Buddhism For Children

The wise and insightful "If the Buddha" books have won Charlotte Kasl thousands of devoted fans. In her latest work, she turns her attention to parenthood, a stage of life that leaves most of us searching for answers. If the Buddha Had Kids applies Kasl's signature blend of spiritual guidelines, exercises, and practical advice to help parents raise peacemakers in our increasingly turbulent times, emphasizing that finding peace within a family is the first step toward creating a peaceful world.

Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this program helpful. It is full of wisdom on how to simply be with children and nourish their compassion for themselves and others.

With his shaved head and begging bowl the new kid is an automatic target for the bully boys of Edward Rucher High, an easy mark for their casual cruelty.

In their only collaboration for children, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu use their childhood stories to show young people how to find joy even in hard times and why sharing joy with others makes it grow. The two spiritual masters tell a simple story of how every child has joy inside them, even when it sometimes hides, and how we can find it, keep it close, and grow it by sharing it with the world.

Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over 40 of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact.

Practising Buddhist and master storyteller Dharmachari Nagaraja weaves a thrilling narrative spell while at the same time conveying basic life lessons that will help children to develop their personality, deal with their anxieties, and find peace and confidence as they grow up. The stories explore themes from the Eightfold Path, which is Buddhism's practical route to a happy life.

The simple practice of mindfulness, which can be explained in a few words as "directing our awareness in the present moment", can help us maintain a clear mind and sharp attention, and it is discussed, explained, and analyzed from many different perspectives, uncovering most of the facets of conscious living, in our today's society. This book is all about mindful living, where two different practices are recurrently present, as a means to sustain our conscious approach: mindfulness and meditation.

Daily mindfulness practice has been around for thousands of years, and now the western world has come to appreciate the benefits of staying in the moment. Scientific evidence backs up what monks have known for centuries: daily meditation and mindfulness can reverse the damage from our modern stress-filled lives without any fancy equipment or classes.

The Tang Dynasty was responsible for the reunification of China. But why was there a need to reunite China in the first place? That will be discussed in this educational book. Also included are lessons on the rise and spread of Buddhism across China, Korea, and Japan during the Tang Dynasty. Discussions on the technological, commercial, and agricultural developments during the era are also included.