Recommended Books

Manual of Reiki (Manual of Reiki), in Spanish language, is the second of the five books which integrate the Collection “The Three Bodies of Buddha”, written by the Saya Kunsal Kassapa, founder of the Trikaya Association.
The term Reiki (etymologically, Rei translated as universal force and Ki energy of life) makes reference to the natural force that injects life to all what exists. In the case of the human beings, the adequate management of this latent power is directed towards the attainment of the balance of the inner energy, reestablishing the harmony of the physic organs of the body, as well as of the mental activity and of the spiritual development.
This Manual ode Reiki familiarizes to all those interested in the healing energy intrinsic in the human being, as well as to who are already initiated in it, with this discipline for gaining the rebalance of the physical, mental and spiritual levels of the individual.
It presents the origin and the theoretical principles of this practice ant there are detailed in a comprehensible way their different levels of application, including details about the technique of the imposition of hands for the treatment of sickness of different consideration which affect to the practitioner himself or herself and to all the beings in his o her environment.
The Reiki, because Its practical character, constitutes an excellent therapeutic complement for the medical professionals.
Manual de Reiki (Manual of Reiki), available in Spanish language.
Author: Saya Kunsal Kassapa
Editorial: E.L.A.
Pages: 80
Prize: 13 €
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Heart Advise of the Karmpa. The enlightened individuals known as Karmapas have taught Buddhism in Tibet for nearly 900 years. Now to mark the occasion of his first visit to America, Heart Advice of the Karmapa presents some of the insight and wisdom of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, for the benefit of beings around the globe. Through dharma talks, interviews, poetry, and song, this youthful master offers timely teachings on an array of topics: appreciating the environment, applying loving-kindness and compassion, understanding karma, and enjoying harmony with other religious traditions. A selection of songs, essays, and poems of previous Karmapas is also included in this collection, providing a small glimpse into the rich legacy of these living Buddhas throughout the centuries. Heart Advice of the Karmapa celebrates the beginning of the 17th Karmapa's active presence in the West. May it contribute to the flourishing of this enlightened activity throughout the world.

The book Former lives of Karmapas contents wondrous tales from the former lives of the Karmapa, the head of the Kagyu Lineage sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Fifteenth Karmapa once told Khyentse Rinpoche about ten former lives, mainly in other time-space dimensions, in a series of stories now known as Sakarchupa.
Later, when the Sixteenth Karmapa was eight years old, he told many a story of his previous lives to one of his gurus, Gongkar Pandita, who carefully kept in writing the nectar of the young Karmapa's words. However, when His Holiness had to leave Tibet, Gongkar Pandita was himself unable to escape and his precious records were no longer available. In 1976, His Holiness and his party were driving through Himachal Pradesh through a place called, by Tibetans, Dzalendara. It was raining very slightly and the peacocks were singing softly. His Holiness had the car stopped and said to his attendents, "I have come back to my motherland." He then told the following wondrous story…

Fomer lives of the Karmapas
132 Pages
Author: The Karmapa and translated by Katia Holmes
Publisher: Dzalendara
Price: £12´95
Available at Wisdom Publicationsi

Kagyu Monlam Book Like the light of the sun, moon, and stars, may love, compassion, and wisdom shine forth. May they strike every single living being and dispel the darkness of ignorance, attachment, and hatred that has lurked for ages in their being. When any living being meets with another, may it be like the reunion of a mother and child who have long been separated. In a harmonious world such as this, may I see everyone sleep peacefully to the music of nonviolence. This is my dream. --- From the Foreword by Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje The Kagyu Monlam

Manual de Introducción a la Meditación (Manual of Introduction to Meditation), in Spanish language, is the first of the five books included in the Collection “The Three Bodies of Buddha”, written by the Saya Kusnal Kassapa, founder of the Trikaya Association. This manual represents a mere glimpse of the teachings imparted by the Buddha himself for the development of the Inner Self. In this way, the instructions in it presented constitute an indispensable tool to balance the different temperaments, leading through the constant practice of various meditative exercises towards the timing of the mind for this to attain tranquility. Therefore, the committed practitioner can acquire enough level of mental clarity and sharpness which allows him or her to obtain a glimpse of his or her true Self.

