Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

10 best books like Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time (Dainin Katagiri): The Second Mountain, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, Mindfulness in Plain English, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears, Stillness Speaks, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai, Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet, 501 Spanish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged

The Second Mountain

Author	David Brooks
ISBN	0812993268

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. In The Second Mountain,...

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...

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Author

Jon Kabat-Zinn

2005 15th anniversary edition reprint

Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba...

Mindfulness in Plain English

Author	Henepola Gunaratana
ISBN	0861713214

“A masterpiece.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn

Since Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994, it has become one of the bestselling — and most
influential — books in the field of mindfulness. It’s easy to see why.

Author Bhante Gunaratana, a renowned...

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

Author	Pema Chödrön
ISBN	1590306341

Best-seller Pema Chödrön draws on the Buddhist concept of shenpa to help us see how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to recognize these patterns, they instantly begin to lose their...

Stillness Speaks

Author	Eckhart Tolle
ISBN	0340829745

Shorter and simpler than his other books, Stillness Speaks is the essence of Eckhart Tolle. If you're interested in his teaching, but don't feel up to some of his more far-out ideas, this would be a good place to start.

Waking up to who you really are: "When you recognize that there is a voice in...

Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

Author	Shunryu Suzuki
ISBN	0520232127

When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching...

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

Author	Stephen Jenkinson
ISBN	1583949739

Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places...

Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Author

Joan Halifax

"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna...

501 Spanish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged

Author	Christopher Kendris
ISBN	0812092821

I used to think this book was stupid. If you could just learn the different groups/patterns, then you'd know how to conjugate thousands of verbs. BUT, now I know that being able to quickly look up a verb you're unsure about, and see ALL of the conjugations right there, spread out, is extremely helpful....