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"We have to lose ourselves to discover the world

Which is always waiting to welcome us home again. It may be the greatest journey we can ever make". 

The Five Powers

The Five Powers

The Five Powers

What's Beyond Mindfulness?

This is a ground-breaking book, which for the first time offers the key Buddhist teachings of The Five Powers (Bala in the Pali language): Trust, Energy, Mindfulness, Calm and Wisdom. These are the basic inner resources,  highly developed, sublime and yet very practical, which can transform our lives towards meaning and fulfilment. They are also the capacities we can develop to help us cope with the great challenges, uncertainties  and conflicts we face today.  

 

The book has 75 stunning illustrations. This first edition will soon be out of print but will be continuously available as a Kindle and Audiobook. We are in process of preparing a revised, retitled edition - The Power to Change - which will emphasise the importance of The Five Powers as sources of resilience during difficult times.

The Five Powers

The Five Powers

"Erut" (Wakefulness)

"Erut"- Wakefulness (Hebrew)

A Number 1 Bestseller in Israel for 18 weeks, "Erut" is a life-changing guide on every aspect of modern life from bringing mindfulness to heal conflict to how to age wisely, find fulfilment at work and make friends with your body, your heart and mind.  

אבן בינה

It is published in Hebrew by Pardes with the title אבן בינה and I am still looking for a publisher for the English edition. It is a semi-autobiographical story, offering intimate glimpses into a personal journey through states of realization. The book describes the daunting undertaking to construct a house, as if a temple, by hand, rock by rock. The peaks and troughs of  success and failure, of hope, despair, confusion and realization gradually transform my state of mind and heart. On the way there are risks and dangers, including a devastating fire. But aided by a wild friend in the role of both jester and Zen master,  the building is constructed and the builder deconstructed. , giving space to primal freedom. The setting is a nascent visionary and experimental ecological community living off-grid in the Galilee in the 1980’s where I still live today. This is a story of one man discovering what is possible. It shows that we have capacities way beyond what we can imagine. It tells us that we can listen to the voices of the animals and the land  and shows how kindness, meaning and integrity make sense, and can work.  

How To Thrive In Hard Times

We are faced with ever more challenging situations and often conflict at the personal, social and planetary levels. This uniquely accessible and inspiring book is a Buddhist guide to transforming ourselves and how we navigate through the stormy seas of daily life. It has 50 essays on all aspects of modern life from the mundane to the transcendent, including subjects like karma and choices, working with conflict and violence, fulfilment at work, shifting painful memories, accessing compassion and trust and exploring awakening. Tara Brach wrote “This illuminating book helps us to remember the deepest truths and capacities of who we are and invites us to inhabit our full aliveness, awareness and heart”.

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