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Living Color: Master Lin Yun's Guide to Feng Shui and the Art of Color by Sarah Rossbach, Lin Yun (Contributor)
From Publishers Weekly "How does color influence our life-world?... color defines for us what exists and what does not... discloses the status of one's health and fortunes... inspires emotion... [and] structures our behavior.'' The authors, past collaborators on Interior Design with Feng Shui, here explain Chinese spiritual teacher Lin Yun's theory of color, based in part on Buddhist tradition, and its broad applications. Color is here considered as a means of beneficial power and as a potential cure; given knowledge, wise planning and a certain sensitivity in the consumer, it can be used to improve lives.
The Modern Book of Feng Shui: Vitality and Harmony for the Home and Office by Steven Post
The Modern Book of Feng Shui is the ultimate tool for employing Feng Shui, or the ancient Chinese art of placement, to enrich your life. Whether in the workplace or in the home, this guide is the perfect first step in establishing harmony with the energy, or chi, through additions and awareness of your surroundings.
Feng Shui: Harmony by Design by Nancy SantoPietro, Lin Yun
Ingram Offers an easy-to-follow workbook, designed to help readers locate the "power spots" in their homes and adjust chi to maximize harmony, improve wealth, enhance a relationship, and much more.
Feng Shui Design: From History and Landscape to Modern Gardens & Interiors by Sarah Rossbach & Lin Yun
Feng Shui originated in ancient China, as farmers sought to survive through finding harmony with nature, but in recent years it has moved to the West and entered the mainstream of the modern design world. Internationally renowned interior designers, architects, and landscapers are adopting Feng Shui precepts in their work, and stories abound of the remarkable, positive impact feng shui has had on people's lives. This informed and informative book offers a clear understanding of the historical roots of Feng Shui, its fundamental principles, and shows how they can be used practically today. With photographs of both classic and modern examples of Feng Shui in practice, Feng Shui Design offers inspiration and down-to-earth ideas for anyone to follow in considering home, garden, or office designs. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, drawings, charts, plans, and original calligraphy by Master Lin Yun, Feng Shui Design will be required reading for designers, architects, and anyone wanting to explore this ancient art.
Interior Design With Feng Shui by Sarah Rossbach, Lin Yun
A centuries-old Chinese practice, Feng Shui has captured the Western imagination as a tool for design and well-being. In this classic book, complete with helpful drawings and photographs, Sarah Rossbach shows how anyone can apply its principles to enhance their careers, family life, health, and prosperity. Rossbach interprets the teachings of Feng Shui master Lin Yun for contemporary Westerners, offering practical methods for achieving harmony with one's environment. Focusing on common problems in business and residential settings, she discusses everything from the site of a building to furniture arrangement to wall decoration. In a chapter new to this edition, she explains how to choose colors that satisfy individual needs and preferences. Rossbach's easy-to-execute advice includes such simple steps as moving a microwave oven, repositioning a desk, and hanging mirrors to alleviate negative influences.
Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of a Home: Using Feng Shui to Disarm Illness, Accelerate Recovery, and Create Optimal Health by Nancy SantoPietro
“I highly recommend this book for anyone who is looking to improve their well-being and their home!” Deepak Chopra
Use of Transcendental Cures In keeping with the Black Hat Sect tradition (see pg. 300), if you use any of the transcendental cures provided in Nancy’s books, please send 1 red envelope with $1.00 to Nancy SantoPietro & Assoc. at: 1684 80th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11214 and 1 red envelope with $1.00 to the Yun Lin Temple at: 2959 Russell St., Berkeley, CA 94705 All envelopes and intentions will be blessed!
