Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
10 best books like Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation (Surya Das): The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology, Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style, Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks, Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering
| 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...
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...
| Author | Sharon Salzberg |
| ISBN | 1573223409 |
Faith by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg is one of those books that can change your entire perspective of the world. There are few books that can do that, that can challenge the foundation of your reality. For me, such books were On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche and Walden...
| 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...
| Author | Dinty W. Moore |
| ISBN | 0385492677 |
The Accidental Buddhist is the funny, provocative story of how Dinty Moore went looking for the faith he'd lost in what might seem the most unlikely of places: the ancient Eastern tradition of Buddhism. Moore demystifies and explains the contradictions and concepts of this most mystic-seeming of...
| Author | Gary Thorp |
| ISBN | 0767907736 |
Your home is an extension of yourself; therefore, when your home is in turmoil, your life is in turmoil. However, when you attend to your home, you begin to feel less hurried and more in tune with the world around you. There is delight and calm to be found in the midst of washing dishes or changing the water...
| Author | Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| ISBN | 0786886544 |
Come to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness and physical and spiritual wellbeing.
"[The] journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they...
| 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 | Sylvia Boorstein |
| ISBN | 0345448103 |
According to the Buddha, the path of kindness is the path of happiness. Now Sylvia Boorstein, nationally bestselling author of It’s Easier Than You Think, has taken the 2500-year-old practice of developing the qualities of a compassionate heart—the core of the Buddha’s own practice—and...
| 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 | Stephen Levine |
| ISBN | 0385262183 |
In this intelligent, accessible work, acclaimed poet and meditation teacher Stephen Levine introduces readers to meditation. Filled with practical guidance and advice--as well as extensive personal recollections--A Gradual Awakening explains the value of meditation as a means of attaining...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1888375558 |
In order to understand why people pray, The Energy of Prayer examines the applications and effectiveness of prayer in Buddhist and other spiritual traditions. Arguing that prayer is not about asking some external force for what we need, but about creating an internal environment in which it is easier...
| 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 | Franz Metcalf |
| ISBN | 1569752982 |
A unique approach to Buddhism, What Would Buddha Do? shows that anyone can find guidance in Buddha’s teachings. It demonstrates how to use the advice of Buddha to become a better person at work, at home, and in society. Presented in a reader-friendly format, with each page offering a question, a Buddhist...
| 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...
Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All
Why does an idea that’s 2,500 years old seem more relevant today than ever before? How can the Buddha’s teachings help us solve many of the world’s problems? Journalist Perry Garfinkel circumnavigated the globe to discover the heart of Buddhism and the reasons for its growing popularity—and...
