9 must-read nonfiction books like Dependent Origination and Emptiness by Leigh Brasington

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Dependent Origination and Emptiness

By: Leigh Brasington

4.48

Format: 228 pages, ebook

Dependent Origination is the most important teaching that the Buddha uses to explain what dukkha (s…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dependent Origination and Emptiness by Leigh Brasington , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula, None

1. What the Buddha Taught

By: Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • buddhism
"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

Cover of The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science by None, Matthew Immergut, None, None, Culadasa (John Charles Yates), John Charles Yates

2. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

By: None , Matthew Immergut , None , None , Culadasa (John Charles Yates) , John Charles Yates

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive… read more

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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction

3. The Science of Enlightenment: Teachings and Meditations for Awakening Through Self-Investigation

By: Shinzen Young

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Audio CD

What is enlightenment? Is it a myth or is it real? On The Science of Enlightenment, you will learn … read more

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4. Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity

By: Shaila Catherine

3.91

Format: 241 pages,

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5. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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6. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

7. Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book

By: None

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

* Author posits that enlightenment is an attainable goal* Argues that meditation is a method for ex… read more

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8. Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha's Teachings on Voidness

By: Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

"In this remarkable book, Ajahn Buddhadasa teaches us beautifully, profoundly, and simply the meani… read more

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9. A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

By: Jack Kornfield

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A guide to reconciling Buddhist spirituality with the American way of life addresses the challenges… read more

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10. March

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.23

Format: None pages,

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. From the author of the acclaimed YEAR OF WONDERS, an… read more

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11. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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12. The Art of Solitude

By: Stephen Batchelor

3.63

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • buddhism
"The world is here to surprise us. My most lasting insights have occurred off the [meditation] cushion, not on it."

-Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude

"That is why it is not enough to remove oneself from people, not enough to go somewhere else. We have to remove ourselves from the habits of the populace that are within us. We have to isolate our own…"

-Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude

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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
Cover of Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising by Rob Burbea

14. Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising

By: Rob Burbea

4.65

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

In this ground-breaking and seminal work, esteemed Buddhist teacher Rob Burbea lays out an original… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • buddhism
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15. Dependent Origination and Emptiness

By: Leigh Brasington

4.48

Format: 228 pages, ebook

Dependent Origination is the most important teaching that the Buddha uses to explain what dukkha (s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • buddhism
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16. Practical Insight Meditation

By: Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw

4.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

1972 edition presents an " in depth examination of the Satipatthana mindfulness meditation, its bas… read more

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  • philosophy
  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
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17. The Buddha before Buddhism: Wisdom from the Early Teachings

By: Gil Fronsdal

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This easy-to-understand translation of one of the earliest surviving Buddhist texts offers a pathwa… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • buddhism
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18. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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19. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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20. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more

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"...What did you say?"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

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21. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.28

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more

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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

9 must-read philosophy books like Dependent Origination and Emptiness by Leigh Brasington

Transform Your Habits

What the Buddha Taught

Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

None , Matthew Immergut , None , None , Culadasa (John Charles Yates) , John Charles Yates

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Solitude

Stephen Batchelor

3.63

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10 Best audiobook books like The Art of Solitude by Stephen Batchelor

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

Pádraig Ó Tuama

4.53

Transform Your Habits

How We Live Is How We Die

Pema Chodron

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

James Bridle

4.17

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