Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
10 best books like Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Gudo Wafu Nishijima): History Is All You Left Me, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Maurice, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Sugar Town, Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture, Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen, Queer: A Graphic History
History Is All You Left Me
| Author | Adam Silvera |
| ISBN | 1616956933 |
When Griffin's first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he's been imagining for...
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
| Author | Helen Fielding |
| ISBN | 0140298479 |
Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, Bridget Jones searches for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice ("'I'm just calling to say in the potty! In the potty! Well, do it in Daddy's hand, then!'")....
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0393310329 |
Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.
Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published...
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
| Author | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0834800799 |
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...
| Author | Hazel Newlevant |
| ISBN | 1681485877 |
This. Was. Perfect.
Sugar Town is unlike anything I have read before - it documents a bisexual, polyamorous love story involving Hazel and Argent. Hazel is already in a relationship with Gregor who in turn is also dating another woman called Rebecca. Argent is in a long-term relationship with...
Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
| Author | Brad Warner |
| ISBN | 1577315596 |
In Sit Down and Shut Up, Brad Warner tackles one of the great works of Zen literature, the Shobogenzo by 13th-century Zen master Dogen. Illuminating Dogen’s enigmatic teachings in plain language, Warner intertwines sharp philosophical musings on sex, evil, anger, meditation, enlightenment,...
| Author | Hui-Neng |
| ISBN | 0231083610 |
The "Platform Sutra" records the teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, who is revered as one of the two great figures in the founding of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. This translation is the definitive English version of the eighth-century Ch'an classic.
Phillip B. Yampolsky has based his...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0271006013 |
This book presents the major teachings of Mah y na Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this S tra, called the jewel of the Mah y na S tras, has enjoyed immense popularity among Mah y na Buddhists in India, central and southeast Asia, Japan, and especially China, where...
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...
| Author | Meg-John Barker |
| ISBN | 1785780719 |
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.
From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender...
