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Buddha in Blue Jeans is an extremely short, simple, and straight forward universal guide to the practice of sitting quietly and being yourself, which is the same as being Buddha. 

Sitting quietly can teach many ways to accept life, meet pain, age gracefully, and die without regret. Topics include: Sit Quietly; Care For Your Body; Accept Your Feelings; Give Thoughts Room; Pain is Natural; Be Who You Are; Live Each Moment Well; Love Indiscriminately; Listen to Others; Be Surprised; Wonder; Live gratefully; Do No Harm; Benefit life; A Wish for The World. 

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Secrets of True Happiness is a simple and straight forward guide to becoming happy by living wisely. When you are truly happy you can be at ease in the world as a Buddha in Blue Jeans: a person of presence, openness, love, and benefit.

Topics include True Happiness; Wanting; Anger; Pride; Life and Death; Uncertainty; Change; Openness; Time; Creativity; Work; Family; Solitude; Nature; Love.

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A contemporary and contemplative spiritual exploration of death. Beneath the surface, many anxieties, worries, and fears are associated with death. Relax, You Are Going To Die is an invitation to examine your relationship with death and with your ability to live with grace and dynamic vitality.

This book was written to help you see the spinning coin of living and dying more clearly, and to help deepen your relationship to the mystery that is the basis of living a wise, kind, and beneficial life. 

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The Wheel of Life Mantra is a poetic expression of the Bhavacakra, an ancient mandala that presents the most significant wisdom teachings of Buddhism. It is used to contemplate the causes and conditions of suffering, and is a guide to non-dual wisdom, loving kindness, compassion, and equanimity.

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Keizan's thirteenth century Denkoroku, The Transmission of the Light, is a sophisticated Zen fairytale about enlightenment and the empty ground of Being. Keizan uses archetypal myths, legends, and dreams to describe the luminous and awakened Zen mind. The author transforms eighteen of the stories into lyrical ballads that focus on the light of the Universal Self. 

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Celestial Music presents modern interpretations of the Lotus, Diamond, Heart Wisdom, and Loving Kindness Sutras in easy to read and inspirational verse. The Buddhist sutras express the path of enlightened living based on curiosity, good will, wisdom, and compassion. They journey through the depths of human experience: living and dying, love and loss, anguish and peace.

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The Buddhacarita, Asvaghosa's second century sanskrit poem, is the oldest existing story of Buddha's life. The saga begins with Buddha's magical birth and ends with his enlightenment. The ancient myth presents Buddha's relentless inquiry into the nature of reality and artfully weaves together an archetypal hero's journey, Buddhist philosophy, phantasmagorical occurrences, and historical facts. This poetic rendition brings the joy and meaning of Buddha's search to the modern reader. 

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Dogen (1200-1253) is the father of Soto Zen. The author has transformed twelve of his spiritual essays from the Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye), into poems about non-dual wisdom, luminous mind, loving kindness, and Zen practice. Poems include Odes to Moon, Time, Space, Light, Now Mind, Truth, Awakening, Cedar Trees, Mountains Rivers, and Plum Blossoms.

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Warm Zen is an easy to read and understand poetic interpretation of Dogen's complex philosophical essay Bendowa. Dogen's writing is based on the Buddhist philosophy and experience of 'no-self' and the unconditioned reality of existence-being, also called the dharmakaya', the mystical and transcendent body of light. Topic headings and contemporary verses give insight into spiritual awakening.

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This modern poetic interpretation of the well loved Dhammapada presents the path of wisdom and joy as universal truths for a contemporary audience. It transforms the original using minimalistic images and modern meanings that cut to the chase of Buddha's wisdom. The Dhammapada is one of the oldest Buddhist texts on walking the path of enlightenment, love, integrity, and kindness.

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Rice Eyes: Enlightenmnet in Dogen's Kitchen, is a poetic presentation of Dogen's essay Tenzo Kyokun, Instructions to the Cook, by Zen priest and poet Tai Sheridan. "Rice Eyes" is a metaphor for the non-dual world, the essential Buddhist experience of oneness. Dogen uses the role of Tenzo, or head cook, to demonstrate how to live, work, and experience a spiritual life that brings benefit to everyone.

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Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras teach restraint, wise action, and morality as a path to “The Supreme Lord”. Written between 100 BCE and 500 BE, this ancient Hindu text espouses the eight limbs of yoga for realizing the divine. Sanskrit translations tend to be literal and perplexing. Tai Sheridan's book gives readers an immediate intimacy between Patanjali and their experience.