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This is a marvelous book of teachings transcribed faithfully from teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism in the Drikung Kagyu lineage given in San Francisco by His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, and Ontul Rinpoche. These are commentaries on the Refuge Vow Ceremony, Amitabha Buddha, Vajrakilaya, the Heart Sutra and its relationship to Calm-Abiding and Mindfulness meditations, Lojong (otherwise known as Seven Point Mind Training, and Medicine Buddha.

Eliminate stress and recharge your batteries. Experience a deeper understanding of life and connect with higher consciousness by following the simple, easy daily exercises in Ten Seconds to Peace: An Everyday Approach to Mindful Living.The frenetic pace of today's society doesn't make it easy to relax. Yet taking time to reflect or to simply be "in the moment" can not only create calm, it can promote understanding, compassion and forgiveness. Devoted Buddhist, Jeffery Beach shows you how dedicating even a few seconds a day to this kind of awareness can help you find new peace and purpose in your life.Compassion, awareness, and breathing are key. Lack of humanity, consciousness, and shallow breath compound the stress of modern every day living. Readers of Ten Seconds to Peace all across the country, are gratefully sharing how just a few seconds of compassion, awareness, and simple deep breathing daily, promote more happiness, more creative energy, and a deep sense of peace. All you need is ten seconds a day to begin this gentle, almost effortless process.Deceptively simple, powerfully transforming, each exercise in the book guides readers into a more peaceful place. While each meditation is meant to be read and experienced, readers can and should select the exercises which feel the most comfortable for them. The practices naturally develop intuition and mindfulness. The author includes blank pages for creating individual thoughtful moments of silence, encouraging readers to invent personalized visualizations and meditations. Meant to be a journey of enlightenment, this gem of a book shows how taking time out can bring peace and harmony into your life.

Writer, Writer, Words on Fire is the book for parents who want to help their elementary age children become passionate and effective writers. As a parent, a veteran teacher with more than 30 years experience, and a published writer the author has lots of ideas, specific examples, engaging and entertaining stories which illustrate many things parents can do to help. The goal of the book is to support the parent in building his or her child's passion, confidence and skills in writing. The updated version addresses the demands of the new Common Core Standards and provides important information to parents about how to help young writers succeed in the Common Core and beyond. The book is full of tons of concrete examples that are explained in enthusiastic, and easy-to-understand language. Each of the chapters is short enough to be read in the bits of free time that a busy parent would have available like while waiting for soccer practice to end, waiting for her turn at the dentist, or in the last quiet ten minutes of the day.