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…
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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 One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
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"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
3. 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
4. The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Peter Levitt
4.42
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. In The Heart of Understanding, Thich Nhat Hanh offers a lucid… read more
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"If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
"If you don't understand and you love, that is not love; it is something else."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
"In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
"Views, knowledge, and even wisdom are solid, and can block the way of understanding."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
5. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
By: Chögyam Trungpa
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the comm… read more
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"Eventually we must give up trying to be something special."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
6. 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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"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
7. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
8. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
By: Sarah Schulman
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated … read more
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9. 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
"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
10. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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11. Living Buddha, Living Christ
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa." -- Thich Nhat Hanh … read more
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12. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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. The Heart Sutra
By: Red Pine
3.43
Format: 331 pages,
The short text of The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-… read more
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15. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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16. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more
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17. 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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18. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.32
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering an… read more
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"Everything is in your own heart."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"The greatest miracle is to be alive."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"The greatest gift we can offer anyone is our true presence."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
19. 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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20. 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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21. The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
4.71
Format: None pages,
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more
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22. The Way of Zen
By: Alan W. Watts
4.17
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more
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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
23. 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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24. A Guide to Zen: Lessons from a Modern Master
By: Marc Allen , None
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This book takes the formidable 100,000-word classic Zen Training by the great master Katsuki Sekida… read more
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25. 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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26. 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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27. The Heart of Shiva : A Story of Rebirth, Enlightenment and Creation (The Guardians of the Lore Book 2)
By: Dipa Sanatani
5.00
Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition
Between worlds—beyond the boundaries of life and death—a mysterious chorus of voices whisper. Tara,… read more
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"Awaken, O Tara, from this world where nothing is as it seems and where the truth is hidden in plain sight."-Dipa Sanatani, The Heart of Shiva : A Story of Rebirth, Enlightenment and Creation (The Guardians of the Lore Book 2)
"In life, we did not know each other But in Death, we are finally One. For death does not discriminate In his eyes, we are all equals."-Dipa Sanatani, The Heart of Shiva : A Story of Rebirth, Enlightenment and Creation (The Guardians of the Lore Book 2)
28. 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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29. The Prophetess of Dharma : Long Lost Journeys of Divine Justice, Healing and Peace (The Guardians of the Lore Book 3)
By: Dipa Sanatani
5.00
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
The past, a restless spirit, pleads as it waits for buried truths to come out into the light. The w… read more
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"Time, like a relentless tide, eroded even the most profound truths."-Dipa Sanatani, The Prophetess of Dharma : Long Lost Journeys of Divine Justice, Healing and Peace (The Guardians of the Lore Book 3)
"The chaotic nature of war creates a new reality in its wake, but the outcome can be vastly different depending on who prevails after the conflict."-Dipa Sanatani, The Prophetess of Dharma : Long Lost Journeys of Divine Justice, Healing and Peace (The Guardians of the Lore Book 3)
30. 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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31. Buddha Takes No Prisoners: A Meditator's Survival Guide
By: Patrick Ophuls
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This insightful, easy-to-read handbook offers a non-traditional perspective on meditation. Written … read more
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