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The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Shambhala Dragon Editions)

10 best books like The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Shambhala Dragon Editions) (Joseph Goldstein): Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation, Mindfulness in Plain English, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, Insight Meditation: A Step-by-step Course on How to Meditate, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, What Makes You Not a Buddhist, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
ISBN0834800799
“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...
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0807012394
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness--being awake and fully aware. From washing the dishes to answering the phone to peeling an orange, he reminds us that each moment holds within...
Mindfulness in Plain English
AuthorHenepola Gunaratana
ISBN0861713214
“A masterpiece.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn

Since Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994, it has become one of the bestselling — and most
influential — books in the field of mindfulness. It’s easy to see why.

Author Bhante Gunaratana, a renowned...
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
AuthorDouglas E. Harding
ISBN1878019198
Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instantaneous way of "waking up" and becoming fully aware of one's real and abiding nature. Douglas Harding, the highly respected mystic-philosopher, describes his first experience of headlessness in "On...
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0767903692
“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
                                                                                               ...
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...
Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
AuthorStephen Batchelor
ISBN1573226564
A national bestseller and acclaimed guide to Buddhism for beginners and practitioners alike

In this simple but important volume, Stephen Batchelor reminds us that the Buddha was not a mystic who claimed privileged, esoteric knowledge of the universe, but a man who challenged us to understand...
What Makes You Not a Buddhist
AuthorDzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
ISBN1590304063
Dzongsar Khyentse is one of the most creative and innovative young Tibetan Buddhist lamas teaching today. The director of two feature films with Buddhist themes (the international sensation The Cup and Travelers and Magicians), this provocative teacher, artist, and poet is widely known and admired...
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
AuthorMark Epstein
ISBN0767902351
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...
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
AuthorD.T. Suzuki
ISBN0802130550
One of the world’s leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both Japanese and English, and was most instrumental in bringing the teachings of Zen Buddhism to the attention of the Western world. Written in a lively, accessible, and...
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
AuthorNoah Levine
Buddha was a revolutionary. His practice was subversive; his message, seditious. His enlightened point of view went against the norms of his day—in his words, "against the stream." His teachings changed the world, and now they can change you too.

Presenting the basics of Buddhism with...
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
AuthorRobert Wright
ISBN1508235406
From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...
Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
AuthorMark Epstein
ISBN1592401082
Bringing wisdom to a fresh and compelling topic, Mark Epstein shows how desire can be a teacher in its own right, helping us to reconcile our conflicting thoughts about it from both a Buddhist and a psychological point of view. It is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire...
The Foundations of Buddhism
AuthorRupert Gethin
ISBN0192892231
Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute...
Conscious
AuthorAnnaka Harris
ISBN0062906712
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages.” --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals

As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics...
The Cockroach
AuthorIan McEwan
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
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