Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
10 best books like Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity (Christina Feldman): Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Sibley's Birding Basics, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior, Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
| Author | Svetlana Alexievich |
| ISBN | 0312425848 |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich...
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570623449 |
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome...
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
| Author | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0834800799 |
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...
| Author | David Allen Sibley |
| ISBN | 0375709665 |
David Sibley, America's premier birder an best-known bird artist, takes a new direction - in Sibley's Birding Basics he is concerned not so much with species as with the general characteristics that influence the appearance of all birds and thus give us the clues to their identity.
To create...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1573225681 |
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
| Author | Sharon Salzberg |
| ISBN | 1590301870 |
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take...
William Bridges' lifelong work has been devoted to a deep understanding of transitions and to helping others through them. When his own wife of thirty-five years died of cancer, however, he was thrown head-first into the kind of painful and confusing abyss he had known before only in theory. An honest...
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
| Author | David Allen Sibley |
| ISBN | 0679451234 |
“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon’s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.”
Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet...
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
Best known for his Buddhist teachings, Thich Nhat Hanh has lived in exile from his native Vietnam since 1966. These remarkable early journals reveal not only an exquisite portrait of the Zen master as a young man, but the emergence of a great poet and literary voice of Vietnam. From his years as a student...
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
| Author | Mark Nepo |
| ISBN | 1573241172 |
Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy--an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness--that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor...
God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked
Tina Fey’s Bossypants meets David Carr’s The Night of the Gun in Darrell Hammond’s groundbreaking memoir, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked—a raw look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic genius. By turns poignant and hilarious, Hammond takes readers from the set...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0062224689 |
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to happiness through mastering life's most important skill.
How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person can...
