Returning to Silence
10 best books like Returning to Silence (Dainin Katagiri): Gandhi: An autobiography, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, The Art of Memoir, The New Organon, Freedom from the Known, Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye, Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice, In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Patrimony, Between Eternities
| Author | Mahatma Gandhi |
| ISBN | 0807059099 |
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the...
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 | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062223062 |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN | 0521564832 |
Since I’ve lately read Aristotle’s original, I thought I’d go ahead and read Bacon’s New Organon. The title more or less says it all. For this book is an attempt to recast the method of the sciences in a better mold. Whereas Aristotle spends pages and pages enumerating the various types of syllogisms,...
| Author | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| ISBN | 0060648082 |
What is “freedom”? When I have the right to do things as I wish them to, is that called freedom? Or when I can think and speak about issues on my mind, is that freedom? Are we ever actually free? What we do, the things we do, either according to the acceptable notions of society, according to societal idea...
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 Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
| Author | Robert Kegan |
| ISBN | 0674445880 |
If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 0679752935 |
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love,...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0241975786 |
An exhilarating, far-ranging collection of non-fiction writing from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and The Infatuations
Internationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of...
"Một buổi sáng thứ Bảy, hai người đến tòa thị chính của thành phố New York. Họ lấy số rồi kiên nhẫn đứng chờ sau một hàng người dài - chủ yếu là dân bản xứ nghèo và dân nhập cư. Khi số của họ được gọi, họ vào một gian phòng...
Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Ordination, Love, and Monastic Zen in Japan
| Author | Gesshin Claire Greenwood |
What happens when a free-spirited, modern American girl goes on a spiritual quest into structured, traditional Japanese Zen life?
Gesshin Claire Greenwood was a liberal, free-spirited American girl who found meaning and freedom in disciplined, traditional Japanese Zen life. However,...
Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen
| Author | Bernie Glassman |
| ISBN | 1590300793 |
In Infinite Circle, one of America's most distinctive Zen teachers takes a back-to-basics approach to Zen. Glassman illuminates three key teachings of Zen Buddhism, offering line-by-line commentary in clear, direct language:
1. The Heart Sutra: the Buddha's essential discourse on emptiness,...
Food for the Thinking Mind
Throughout the history of mankind, serious thinkers in various parts of the world viewed our human existence and sought to find come meaning in it. They expressed their thoughts in wise sayings that have been [reserved and have come down to us. This book is a collection of these sayings and is offered...
CƠ DUYÊN
Cơ duyên ấy là cơn sa đọa tinh thần hiện đại kéo lê thê qua thế kỷ như một bịnh hủi. Căn bịnh không biết nhiễm phải từ thế hệ nào trước, nhưng khi nhận ra được thì biến chứng đã quá trầm trọng, cuộc sống và con...
TỰA
Một lần, tôi được nghe lốm câu chuyện dưới đây giữa hai em nhỏ chừng năm, sáu tuổi đương thà tàu trên hồ nước trong một công viên. Một em có vẻ láu lỉnh khoe với bạn nó.
-Chiếc tàu đó, ba tao mới mua ớ Charner,...
The Making of Buddhist Modernism
| Author | David L. McMahan |
| ISBN | 0195183274 |
A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects, and indeed constructs, a historically unique modern Buddhism, even while purporting to represent ancient tradition, timeless teaching, or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature, Asian...
Phật giáo ra đời từ một trong những cái nôi của nền văn minh nhân loại - Ấn Độ - và nhanh chóng phổ biến tại các nước phương Đông. trải qua nhiều thé kỷ, với những biến động, thăng trầm, dù bị chia rẽ thành nhiều tông phái với...
