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10 best books like Teachings of the Buddha (Jack Kornfield): Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path, Insight Meditation: A Step-by-step Course on How to Meditate, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs, Entering the Stream: An Introduction to the Buddha and His Teachings, Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living, The Little Zen Companion, Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living

Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD]
AuthorNguyen Anh-Huong
ISBN1591794730
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...
Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path
AuthorAyya Khema
In this lucid classic, beloved teacher Ayya Khema introduces the reader to the essence of the Buddhist path. She addresses the how and why of meditation, providing a clear framework for understanding the nature of karma and rebirth and the entirety of the eightfold path. With specific, practical advice...
Insight Meditation: A Step-by-step Course on How to Meditate
AuthorSharon Salzberg
ISBN1564559068
Insight Meditation box set includes:
• 240-page Insight Meditation workbook (wire-o binding)—This workbook is designed as a complete self-guided curriculum. Organized into nine lessons, the workbook features more than 75 step-by-step mindfulness exercises, question-and-answer...
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya
AuthorBhikkhu Bodhi
This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings--consists...
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
AuthorAjahn Chah
ISBN0861713230
Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher. His charisma and wisdom influenced many American and European seekers, and helped shape the American Vipassana community. This collection brings together for the first time Ajahn...
Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
AuthorSteve Hagen
ISBN0060730579
“[Hagan’s] book will appeal to readers interested in what true Zen practice is supposed to be about beyond all the popular images and colorful stories.”

—Robert M. Pirsig, New York Times bestselling author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

 

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Entering the Stream: An Introduction to the Buddha and His Teachings
AuthorSamuel Bercholz
ISBN0877739811
The grandeur, simplicity, and freshness of the 2,500-year-old tradition of Buddhism are reflected in this collection of writings intended as a primer for newcomers to the subject as well as a reference for those familiar with Buddhism.

The selections include:

   •  The...
Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living
AuthorSurya Das
ISBN0060747293
In 2006 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who calls Lama Surya Das the American Lama, said to an American audience, "It is not enough just to meditate and pray, which are always good things to do, but we also must take positive action in this world."

In the process of awakening, the Buddha realized that...
The Little Zen Companion
AuthorDavid Schiller
ISBN1563054671
While it seeks neither to define Zen nor answer its most famous koan (a riddle unanswerable by conventional thinking, in this case the sound of one hand clapping), this bestselling little book with 437,000 copies in print possesses a maverick Zen spirit that points to a different way of looking at the...
Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
Last month I attended a women's retreat. At the retreat center, they had these little cards up all over the building with these great little meditations on daily living. All day, the meditations prompted me to pause and reflect as I washed my hands or looked in the mirror or took a step outside the front...
Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering
AuthorPhillip Moffitt
ISBN1594863539
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...
The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Shambhala Dragon Editions)
AuthorJoseph Goldstein
ISBN0877732264
Here is a modern classic of unusually clear, practical instruction for the practice of Buddhist meditation: sitting and walking meditation, how one relates with the breath, feelings, thought, sense perceptions, consciousness, and everyday activities. Basic Buddhist topics such as the nature...
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness
AuthorNyanaponika Thera
ISBN1578635586
This is a classic text on the essence of Buddhist meditation. It is an excellent, indepth description of mindfulness practice and its benefits. It includes a concise explanation of clear comprehension, which is the kind of mindfulness you use in the course of your daily life. It also presents an easily...
The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN0861711386
In this landmark book of interfaith dialogue, the Dalai Lama provides an extraordinary Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus, commenting on well-known passages from the four Christian Gospels including the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the mustard seed, the Resurrection, and others....
In Buddha's Kitchen : Cooking, Being Cooked, and Other Adventures at a Meditation Center
AuthorKimberley Snow
ISBN1590300475
Kimberley Snow offers an outrageously funny and honest account of her adventures as head cook at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. With her earthy sensibility and sharp sense of humor, the author shows this world in a light devoid of preciousness—while expressing with heart the integrity of the...
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