What is it like to be completely alone, attempting to face your experience with only nature for company? Buddhist teacher and author, Vajragupta, has been doing just that every year for twenty-five years. Here he recounts how these `solitary retreats' have changed him, how he fell in love with the places he stayed in and the creatures there.
Using reflections, exercises and suggestions for daily practice, this book can help you find greater equanimity and perspective in the ups and downs - big and small - of everyday life.
Features tools which comprise of teachings, exercises and reflections which can be applied to everyday life. These tools draw on the Buddhist tradition to guide us along a progressive path of ethics, meditation and wisdom in the context of our day-to-day living.
Vajragupta Staunton shows us that investigating our experience of time can be deeply and powerfully transformative. He explores time from a number of different angles in order to see how we can have a more healthy and human relationship with it, and offers practical ways of helping us live in a way that is relaxed and open.
Presents the story of an international Buddhist movement, from its inception in London to its growth worldwide. This work discusses the mistakes made, lessons learnt and how a Buddhist community was built.