Manual de Introducción a la Meditación (Manual of Introduction to Meditation), available in Spanish language.
Author: Saya Kunsal Kassapa
Publisher: E.L.A
Number of pages: 70
Price: 12 Euros
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The new work of Eva Alba Vasudeva (El Camino hacia la Verdad) −Vasudeva (The path towards the Truth)−  is an allegory of mystic type that narrates the initiation journey of a young girl named Laya, who one day awakes in an unknown spot, where she receives instructions for going to a place called Sathya, from where she will be able to return to her home and to understand the meaning of his route. In her journey, Laya lives various experiences and receives the teachings of different personages, who through their wisdom go making her aware of the meaning of the existence, whose deep significance she is able to understand eradicating the negative tendencies and developing the universal values intrinsic in the human being.   
In this way, tools as the inner silence, the acceptation of the inevitable events or the concentration of the attention in the present, will allow the young girl conform that the Truth underlying in all existence is found inside every being and that for this Truth to be manifested, it is necessary to inquire in the nature of the mind and to transcend the duality which impede the glimpse of the Self that truly one Is.

Vasudeva (El Camino hacia la Verdad) −Vasudeva (The path towards the True), available in Spanish Language.
Pages: 224
Author: Eva Alba
Publisher: Editorial Anubis
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The book Awakening the Sleeping Buddha, written by His Eminence the XII Tai Situpa Rinpoche, one of the most known teachers of the present Buddhism, is a perfect manual of meditation, either for novels, either for persons with more experience in Buddhism.

In the Awakening the Sleeping Buddha, the author empathize the more practical aspects of Buddhism, expounding the teachings with a common sense not very usual. In fact, this work is a simple and direct approach to the basic and more comprehensible fundaments of the Tibetan Buddhism or Vajrayana, providing to the practitioners already committed and to the general public access to topics such as the enlightenment, the reincarnation or the karma.

The book Old Path Wihte Clouds, written by Tich Nath Hand and addressed to the Sangha members as well to all interesed in deepening in the origins of the Buddhism, narrates the extraordinary life of Prince Siddharta, who after an ardous path of inquiry, difficulties and experiences become the Buda of this age. Besides detailing with simplicity and with a reflexive spirit the more relevant events of the biography of Buda, fundamentaly taken from the Pali texts Nikaya and the Chineses texts Agamas, the book Old Path White Clouds includes some of the original and fundamental teachings of Buda, among which figure the ones related to the emptiness, to the six principles for harmony or to the seven practices of reconciliation, all of which can be considered by the comunities of any belief. Likewise, in the text stand out the words of Buda about some of his main disciples, such as Sariputta or Mahakassapa, to whom he praised as Bodhisattvas, such as Yasodhara, who was the wife of Prince Siddharta, or such as Ananda, the assistant of Buda and who, due to his amazing memory, was the one in charge of the oral transmission of the teachings that his master spread through discourses and oratories.

In their book Great Disciples of Buda, the writters Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuch Hecker approach to the life, work and legacy of twenty four of the most remarcable disciples of Buda, among which figure Shariputta, Mahamoggallana, Mahakassapa, Ananda, Anuruddha, Angulimala and Visakha. Based on the content of the Sutras belonging to diferent Pali sources, the account of the biographic episodics appears for the first time recopilated in a single volume, in which stands out the rythm of the narration and the richness of nuances of the different characters. Therefotre, besides giving unknown details about the exemplary life of each one of the acolytes of Buda, this book contributes to light out with a bigger depth the biography of the Full Enligthened One, allowing to deep in the Buddhist doctrine and in the knowlegde which this contains.

The Future is Now is the first work wrote by the    XVII Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje , who, together with the Dalai Lama, is one of the most relevant figures of the  Vajrayana  Buddhism and spiritual head of the  Kagyu Lineage. This book contains 108 quotes of His Holiness, that, covered with an deep meaning, enriched by each image that accompany them, offer a universal, as well as individual, advertence, always in use. In The Future is Now, the XVII Karmapa reflects on the social values, the religious tolerance, the freedom, the protection of the environment, the personal responsibility or the world peace. Its simple and practical exposition of these principles is presented with a unique Buddhist perspective, accessible for all kind of readers. At the same time, this set of inspired sayings leads s to review our compassionate motivation, bodhiçitta, to trust our own intelligence and to recognize our faults. With it, the book provides a vivid access to the inner knowledge of each one at the time to confront the daily challenges.

The book El Molino (The Windmill), written in Spanish language, narrates the inner growing process which is experience by a young teacher who decides to temporally give up her daily life to consecrate herself to the pursuit of the inner knowledge. In this process of her opening of the consciousness, full of moments of light and darkness, her main masters are the surrounding Nature and some of the people of her new environment, as a muleteer and a shepherd. Through them, the young girl discovers the power of the universal Love to realize the transcendent magic which allows the human beings to transform the content of the Reality.
Wrote as a diary and in first person, El Molino treats the spiritual aspects of the individual through simple teachings hided within the daily events of life. In this way, Eva Alba makes a chant to the simplicity of the valuable human existence as a field for the inner work, at the same time that she attains deep conclusions over the ultimate goal of life.

