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Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change

10 best books like Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change (Mark Epstein): Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Lucky You, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism, On Generation and Corruption

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
AuthorEmily Nagoski
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women...
Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
AuthorTucker Malarkey
ISBN1984801694
“A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr’s mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read.”—Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia

In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold...
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
AuthorDan Harris
ISBN0062265423
7 hrs and 50 mins

Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.

After having a nationally televised panic attack...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1573225681
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...
Lucky You
AuthorCarl Hiaasen
ISBN0330369032
The criminals in 'Lucky You' have the combined intellectual power of a 5-watt battery. Bodean Gazzer and Onus 'Chub' Gillespie are also rapists, white supremacists, and murderers. But even pond scum can get lucky.

Bode discovers he has won half of a Florida $28,000,000 lottery jackpot! The...
Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
AuthorStephen Batchelor
ISBN1573226564
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 Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
AuthorJack Kornfield
ISBN0553803476
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism’s transformational...
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
AuthorRobert Wright
ISBN1508235406
From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...
One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
AuthorJoseph Goldstein
ISBN0062517015
The Dharma Of Freedom

Joseph Goldstein has written an ambitious, short book which attempts to synthesize the wisdom and teachings of various Buddhist traditions and which offers thoughts on the possible future course of Buddhism in the West. The book is also a practitioner's guide and a manual...
On Generation and Corruption
AuthorAristotle
ISBN1425000878
With this relatively minor work of proto-science, my voyage through Aristotle’s corpus continues.

Of Generation and Corruption is a very poor name for this work; a better one would be Of Coming-to-Be and Passing-Away. Those two terms capture what Aristotle is investigating: How does...
Mindfulness for Beginners
AuthorJon Kabat-Zinn
ISBN1591794641
What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, you can. What if paying attention on purpose (and nonjudgmentally) could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn--it can.

On Mindfulness for Beginners,...
True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
AuthorTara Brach
How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable loss? If you’re like most people, chances are you react with fear and confusion, falling back on timeworn strategies: anger,...
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
AuthorAesop
ISBN1146385528
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
Meditations to Heal Your Life
AuthorLouise L. Hay
ISBN1561709956
استعرت الكتاب من إحدى زميلاتي التي كانت تقرأه بتمعن وتركيز شديدين. كان الكتاب في يد،واليد الأخرى تدون "الدرر"في مذكرة خارجية.

"هدى اقرأيه!!!سوف تستفيدين"

مع...
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
AuthorMark Nepo
ISBN1573241172
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...
When Angels Speak of Love
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0743456092

I didn't really appreciate the way Bell Hooks put together these poems, hence why I didn't give this book a higher rating.

In spite of that, I could see there were some really interesting ideas here. I'll leave you with my two favourite poems:

11.
the first taste of death
...
Burning Daylight
AuthorJack London
Burning Daylight takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, Elam Harnish, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. Bringing...
Zen beyond Mindfulness: Using Buddhist and Modern Psychology for Transformational Practice
AuthorJules Shuzen Harris
ISBN1611806623
An effective new approach to Buddhist practice that combines the rigor of traditional meditation and study with the psychological support necessary for practice in modern life.

Zen teacher Jules Shuzen Harris, the first African American man to receive Dharma transmission in the Soto Zen...
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