Chinese Taoist (from Detroit, Michigan, United States): Having studied with Grandmaster Thomas Lin Yin Rinpoche, the author went on to become a popular Feng Shui consultant and lecturer. Her book, based on the ba gua school of feng shui, provides a detailed overview of the connection between illness, recovery, and health and the Feng Shui of living and working spaces. Beginning with an introduction to Feng Shui itself, the book moves into the energy patterns of illness, Feng Shui methods for diagnosing illness and adjusting chi, and the impact of the chakras and color on health. Discussions include the nine crucial Feng Shui health principles, floor plans that can harbinger illness and how to avoid them, a Feng Shui health assessment of your home or office, identifying and impeding the vibrational patterns of illness, and complementary therapies (chakra work, aromatherapy, crystals, sound therapy, and color breathing) to enhance traditional treatments. Illustrations, charts, meditations, exercises, and before-and-after diagrams of redesigned spaces make this an interesting and valuable book for creating healthy Feng Shui in interior spaces.
Living Feng Shui: Personal Stories by Carole J. Hyder
Living Feng Shui features 20 case studies that demonstrate feng shui's ability to transform living and working spaces. With the help of popular feng shui consultant Carole Hyder, the reader learns how to analyze a space, identify life issues, and address desired changes.
The Feng Shui Journal: A Guided Workbook To Bring Harmony Into Your Life by Teresa Polanco
Users will improve relationships, maximize career potential and enhance their surroundings with The Feng Shui Journal, a unique workbook that guides them step by step through the priciples and techniques of the acient Chinese art of living. The journal includes a clear presentation of the basics of Feng Shui, plus interactive exercises and charts to help readers create a healthy living environment. Journal pages provide ample space for tracking progress in each of the 9 important life areas, as well as for noting personal thoughts and reflections.
Wind and Water: Your Personal Feng Shui Journey by Carole J. Hyder
Feng shui works with the flow of the life force in the living and working environment to create balance and harmony. Used in China for centuries, it has recently found popularity in the West. Wind and Water presents feng shui as simple practices that can be done on a daily basis.
A Soul In Place: Reclaiming Home as Sacred Space by Carol Bridges
A Soul In Place explores the connection between the external dwelling place - rooms, houses, and towns - and the terrain of the soul. It enters our homes and hears through the use of feng shui, the 5000 year old Chinese art of placement. Using the language of emotional spaces, A Soul In Place creates an easy-to-use system for creating greater wealth, successful careers and good relationships in balance with the needs of the Earth. Every wall, window, furnishing and garden plant that makes up your individual and community world begins to reveal your soul. Decorating then becomes the making real of qualities you cherish, becoming the visual acknowledgement of life's sacred journey.
Sell Your Home With Feng Shui by Christine Ayres & Cindy Coverdale
In Sell Your Home With Feng Shui, feng shui experts Christine Ayers and Cinday Coverdale share their success in staging homes for quick sale. Packed with easy and inexpensive tips for the Homeowners and Real Estate professionals.
The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life by Michael Roach
Other Buddhist books offer you a path to happiness, Geshe Michael Roach offers a path to wealth. Roach, who while being a monk helped build a $100 million business, demonstrates how ancient notions in The Diamond Cutter sutra can help you succeed, and if you're in business that means to make money, a lot of it. Drawing on lessons he learned in the diamond business and years in Buddhist monasteries, Roach shows how taking care of others is the ultimate path to taking care of oneself, even--especially--in business. As he puts it, you have to engage in "mental gardening," which means doing certain practical things that will form new habits that will create an ideal reality for you. If this sounds a little outrageous, his very precise instructions are down to earth and address numerous specific issues common to the business/management world. Through this practice, you will become a considerate, generous, introspective, creative person of immense integrity, and that will be the key to your wealth. At first this book comes off like a gimmick and the writing isn't without rough patches, but page by page, as Roach introduces you to the practical details and real-life examples, his arguments become more convincing. A cross between the Dalai Lama's ethics and Stephen Covey's Seven Habits, The Diamond Cutter will have you gardening a path to the bank. --Brian Bruya
Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World by Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (Preface)
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker. The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced life. It illuminates the guidelines and key principles embodied in the noble Eight-Fold Path and the traditional Three Enlightenment Trainings common to all schools of Buddhism.
