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New podcast episode

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 1 Jun, 2022 - 14:20

New podcast episode

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 1 Jun, 2022 - 14:20

We’re delighted to announce the release of Episode 2 of the Windhorse Publications Podcast. Dhammamegha and Bhikkhu Anālayo continue their conversation, turning to the crucial question of the place of mindfulness of others in meditation, the importance of sanghaor community, and the relationship between what happens on the cushion and our ways of being in the world. 

Getting closer to some of our collective challenges, Bhikkhu Anālayo talks about climate change and the Six Element Practice. We then move onto Bhikkhu Anālayo’s...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

We've started a podcast!

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 6 Apr, 2022 - 11:00

We've started a podcast!

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 6 Apr, 2022 - 11:00

Dhammamegha here again. I was in my teens and having a bit of a rough time when I first had a spontaneous experience of great expansiveness and love. It was suffused with peace and proved to be a turning point in my life.

Before the Internet, and relying on a small suburban library in Cape Town, I looked for anything that might resonate with that experience. And that’s when I found my first Dharma books. They helped me to keep in touch...

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Bhikkhu Analayo to speak at Triratna Earth Sangha Conference

By Shantigarbha on Tue, 14 Sep, 2021 - 11:21

Bhikkhu Analayo to speak at Triratna Earth Sangha Conference

By Shantigarbha on Tue, 14 Sep, 2021 - 11:21

We’re delighted to announce that Bhikkhu Analayo has agreed to be interviewed in relation to his book and online course on Mindfully Facing Climate Change as part of Triratna Earth Sangha’s online conference, 24 - 26 September.

Registration for Triratna Earth Sangha’s conference is now open

For those of you who don’t know Analayo, here at the Triratna Earth Sangha we are deeply impressed by his book and online course on Mindfully...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

We're offering another free eBook

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

We're offering another free eBook

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Those of you who’ve been enjoying the free eBooks we’ve been giving away since March will be pleased to learn that we’re giving away another one. This time it’s the turn of one of Sangharakshita’s classics, The Bodhisattva Ideal.

How can we be happy and at the same time responsive to the suffering of others? It can be done: this is the message of the bodhisattva ideal. The image of the bodhisattva, one who wishes to gain Enlightenment for the sake...

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Another new release and this month’s discounted paperbacks

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 5 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Another new release and this month’s discounted paperbacks

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 5 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Windhorse Publications is thrilled to announce the release of It’s Not Out There: How to see differently and live an extraordinary, ordinary life by Danapriya. In this video, Helen from the Windhorse Publications team interviews Danapriya about the book.

Most of us constantly look outside ourselves for something: happiness, love, contentment. But this something is not out there. ‘It’ is within us. In It’s Not Out There, Buddhist teacher and mentor, Danapriya, helps you to look inside yourself in such a way that life becomes...

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Hot off the press: 'Introducing Mindfulness'

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 28 Sep, 2020 - 16:30

Hot off the press: 'Introducing Mindfulness'

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 28 Sep, 2020 - 16:30

Here at Windhorse Publications we’re delighted to announce the release of Introducing Mindfulness: Buddhist Background and Practical Exercises by Bhikkhu Anālayo.  

This is not only a book for people interested in exploring mindfulness for the first time. It is also a skilled and thoughtful intervention into many of the debates about the nature and status of mindfulness in its secular forms and in non-dual and vipassana Buddhist practices. 

You can buy Introducing Mindfulness now from our website or your local bookshop for £13.99. It will be...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Hot off the Press: 'Introducing Mindfulness'

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 28 Sep, 2020 - 16:30

Hot off the Press: 'Introducing Mindfulness'

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 28 Sep, 2020 - 16:30

We’re delighted to introduce you to the newly published Introducing Mindfulness: Buddhist Background and Practical Exercises by Bhikkhu Anālayo.  

Anālayo has been writing about mindfulness as a scholar, practitioner and meditation teacher for two decades. In 2004 we published his ground-breaking study of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta based on his comparative studies of early Buddhist texts. He is one of a handful of people who can read and research texts in Pāli, Sanskrit and Chinese. It is a real delight when someone with...

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Windhorse Publications

Our latest free eBook and exciting news

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 21 Sep, 2020 - 15:00

Our latest free eBook and exciting news

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 21 Sep, 2020 - 15:00

You may already have guessed which eBook we’re giving away this week. Given that the last two have been What is the Sangha? and Who is the Buddha? it may come as no surprise that we’re completing Sangharakshita’s trilogy with What is the Dharma?

If you’ve enjoyed reading Sangharakshita’s books about the three jewels, you might be interested to know that they are also available in print, as Volume 3 of The Complete Works of Sangharakshita, The Three Jewels II.

If you haven’t yet downloaded last...

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This week's free eBook and September's monthly sale titles

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 1 Sep, 2020 - 14:30

This week's free eBook and September's monthly sale titles

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 1 Sep, 2020 - 14:30

If you’d like to start a practice of meditation but aren’t sure where to start, or if you’ve been meditating for some time and would like to reinvigorate your practice, this week’s free eBook is for you. It’s Wildmind: A Step-by-Step Guide to Meditation by Bodhipaksa. 

Last week’s free eBook, A Guide to the Bodhisattvas by Vessantara will remain free to download until Monday, 7th September.

You can download both free eBooks here.

Today is the first day of a new month, which means we’re offering 25% off...

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Windhorse Publications

This week's free eBook and September's monthly sale titles

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 1 Sep, 2020 - 14:30

This week's free eBook and September's monthly sale titles

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 1 Sep, 2020 - 14:30

We hope you enjoy what we’ve got to offer you this week: yet another free eBook – our 25th! – and four newly discounted paperbacks.

If you find value in what we have to offer, please consider making a donation when you check out. Every donation supports us in our mission to provide life-changing Dharma books. Thank you.

This week’s free eBook

If you’d like to start a practice of meditation but aren’t sure where to start, or if you’ve been meditating for some time and...

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