Life is a stream that is always fresh, and the experiences and feelings cling to our mind and make us enthusiastic to share with others. Common things and common sights sprout wonderful feelings and extraordinary insights into the world and above the world. These feelings were embedded in the small poems, which will make the reader experience the rare beauty in body and spirit. Each poem is a jewel made up of images found in nature that gives everlasting freshness and ease to the mind of t...

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his h...

Trembling and quivering is the mind,Difficult to guard and hard to restrain.The person of wisdom sets it straight,As a fletcher does an arrow.The Dhammapada introduced the actual utterances of the Buddha nearly twenty-five hundred years ago, when the master teacher emerged from his long silence to illuminate for his followers the substance of humankind’s deepest and most abiding concerns. The nature of the self, the value of relationships, the...

This book is a collection of 161 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Buddha:“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”“What we think, we become.”“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”“The past is already gone; the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.”...

We all know that there are thousands of Quotes, Quotations, Teachings & Sayings of Great Masters, Thinkers & Spiritual Guides which are freely available to us. Even then, the Teachings & Quotes by Lord Buddha has got a special importance due to various reasons. Buddha`s Teachings go to the core of our life & can make radical changes in the mind of the seeker of truth. His Teachings are highly penetrating to the bottom our mind. Instead of going into the what & why, Buddha takes us to t...

• Why you must pause, look up and out of the window.• Why a geranium flowering on the windowsill and wind soughing in the pines is serenity• How rain drumming on the roof can still the mind as effectively as a night of meditation• How to recognize serenity once you have achieved itThis gorgeous pocketbook collects some of Ruskin Bond’s wisest observations—as well as those of the thinkers he most admires—on a life of calm a...

"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --NewsdayHandwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when "handwrit...

Moral values play an important role in moulding the attitude and approaches of children in their life. Moral values help the children go through the entire cycle of life as good human beings. So it is vital to impart moral values to children.Moral Stories comprises 30 amazing, educative and heart-touching stories with a moral at the end of each story, which will explain the importance and usefulness of moral values in life. Here you will find fun and education at the same place. With aweso...

Politics affect everyone everywhere. Yet most people do not know how to communicate or think methodically about the issues at hand. What we need is for our thinking to be grounded in the basic framework of order, freedom, justice, and equality. This book contains political thought, covering issues about human nature and its relation to society, the extent to which the powers of the State are justified, the tension between liberty and rights, and the way resources should be distributed.

Everything new that is created is something that has emerged out from the deepest and densest ocean of pre-contemplated thoughts in the heart.The heart abstracts its new creation from the ocean and asks the aid of the brain.The brain interprets the hearty language and translates it into human coherent language, using the archived words in its files and in a way gives rise to something new and something innovative.People initially say that a writer has a creative mind, ...

Encompassing the shades of Platonic love and classical romanticism the philosophy of love crystallized in Sumit much beyond that with touch of pristine principles. The entwining of Yin and Yang of Taoism, the eternal interplay of Prakriti and Purusha of Samkhya philosophy or the everlasting attraction of dual forces of nature are emblemed in the verses of Sumit and that is why it becomes a philosophical journey to read his poems . Not All Roads Lead To Rome is much beyond mere romantic poe...

See through times bleary glass, a little beyond in the past, Within the corners of our living rooms Memories are sweetly nesting. They have made a house within our houses, basking in the glorious light, or reclining upon the soft couch in the shed. From examining the nostalgia of love, to muse upon the memories of losses and pains, this, Amits third collection of poems and verses, is even richer and poignant. While at times, it is engaging, devotional and philosophical, at other times, it ...