Know Where You're Going: A Complete Buddhist Guide to Meditation, Faith, and Everyday Transcendence

Khema

$16.95

Publication Date: December 23rd, 2014

Publisher:

Wisdom Publications

ISBN:

9781614291930

Pages:

224

Description

Experience a complete meditation course with one of the West's most renowned Buddhist teachers.

Know Where You're Going provides a full course of instruction in Buddhist meditation and reflection, and contains a wealth of exercises and advice to help the reader grow. As we put these teachings into practice over time, we learn to see things as they really are and discover transcendence right here in our everyday lives.

Ayya Khema shows us how to live a wholehearted spiritual life, even amid our day to day concerns and responsibilities. Her teachings unfold simply, free of jargon, and are ideal for the contemporary world. Grounding the practice of more advanced meditations in a deeply cultivated sense of mindfulness, love, and altruism, Khema shows us, step by step, how to access to liberation and freedom.

Know Where You're Going was previously published under the title When the Iron Eagle Flies.

About the Author

Born in Berlin in 1923 to Jewish parents, Ayya Khema was educated in Scotland and China and later emigrated to the United States. She was ordained as a nun in Sri Lanka in 1979 and established several Buddhist centers, including Wat Buddha Dhamma in Australia, Parapuddua Nun's Island in Sri Lanka, and Buddha Haus in Germany. In 1987 she coordinated the first-ever International Conference of Buddhist Nuns. She is the author of twenty-five books including the best-selling Being Nobody, Going Nowhere. She passed away in 1997.