Böcker av Maitreyabandhu

Sequel to his acclaimed debut The Crumb Road, Buddhist priest Maitreyabandhu's new collection is about the stories we tell: a vivid and at times disturbing account of the world we live in and the history that shapes us.

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 Triratna Buddhists.

First book-length collection by a well-known figure in Britain's Buddhist community includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, childhood, memory and sexuality. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

This is a book about friendship - about the Buddhist ideals of spiritual friendship and about the author's personal experience. Maitreyabandhu describes his childhood and adolescence, his quest for life's meaning and his wholehearted engagement with Buddhism.

An eight-week course on mindfulness, that teaches readers how to enrich their experiences by paying close attention to them. It 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.