Buddhism for Beginners
Simple Guide to Learn and Practice Buddhism Meditation. Improve Your Happiness and Reduce Your Daily Stress and Anxiety with Mindfulness Meditation Training
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You are about to unlock Buddhist secrets that will help you change your brain to change your life from one filled with unhappiness, stress, anxiety, and depression to one filled with calmness, a sense of purpose, and enlightenment!
The quest for happiness can be fleeting. It feels like we are running on a hamster wheel or a treadmill - just never moving forward and finding the peace, calmness, and happiness we seek! We still feel empty after "having it all".
Are you tired of chasing happiness without “catching up with it”?
Is there a secret to happiness?
Is there a way to go back to the drawing board to chart our journey to happiness and follow it until happiness, peace of mind, and more good stuff ooze from our being?
Well, there is no secret to happiness. But there is a practice that can help you unlock the happiness you so much wish you had: Buddhism.
As Buddha aptly put it: "No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."
So, if you wish to go back to the drawing board to set your life on a new trajectory, one where you ooze peace and happiness, Buddhism can help!
Founded close to 2,500 years ago in Asia, Buddhist teachings are increasingly being sought after for achieving peace, happiness, and neutralizing all the stress that we have these days!
And the good news is medical research is beginning to prove that indeed, this 2,500-year-old practice has scientifically provable benefits! It is not a religion, so don’t worry about switching to a Buddhist monk. All you have to do is to follow its teachings and implement them in your everyday life!
I know you are wondering:
- So, what does Buddhism entail?
- How do you adopt it into your everyday life?
- What exactly does Buddhism teach?
- Do you have to be a Buddhist monk to practice different Buddhist teachings?
- How does it bring about the benefits that it promises?
This audiobook seeks to answer these and other questions comprehensively so that you know exactly what to do to neutralize the stresses in your life and welcome happiness into your everyday life.
In it, you will learn:
- The basics of Buddhism, including what it is all about, the different ways of practicing Buddhism, how it has evolved to become what it is now, etc.
- The causes of suffering and how to follow a clear path to achieve happiness, peace, and enlightenment
- The A-Z guide on concepts and beliefs you should observe when practicing Buddhism
- Steps to tame the monkey mind to set you up for success as you practice various Buddhist teachings
- Buddhist meditation practices/techniques (with varying degrees of difficulty) that will help you calm down and bring an oasis of peace even in the most stressful situations
- The Buddhist meditation poses that will enable you to bring out the peace and calmness you are looking for
- Ways to use Buddhism’s most popular practice, mindfulness, to be at peace and calmness anywhere anytime
- Steps to inculcate Buddhist practices in your everyday life to make peace, calmness and happiness a part of your everyday life
- And much more!
Let this book usher you into your new reality where peace and happiness come naturally.
Click on the "buy now" button to get started!
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In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections” - generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding - can help us reconfigure the world we live in.
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Master piece
- By Andrew Lenards on 02-08-20
By: Norman Fischer
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Hurry Up and Meditate
- By: David Michie
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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In his thought-provoking and entertaining book, David Michie explains the nuts and bolts of meditation. As a busy professional, as well as long-term meditator, he also gives a first-hand account of how to integrate this transformational practice into everyday life. Combining leading edge science with timeless wisdom, Hurry Up and Meditate provides all the motivation and tools you need to achieve greater balance, better health and a more panoramic perspective on life.
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Why meditate?
- By Jenny on 02-26-14
By: David Michie
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One Simple Thing
- A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life
- By: Eddie Stern, Deepak Chopra - foreword
- Narrated by: Eddie Stern
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on modern neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and decades of practice and teaching, Eddie Stern’s One Simple Thing, with a foreword from Deepak Chopra, explains how what we do affects who we become, and reveals how a steady routine of physical movements, activities, and attitudes are able to transform not just our bodies but our brain functions and emotions, and how we experience life.
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Life skills 101....Well done!
- By Carri Moser Camp on 03-08-20
By: Eddie Stern, and others
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Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
- By: Urgyen Sangharaskhita
- Narrated by: Kulananda
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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The Eightfold Path is the most widely known formulation of the Buddha's teaching. It is ancient, reaching back to the Buddha's very first discourse, and it is highly venerated as a unique treasury of wisdom and practical guidance. The teaching of the Eightfold Path challenges us to grasp the implications of that vision, and asks us to transform ourselves in its light. Like the teaching itself, this work covers every aspect of life.
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Excellent
- By Anthony on 06-22-07
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Dancing with Life
- Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering
- By: Phillip Moffitt
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist meditation teacher, Phillip Moffitt provides a fresh perspective on the Buddha's ancient wisdom, showing how to move from suffering to new awareness and unanticipated joy. With a strong message of self-empowerment, Dancing with Life offers a prescriptive path for finding joy and peace that will appeal to anyone searching for a more authentic life.
