6 must-read buddhism books like The Open Secret by Tony Parsons

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The Open Secret

By: Tony Parsons

4.24

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Throughout my early life I felt that there was another possibility which, once realised, would tran…

If you liked the buddhism plot in The Open Secret by Tony Parsons , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. What's Wrong with Right Now?

By: None , "Sailor" Bob Adamson

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Sailor Bob Adamson's search came to an end in the mid 1970s with an encounter with Sri Nisargadatta… read more

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  • philosophy
  • spirituality
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2. 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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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

3. Falling Into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

By: Adyashanti

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the same way that we fall into the arms of a loved one or drop our heads on the pillow before sl… read more

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4. Perfect Brilliant Stillness

By: None

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

An intimate account of spontaneous spiritual enlightenment and its implications in a life lived bey… read more

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5. Who Am I?: The Teachings Of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

By: Ramana Maharshi

4.11

Format: None pages,

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6. The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

By: Adyashanti

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Audio CD

For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know w… read more

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7. The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

By: Rupert Spira

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

The purpose of Rupert's book is to look clearly and simply at the nature of experience, without any… read more

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8. Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

By: Suzanne Segal

3.00

Format: None pages,

--She thought she had gone mad, but she was enlightened and didn't know it! Some people spend years… read more

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9. I Hope You Die Soon: Words on Non-Duality

By: Richard Sylvester

4.45

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an uncompromising and provocative book about non-duality. In liberation it is seen that al… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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10. Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

By: Rupert Spira

4.32

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and pe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Awareness is inherently whole, complete and fulfilled in itself. Thus its nature is happiness itself--not a happiness that depends upon the condition of the mind, body or world, but a causeless joy t…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

"Our true nature of eternal, infinite awareness is never completely forgotten or eclipsed by objective experience. However agitated or numbed objective experience may have rendered our mind, the memor…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

"The apparently separate self or finite ‘I’ around whom all experience revolves is the true and only ‘I’ of eternal, infinite awareness – the ‘I’ of God’s infinite, self-aware being that shines in eac…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

"a mind that is accustomed to repeatedly dissolving in its source or essence becomes progressively saturated with its inherent peace. When such a mind rises again from the ocean of awareness, its acti…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

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11. The Book of No One: Talks and Dialogues on Non-Duality and Liberation

By: Richard Sylvester

4.60

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

In this poignant book, humanist psychologist Richard Sylvester provides readers with unique insight… read more

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  • spirituality
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12. Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

By: Michael A. Singer

4.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer—autho… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • inspirational
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13. Awake: It's Your Turn

By: Angelo DiLullo

4.62

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

You can wake up from the dream of separation. If you know what that means, then you’re in luck, thi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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14. Being Myself

By: Rupert Spira

4.66

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Being Myself is a contemplative exploration of the essential nature of our self. Everyone has the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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15. The Open Secret

By: Tony Parsons

4.24

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Throughout my early life I felt that there was another possibility which, once realised, would tran… read more

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  • buddhism
  • inspirational
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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16. Effortless Being

By: David Bingham

4.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For the first one or two years of life you were functioning from your true nature—from effortless b… read more

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17. You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being

By: Rupert Spira

4.69

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

How may we find happiness and peace? In this book, Rupert Spira distills the message of all the gr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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18. The Moment of Your Death: Enlightenment In Your Pocket

By: Kyle Hoobin

4.30

Format: 97 pages, Kindle Edition

IT'S TIME...(to throw in the towel)Most people think of death as the end of who they are, and for m… read more

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19. No Path to Enlightenment: The I before I am - exposing the illusion of your Self

By: Colin McMorran

4.56

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

The illusion of the Self is the belief that you are your thoughts, in other words, the personal ide… read more

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  • spirituality
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20. Oneness: The Destination You Never Left

By: John Greven

4.43

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

What have you been missing? In Oneness, author John Greven invites readers to see the world as it r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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21. Presence- Awareness: just this nothing else

By: Sailor Bob Adamson

4.60

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

The dialogues contained in this book are a testimony to 'Sailor' Bob Adamson's wisdom and clarity i… read more

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  • spirituality
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22. Already Awake: Dialogues with Nathan Gill

By: Nathan Gill

4.57

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

Nathan Gill is a rare voice in contemporary spirituality. Speaking with consistent clarity, he poin… read more

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23. Awakening to the Dream: The Gift of Lucid Living

By: Leo Hartong

4.40

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

For centuries, philosophers and theologians have pondered questions such as Who are we? and What is… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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24. Nothing to Grasp

By: Joan Tollifson

4.53

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

This book points relentlessly to what is most obvious and impossible to the ever-present, ever-cha… read more

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  • buddhism
  • spirituality
"You're not going anywhere."

-Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

"Every instant is a new universe."

-Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

"Presence is not an object. It is the openness that beholds it all."

-Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

"Once people start identifying themselves or others as “permanently enlightened people,"

-Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

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25. Who Cares?! The Unique Teaching of Ramesh S. Balsekar

By: Ramesh S. Balsekar

4.44

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Consciousness is all there is. So 'who' is to know or seek 'what'? All there is is the impersonal f… read more

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  • spirituality
Cover of Already Everything: A Little Book on Seeking and Liberation by Neil Denham

26. Already Everything: A Little Book on Seeking and Liberation

By: Neil Denham

4.27

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a rare and radical communication which comes out of no-thing. There is nothing on offer her… read more

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27. Non-Duality Questions, Non-Duality Answers: Exploring Spirituality and Existence in the Modern World

By: Richard Sylvester

4.06

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Non-Duality Questions, Non-Duality Answers  is an organic, interactive exploration of non-duality—t… read more

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  • spirituality
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28. HOME : The return to what you already are

By: Clare Dimond

4.36

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome back HOME. (You have never gone away. It just might sometimes feel like you have.) This i… read more

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  • spirituality
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29. There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

By: Andre Doshim Halaw

3.96

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

Nearly every religion, philosophy, and worldview has one belief in common — they all subscribe to t… read more

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30. From Self to Self: Notes and Quotes in Response to Awakening to the Dream

By: Leo Hartong

4.70

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

A compilation of expressions, questions and answers that came about in response to Leo's highly pra… read more

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31. Painting the Sidewalk with Water: Talks and Dialogs about Nonduality

By: Joan Tollifson

5.00

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

These lively talks and dialogs are about seeing through the illusion of separation and waking up to… read more

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8 must-read philosophy books like The Open Secret by Tony Parsons

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What's Wrong with Right Now?

None , "Sailor" Bob Adamson

3.50

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

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Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

Rupert Spira

4.32

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Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

Michael A. Singer

4.45

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Everyday Zen: Love and Work

Charlotte Joko Beck

4.00

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The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

Michael A. Singer

3.38

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The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

Alex Korb

3.98

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All There Is

Tony Parsons

3.77

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