Reduced to Joy
10 best books like Reduced to Joy (Mark Nepo): House of Light, Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation, Indie Spiritualist: A No Bullshit Exploration of Spirituality, Yoga for Pain Relief: Simple Practices to Calm Your Mind and Heal Your Chronic Pain, Healing Into Life and Death, Living Dharma: Teachings of Twelve Buddhist Masters, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World, The Truth of Suffering and the Path of Liberation
‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?’
Despite owning Oliver’s two volume New and Selected Poems, I couldn’t resist snatching up this tiny collection when I stumbled upon it at a library book sale in the fifty cents bin. Although it was her American...
Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
| Author | Diane Eshin Rizzetto |
| ISBN | 1590303423 |
Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind every...
| Author | Sera Beak |
| ISBN | 1622030532 |
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.
With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
| Author | John Welwood |
| ISBN | 1570628238 |
Have you ever noticed that self-described spiritual people are not necessarily all that easy to be with? John Welwood has a term for what often happens--spiritual bypassing. This is when a person reaches for the stars while forgetting about the goop on his shoes. Welwood, author of the popular Love...
| Author | Chris Grosso |
| ISBN | 1582704627 |
From a recovering addict, musician, and tattooed indie culturist: a guidebook for today’s generation of spiritual misfits who crave a dogma-free path.
Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grosso’s collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of...
| Author | Kelly McGonigal |
| ISBN | 1572246898 |
It's no secret that yoga increases muscular flexibility and strength, but you may not know that yoga is a proven treatment for back pain, knee pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other chronic pain conditions. Yoga also helps to ease the stress, anxiety, and depression that can create and reinforce pain,...
Healing Into Life and Death
| Author | Stephen Levine |
| ISBN | 0385262191 |
In "Healing Into Life And Death," Stephen Levine deals directly with the choice and application of treatment, offering original techniques for working with pain and grief, and discusses the development of a merciful awareness as a means of healing, as well as how to encourage others to do the same....
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 1570621381 |
In this book (previously published under the title Living Buddhist Masters), Jack Kornfield presents the heart of Buddhist practice as taught by twelve highly respected masters from Southeast Asia, Here, renowned teachers such as Mahasi Sayadaw, U Ba Khin, Mohnyin Sayadaw, and Achaan Maha Boowa...
One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World
| Author | Donald Altman |
| ISBN | 1608680304 |
Being fully in each moment leads to peace and well-being — but it’s harder than it sounds, especially in a world with constant demands on our time and attention. How do you practice mindfulness when you’re faced with difficult coworkers, overwhelming schedules, or stubborn kids? In this book,...
The Truth of Suffering and the Path of Liberation
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590306686 |
The truth of life has never been better or more succinctly articulated than in the Buddha's teaching on suffering, its cause, and its cessation—the famous formulation known as the Four Noble Truths. This concise handful of words is in fact the foundation from which all subsequent Buddhist teachings...
A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations
| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 0143117548 |
Daniel Ladinsky’s stunning interpretations of 365 soul-nurturing poems—one for each day of the year—by treasured Persian lyric poet Hafiz
The poems of Hafiz are masterpieces of sacred poetry that nurture the heart, soul, and mind. With learned insight and a delicate hand, Daniel...
A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life
| Author | Wayne Teasdale |
| ISBN | 1577314379 |
The Mystic Heart chronicled Brother Wayne Teasdale's journey into a multifaceted spirituality blending his traditional Catholic training and the Eastern way of sannyasa (Indian monkhood). A Monk in the World tells what that journey has meant for him -- living as a monk outside the monastery, integrating...
The Healing Power of the Breath: Simple Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Enhance Concentration, and Balance Your Emotions
| Author | Richard P. Brown |
| ISBN | 1590309022 |
2013 Nautilus Award Winner - Silver
Here’s a drug-free, side-effect free solution to common stress and mood problems—developed by two physicians. Millions of Americans suffer from mood problems and stress-related issues including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and trauma-induced...
Ten Breaths to Happiness: Touching Life in its Fullness
| Author | Glen Schneider |
| ISBN | 1937006395 |
Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes, happiness is wired into the physiology of our brains. It is a skill we can all develop through cultivating mindfulness and concentration. In Ten Breaths to Happiness Schneider presents a series of simple practices and guided meditations...
Buddha's Book of Stress Reduction: Finding Serenity and Peace with Mindfulness Meditation
| Author | Joseph Emet |
| ISBN | 0399167331 |
From stress to well-being—give yourself the gift of the Buddha’s peace.
No, it is not all in your head: life is stressful, and some lives more so than others. Yet people react to the same situations differently, and recognizing the difference between what we can control and what we can’t...
The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 1931337403 |
“Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores...
The Now Effect: How a Mindful Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life
| Author | Elisha Goldstein |
| ISBN | 1451623860 |
Alleviate stress, ease pain, cultivate emotional freedom, create a healthier brain, and find enlightenment with cutting-edge mindfulness techniques from The Now Effect.
You can calm your anxious mind, have greater focus at work and home, feel more empathy toward yourself and others,...
Anxiety and Avoidance: A Universal Treatment for Anxiety, Panic, and Fear
| Author | Michael A. Tompkins |
| ISBN | 1608826694 |
Do you suffer from panic, anxiety, and fear in your day-to-day life? Do you often avoid social situations, activities like driving, or even going to the store because of a fear of being overwhelmed or triggering a panic attack? You might be interested to know that anxiety disorders are the most common...
Zen Meditation in Plain English
| Author | John Daishin Buksbazen |
| ISBN | 0861713168 |
An excellent, practical introduction to Zen meditation. Written in a warm and easily accessible style, this book appeals to anyone with an interest in meditation, Zen, or, as is often the case today, a combination of the two. The book emphasizes the importance of receiving good instruction and of finding...
Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 1571746099 |
His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers powerful, profound advice on how to live a peaceful and fulfilling life amidst all the conflicts of the modern world.
In this distillation of his life and teachings, the Dalai Lama paints a compelling portrait of his early life, reflecting on the personal...
Create Your Own Religion: A How-To Book without Instructions
| Author | Daniele Bolelli |
| ISBN | 1938875028 |
Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms--an open invitation to question all the values, beliefs, and worldviews that humanity has so far held as sacred in order to find the answers we need to the very practical problems facing us.
Writer, philosopher, and professor of comparative religion,...