From Library Journal A good introduction to basic Buddhist concepts with a short life of the Buddha. The organization is logical, with representative texts and commentaries from modern teachers such as Pema Chodron, Chogyam Trungpa, and Thich Nhat Hahn. (LJ 1/94) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description Tara, the most famous female deity in Tibetan Buddhism, is a personification of the Prajnaparamita and a mother dedicated to protecting her followers. Bokar Rinpoche presents the various aspects of Tara and the origin of her tantra, relates contemporary examples of her benevolent activity, provides an explanation of her praise, offers instruction for devotional practice, and discusses remarkable women in Indian and Tibetan Buddism. An extensive iconography completes the text.
About the Author Bokar Rinpoche was born in 1940 to a nomadic family in western Tibet. Recognized as a reincarnation by the Sixteenth Karmapa, he underwent traditional training at Bokar and Tsurphu Monasteries. He later went into exile in India where he met Kalu Rinpoche and founded a monastery in Mirik near Darjeeling. He is the holder of the Shangpa Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and is well known for his realization and for delivering teachings with extreme clarity.
Roach captures the entire breadth of Tibetan Buddhist teaching in this spare, plain-spoken parable about a man led to a mystical garden by his young lover, a teenager who possesses more than average wisdom. Like many lovers, the youth disappears, and the man begins what looks to be a two-pronged quest: to reunite with "Her" and to comprehend the agonizing death from cancer of his good-hearted mother. Over the course of the book, the seeker returns again and again to the garden. Each time he is met by a Tibetan Buddhist saint, each of whom gives him one of the fundamental lessons of Buddhism and guides him on the path to realization. Some historical and philosophical context for these teachers and teachings Roach covers in "The Garden," and explaining the role of guru yoga, parable and debate, among other themes, in Tibetan Buddhism, would go a long way toward making the book accessible to readers with a budding, or general, interest in Buddhism. Still, launching headlong into the book has its merits. Unfiltered, these Buddhist concepts must settle in on their own and, like the seeker, we are left with a trove of spiritual lessons to test for ourselves.
Westerners have finally accepted the fact that mind and body are one and the same, that emotions and thoughts directly affect our health. Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tulku Thondup adds a third element to the mix, the spirit, then presents his readers with a lucid explanation of how meditation can, and should, become part of daily life and how the attainment and retention of a peaceful mind can ease stress and suffering. This general overview is followed by a series of specific exercises, many involving breath control and visualization, for the healing of certain troubled states of mind and soul. Tulku Thondup rounds out his presentation and instructions with some basic Tibetan Buddhist teachings and a discussion of our relationship with nature, a primary source of comfort and revelation. -- Donna Seaman
The Mantra Book: Chant Your Way to Health, Wealth, and Serenity by Lillian Too
Get more out of your meditation by using mantras - sacred Buddhist words and chants - to achieve concrete results with this guide to Buddhism made practical.
- Remove life's obstacles - Calm crying babies - Generate wealth - Achieve deep inner calm - Increase longevity - Increase energy - Help the sick and dying
Taming the Monkey Mind is for all who wish to understand themselves. Written in clear and simple English, this book explains the essence of the Buddhist view of life, and shows how to apply it in relationships with friends, family and colleagues. The author's open-minded approach makes this book suitable for non-Buddhists alike.
The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche
A favorite of Tibetans and recommended by the Dalai Lama and other senior Buddhist teachers, this practical guide to inner transformation introduces the fundamental spiritual practices common to all Tibetan Buddhist traditions."The Words of My Perfect Teacher" is the classic commentary on the preliminary practices of the Longchen Nyingtig-one of the best-known cycles of teachings and a spiritual treasure of the Nyingmapa school-the oldest Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Patrul Rinpoche makes the technicalities of his subject accessible through a wealth of stories, quotations, and references to everyday life. His style of mixing broad colloquialisms, stringent irony, and poetry has all the life and atmosphere of an oral teaching. Great care has been taken by the translators to render the precise meaning of the text in English while still reflecting the vigor and insight of the original Tibetan. A preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, insightful introductory essays, explanatory notes, and classic illustrations enhance this quintessential introduction to Tibetan Buddhist practice. This new edition includes translations of a postface to the text written a century ago (for the first printed edition in Tibetan) by the first Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, and a new preface by the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. The notes, glossary and bibliography have been expanded and updated, Sanskrit names and terminology have been given their proper transliterated form, and the illustrations have been improved in quality and supplemented with new material.
