This unique book-and-audio program brings together some of the country's most beloved meditation teachers. Each contributor presents a short written teaching along with an audio recording of a guided practice. Quiet Mind features: - Sakyong Mipham on shamatha, the practice of tranquillity - Larry Rosenberg on vipassana, the practice of clear seeing - Edward Espe Brown on zazen, the practice of freedom...
Shortlisted for The Folio Prize 2014 From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver...