The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
10 best books like The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness (Yongey Mingyur): The Art of Happiness, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, The Way of the Bodhisattva, No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, What Makes You Not a Buddhist
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 1573221112 |
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness...
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
| Author | Eckhart Tolle |
| ISBN | 1577314808 |
Eckhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly...
Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0767901576 |
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born...
A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 0553372114 |
I can sincerely say this is an excellent book but that it is not the correct book for me at this time. Books tend to be time sensitive documents, meaning if you read one at the “right” time, it can light fireworks under your butt, while if you had read the same book at an earlier or later time of your life,...
How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 0743453360 |
As human beings, we all share the desire for happiness and meaning in our lives. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. In this very special book, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and bestselling author helps...
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570628394 |
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön...
| Author | Śāntideva |
| ISBN | 1590300572 |
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines...
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590301358 |
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, she invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth...
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1570629579 |
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...
| Author | Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse |
| ISBN | 1590304063 |
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...
| Author | Patrul Rinpoche |
| ISBN | 1570624127 |
My favorite quote so far...
There is not a single being in samsara, this immense ocean of suffering, who in the course of time without beginning has never been our father or mother. When they were our parents, these beings' only thought was to raise us with the greatest possible kindness, protecting...
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
| Author | Sharon Salzberg |
| ISBN | 1590301870 |
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take...
| Author | Dzogchen Ponlop |
| ISBN | 1590308743 |
There’s a rebel within you. It’s the part of you that already knows how to break free of fear and unhappiness. This rebel is the voice of your own awakened mind. It’s your rebel buddha—the sharp, clear intelligence that resists the status quo. It wakes you up from the sleepy acceptance of your...
| Author | Sylvia Boorstein |
| ISBN | 0062512943 |
Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein demystifies spirituality, charts the path to happiness through the Buddha's basic teachings, shows how to eliminate hindrances to clear seeing, and develops a realistic...
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590300513 |
Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others. They are revolutionary in that practicing them fosters abandonment of personal territory in relating to others and in understanding the...
| Author | Esther Hicks |
| ISBN | 1401912451 |
This leading-edge book by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present the teachings of the Non-Physical entity Abraham, will help you understand the emotions that you’ve been experiencing all of your life. Instead of the out-of-control, knee-jerk reactions that most people have to their ever-changing...
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 1416565833 |
In Becoming Enlightened, His Holiness the Dalai Lama powerfully explores the foundation of Buddhism, laying out an accessible and practical approach to age-old questions: How can we live free from suffering? How can we achieve lasting happiness and peace?
Drawing from traditional Buddhist...
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 0316989797 |
How does one actually become a compassionate person? What are the mechanisms by which a selfish heart is transformed into a generous heart? The Dalai Lama's teachings on this essential subject, drawn from talks he delivered during his epochal visit to America in 1999, form the basis of this universally...