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness" -- the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.
Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is -- in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part -- and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. the deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the "mindless" into the mindFUL.
Tuck The Long Road Turns to Joy in your pocket and turn your walk into a joyful meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches "walking just for walking." Learn to enjoy each step and each breath, to regain peace in difficult moments. Photographs of walking meditation from around the world are included.
The I Ching or Book of Changes by C.F. Baynes, R. Wilhelm (Translator), Vary F. Baynes (Translator)
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it has been rapidly spreading in the West.
The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth by Hua-Ching Ni
The I Ching originated from thousands of years of careful observations of nature. In its modern form, we are able to use its predictive wisdom to enhance our lives and reconcile our spiritual and physical selves. In addition to the text of the hexagrams themselves, Hua-Ching Ni has included his personal commentaries on each gua, as well as an extensive section of background material on the forces and cycles that govern the universe and influence all lives. This vast body of knowledge lends insight into the specific events and situations that the individual hexagrams address.
Master Hua-Ching Ni uses straightforward language and personal experiences, as well as traditional stories and teachings of the ancient masters, to impart the wisdom of Taoism, the Integral Way. His teachings promote a simple, natural, healthy, and happy way of life that lays the foundation for spiritual self-cultivation.
Master Ni emphasizes that it is important first to establish a good understanding of basic spiritual principles and then begin to realize this wisdom in daily life by adopting practices and attitudes that help to conserve, nourish, and refine the subtle energy. Among the topics he discusses in short, accessible passages are:
- basic spiritual self-protection - self-reliance - emotional balance - do's and don’ts for a healthy, natural lifestyle - sleeping and dreaming - diet - love, sex, and marriage - meditations and invocations from the Taoist tradition
Hua-Ching Ni, an acknowledged master of all aspects of Taoist arts and philosophy, has lived and taught in the United States since 1976. He is the author of more than forty-five books on Chinese philosophy, traditional healing, the I Ching, meditation, and related subjects.
The Dream Book: Symbols for Self-Understanding by Betty Bethards
Ingram In a new paperback edition of her bestselling book, renowned psychic and teacher Betty Bethards shows how we can decipher the subconscious messages of our dreams for a fuller understanding of ourselves with her outstanding collection of 1,650 dream symbols.
Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small by Ted Andrews
Want to learn how to speak the language of critters, large and small? Easy-to-read and understand, Ted Andrews's bestselling Animal Speak shows readers how to identify his or her animal totem and learn how to invoke its energy and use it for personal growth and inner discovery. Nature lovers will love this insightful compendium, chock-full of touching stories about animals, natural history, and animal folklore. Readers will also learn magical animal rites and how to read omens. Animal Speak includes a dictionary of bird, animal, reptile, and insect totems, which describe each creature's meaning. For example, if a person's totem is dragonfly, he or she was most likely excessively emotional and passionate in early years, learning with age to balance it with mental clarity and control. If a dragonfly suddenly shows up in your life, it means you may need to gain a new perspective or make a change. -- P. Randall Cohan
Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes and How to Use Them by Angeles Arrien
"The soul never thinks without an image," claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself. As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologist to the import human beings attribute to shapes. Examining her results, she has developed an effective tool to determine the connection between a person's preferences for certain shapes and the same person's inner, subjective states. In the course of using Arrien's book, individuals, parents, teachers, and therapists will experience the universal processes of growth embodied in images and myths. Life, we discover, is art, and through Arrien's fascinating journey in Signs of Life, we gain a new perception of the omnipresent patterns and symbols that surround us. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs.
