15 Top nonfiction books like Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck

Cover of Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck

Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

By: Charlotte Joko Beck

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Fresh and never-before published talks on the crux of Buddhist practice and how to uncover wonder i…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chödrön

1. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

By: Pema Chödrön

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

In this book Pema Chodron shows us how to break free of destructive patterns in our lives and exper… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chödrön's Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki, Huston Smith, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker

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

Similar categories in Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • buddhism
  • zen
  • 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

Cover of No Death, No Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh, None

3. No Death, No Fear

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , None

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

With hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been cont… read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's No Death, No Fear book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness by Sylvia Boorstein

4. It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

By: Sylvia Boorstein

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teach… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Boorstein's It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Stephen Mitchell, Byron Katie

5. Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

By: Stephen Mitchell , Byron Katie

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and "The Work… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Mitchell's Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Emptiness Dancing by Adyashanti

6. Emptiness Dancing

By: Adyashanti

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something about you brighter than the sun and more mysterious than the night sky. Who are … read more

Similar categories in Adyashanti's Emptiness Dancing book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

7. Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation

By: John Daido Loori

3.14

Format: 54 pages,

Through Zen meditation it is possible to find stillness of mind, even amidst our everyday activitie… read more

Similar categories in John Daido Loori's Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

8. Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice

By: Shohaku Okumura , Thomas Wright , Kosho Uchiyama , None

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Shohaku Okumura's Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

9. Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics

By: Nitobe Inazō

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Code of the warrior. The traditional japanese text as written by Dr. Inazo Nitobe in 1904 edite… read more

Similar categories in Nitobe Inazō's Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

10. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

By: Pema Chödrön , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chödrön's Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

11. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

By: Matsuo Bashō , None

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his atte… read more

Similar categories in Matsuo Bashō's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

Cover of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book by Dan   Harris

12. Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

By: Dan Harris

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play … read more

Similar categories in Dan Harris's Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Forget mindfulness. You just have to be a gorgeous lazy slacker."

-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

"I have a friend, a fellow meditator, who jokes that when he considers the voice in his head, he feels like he's been kidnapped by the most boring person alive, who says the same baloney over and over…"

-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

Cover of Un jeudi saveur chocolat by Michiko Aoyama

13. Un jeudi saveur chocolat

By: Michiko Aoyama

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Une habituée d'un petit café sur les bords de la rivière Meguro est surnommée gentiment Mme Cacao p… read more

Similar categories in Michiko Aoyama's Un jeudi saveur chocolat book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

Cover of How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron

14. 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

Similar categories in Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir by Henry Shukman

15. One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir

By: Henry Shukman

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

One Blade of Grass tells the story of how meditation practice helped Henry Shukman to recover from … read more

Similar categories in Henry Shukman's One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good ."

-Henry Shukman, One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir

Cover of Nagori : La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter by Ryoko Sekiguchi

16. Nagori : La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter

By: Ryoko Sekiguchi

3.78

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Nagori, littéralement « reste des vagues », qui signifie en japonais la nostalgie de la séparation,… read more

Similar categories in Ryoko Sekiguchi's Nagori : La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • nonfiction
Cover of Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chödrön

17. Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World

By: Pema Chödrön

4.36

Format: 187 pages, Hardcover

In her first new book of spiritual teachings in many years, Pema Chödrön offers new wisdom, heartfe… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chödrön's Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"When we stop seeking the familiarity of samsara, when we stop fighting the groundlessness of freedom from imputed meaning, emptiness becomes an experience of awe, of the infinite, of limitless pace."

-Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World

"Status quo is not very helpful for spiritual growth, for using this short interval between birth and death. On the other hand, expanding our ability to feel comfortable in our own skin and in the wor…"

-Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World

Cover of Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck

18. Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

By: Charlotte Joko Beck

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Fresh and never-before published talks on the crux of Buddhist practice and how to uncover wonder i… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Zen Is Right Now: More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

19. Zen Is Right Now: More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginners Mind

By: Shunryu Suzuki

3.98

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Spirituality & Practice “Best Books of 2021” Award Winner In this new collection of quotes from Sh… read more

Similar categories in Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Is Right Now: More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginners Mind book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It by Christof Koch

20. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

By: Christof Koch

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness d… read more

Similar categories in Christof Koch's Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices and Rituals to Remember Who You Are by Tracee Stanley

21. The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices and Rituals to Remember Who You Are

By: Tracee Stanley

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A guide to self-remembrance with practices, meditations, and self-inquiry questions inspired by yog… read more

Similar categories in Tracee Stanley's The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices and Rituals to Remember Who You Are book and Charlotte Joko Beck's Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

13 must-read philosophy books like Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck

Transform Your Habits

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

Pema Chödrön

3.86

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

No Death, No Fear

Thich Nhat Hanh , None

3.87

Transform Your Habits

It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

Sylvia Boorstein

3.84

View all the books

9 best-selling philosophy books like Zen Is Right Now: More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Transform Your Habits

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

Pema Chödrön

3.86

Transform Your Habits

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

Dainin Katagiri , Andrea Martin

4.29

Transform Your Habits

It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

Sylvia Boorstein

3.84

Transform Your Habits

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

Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps

3.63

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.