Life sketches of such diverse exemplars as Helen and Scott Nearing, the Shakers, Walt Whitman, Gandhi, John Muir, Thoreau and Rabindranath Tagore illustrate a dispassionate—and learnable—equipoise in the face of everyday suffering that leads to inner peace.

Eight new and collected essays by Dr. Fleischman in this thoughtful work probe the heart of the Buddha's legacy to humanity: self-correction through meditation.

A discussion of the asavas, or mental cankers. This text begins with the Sabbasava Sutta, both in Pali and translation, continuing with an exegesis based on the commentaries and discussing other texts within the Pali Canon dealing with cankers.

First-person accounts of the subtle yet profound experience of change activated by the practice of Vipassana. People from every walk of life, every country and culture, every age talk about these experiences.

A collection of reports presented at an international seminar sponsored by the Vipassana Research Institute held at the Indian Institute of Technology in April, 1994.