Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
By: Shohaku Okumura
4.62
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned a…
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1. Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life (Shambhala Dragon Editions)
By: Dainin Katagiri , None , None
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A renowned Zen teacher and contemporary of Shunryu Suzuki explores the many pillars of Zen spiritua… read more
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"Buddha is not divine. Buddha is your daily life."-Dainin Katagiri, Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life (Shambhala Dragon Editions)
2. The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
By: None , Shohaku Okumura , Molly Jokei , Kosho Uchiyama
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twe… read more
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"Whatever happens, I am I."-None, The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
"Human beings make mistakes despite careful thinking."-None, The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
"We do the self that is connected with the whole universe."-None, The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
"Karma is any action we take with the desire for satisfaction."-None, The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
3. What the Buddha Taught
By: Walpola Rahula , None
4.18
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more
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"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
4. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
5. How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
By: Dōgen , Kosho Uchiyama , Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen--perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosoph… read more
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6. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
By: Shunryu Suzuki , None , Mel Weitsman , Michæl Wenger
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mindwas published in 1972, it was enthusiastically… read more
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7. The First and Last Freedom
By: J. Krishnamurti , Aldous Huxley
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First and Last Freedom he cuts a… read more
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8. The Dhammapada
By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more
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9. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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10. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
By: Red Pine , None
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although … read more
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11. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Padmakara Translation Group , Śāntideva
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is … read more
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12. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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13. The Three Pillars of Zen
By: Philip Kapleau
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Phil… read more
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14. Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
By: Brad Warner
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In Sit Down and Shut Up,Brad Warner tackles one of the great works of Zen literature, the Shobogenz… read more
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15. The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
By: Hui-Neng , W.Y. Evans-Wentz , None , None
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the 4th century CE, is one of the most treasured works of B… read more
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16. Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
By: Shohaku Okumura , Thomas Wright , Kosho Uchiyama , None
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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17. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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18. The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
By: Donald Kalsched
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with… read more
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19. The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
By: Dōgen , Peter Levitt , Kazuaki Tanahashi
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), founder of the Soto School of Zen Buddhism, is one of the greatest religio… read more
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20. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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21. Zen Guitar
By: Philip Toshio Sudo
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Easte… read more
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22. The Wholehearted Way
By: None , Shohaku Okumura
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Wholehearted Wayis a translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa,one of the primary texts on Zen pract… read more
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23. Stillness Speaks
By: Eckhart Tolle
4.18
Format: 411 pages,
Ekkhart Tole e s'vremenen dukhoven uchitel, koito ne prinadlezhi k'm nikoia konkretna religiia ili … read more
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24. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
25. Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy
By: David R. Loy
4.33
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Many Western philosophers are poorly informed about the issues involved in nonduality, since this t… read more
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26. Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
By: Shohaku Okumura
4.62
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned a… read more
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27. Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis (1)
By: David R. Loy
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How can we respond urgently and effectively to the ecological crisis—and stay sane doing it? This … read more
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28. Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
By: Shinshu Roberts
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen’s most subtle and sophisticated philosophical that being… read more
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29. Discovering the True Self: Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation
By: Kodo Sawaki
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“You can’t see your true Self. [But] you can become it. Becoming your true Self is zazen.” Profound… read more
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30. Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo, 2 Vols
By: Dōgen
4.60
Format: 1280 pages, Hardcover
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye ( Shobo Genzo, in Japanese) is a monumental work, considered to be … read more
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31. Opening to Oneness: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts
By: Nancy Mujo Baker
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Stop trying to become “better” by suppressing or hiding parts of yourself, and learn what it means … read more
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