Zen Without Zen Masters
10 best books like Zen Without Zen Masters (Camden Benares): Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual, Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything In Between, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science, Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection, Religion and Nothingness, Immediatism, Revelation X: The Bob Apocryphon, Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J.R. Bob Dobbs, Neuropolitique (Revised)
| Author | Gregory Hill |
| ISBN | 1559500409 |
One of the great books of our time, Principia Discordia is the official bible of the most relevant religion ever conceived, Discordianism. This legendary underground classic contains absolutely everything worth knowing about absolutely anything. Discordianism is the religion for these screwed-up...
The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual
| Author | Christopher S. Hyatt |
| ISBN | 1561841749 |
Throughout history, throughout most of the world, psychopaths have gotten a bad rap. That is quite understandable since almost all of the world's religious and social philosophies have little use for the individual except as a tool to be placed in service to their notion of something else: "God," or...
| Author | Brad Warner |
| ISBN | 1577319109 |
With his one-of-a kind blend of autobiography, pop culture, and plainspoken Buddhism, Brad Warner explores an A-to-Z of sexual topics — from masturbation to dating, gender identity to pornography. In addition to approaching sexuality from a Buddhist perspective, he looks at Buddhism — emptiness,...
| Author | William Hjortsberg |
| ISBN | 1582437904 |
Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists...
The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science
| Author | Robert Anton Wilson |
| ISBN | 0941404498 |
The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and Citadel of Science, by Robert Anton Wilson, is according to Wikipedia, “a book about ontology, science, paranormal events, and epistemology.” It is supposed to tear down the dogmatism of traditional (the Citadel) science. Maybe it does, but...
| Author | Antero Alli |
| ISBN | 1561840092 |
I'm reluctant to give any book 5 stars, but this one profoundly influenced how I treat, interact with, and understand my internal universe. It allowed me to experience and begin to understand things that would otherwise lie beyond the boundaries of what I could imagine. The scope of this book is limitless...
| Author | Keiji Nishitani |
| ISBN | 0520049462 |
In Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles...
| Author | Peter Lamborn Wilson |
| ISBN | 1873176422 |
An irresistible tome from the insurrectionist theoretician, Hakim Bey. His incendiary words are beautifully illustrated by the renowned collage artist Freddie Baer. The result is a delightful compilation by two talented artists. A must read for those who have followed their work for years. In this...
| Author | SubGenius Foundation |
| ISBN | 1560259558 |
You think you know satire. You've seen Jon Stewart, you've read Mad magazine. But you've never encountered anything like "Bob" and the Church of the SubGenius. The SubGenii have reached the limits of satire and pressed further, and in doing so have created a brand of satire that curtails its own absurdity...
| Author | Timothy Leary |
| ISBN | 1561840122 |
Timothy Leary, Ph.D. has been a world-renowned psychologist, a defrocked Harvard professor, a relentless champion of brain change, a reputed drug guru, a stand-up philosopher, and a prisoner of the Nixon administration. He has been called 'the most dangerous man on the planet.'
While in...
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0804831173 |
Through his popular radio series "Way Beyond the West" Alan Watts brought listeners a delightful and practical side of Zen, which he prescribed as "a cure for education and culture." By the early sixties his radio programs were renowned for their synthesis of Eastern wisdom and everyday life. Several...
| Author | Paul Tillich |
| ISBN | 0334028752 |
These sixteeen sermons, like jewels, contain in brilliant and concentrated form some of Tillich's most familiar themes. Discussing among other topics, wisdom, salvation, loneliness and solitude, the author gives free reign to the discreet and compassionate intelligence that everywhere is a...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691020531 |
The Needlewoman
How should one listen to an edifying discourse?
"When a woman makes an altar cloth, so far as she is able, she makes every flower as lovely as the graceful flowers of the field, as far as she is able, every star as sparkling as the glistening stars of the night. She withholds...
Only Don't Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn
| Author | Seung Sahn |
| ISBN | 1570624321 |
Here is the inimitable Zen Master Seung Sahn up close and personal—in selections from the correspondence that was one of his primary modes of teaching. Seung Sahn received hundreds of letters per month, each of which he answered personally, and some of the best of which are included here. His frank...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0195114248 |
I’ve always been a bit literal and so when I was a child walking along St Kilda Road and first saw The First Church of Christ Scientist I just assumed that this was a church that had started here in Melbourne and that somewhere there must be a second church. I don’t think I ever made the connection with...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0385284918 |
Homage to the
Japanese Haiku Poet Issa
Drunk in a Japanese
bar
I’m
OK
American Bar in Tokyo
I’m here in a bar filled with
young conservative snobbish
American men,
drinking and trying to pick up
Japanese women
who want to sleep...
| Author | Normandi Ellis |
| ISBN | 0933999747 |
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities with little relevance to our contemporary situation. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches...