Interpretation Of Dreams In Chinese Culture by Zhang Juwen
Dream analysts at the Chinese court are mentioned in historical sources dating from the second millenium B.C., while belief in portents, omens, and systems of prognostications have kept dream imagery and its interpretation very much in the mainstream of Chinese popular culture. This book, illustrated with woodblock prints from classical texts, presents an overview of the subject of dream interpretation in traditional China and an alphabetical compilation of Chinese dream images and their meanings.
Chinese Astrology: Forecast Your Future from Your Chinese Horoscope by Man-Ho Kwok, Joanne O'Brien, Clare Melinsky
This is an informative and user-friendly introduction to Chinese astrology. Man-Ho Kwok obviously loves the subject matter -- and easily conveys the complex. I highly recommend this book to readers looking for a basic introduction to Chinese astrology.
Chinese Zodiac Symbols: 18 Rubber Stamps by Lily Song
According to the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, your birth animal - and its associated element - is key to understanding your character. In the enclosed booklet you'll be introduced to the fascinating history of Chinese astrology and learn about the qualities of your own animal...and those of your loved ones. Then, use the graphically bold images to enhance and beautify your earth-bound correspondence.
This book offers positive new thought patterns to replace negative emotions. It includes an alphabetical chart of physical ailments, the probable causes, and healing affirmations to help you eliminate old patterns.
Natural Health: Homeopathy Handbook by Andrew Lockie
Dr. Andrew Lockie brings his knowledge and practical expertise in homeopathy to ordinary people looking for safe and effective treatments for common ailments. Setting the record straight. There is a popular misconception that homeopathy is a plant-based therapy, yet the remedies are drawn from animal, vegetable, and mineral sources. To overcome this and other confusions, this book provides the most up-to-date and scientifically accurate information available, using the current classifications of the substances from which homeopathic remedies are derived. Treating the whole person. Before suggesting a remedy, a homeopathic practitioner will consider a host of factors, including the patient's temperament, state of mind, and lifestyle, in addition to any signs and symptoms of internal disorder. This "whole person" approach ensures a remedy uniquely suited to the individual for whom it is prescribed. In this book, Dr. Andrew Lockie explains the steps to correct self-diagnosis, and how to choose among the hundreds of remedies for sale.
One of Germany's most innovative Bach flower practitioners presents his healing system, which correlates zones of the body with appropriate remedies. Profusely illustrated. Includes many case studies.
Between Heaven and Earth by Harriet Beinfield & Efrem Korn
Two of the foremost American educators and healers in the Chinese medical profession demystify Chinese medicine's centuries-odl approach to health. Combining Eastern traditions with Western sensibilities in a unique blend that is relevant today, BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH opens the door to a vast storehouse of knowledge that bridges the gap between mind and body, theory and practice, professional and self-care, East and West.
Chinese Patent Medicines: A Beginner's Guide by Mark Taylor
This book is an introduction to a safe and sane medicine which has been largely unknown outside of China until the last 20 years. This book offers the reader an introductory tour through the herb world of China along with a simplified explanation of more than 200 Chinese remedies in pill form. It also provides the reader with the ability to identify the highest quality products manufactured by the best facilities in China. Included are nearly 100 of the author's photographs which take the reader on a visual journey from the herb fields and farmer's markets of Northern China to rice paddies and villages outside Hong Kong.
Healthy Beauty: Using Nature's Secrets to Look Great and Feel Terrific by Letha Hadady
Consumer text provides a practical approach to personal growth and beauty. Focus is placed on achieving healthy beauty through the use of herbs, diets, homeopathic remedies, and stress-reduction techniques.
The Bathtub Yoga & Relaxation Book: Yoga in the Bath for Energy, Vitality & Pleasure by Marjorie Jaffe & Barbara Isenberg
Learn how to combine a relaxing bath with stress-reducing yoga for the ultimate restorative experience. Beautiful, full color presentations of water yoga and stretches, breathing exercises, and meditations help you discover an easy way to relieve tension and maintain fitness. This uncomplicated program can be used by anyone with a bathtub regardless of fitness level or yoga experience. Add touches of aromatherapy, natural lighting, and peaceful sound and you have the perfect relaxation routine!
