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10 best books like Nothing Special (Charlotte Joko Beck): Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings, Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, The Three Pillars of Zen, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
| Author | Paul Reps |
| ISBN | 0804831866 |
When Zen Flesh, Zen Bones was published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire generation of readers who were just beginning to experiment with Zen. Over the years it has inspired leading American Zen teachers, students, and practitioners. Its popularity is as high today as ever.
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Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0767901576 |
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born...
A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 0553372114 |
I can sincerely say this is an excellent book but that it is not the correct book for me at this time. Books tend to be time sensitive documents, meaning if you read one at the “right” time, it can light fireworks under your butt, while if you had read the same book at an earlier or later time of your life,...
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590304497 |
We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom...
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570628394 |
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön...
| Author | Yongey Mingyur |
| ISBN | 0307346250 |
For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation. But how does it work? And why? The principles behind this ancient practice have long eluded some of the best minds in modern science. Until now.
In this groundbreaking work, world-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey...
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590301358 |
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, she invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth...
| Author | Philip Kapleau |
| ISBN | 0385260938 |
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism. An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs,...
| 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...
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
| Author | Mark Epstein |
| ISBN | 0767902351 |
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way. Going to Pieces Without...
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 | Kosho Uchiyama |
| ISBN | 0861713575 |
Reading about Zen is alot like reading about food. There are those glossy coffetable books that show off the aesthetic of fresh food or the creativity of the author/photographer and there are solid books filled with recipies that make your mouth water. It`s theory and practice. There are a lot of Books...
In Seeking the Heart of Wisdom Goldstein and Kornfield present the central teachings and practices of insight meditation in a clear and personal language. The path of insight meditation is a journey of understanding our bodies, our minds, and our lives, of seeing clearly the true nature of experience....
| Author | Sylvia Boorstein |
| ISBN | 0062512943 |
Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein demystifies spirituality, charts the path to happiness through the Buddha's basic teachings, shows how to eliminate hindrances to clear seeing, and develops a realistic...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590300513 |
Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others. They are revolutionary in that practicing them fosters abandonment of personal territory in relating to others and in understanding the...
| 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 | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0060957549 |
Practising the true spirit of Zen.
Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency...
| 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...
