Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path
10 best books like Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path (Henepola Gunaratana): Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, The Dhammapada, What the Buddha Taught, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, The Way of the Bodhisattva
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
| Author | Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| ISBN | 1401307787 |
Dear Brother,
When you first asked me about how to practice meditation (was it last week?), I gave you a few vague answers and then dismissed it from my mind, thinking that while it is impressive that you consider it seriously, it is not really vital to you right now. But, yesterday when you...
Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0767901576 |
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born...
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0767903692 |
“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
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| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0938077872 |
The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...
| Author | Walpola Rahula |
| ISBN | 0802130313 |
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills...
A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 0553372114 |
I can sincerely say this is an excellent book but that it is not the correct book for me at this time. Books tend to be time sensitive documents, meaning if you read one at the “right” time, it can light fireworks under your butt, while if you had read the same book at an earlier or later time of your life,...
Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
| Author | Stephen Batchelor |
| ISBN | 1573226564 |
A national bestseller and acclaimed guide to Buddhism for beginners and practitioners alike
In this simple but important volume, Stephen Batchelor reminds us that the Buddha was not a mystic who claimed privileged, esoteric knowledge of the universe, but a man who challenged us to understand...
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590304497 |
We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom...
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570628394 |
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön...
| Author | Śāntideva |
| ISBN | 1590300572 |
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines...
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590301358 |
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, she invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth...
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 0553378295 |
“Enlightenment does exist,” internationally renowned author and meditation master Jack Kornfield assures us. “Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the divine ... these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away.”
But even after achieving such realization...
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
| Author | Bhikkhu Bodhi |
| ISBN | 0861714911 |
The works of the Buddha can feel vast, and it is sometimes difficult for even longtime students to know where to look, especially since the Buddha never explicitly defined the framework behind his teachings. Designed to provide just such a framework, In the Buddha's Words is an anthology of the Buddha's...
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...
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0767908740 |
The beloved American Lama, a spiritual leader whose inimitable light and lively universal teaching style has awakened the spirituality of thousands, now shares an enlightened approach to change and loss, dealing with difficult emotions such as fear, grief, and anger, and the role of crisis in uncovering...
| Author | Ajahn Brahm |
| ISBN | 0861712757 |
Meditation: it's not just a way to relax, or to deal with life's problems. Done correctly, it can be a way to radically encounter bliss and to begin - and sustain - real transformation in ourselves.
In Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond, self-described meditation junkie Ajahn Brahm shares his...
