This expanded edition of Dharma Family Treasures includes essays, poems, songs, and stories geared toward introducing children to a family practice of mindfulness and ecological awareness.

"Dharma Family Treasures raises important questions and provides an array of answers for the Buddhist parent. An eclectic collection of reflections and practical ideas, this book will help anyone seeking to reconcile serious Buddhist practice with family life."

Dharma Family Treasures : Sharing Buddhism With Children, Sandy Eastoak, North Atlantic Books, Paperback, 316 pages, $16.95.

Sandy Eastoak, the mother of two, has opened a door. In Dharma Family Treasures: Sharing Mindfulness with Children, she has compiled an inspiring and eminently useful set of writings by dharma teachers, parents and children, revealing ways in which Buddhist philosophy and practices can be integrated into our homes and practice centers. This is, as Eastoak calls it, "a radical book . . ." that "asks for changes in our parenting, in our meditation centers, in the very way we think about Buddhism." It is, in fact, a book that recognizes the need for a cultural evolution. Seeking a too-perfect and undisturbed context in which to practice, our tendency as North Americans is to exclude our children. From her chosen epigraph -" O sincere trainees, create no dharma orphans"- to her list of resources that draws upon many traditions as conveyors of dharma, Eastoak plants the seeds of a Buddhist practice that embraces the boisterous, unpredictable, chaotic, exhausting, annoying, joyful path of raising children and offers ways to introduce these children to the peace and calm and joyous greatness of the natural mind.