The windmill (El Molino), available in Spanish language.
Pages: 133
Author: Eva Alba
Publisher: Editorial Mandala
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Up to the Second World War, we had no chance of seeing Wizzars (Siddhas) who showed us their supernatural power, who with no doubt were present always as is mentioned in Buddhist literature, such as the Wizzar Wimala, although people could not approach him personally. They paid homage to him and even had images of him in their houses, where offerings where presented. Familiar to Myanmar people are the names of Bo Bo Aung, Bo Mingaung, Yetkan Sintaung Sayadaw, Shimati Sayadaw, Ashin Itzagona Sayadaw, all of whom were Wizzars (Siddhas) and well known accomplished Masters all over Myanmar, but they were concealed by orthodox Theravada practitioners..

It was only in the year 1952 A.D. that the Wizzar (Siddha) Sayadaws U. Kowida, U. Pandita, U. Uttamakyaw and Botaw Bo Htun Aung appeared in front of the public and showed their supernatural powers (siddhi's), giving the Buddha's teaching to the benefit of mankind. They came from Nagama Mountain of Western Yoma Range, over fifty miles away from Shwesattaw, where the Foot Print of the Lord Buddha can be found. As a Wizzar (Siddhas) they are busy with their meditation and honor us only for a few hours. Therefore Maung Htun Yin, later Sanathar Sayadaw U. Tillaw Keinda, were forced to communicate mentally as well to be Dhatsii through the Wizzars Sayadaw in order to perform the tasks given to them. It has been over 54 years since the Wizzar (Siddha) Sayadaws appeared, usually at night, and Sanathar Sayadaw U. Tillaw Keinda has been taking their place occasionally.

Nowadays science is very much advanced, and as Wizzars (Siddhas) appear with different siddhi's (powers), it looks as if a competition is going on. Scientific development can be measured as it belongs to matter, but it as impossible to access the power (siddhi's) of the Wizzars (Siddhas) because they are concerned with the mental and spiritual process. It was clearly seen with our own eyes that Wizzars (Siddhas) appeared and disappeared in front of us. Sitting in the air, giving various kinds of fruits and materials from nowhere, holding a red hot burning iron ball, walking on water, appearing through the earth, etc. It was to the benefit of the Buddha's teaching and we were very pleased at such wonders. As a medical doctor, I was interested only in science and had not seen a Wizzar (Siddha) before. However, I have read the literature of Wizzars (Siddhas) written by the Most Venerable Ledi Sayadaw.

I was invited by the Wizzar (Siddha) Sayadaws U. Pandita and U. Uttamakyaw to go to Mebegon Village to participate in the transformation by fire process and extension of life of U. Pandita, who requested me to take part and which was successfully accomplished. Later, I was also involved in the transformation by fire process of the Wizzar U. Uttamakyaw and the Head Master of Nagama Mountan, the Wizzar Sayadaw U. Kowida. After the long life transformation by fire process of the Wizzardo (Siddha) Sayadaw U. Kowida, his sitting in the fire was recorded on video tape. Many became disciples of the Sayadaw's in order to purify their mind under the guidance of the Wizzar (Siddha) Sayadaws, including monks and lay devotees.

The publication of the Biography and activities of the Wizzar Sayadaws in English, was wished well by the Head Master Sayadaw U. Kowida, who assigned the duty to Venerable Karma Kunsal Kassapa, from Spain. This has been accomplished by the Venerable Karma Kunsal Kassapa's efforts, despite the many inconveniences that he has had to face during this laborious task, which required his level best within an orthodox Theravada Buddhism surrounding, and in an area which at that time was forbidden to foreigners.

Today, I am more than happy that we have succeeded in presenting in English the life and activities of my own Masters, as narrated by the Wizzar (Siddha) Sayadaws at Mebegon village and instructed by the Head Master of Nagama Mountain, the Wizzardo (Siddha) Sayadaw U. Kowida, to the benefit for mankind.

Foreword by Dr. Sein Yi
M.B.B.S (Ygn) D.P.& D.M.(Ygn)
F.R.S.H. (Ldn) D.T.C.M (Chn)
Rtd General Director of Health (Myanmar)