After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
10 best books like After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age (Stephen Batchelor): Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, Night Boat to Tangier, The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas, Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation, Conscious, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
| Author | Tara Brach |
| ISBN | 0553380990 |
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become...
| Author | Kevin Barry |
| ISBN | 0385540310 |
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are...
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
| Author | Culadasa (John Yates) |
| ISBN | 0990847705 |
Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive guide for a Western audience combines the wisdom from the teachings of the Buddha with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Clear and friendly, this in-depth practice...
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
| Author | Mark Epstein |
| ISBN | 0767902351 |
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way. Going to Pieces Without...
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
| Author | Robert Wright |
| ISBN | 1508235406 |
From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas
| Author | Aaron Blabey |
| ISBN | 1743625782 |
Brian the piranha exasperates his fellow fish to no end in this amusing picture-book from Australian author/artist Aaron Blabey. While they are meat-eaters, Brian loves fruit, and continually offers it to his peers, who become more and more irate. Will our piscine hero ever convince them to give his...
Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation
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What is meditation? For thousands of years, human beings have practiced refined techniques of mental focusing, designed to change the habitual conditioning of the mind. Central to many spiritual and philosophical traditions and known in English as "meditation,"...
| Author | Annaka Harris |
| ISBN | 0062906712 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages.” --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics...
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
| Author | Yongey Mingyur |
| ISBN | 0525512535 |
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat,...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
| Author | Dan Harris |
| ISBN | 0399588949 |
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word “namaste” without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation’s...
No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners: Clear Answers to Burning Questions About Core Buddhist Teachings
| Author | Noah Rasheta |
| ISBN | 1641520477 |
How do you write something new and fresh about a topic that has been analyzed down to its toenails? You have to really “get it” and Naoh Rasheta clearly does. Written in an inspired Q&A format, this book really is “No-Nonsense,” which, of course, to the Buddhist means, “It makes all the...
