Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings
10 best books like Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings (Ajahn Chah): Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, Girl, Woman, Other, The Briefcase, Dissident Gardens, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children, Nowhere Man, ורד הלבנון, השמלה, Las grietas de Jara
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 | Bernardine Evaristo |
| ISBN | 0241364906 |
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
| Author | Hiromi Kawakami |
| ISBN | 1582435995 |
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei" in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship, traced...
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0224093959 |
A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals
At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an...
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1570629579 |
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...
| Author | Sarah Napthali |
| ISBN | 1741140102 |
Addressing the often-overlooked spiritual needs of mothers, this book discusses Buddhist teachings as applied to the everyday challenges and stresses of raising children. Offered are ways for mothers to reconnect with their inner selves and become calmer and happier—with the recognition that...
| Author | Aleksandar Hemon |
| ISBN | 0330393502 |
sad. if i had to review the book in a word, that'd be it. but, like the titular character, this is "complicated." the book made me sad because it's author only started writing in english in 1995 and already has a vastly, vastly better grasp and ability in the language than i do - and i've been speaking/writing...
עם פלישת צה"ל לביירות במלחמת לבנון הראשונה, מתייצבת אחר צהריים אחד חיילת במחלקת השיקום בתל-השומר. היא אומרת ששמה ורד ומבקשת להתנדב לסייע ללוחם פצוע.
אולם...
כלה אבודה שוקעת בחיפוש מסויט אחר שמלת כלולות; מורה נוסעת לחופשה בצרפת וגונבת רגע של אהבה עם פֶּסֶל...
| Author | Claudia Piñeiro |
| ISBN | 9870412963 |
¿Qué precio hay que pagar para dar una vuelta de timón y decidirse a vivir los propios sueños? Aunque Pablo Simó quiere construir la torre de sus sueños, se limita a dibujarla: hace veinte años que trabaja en un estudio de arquitectura que no puede o no quiere dejar. Veinte años son también los...
אני בהחלט מחפשת ספרים שישאבו אותי לתוכם ולכן כשקראתי את ההמלצה, לא הצלחתי להימנע מרכישתו וקידומו לראש תור הספרים הממתינים.
בשורה התחתונה אם אתם מעוניינים...
בתנופה רבת חן ומעוף מאיר חיים באר רגעים קטנים וגדולים מחמישים שנותיו בעולם הספר – תחילה כשוליית מגיהים ולבסוף כסופר בעל שם. אלה סיפורים על ספרים ובעיקר...
Suddenly In the Depths of the Forest
In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched,...
