18 Best buddhism books like Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji by Shinshu Roberts

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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…

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1. The Art Of Living

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.43

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Master the art of living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders. Thich Nhat Hanh… read more

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life)."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

"Whether this moment is happy or not depends on you. It`s you who makes the moment happy, not the moment that makes you happy. With mindfulness, concentration, and insight, any moment can become a hap…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

"Breathing in, I see all my ancestors in me: my mineral ancestors, plant ancestors, mammal ancestors, and human ancestors. My ancestors are always present, alive in every cell of my body, and I play a…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

"I see that this body—made of the four elements—is not really me, and I am not limited by this body. I am the whole of the river of life, of blood ancestors and spiritual ancestors, that has been cont…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

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2. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

By: Stephen Mitchell , None , Seung Sahn

3.97

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

“Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows … read more

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  • zen
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke about Bodhidharma. After the talk, someone asked him "What's the difference betwee…"

-Stephen Mitchell, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

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3. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

By: Pema Chödrön

4.28

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemp… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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4. Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

By: Dainin Katagiri , Andrea Martin

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It's easy to regard time as a commodity--we even speak of "saving" or "spending" it. We often regar… read more

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. 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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  • zen
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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6. The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

By: Taigen Dan Leighton , John Daido Loori

2.90

Format: 96 pages,

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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7. Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity

By: Soko Morinaga , Belenda Attaway Yamakawa

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Everybody loves Novice to Master! As you'll see in the glowing endorsements and reviews included be… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • zen
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8. Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

By: Alan W. Watts , Mark Watts

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mark Watts compiled this book from his father's extensive journals and audiotapes of famous lecture… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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9. You Have to Say Something

By: Dainin Katagiri

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dainin Katagiri was a central figure in the transmisison of Zen in America. Selections of his talks… read more

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

10. Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheuswere "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up an… read more

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11. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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12. Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master

By: Brad Warner

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Paperback

A Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye "Even if the whole u… read more

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13. Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

By: Ben Connelly

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Paperback

A practical guide to Vasubandhu's classic work "Thirty Verses of Consciousness Only" that can trans… read more

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14. The Tao of Pooh

By: Benjamin Hoff , Ernest H. Shepard

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Wisdom of Pooh. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
"I think, therefore I am... confused."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world"

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

15. Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

By: Brad Warner

4.33

Format: None pages,

Hardcore Zenis not your typical "Zen" book. Brad Warner, the young punk who grew up to be a Zen mas… 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 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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18. 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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19. The Man Who Couldn't Stop

By: David Adam

5.00

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traf… read more

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20. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self

By: Jay L. Garfield

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a … read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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22. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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23. 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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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • zen
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24. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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25. That Is Not Your Mind!: Zen Reflections on the Surangama Sutra

By: Robert Rosenbaum

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Viewed through the lens of psychology and neuroscience, a classic Zen sutra becomes a springboard f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • zen
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26. The Essential W.S. Merwin

By: W.S. Merwin

4.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

“Merwin is one of the great poets of our age.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Merwin has become … read more

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"Please one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off"

-W.S. Merwin, The Essential W.S. Merwin

"Testimone Voglio raccontare di com'erano le foreste Dovrò parlare in una lingua dimenticata p#109"

-W.S. Merwin, The Essential W.S. Merwin

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27. 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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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • asia
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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28. China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen

By: David Hinton

4.13

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by ren… read more

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  • buddhism
  • spirituality
  • zen
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29. The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"

By: Shohaku Okumura

4.72

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

An indispensible map of a classic Zen text. “Mountains and waters are the expression of old buddha… read more

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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • zen
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30. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist

By: Hee-Jin Kim

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Japanese branch of the Soto Zen Buddhist school, is considered one … read more

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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • zen
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31. Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

By: Bret W. Davis

4.38

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This book offers an in-depth introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism. Bret Davi… read more

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" Don't flee from boredom. Go all the way into it; go all the way through the bottom of boredom! "

-Bret W. Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

"The question is not whether but how Buddhism will change as it enters further into Western societies."

-Bret W. Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

"To properly set out on the path to Zen, we must empty our cups—in other words, we need to open our minds."

-Bret W. Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

"Zen meditation is meant to bring an end to the delusory and destructive ego, not to serve it as a means for achieving its ends."

-Bret W. Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

18 must-read philosophy books like Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji by Shinshu Roberts

Transform Your Habits

The Art Of Living

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Stephen Mitchell , None , Seung Sahn

3.97

Transform Your Habits

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Pema Chödrön

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Dainin Katagiri , Andrea Martin

4.29

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13 must-read philosophy books like China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen by David Hinton

Transform Your Habits

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

Thich Nhat Hanh , Peter Levitt

4.42

Transform Your Habits

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

Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps

3.63

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