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The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya

10 best books like The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya (Bhikkhu Bodhi): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America, The Preacher, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life, Adam Bede, Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft, The Dhammapada, Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir, What the Buddha Taught, The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1590303164
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN0553373153
I fell in love with Natalie Goldberg when I first read her book Writing Down the Bones in college. This memoir of finding her zen teacher and learning what he was trying to teach her is beautifully written. I didn't always relate to her, because she had the freedom to quit jobs, leave the world behind, and...
The Preacher
AuthorCamilla Läckberg
ISBN1605981737
Hot on the heels of her phenomenal American debut, The Ice Princess, Camilla Läckberg brings readers back to the quiet, isolated fishing village in Sweden where dangerous secrets lie just beneath the community’s tranquil surface.

During an unusually hot July, detective Patrik Hedstrom...
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN0553347756
Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling  Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method  of writing that can take you beyond craft to the  true source of creative power: The mind that is  "raw, full of energy, alive and  hungry."



Here is compassionate, practical,...
Adam Bede
AuthorGeorge Eliot
ISBN0375759018
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community...
Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN0553374966
In this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg, one of the most sought-after writing teachers of our time, takes us to the next step in the writing process.

You’ve filled your notebooks, done your writing practice, discovered...
The Dhammapada
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0938077872
The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals, physicians, unfamiliar medical treatments, and the intense reality of her own impermanence. In navigating...
What the Buddha Taught
AuthorWalpola Rahula
ISBN0802130313
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, “the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills...
The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya
AuthorMaurice Walshe
ISBN0861711033
This book offers a complete translation of the Digha Nikaya, the long 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, given...
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1416535020
I’ve been doing Julia Cameron’s morning pages since November last year. The idea is that you freewrite three pages: anything - everything - that comes to mind. In February I felt I was ready to move on to some morning writing that was a bit more structured, and use some prompts.

I love Natalie...
Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy
AuthorNyanaponika Thera
ISBN0861713818
A perennial favorite, Great Disciples of the Buddha is now relaunched in our best-selling Teachings of the Buddha series.

Twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the...
Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization
AuthorAnālayo
ISBN1899579540
This book helps to fill what has long been a glaring gap in the scholarship on Early Buddhism, offering us a detailed textual study of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation practice.

With painstaking thoroughness, Ven. Anālayo marshals the suttas...
Elves, Wights, and Trolls: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry: Vol. I
AuthorKveldúlf Hagan Gundarsson
ISBN0595421652
Elves, Trolls, and Wights is the most complete study yet made of the various beings with whom the Vikings shared their world, from the smallest spirits of stones and plants to the great giants who strive against or aid the Norse gods. Elves, dwarves, giants, wights dwelling in rocks, streams, and oceans:...
All You Could Ask For
AuthorMike Greenberg
ISBN0062220756
All You Could Ask For, debut novel by Mike Greenberg, cohost of ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning, is a tender and insightful story of friendship and love, heartbreak and renewal, played out in the lives of three unforgettable women.

Brooke has been happily married to her college sweetheart...
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