The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them
10 best books like The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them (Karuna Cayton): Mindfulness in Plain English, The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Buddhist Boot Camp, Living Yogācāra: An Introduction to Consciousness-Only Buddhism, 二十道陰影下的自由：香港新聞審查日常, Anthropology: The Exploration Of Human Diversity, GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam, 19 Minutes to Live - Helicopter Combat in Vietnam, God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet
Mindfulness in Plain English
| Author | Henepola Gunaratana |
| ISBN | 0861713214 |
“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...
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
| Author | Culadasa (John Yates) |
| ISBN | 0990847705 |
Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive guide for a Western audience combines the wisdom from the teachings of the Buddha with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Clear and friendly, this in-depth practice...
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
| Author | Robert Wright |
| ISBN | 1508235406 |
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...
| Author | Timber Hawkeye |
| ISBN | 0062267434 |
A collection of short journal entries and letters sent to friends over the course of an eight-year journey to mindful living. Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generation's short attention span. The chapters in this small book can be read in any...
Living Yogācāra: An Introduction to Consciousness-Only Buddhism
| Author | Tagawa Shun'ei |
| ISBN | 0861715896 |
Yogācāra is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology that stems from the early Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition. The Yogācāra view is based on the fundamental truth that there is nothing in the realm of human experience that is not interpreted by and dependent upon the...
Anthropology: The Exploration Of Human Diversity
| Author | Conrad Phillip Kottak |
| ISBN | 0072426527 |
Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions...
GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
| Author | Mark Garrison |
| ISBN | 1629670537 |
Synopsis
In the summer of 1967, Mark Garrison had dropped out of college at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, just before entering his third year. He had run out of money and had to work for a while. These were the days before the lottery and the draft soon came calling. In order...
19 Minutes to Live - Helicopter Combat in Vietnam
"19 Minutes to Live" illustrates the incredible courage and determination of helicopter pilots and crews supporting those heroes that carried a rucksack and a rifle in Vietnam. Over 12,000 helicopters were used in the Vietnam War, which is why it became known as "The Helicopter War". Almost half of...
God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet
| Author | Nathan Schneider |
| ISBN | 0520269071 |
In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelievers—from ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to today’s most eminent philosophers...
Elite Minds: Creating the Competitive Advantage
| Author | Stan Beecham |
| ISBN | 9781610053 |
Most people don't reach their full potential because of their body, training, or physical talent. It is their mind that is the deterrent. They may or may not consider how their thoughts and beliefs are actually hindering performance. "Elite Minds" gives insight into the process of
developing...
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
| Author | Yongey Mingyur |
| ISBN | 0525512535 |
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat,...
The Original Buddhist Psychology: What the Abhidharma Tells Us about How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life
The Abhidharma, one of the three major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, frames the psychological system of Buddhism, explaining the workings of reality and the nature of the human mind. It is composed of detailed matrixes and lists that outline the interaction of consciousness and...
Runner: The Memoir of an Accidental Ultra-Marathon Champion
| Author | Lizzy Hawker |
| ISBN | 1781311471 |
Lizzy Hawker is one of the greatest ultra-distance runners Britain has ever produced. She is the first woman to finish on the overall podium of the Spartathlon, one of the world toughest footraces, and has won the legendary The North Face Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc five times in its ten-year history, the...
