Quietly Comes The Buddha: Awakening Your Inner Buddha-Nature
"This devotional text, firmly grounded in Buddhism but reaching out to embrace other teachings, has the potential for awakening in the heart an ardent desire for enlightenment. It both comforts and challenges." -- Sonja Arntzen, scholar of Zen poetry and Japanese literature,  author of "Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology" and "The Kagero Diary"Take a moment and commune with the heart of the Buddha. Discover peace, transformation and divine solutions to your everyday problems through the creativity of the Buddha-nature in your heart.You can realize your Buddha-nature by cultivating its qualities known as the Ten Perfections.  See them as ten habits of highly effective Buddhas to be: (1) giving of yourself (alms), (2) attaining enlightenment (precepts), (3) centering in ultimate reality (renunciation), (4) transcending the human mind (wisdom), (5) overcoming fear and unworthiness (courage), (6) refining the soul through communion (patience), (7) freeing yourself from the effects of errors (truth), (8) conquering self-destructive habits (resolution), (9) integrating the divine into your daily life (goodwill), and (10) sustaining intensity and equanimity as you fulfill your goals (indifference).