Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin
By: Hakuin Ekaku
4.06
Format: 177 pages, Hardcover
Hakuin Zenji (1689-1769) is a towering figure in Japanese Zen. A fiery and dynamic teacher and reno…
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
By: Lucien Stryk , Ikkyu , Stephen Berg
4.35
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An eccentric classic of Zen poetry When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster… read more
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"I'd love to give you something but what would help?"-Lucien Stryk, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
"we're lost where the mind can't find us utterly lost"-Lucien Stryk, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
"clouds very high look not one word helped them get up there"-Lucien Stryk, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
"born born everything is always born thinking about it try not to"-Lucien Stryk, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
3. Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
By: Ryōkan , Kazuaki Tanahashi
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But un… read more
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"When a great house is about to crumble, a stick cannot keep it from falling."-Ryōkan, Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
4. Zen Words for the Heart: Hakuin's Commentary on the Heart Sutra
By: Norman Waddell
4.10
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Hakuin Zenji (1689-1769) was one of the most important of all Japanese Zen masters. His commentary … read more
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5. A Separate Reality
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.05
Format: 240 pages,
"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only… read more
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6. 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
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-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
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
7. Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
By: None , Chodo Cross
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
This translation, supported by the Japan Foundation, makes a strong claim to be the definitive tran… read more
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8. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
9. Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths
By: Stephen B. Oates
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
"There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history." --New… read more
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10. The Essential Rumi
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks… read more
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11. To Live
By: Michael Berry , Yu Hua
4.34
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese … read more
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"It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life."-Michael Berry, To Live
12. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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13. 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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14. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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15. Siddhartha
By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more
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16. Memories, Dreams, Reflections
By: C.G. Jung , Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Aniela Jaffé
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his li… read more
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17. Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei
By: Thomas Cleary
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
TheBlue Cliff Record is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dor… read more
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18. Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
By: Daniel Goleman , Richard Davidson
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do fo… read more
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19. The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
By: John Blofeld , None , None
4.47
Format: 907 pages, Paperback
This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang … read more
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20. Moon In a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
By: Dōgen , Norman Fischer , Edward G. Brown , Arnold Kotler , Kazuaki Tanahashi , Philip Whalen , Robert Aitken , None , Dan Welch , Mel Weitsman , None , None , None , None , None
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder o… read more
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21. The Marrow of Tradition
By: Charles W. Chesnutt
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addresse… read more
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22. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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23. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
24. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
25. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
26. Be Here Now
By: Ram Dass
4.33
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more
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"Be here now."-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"Be here, now!"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
27. Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Buddhist Master Hongzhi
By: Yi Wu Hongzhi
4.54
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("j… read more
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28. Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 3)
By: Gudo Wafu Nishijima
4.61
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
This translation, supported by the Japan Foundation, makes a strong claim to be the definitive tran… read more
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29. Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin
By: Hakuin Ekaku
4.06
Format: 177 pages, Hardcover
Hakuin Zenji (1689-1769) is a towering figure in Japanese Zen. A fiery and dynamic teacher and reno… read more
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30. The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi
By: Línjì Yìxuán
4.29
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Among the most important texts of Zen literature, the "Lin-Chi lu" details the insights and exploit… read more
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31. TO YOU: Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki
By: Reiho Jesse Haasch
4.81
Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition
Kodo Sawaki Roshi [1880–1965] was commonly referred to as “Homeless Kodo” due to his nomadic lifest… read more
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