This pithy, refreshing little book is for anyone who wishes to understand and speak intelligently about wine. It is, as well, an authoritative, streamlined guide for the wine aficionado and wine professional. Author David Paul Boaz is a philosopher, a lifelong student of zen, and former French wine importer offering you a humor-laced tour of the intriguing sensory kaleidoscope of wine.

The Zen of Wine

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Boaz, David Paul

Beverages & Wine

Waterside Digital Press

The reach of this engaging and very readable book is as unique as it is profound. Its scope involves the reader in an integral, yet non-scholarly coming to meet of the freeing, subjective non-conceptual wisdom of the East with the pragmatic objective conceptual knowledge of the West. The result is a potential personal and collective unification of our two human cognitive voices--exoteric objective material, and esoteric subjective spiritual--the prior and present unity of Science and Spirit. This often-amusing book will serve its readers as a brief, directly experiential introduction to the profound teaching of the Buddha of this present age--Siddhartha Gautama The Buddha. This is a book that will immediately enhance the reader's awakening to "innermost" human happiness by taming "the wild horse of the mind" through calming, selfless mindfulness practice. From this peaceful inner space, the reader will quickly learn to open and directly connect to the "always already present" Presence of bright indwelling Buddha heart/Buddha mind, by whatever name, concept, or belief. This is an important book. It will benefit both fully engaged Buddhist practitioners and non-practitioners alike. A bit surprisingly, it is also a book for philosophers of physics and cosmology, and for students of metaphysics, philosophy of mind and consciousness studies who wish to integrate their Western understanding with the profundity of Buddhist ontology and epistemology. Thus, will the specialist reader be referred to some mildly scholarly appendices. The reader will in these pages engage such diverse themes as The Prior Unity of Science and Spirit; Quantum Nonlocality and Buddhist Emptiness; Buddhist Dzogchen; The Primordial Unity of Self and No-Self; and The Buddhist View of Human Happiness. Dr. David Paul Boaz (Dechen Wangdu) is Founding Director of Copper Mountain Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt Buddhist Temple and Research Institute. He has taught philosophy and religious studies for over forty years. David is author of four books and over fifty articles and essays (visit davidpaulboaz.org). He has been a student of Dzogchen Master Adzom Rinpoche since 1999.

The Teaching of the Buddha: Being Happy Now

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Waterside Productions

In Buddhist Dzogchen: Being Happiness Itself David Paul Boaz Dechen Wangdu offers an original, vivid, compassionate, and humorous understanding of our human condition. His scope and subtle wisdom depth are profound. He draws upon his theoretical and contemplative training to reveal the actual cause of human fear, anger and alienation--as well as the primary cause of human happiness as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Dzogchen is often considered the highest, most direct Buddhist teaching path, though it requires real preparation. The author clarifies in a practical way how to use Buddhist love and wisdom, with a little Western psychology, to realize both relative and ultimate happiness in our busy lives, not in an idealized future mind state, but here and now. Let this book be a mindful guide to exploration of your own original mind nature. This remarkable book strikes a fine balance between "Our two human intelligence dimensions--objective conceptual thought, and subjective spiritual experience..."Knowing the "prior unity" of these two is the "open secret of human happiness". Learn through unifying both conceptual and contemplative practice to "Translate your innate selfless love-wisdom mind into skillful, compassionate action to benefit living beings". Engage here such diverse themes as Nondual God in Christianity and Buddhism; Mindful Breathing: Conscious Finite Portal Into Infinite Reality Itself; Quantum Nonlocality and Buddhist Emptiness; Dzogchen Panpsychism: East Meets West; The Four Interdependent Dimensions of the Human Mind; and Understanding Human Cognitive Bias. David Paul Boaz Dechen Wangdu has devoted his life to the study, practice and teaching of Buddhist wisdom. He is Founding Director of Copper Mountain Institute, Inc., tax exempt Buddhist Temple and Research Institute. He has a doctorate in Religious Studies and has taught philosophy and religion for forty years. He is author of five books and over one hundred articles and essays.

Buddhist Dzogchen: Being Happiness Itself

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

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