The New Meditation Handbook is a practical guide to meditation. It teaches us how to make our self and others happy by developing inner peace, and in this way to make our lives more meaningful. Without inner peace there is no real happiness at all. Problems, suffering, and unhappiness do not exist outside the mind; they are feelings and thus...
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...