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A clear, practical introduction to the Buddhist path for modern life. Structured as an eight-week journey, this book blends reflection, meditation, psychology, poetry and lived experience to guide readers through integration, emotional growth, transformation and spiritual insight - offering a grounded, compassionate map for genuine inner change.

Maitreyabandhu''s thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes comic, often elegiac, the poems convey the pleasures and terrors of childhood as well as the mystical world of fable. Truthful, tender, and written with a kind of wonderment, the collection culminates in ''Stephen'', an extended sequence of poems exploring a clandestine, and finally tragic, relationship between two boys. For Maitreyabandhu -a Buddhist teacher and member of the Triratna Buddhist Order for over twenty years -The Crumb Road is an image for the unreliability of memory, and for the vital thread of human value that connects us to the spiritual world. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Yarn is about the stories we tell. Collected around four dramatic monologues - Hanoi Journal, The Cattle Farmer's Tale, The Travellers from Orissa and Aaron's Brother - Yarn includes an extended sequence of elegies, an account of a Warwickshire childhood and two stories about the Buddha. Ranging from the Holocaust to ancient India, from Kabir to modern Vietnam, using free verse, rhyme, prose poem and blank verse, Buddhist priest Maitreyabandhu's new collection is a vivid and at times disturbing account of the world we live in and the history that shapes us. His first book-length collection, The Crumb Road (Bloodaxe Books, 2013), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was widely praised.

Yarn is about the stories we tell. Collected around three dramatic monologues - The Cattle Farmer’s Tale, The Travellers from Orissa and Aaron’s Brother - Yarn includes an extended sequence of elegies, an account of a Warwickshire childhood and two stories about the Buddha. Ranging from the Holocaust to ancient India, from Kabir to Cavafy, using free verse, rhyme, prose poem and blank verse, Maitreyabandhu’s new collection is a vivid and at times disturbing account of the world we live in and the history that shapes us. Maitreyabandhu is a well-known figure in Britain’s Buddhist community. His first book-length collection, The Crumb Road (Bloodaxe Books, 2013), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was widely praised.

After Cézanne is a sequence of fifty-six poems exploring the life and work of the post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne. Reimagining his friendships with Zola and Pissarro, his impact on Matisse and Picasso, as well as his posthumous reputation, Maitreyabandhu celebrates Cézanne’s apples and card players in poems at once tender, urgent and amused. The book includes 26 colour reproductions, a preface by Christopher Lloyd (Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, 1988-2005) and extensive textual notes. After Cézanne is Maitreyabandhu’s third collection.

In a commonplace book, you’d write a recipe, copy a proverb, jot down housekeeping advice, making a precious object out of ordinary things. Maitreyabandhu’s Commonplace Book, his first book-length poem, follows a year from the death of his Buddhist teacher while he navigates his own spiritual life and smarts at lost love. Part epyllion, part diary, it mingles tradition with innovation, comedy with tragedy, traversing the bardo between this life and the next. Maitreyabandhu is a Buddhist teacher and writer. His first book-length collection, The Crumb Road (2013), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was followed by Yarn (2015) and After Cézanne (2019).

Maitreyabandhu's thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes comic, often elegiac, the poems convey the pleasures and terrors of childhood as well as the mystical world of fable. Truthful, tender, and written with a kind of wonderment, the collection culminates in 'Stephen', an extended sequence of poems exploring a clandestine, and finally tragic, relationship between two boys. For Maitreyabandhu - a Buddhist teacher and member of the Triratna Buddhist Order for over twenty years - The Crumb Road is an image for the unreliability of memory, and for the vital thread of human value that connects us to the spiritual world.

In this eight-week course on mindfulness, Maitreyabandhu gently guides readers, teaching them how to pay closer attention to their experience. Each week, he introduces a different aspect of mindfulness - such as awareness of the body, feelings, thoughts and the environment - and recommends a number of easy practices; from trying out a simple meditation to reading a poem. Featuring personal stories, examples and tempting suggestions, "Life with Full Attention" provides both a starting point and a great reference.

Building on the success of his Life with Full Attention: A Practical Course in Mindfulness, Maitreyabandhu here offers a challenging but profoundly useful work on how to practise Buddhism in everyday life. Drawing on examples from the life of the Buddha, as well as weaving in astute references to poetry and art, Maitreyabandhu gives an easily understood outline of the system of spiritual life as undertaken by Buddhists in the Triratna Community. The journey starts with our own mind, particularly when we begin to look into the truth of things - the truth of the old man on the escalator, the friend in hospital, the coffin we help carry to the graveside. What we find in our guide, the Buddha, is a man with a 'fit' mind: a healthy, happy, non-neurotic, honest-to-goodness mind. To get fit, we need to work on becoming a happy healthy human being. We need to integrate our thinking faculty with our emotions. We need to wake up to thought and tune in to direct experience. And we need to work against the ever-rising tide of trivia, dissipation and overstimulation of the modern world.Maitreyabandhu takes us on this journey with practical week-by-week exercises, focusing on cultivating mindful awareness, being happy, integrating and simplifying our lives, knowing ourselves and truly being ourselves.

¿Cómo puedes hacer de tu vida lo más importante? Maitreyabandhu –poeta premiado en distintas ocasiones y que lleva más de veinte años compartiendo su experiencia en Budismo- nos prepara para responder esta pregunta fundamental con profundidad y humor, mezclando poesía y mito con instrucciones claras enraizadas en el momento presente. Describiéndonos así, qué significa prepararse para el camino budista y cómo podemos seguirlo día tras día y semana tras semana.El autor plantea un conocimiento práctico y útil del budismo a través de un Viaje de Ocho Semanas que ayudará a encontrar y transitar el camino hacia la liberación. Todo ello escrito con un estilo ameno y con un mensaje dirigido a toda persona interesada en mejorar y ser más feliz en la vida."Este es un libro relevante y contemporáneo lleno de situaciones y anécdotas que reconocerás de inmediato en tu propia vida. Es un libro práctico y profundo, es exactamente lo que dice: Un Manual Práctico de Budismo". - Vajragupta, autor de "Buddhism: Tools for Living Your Life".

"Lo que importa es si podemos sentir el tiempo presente y celebrarlo", con esta frase inicia Maitreyabandhu este sorprendente libro, un valiosísimo Curso de Mindfulness de 8 semanas. Docente reconocido, el autor nos regala unos textos luminosos y soberbiamente construidos que hace muy difícil interrumpir su lectura. "Revisa tu agenda y empieza". Porque el libro, -aparte del placer que sentimos al leer tanta belleza como contiene-, es fundamentalmente un curso y ahí está la propuesta inicial con que arranca la primera semana."VIVIR CON ATENCIÓN PLENA" está especialmente diseñado para guiar a las personas en la atención consciente. Una agenda detallada y unos apéndices muy útiles nos permiten transitar con facilidad por los diversos pasos que nos transmiten la meditación, los hábitos positivos, el principio y el fin de nuestras conductas, la desaceleración, pero también la acción, la percepción de nuestras emociones o el diario de nuestros pensamientos. El gozo de sumergirse en los detalles de nuestra vida, tanto los más sencillos como los más complicados.