Everyday Dharma Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You [Paperback]

InEveryday Dharma,Willa Miller, an authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, reworks ancient Buddhist techniques and adapts them for western readers seeking personal transformation. Becoming a Buddha, Lama Miller explains, means observing the mind and actions and then doing the physical, psychological, and spiritual work to move closer to one’s wisdom nature. Dharma is spiritual practice; it’s what one does every day to make one’s mind and world a better place to live. Each chapter includes a passage to read, an exercise of the day that relates to each week’s topic, a quote from a sage, and tips on how to make daily practice a little easier. The book shows that it’s not necessary to subscribe to a particular — or any — belief system to benefit from this program. It’s only necessary, says Lama Miller, to believe one deserves to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

Drawing profusely on the richness, subtlety, and psychological astuteness of the Tibetan wisdom tradition, Lama Willa manages to make it all seem simple and actually doable in our day-to-day lives. She persuades us that we, even we, can be spiritual heroes — that enlightened altruism is a joyous come-as-you-are party.

—Dean Sluyter, author ofWhy the Chicken Crossed the Road and Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings,The Zen Commandments, andCinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies

Like revered and profound spiritual teachers of the past, in this remarkable book, Lama Willa masterfully opens a door for us into our own hearts, where she helps us glimpse, and then bring forth, the profound goodness that we always were. Whoever takes up the meditations and teachings of this book will never be the same.

—Lama John Makransky, PhD, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Boston College, Buddhist teacher and author ofAwakening Through Love,Budlcä