Natural Beauty for All Seasons: More Than 250 Simple Recipes and Gift-Giving Ideas for Year-Round Beauty by Janice Cox & Dorothy Reinhardt
Cox offers readers more than 250 brand-new recipes for body, bath, and hair care, with an eye toward special beauty needs and ingredient avail-ability in each of the four seasons.
Chinese Foods for Longevity: The Art of Long Life by Henry C. Lu
In the West, people think of food only as nutrition; when they get sick they turn to medical treatment. However, in China, food is medicine. Not only does it provide nutrition for health, but it is used to prevent and treat illness.
This practical guide explains the time-honored Chinese tradition of eating for health and longevity, and shows how familiar foods from your supermarket will help you build up your immune system, the key to long life.
Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements by Dianne M. Connelly
This book should be required reading for any acupuncture student. Ms. Connelly's thesis provides important and difficult-to-find information on Five Element Acupuncture. Her book is well-written and easy to understand. The case study and vignettes offer a unique glimpse into this type of treatment. As a student of acupuncture and chinese medicine, I found it to be a highly valuable resource. - Reviewer: Misti G. Oxford (Ft. Lauderdale, FL U.S.A)
Excellent translation, well-selected chapters! Reviewer: Brad Daniels from Sugar Land, TX, USA I currently own 3 different versions of "Journey to the West", and of the three, this one is probably the best compromise between detail and brevity. I am currently reading it to my 7-year-old (I read it by myself a while ago), and while the vocabulary is definitely a stretch (I have to explain 4 or 5 words on most pages), he's really loving it. The story has all the appeal of a martial arts novel, The Wizard of Oz, and a Buddhist philosophical treatise blended into a thoroughly entertaining tale for all ages.
Surround yourself with lucky objects, the Chinese believe, and good fortune will come to you. In word and image, this exquisite volume-a delight to hold in the hand-explores the bounteous meanings of the five-fold symbols of happiness: luck, prosperity, longevity, happiness, and wealth. Drenched in color and lavishly illustrated from ancient and modern sources, Five-Fold Happiness interweaves both Chinese and English text. Peaches, the number eight, the imperial color of gold, a cat with one paw beckoning, or the dragon dance-here are some of the familiar images now revealed in their rich significance. Whether readers choose to embrace these symbols in their everyday lives or simply enjoy them on these glorious pages, Five-Fold Happiness is altogether auspicious.
Why did Chinese creditors pretend it was still New Year's Eve on New Year's Day? What do young men and women expect to get by throwing oranges into the river on the fifteenth day after New Year's Day? And why worship the moon? Fun With Chinese Festivals tell us with a humorous look at the beliefs and practices - and superstitions - behind major Chinese festivals.
Enter the world of Chinese Ancient Beliefs and Modern Realities Earth magic, ghost weddings, passports to the after-life -- the spirit of ancient Chinese beliefs still exists side-by-side with everyday modern reality, and it affects every aspect of Chinese life, from diet and decor, to getting married and opening a business.
The Book Of Chinese Beliefs shows how the Chinese people have managed to preserve their beliefs for thousands of years, while at the same time successfully adapting to the contemporary high-tech era. Here are fascinating explanations of customs that take you far beyond the superficial cliches about Chinese culture:
-- Tong Sing -- The "Know Everything Book," a bible of the practical and the spiritual in everyday life
-- Hsien -- Powerful guardians, gifted in the arts of healing, wise in mystical studies
-- Feng Shui -- Chinese Earth Magic, appropriate placement of objects to create the best energy flow for an environment
-- I Ching -- One of many methods of reading fate and telling fortunes
-- Chi -- The mysterious healing energy that animates all of life
-- Tongs -- Ancient secret mystical societies that have dangerous modern counterparts
This wonderful compendium of spiritual practices, healing arts and day-to-day attitudes is the perfect introduction to the mysteries of Chinese life.
