Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume
10 best books like Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume (Stephanie Kaza): Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], The Zen Path Through Depression, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path, Nothing Special, Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom, One City: A Declaration of Interdependence, Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living, The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya, For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life, Living with the Devil
Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD]
| Author | Nguyen Anh-Huong |
| ISBN | 1591794730 |
What if every step you took deepened your connection with all of life and imprinted peace, joy, and serenity on the earth? With Walking Meditation, listeners enjoy the first comprehensive instructional program in this serene spiritual practice to help them walk with presence and peace of mind whether...
The Zen Path Through Depression
| Author | Philip Martin |
| ISBN | 0060654465 |
Drawing on his own struggle, Philip Martin reveals another path people can travel to get through depression - one that not only eases the pain, but mends the spirit. Extremely accessible to people with little or no Zen experience as well as to longtime students of Buddhism, The Zen Path Through Depression...
| 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 | Dzogchen Ponlop |
| ISBN | 1590308743 |
There’s a rebel within you. It’s the part of you that already knows how to break free of fear and unhappiness. This rebel is the voice of your own awakened mind. It’s your rebel buddha—the sharp, clear intelligence that resists the status quo. It wakes you up from the sleepy acceptance of your...
| Author | Ethan Nichtern |
| ISBN | 0861715160 |
What you wear. What you say. What you think/ignore/buy/don't buy... Welcome to One City-Population: Everyone-where EVERYTHING you do matters. You've lived here your whole life, whether you know it or not.
Ethan Nichtern, the charismatic and creative force behind New York's upstart Interdependence...
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0060747293 |
In 2006 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who calls Lama Surya Das the American Lama, said to an American audience, "It is not enough just to meditate and pray, which are always good things to do, but we also must take positive action in this world."
In the process of awakening, the Buddha realized that...
| Author | Maurice Walshe |
| ISBN | 0861711033 |
This book offers a complete translation of the Digha Nikaya, the long discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings, given...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1888375663 |
The Five Mindfulness Trainings — to not kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, or take intoxicants — are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. In this fully revised edition, Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh argues eloquently for their universal applicability in daily...
| Author | Stephen Batchelor |
| ISBN | 1594480877 |
Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil
In the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire,...
| Author | Ezra Bayda |
| ISBN | 1590301684 |
May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
This verse is an important reminder, says Ezra Bayda, of what the spiritual life is truly about: the willingness to open ourselves to whatever life presents—no matter how messy or complicated. And...
| Author | Buddhadasa Bhikkhu |
| ISBN | 0861711114 |
Any practitioner, after meditating for some time, inevitably wonders what meditation method the historical Buddha Shakyamuni himself used while beneath the Bodhi Tree. Many people understand that prior to his realization, Shakyamuni Buddha studied with many of the great yogis of his time, but...
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating...
Essential Buddhism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices
| Author | Jack Maguire |
| ISBN | 0671041886 |
Four hundred million people call themselves Buddhists today. Yet most Westerners know little about this powerful, Eastern-spawned faith. How did it begin? What do its adherents believe? Why are so many Westerners drawn to it?
Essential Buddhism responds to these questions and many more, offering...
| Author | Paramananda |
| ISBN | 0760721793 |
OK, there's no way I can go into everything I learned from this book... Actually, it's all very simple, really, and he makes that point over and over. Simple, yet profound. Meditation has never made much sense to me before. Seriously, I never quite understood what was supposed to happen during it, and...
| 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 | Lewis Richmond |
| ISBN | 0767902335 |
A guide to developing and maintaining a spiritual life on the job, drawn from the teachings and practices of Buddhist tradition.
Most people associate Buddhism with developing calmness, kindness, and compassion through meditation. Lewis Richmond's Work as a Spiritual Practice shows...
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation
| Author | Carole Tonkinson |
| ISBN | 1573225010 |
This book has turned me on to Philip Whalen who I previously thought of as a marginal Beat writer. It has also given me a little bit more of an understanding, though I was already aware, of the Buddhist influence on Jack Keroauc, Allen Ginsberg and especially Gary Snyder's work.
Whalen was a good...
| Author | Larry Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 1590301366 |
Freedom from suffering is not only possible, but the means for achieving it are immediately within our grasp—literally as close to us as our own breath. This is the 2,500-year-old good news contained in the Anapanasati Sutra , the Buddha's teaching on cultivating both tranquility and deep insight...
| Author | Ajahn Chah |
| ISBN | 1570628084 |
Chah offers a thorough exploration of Theravadan Buddhism in a gentle, sometimes humorous, style that makes the reader feel as though he or she is being entertained by a story. He emphasizes the path to freedom from emotional and psychological suffering and provides insight into the fact that taking...
