For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life
10 best books like For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life (Thich Nhat Hanh): The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology, Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path, Nothing Special, Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change, A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness, Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism, The Great Path of Awakening: The Classic Guide to Lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating the Heart of Compassion, Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life, The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
| Author | Lorne Ladner |
| ISBN | 0060750529 |
Now in paperback, this practical guide to cultivating compassion delivers Buddhist and psychological insight right where we need it most—navigating the difficulties of our daily lives.
Compassion is often seen as a distant, altruistic ideal cultivated by saints, or as an unrealistic...
| Author | Stephanie Kaza |
| ISBN | 1590301722 |
At one time or another, most of us have experienced an all-consuming desire for a material object, a desire so strong that it seems like we couldn't possibly be happy without buying this thing. Yet, when we give in to this impulse, we often find ourselves feeling frustrated and empty. Advertisers, of...
| Author | Henepola Gunaratana |
| ISBN | 0861711769 |
From the best-selling author of Mindfulness in Plain English!
In his classic and engaging style, Bhante Gunaratana delves deeply into the noble eightfold path, the Buddha’s most profound teaching on bringing an end to suffering.
With easy-to-understand and specific advice,...
| Author | Charlotte Joko Beck |
| ISBN | 0062511173 |
WHEN NOTHING IS SPECIAL, EVERYTHING CAN BE
The best-selling author of 'Everyday Zen' shows how to awaken to daily life and discover the ideal in the everyday, finding riches in our feelings, relationships, and work. 'Nothing Special' offers the rare and delightful experience of learning...
| Author | Mark Epstein |
| ISBN | 0767904613 |
The bestselling author of "Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart" combines a memoir of his own journey as a student of Buddhism and psychology with a powerful message about how cultivating true self-awareness and adopting a Buddhist understanding of change can free the mind.
Before Mark Epstein...
| Author | Sharon Salzberg |
| ISBN | 1570624283 |
The Buddhist teachings have the power to transform our lives for the better, says Sharon Salzberg, and all we need to bring about this transformation can be found in the ordinary events of our everyday experiences. Salzberg distills more than twenty-five years of teaching and practicing meditation...
| Author | Reginald A. Ray |
| ISBN | 1570629102 |
Indestructible Truth is one of the most thorough introductions to the Tibetan Buddhist world view ever published; at the same time it is also one of the most accessible. The author presents complex and sophisticated teachings and practices in nontechnical language, using engaging stories and personal...
| Author | Jamgon Kongtrul |
| ISBN | 1590302141 |
Here is a practical Buddhist guidebook that offers techniques for developing a truly compassionate heart in the midst of everyday life. For centuries, Tibetans have used fifty-nine pithy slogans—such as "A joyous state of mind is a constant support" and "Don't talk about others' shortcomings"—as...
| Author | Ezra Bayda |
| ISBN | 1590300130 |
We can use whatever life presents, Ezra Bayda teaches, to strengthen our spiritual practice including the turmoil of daily life. What we need is the willingness to just be with our experiences whether they are painful or pleasing opening ourselves to the reality of our lives without trying to fix or...
| Author | Joan Halifax |
| ISBN | 0802140718 |
In this “masterwork of an authentic spirit person” (Thomas Berry), Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into “the fruitful darkness”—the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation....
| Author | Chan Khong |
| ISBN | 1888375671 |
Sister Chan Khong's autobiography tells the story of her spiritual and personal odyssey through the many years of her life. The book’s centerpiece is her moving account of her return to Vietnam, her homeland, after 40 years of exile. She describes in refreshing detail her emotional reactions,...
| Author | David Chadwick |
| ISBN | 0767901053 |
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing...
| Author | Joanna Macy |
| ISBN | 0938077279 |
The parts of this book that deal with Dependent (or Interdependent) Co-Arising, the history of Buddhism, and the parallels between Buddhism and Systems Theory are very good. Joanna Macy's approach to the problem of radioactive waste, however, suffers from her own admitted fear and despair of the...
| Author | Phillip Moffitt |
| ISBN | 1594863539 |
Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Noting that human beings have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Phillip Moffitt has found answers for his own life in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist...
| Author | Noah Levine |
| ISBN | 0061711241 |
“The Buddha’s teachings are not a philosophy or a religion; they are a call to action and invitation to revolution.”
Noah Levine, author of the national bestseller Dharma Punx and Against the Stream, is the leader of the youth movement for a new American Buddhism. In Heart of the Revolution,...
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0061774561 |
"Awealth of inspiration and practical tips for enjoying the Kingdom of God, thePure Land of the Buddha, now." —Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace Is EveryStep
"Fornewcomers to Buddhism (and non-Buddhists interested in universal wisdom!) and‘old hands’ at practice . . . [Das]...
| Author | Ajahn Chah |
| ISBN | 1590302176 |
Ajahn Chah (1919–1992) was admired for the way he demystified the Buddhist teachings, presenting them in a remarkably simple and down-to-earth style for people of any background. He was a major influence and spiritual mentor for a generation of American Buddhist teachers, including Jon Kabat-Zinn,...
| Author | Darren Littlejohn |
| ISBN | 1582702233 |
Author Darren Littlejohn has been there and back, and presents a complimentary guide for recovery to the traditional twelve-step program, out of his own struggles and successes through the study of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.
The face of addiction and alcoholism is a face that many have seen...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590305965 |
Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money. We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they are also always sources of problems...
The Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty
| Author | Stephen Batchelor |
| ISBN | 1619025353 |
Kierkegaard said that faith without doubt is simply credulity, the will to believe too readily, especially without adequate evidence, and that “in Doubt can Faith begin.” All people involved in spiritual practice, of whatever persuasion, must confront doubt at one time or another, and find...
| Author | B. Alan Wallace |
| ISBN | 0231138342 |
Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of...
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 1604074485 |
When the path ahead is dark, how can we keep from stumbling? How do we make our way with courage and dignity? "Inside each of us is an eternal light that I call 'the One Who Knows, ' writes Jack Kornfield. "Awakening to this wisdom can help us fin dour way through pain and suffering with grace and tenderness."...