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Chop Wood and Carry Water: The Four Noble Truths
- By Rich on 08-13-17
By: Phillip Moffitt
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The Gradual Path
- By: Miles Neale PsyD
- Narrated by: Miles Neale
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Dr. Neale presents a seven-session audio course to immerse you in the teachings and practices of the Lam Rim - Tibetan Buddhism’s time-tested path for psychological maturity and awakening. Created as an audio companion to Dr. Neale’s book Gradual Awakening, this course brings you a guided experience in the traditional Lam Rim journey, updated with insights from science and psychotherapy to root each step in our modern experience.
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Wonderfully Inspiring Teacher
- By Mr. Mindfulness on 03-27-19
By: Miles Neale PsyD
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Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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We live in difficult times. Life so often seems like a turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy our world. Why, then, shouldn’t we cling to the certainty of the comfortable - to our deep-seated habits and familiar ways? Because, Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of fear-based clinging keeps us from the infinitely more powerful experience of being fully alive.
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A Book for the Times
- By Elizabeth H. Callison on 07-02-20
By: Pema Chödrön
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Buddhism Without Beliefs
- A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
- By: Stephen Batchelor
- Narrated by: Stephen Batchelor
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before it was a religion, a culture, or even a system of meditation, what was Buddhism? On Buddhism Without Beliefs, celebrated teacher, translator, and former Buddhist monk Stephen Batchelor takes us back to the first years after the Buddha's awakening to reveal the root insights of Buddhism hidden beneath centuries of history and interpretation.
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Disingenuous.
- By Zoltan on 04-15-16
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The Buddha Walks into the Office
- A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation
- By: Lodro Rinzler
- Narrated by: Lodro Rinzler
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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The question "What do I want to do with my life?" is more difficult to answer for today's 20-somethings than it was for their parents - not only do today's jobs look different, but career paths are altogether less of a sure thing. It's in this modern context that Lodro Rinzler provides Generation Y with wisdom for approaching the whole issue of livelihood - not only how to find work, but how to bring compassion and meaning into the job once you’ve got it. It’s wisdom from the Buddhist tradition that works for anyone.
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Not just applicable to work
- By Peter Burgos on 01-23-15
By: Lodro Rinzler
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Counsels from My Heart
- By: Dudjom Rinpoche
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Counsels from My Heart is one of the few volumes of teachings by Dudjom Rinpoche, a legendary meditation master of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, to become available in English. It features talks to students presented in Dudjom Rinpoche's characteristically incisive and direct style, bringing the timeless heart-counsels of this great teacher vividly to life.
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Content is exceptional, narration is absurd.
- By JDKC on 09-01-21
By: Dudjom Rinpoche
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The Heart of Centering Prayer
- Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice
- By: Cynthia Bourgeault
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Centering prayer is the path to a wonderful and radical new way of seeing the world. It is not, as is sometimes thought, simply an act of devotional piety, nor is it a Christianized form of other meditation methods. Cynthia Bourgeault here cuts through the misconceptions to show that centering prayer is in fact a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition.
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A gift for the centering prayer movement
- By JThomso on 09-13-17
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Feeling Wisdom
- Working with Emotions Using Buddhist Teachings and Western Psychology
- By: Robert Preece
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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The realm of emotion is one of those areas where Buddhism and Western psychology are often thought to be at odds: Are emotions to be valued, examined, worked with as signs leading us to deeper self-knowledge? Or are they something to be ignored and avoided as soon as we recognize them?
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Very helpfull
- By Ann Hjälmås on 10-03-19
By: Robert Preece
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- Alton Rhodes
- 02-24-20
When your life is a hot mess, this audio-book .
When your life is a hot mess, this audio-book will help you find light in the shadows. It is not a cure all, but it will help you find perspective. highly recommended this audio-book!
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- Gena Mckenzie
- 02-24-20
Just what I needed at the right time. It's a great
Amazing audio-book. Has it all. Anything you want to know about Buddhism is there. Just what I needed at the right time. It's a great starter audio-book. Has a lot of great information.
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- Irene Elliott
- 02-24-20
The first step towards enlightenment.
Wonderful introduction to Buddhism. Enjoyable to listen. Very fascinating and the first step towards enlightenment.
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- Allen Blake
- 02-23-20
Excellent and broad introduction to Buddhism
I've only just started listening and I absolutely love this! Exceedingly easy to understand! It's a must-have for anyone interested in learning about Buddhism.
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- Bill Cummings
- 02-24-20
The perfect beginners guide.
This audio-book is the perfect guide for anyone interested in Buddhism. It really breaks it down in its simplest terms so you can truly understand and learn from it.
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