such well-respected western Buddhists as Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Alice Walker and Sylvia Boorstein, among others.
An accomplished yogi, she was an inspired teacher and a devoted mother and...
October 2012
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“A spiritual community is not a group. It is a...
This quote from Sangharakshita’s What is the Sangha? expresses its central message. But what does it mean to be an individual? And how are we to sustain, indeed develop, our individuality, and at the same time live in cooperation and harmony with others? Here I explore these questions, with Sangharakshita as our guide.
Sangharakshita begins his discussion of the Sangha by stating that a...
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Make the most of our website’s exciting new...
After months of construction, we are delighted to say that our new website is now fully functioning. On the website itself and on the linked blog, we have lots of features that we think you’ll enjoy, including author interviews, videos, articles, news, events, reviews of our books, excerpts from our books, and much more! Whether you’re new to Buddhism, studying Buddhism or an advanced Buddhist...
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The Campaign Against Fake Buddha Quotes →
Join Bodhipaksa in preserving the integrity of the Buddha’s words!
Bodhipaksa is author of Wildmind: A Step-by-Step Guide to Meditation and Vegetarianism: A Buddhist View
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We, the editors at Tricycle, put together this collection of post-its on our office wall several months ago as artwork to accompany Thanissaro Bikkhu’s essay “Lost in Quotation.” These quotes might...
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What is the Sangha?
‘What is the Sangha?’ This is the question that we’re asking ourselves here at Windhorse Publications for the last few months of the year. We’re going to be discussing the question in relation to some of our books, and ask our authors for their insights and views. We’d like to know what you, our readers, think too. What does the Sangha mean to you? Is it your local Buddhist centre, your friends,...
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Do you know what your mind is?
Robin Cooper’s ‘Finding the Mind’ tour continues with a talk at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre this Friday 19th October, 7.30pm. If you haven’t read the book yet, here’s a short excerpt to give you a taste of what the talk will be about:
“If I try and step back from it all, there’s an underlying sense of an inside and an outside. There is me in here receiving all these impressions...
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‘Karma, Interdependence, and Blame’ – an article...
When speaking of Karma, we generally emphasise individual agency and personal responsibility or accountability; that is to say, we see ourselves as autonomous ethical agents who bear individual responsibility for our actions. We do it, we are to praise or blame, and so we reap the consequences. We see ourselves as capable of making personal ethical choices and as being exclusively responsible...
September 2012
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Robin Cooper’s ‘Finding the Mind’ tour of UK...
Over the next few months, Robin Cooper is launching ‘Finding the Mind’ at Triratna centres across the UK with a talk on the Buddhist view of the mind. Here’s a list of the dates and venues:
9th October – Birmingham Buddhist Centre
11th October – Nottingham Buddhist Centre
19th October – Cambridge Buddhist Centre
20th October – Oxford Group (Study Day)
25th October – Colchester Buddhist...
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An interview with Robin Cooper, author of 'Finding...
How would you introduce Finding the Mind in just a few words?
Being aware is the most important part of our experience as human beings, so in Finding the Mind I wanted to explore what it means to be aware, and what you can do with this awareness. Buddhists have been looking into the issue for over two and a half thousand years so my book draws on the whole of the Buddhist tradition, as well as...
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WatchWe are very excited to announce the launch of Robin Cooper’s ‘Finding the Mind: A Buddhist View’. What’s the book all about? Watch this short video to find out…
‘Finding the Mind: A Buddhist View’ is available to purchase from your local Triratna bookshop and from our website.
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Have you enjoyed reading one of our books...
Inspire others to read it by posting a review on our website or on Amazon.
On the Windhorse Publications site, just click on the review tab next to the description tab on the book page and start writing. On Amazon, click on ‘Write a customer review’ on a book page. It’s really simple! If you’re spoilt for choice you could pick your favourite book by Sangharakshita, or one of the A Buddhist View...
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Meditation: the setting up of conditions for an...
Meditation is a household word, everyone has their idea of what it is, but does this mean that it is more misunderstood than understood?
In Meditating: A Buddhist View, released in July, Jinananda describes meditation as ‘the setting up of conditions for an ever more positive mental state to arise.’ The aim of meditation, he explains, ‘is to develop a continuous flow of positive mental states.’...
August 2012
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Introducing the last book in our 2012 'A Buddhist...
On 17th September 2012, Windhorse Publications will be launching Finding the Mind, a book which explores the Buddhist teaching that our own mind is the key to understanding and transforming our experience.
Robin Cooper explains that Buddhism takes an exploratory approach - it asks us to seek: it is not a revelation of religious truths. The Buddha saw that we are all in a tough predicament. We...
July 2012
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Solitude and Loneliness: A modern Buddhist view
Human societies throughout history and all over the world have organized themselves around living with others. Yet in the last 15 years, there has been an 80% global increase in people living alone. We’re wealthier than our ancestors and the cultures we live in value individualism and independence – we have the freedom to house ourselves in smaller family units or without a family at all. 34% of...
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An interview with Jinananda, author of...
You wrote the original version of Meditating about ten years ago now. What is different about the new edition?
Recently in my meditation teaching, I’ve been getting the sense that a lot of people, especially at the beginning, do find meditation quite difficult – many just feel that they can’t do it. So in this new edition I really wanted to emphasize that meditation isn’t about getting into a...
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The new revised edition of Jinananda's...
“There is no one experiencing our mental states from the outside. We are them. If we want to experience different states, we have to become them. And that process begins the moment we form an intention to meditate.”
Start this process now by reading an excerpt from the book, or by purchasing ‘Meditating: A Buddhist View’ from the Windhorse Publications website.
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New revised edition of Jinananda's 'Meditating'...
On the 16th July Windhorse Publications will be releasing the new revised edition of its bestselling guide to meditation by Jinananda.
Here’s a short quote from the book which we think gives a good sense of the book as a whole, as well as of the changes Jinananda has made to the new edition:
“Buddhist meditation is a practice of being true to your experience. This may sound like a...
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‘Whatever you frequently think and ponder upon,...
The Buddha spoke about the powerful ability of our thoughts to shape the people we become. Yet unlike meditation or mindfulness, reflection is not widely put forward as an essential Buddhist practice.
Ratnaguna writes, “Reading some books, you’d think that Buddhists aren’t supposed to think at all, as if thinking somehow contaminates the mind. Of course, if we’re honest, we have to admit that a...
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WatchSarvananda introduces his new book ‘Solitude and Loneliness: A Buddhist View’.
“Some of us are naturally drawn to solitude. For others, the idea of being on our own, whether in the wilds or even in the privacy of our room, can seem like a very unattractive option. Loneliness is an emotion that many of us seek to avoid at all costs and, for those of us for whom this is true,...
June 2012
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An interview with Ratnaguna, author of 'The Art of...
For a book on Buddhist thought, ‘The Art of non-Reflection’ might perhaps be a more obvious title. So what motivated you to write The Art of Reflection? Do you think that it offers something unique?
Well the immediate motivation for writing the book was that I was asked to write a module for the mitra study course on reflection, and then soon after that, Windhorse Publications contacted me and...