T'ung Shu: The Ancient Chinese Almanac originated over 4000 years ago and has been translated by a team of Chinese and Western autorities. T'ung Shu is a revered, spiritually powerful object. It is an extraordinary repository of Chinese culture and beliefs.
This ancient Chinese form of divination art will enable you to determine what the future holds in the areas of wealth, love, career success, and family life for yourself, your loved ones, and even complete strangers!
Prescriptions for a Healthy House by Paula Baker-Laporte, Erica Elliott, John Banta, & Lisa Flynn
For people who are concerned about exposure to toxins found in conventional building materials and practices, Prescriptions for a Healthy House shows how to design interior and exterior space, and select construction materials that enhance and promote physical well-being. This invaluable guide explains where and why standard building practices are not healthful, what to do differently, and how to obtain alternative materials and expertise. Includes a trove of manufacturer, service provider, and catalog resources plus a description of MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity disorder).
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Alexander, Ishikawa, and Silverstein
"Brilliant....Here's how to design or redesign any space you're living or working in--from metropolis to room. Consider what you want to happen in the space, and then page through this book. Its radically conservative observations will spark, enhance, organize your best ideas, and a wondrous home, workplace, town will result"--San Francisco Chronicle. A handbook designed for the layman which aims to present a language which people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.
How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That's the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but on the few particular details on which we focus. Leaping boldly from example to example, displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Gladwell reveals how we can become better decision makers--in our homes, our offices, and in everyday life. The result is a book that is surprising and transforming. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.
Seven Steps to Developing Your Intuitive Powers: An Interactive Workbook by Betty Bethards & Jaclyn Grace
This easy-to-use, interactive workbook offers you step-by-step guidance for deepening your perception and enhancing your intuitive abilities. Based on a highly successful course run by Betty Bethards, bestselling author of "The Dream Book", these unique exercises, worksheets, diagrams and techniques will encourage you to make the most of your innate creative powers and achieve balance in body, mind and spirit.
Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy by John Tarrant
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 fourteen 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. 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.
How to Talk so Teens Will Listen and Listen so Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Living with teenagers can be overwhelming. Overnight, it seems, the children you were once so close to turn into independent strangers with thoughts, tastes, and values all their own. And today's teens are growing up in a popular culture that is meaner, ruder, cruder, more materialistic, more sexualized, and more violent than ever before. What's a parent to do?
How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
Internationally acclaimed parenting experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish have helped millions of families with their breakthrough, best-selling books How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Siblings Without Rivalry, and Liberated Parents, Liberated Children. Now, they return with a lively, down-to-earth guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today. After years of research, lecturing, and feedback, Faber and Mazlish have developed an innovative approach to maintaining a candid, open, mutually respectful dialogue between parents and teens. It's a strategy that curbs conflict, reduces frustration, and promotes thoughtful communication about everything from curfews and drugs to schoolwork and sex.
Written in Faber and Mazlish's trademark accessible style, How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk takes you inside their acclaimed workshops where you will hear -- in the words of both parents and teens -- what's on the minds of families today. Packed with suggestions that are easy to implement, and reinforced with stories, line drawings, and "reminder" pages, this indispensable volume will help build a foundation for a healthy relationship that puts the emphasis on rapport rather than reprisals. From age-old concerns about cliques and dating to contemporary worries about binge drinking and cyberbullying, Faber and Mazlish help parents tackle problems before they get out of hand. In their warm, lucid, unpatronizing manner, the authors show families how to be supportive and stay connected during the challenging teenage years.
Unquiet Dead: A Psychologist Treats Spiritual Possession by Dr. Edith Fiore
Noted psychologist Dr. Edith Fiore explains how to detect spirit possession in yourself and others, how to protect yourself from entities, how to release your home from displaced spirits, and how to perform a depossession. Filled with shocking case histories.
