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Sylvia Boorstein on buddhism

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Sylvia Boorstein: Embodying Buddhism (Excerpt)—Thinking Allowed DVD with Jeffrey Mishlove

Sylvia Boorstein presents the essence of the eightfold path and the four noble truths of Buddhism. She discusses Vipassana-or mindfulness-meditation which entails detaching from the thoughts, cravings and aversions that pass through the mind.

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Jeffrey Mishlove
2010
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Cultivate a Metta Mind: Loving-Kindness Meditation

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.

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Sylvia Boorstein
2007
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The Pāramis: Heart of Buddha’s Teachings and Our Own Practice

One of the roots of the word parami conveys the sense of “supreme quality.” Pāramītā means “going toward” something, going toward perfection.

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Sylvia Boorstein
1997
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Sylvia Boorstein Reads the Buddha's Teachings on Loving-Kindness

the Buddha's instructions on loving-kindness. Filmed at the 2017 Lion's Roar Annual Retreat, "Boundless Love."

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Sylvia Boorstein
2017
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How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers

In 2001, Toni Bernhard got sick and, to her and her partner’s bewilderment, stayed that way. As they faced the confusion, frustration, and despair of a life with sudden limitations—a life that was vastly different from the one they’d thought they’d have together—Toni had to learn how to be sick.

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Toni Bernhard, Sylvia Boorstein
2018
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Nonexistent But Precious

Sylvia Boorstein looks at the paradoxes and subtleties in the central Buddhist concept of no-self.

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That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist

In this landmark book, esteemed Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein addresses this incisive question in a warm, delightful and personal way.

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Sylvia Boorstein, Stephen Mitchell (foreword)
1998
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Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein

Get away from doing and into being with this lively, down-to-earth guide to your own meditation retreat by beloved mindfulness meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein.

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Sylvia Boorstein
1996
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Blossoms of the Dharma: Living as a Buddhist Nun

In recent years, Buddhist nuns from Asia and the West have met together to become more active in improving their status in the female sangha.

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Thubten Chodron, Sylvia Boorstein
1999
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Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

How can we stay engaged with life day after day? How can we continue to love—keep our minds in a happy mood—when life is complex and often challenging? These are questions that Sylvia Boorstein addresses in Happiness Is an Inside Job.

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Sylvia Boorstein
2008
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