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Dharma Friends: No One Abandoned, No One Forgotten, No One Discarded Price: $23  soft cover

Just As The Breeze Blows Through Moonlight The spiritual life journey of Thupten Heruka, a 19th century Tibetan yogi Price: $23   soft cover

Just As The Breeze Blows Through Moonlight is the magical tale of a spiritual journey. It tells of the psychological and emotional struggles of all that hold such noble aspirations for their ordinary human life Thupten Heruka lived in Tibet in the late 1800's. His story revolves around an historical event at another time and another place, yet his journey is everyone's story of ego's struggles with love, attachment, striving and failing. Thupten Heruka's compassion guides us like dear friends to the highest realms of human consciousness in a dream-like tale that will live with each of us always. A note from anna: My karmic relationship to the teller of this tale is a mystery but I am happy to share his spiritual life journey. In the year, 1992, I received Thupten Heruka's hagiography to translate and reveal to others. It was hidden in a dream that appeared in incredibly vivid detail and was presented in eight, Tibetan style texts. The first seven were shown to me, poured into my mind to see as I dreamed their unfolding. The eighth volume, I was told, still awaits discovery. I have recorded this story as closely as possible to the presentation that I received and hope that there is no part that will contribute to the confusion or suffering of beings. My attempts to translate it have been with the wish to offer to others these teachings of Thupten Heruka as he would have liked. May all who read his words receive great benefit.

Together we open the cell doors of our nation's prisons and share the hearts and minds of those finidng spiritual freedom and healing. This book offers personal stories and excerpts from the lives of those on and off death row, and those in the "free world" who share their lives through the Dharma Friends newsletter. In these courageous and touching glimpses into the suffering of beings and their liberation, we are provided with inspiration and guidance to the wholeness of us all. Perspectives are offered by Anna before each section to help us to better understand society's subterranean world of our prisons, along with commentaries on the Buddhist Dhammapada that encourages us to hold all beings in compassion.

THE AUTHOR - ANNA COX has been a clinical social worker in the practice of psychotherapy since 1972, a Vajrayana Buddhist pracitioner for 25 years, a spiritual counselor to inmates on and off of death row, and the creator/editor of the Dharma Friends newsletter since it bagan in 1997. She leads workshops and gives lectures on healing, the spiritual life journey, working with those 'hard to heal' such as incarcerated individuals, and encourages the abolition of the death penalty.

SALES FROM BOTH OF THESE BOOKS SUPPORT THE DHARMA FRIENDS NEWSLETTER

Other Books we Highly Recommend Which You Can Find on Amazon Mara Leveritt - The Devil's Knot Marc Ian Barasch - Field Notes on the Compassionate Life Cedar Barstow - The Right Use of Power (order at www.rightuseofpower.com) Damien Echols - Almost Home: My Life Story