Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening
By: Guo Gu
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Our natural awakening—or buddha-nature—is inherent within all of us and waiting to be realized. Bud…
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1. 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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"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
2. 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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"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
3. 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
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-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
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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5. Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Nguyen Thi Hop , Mobi Ho
4.41
Format: 600 pages, Paperback
Presenting the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha, drawn directly from 24 Pali, Sanskrit, and Chi… read more
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"To be loved means to be recognized as existing."-Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
"Everything depends on everything else. The One contains the many, and the many contains the One"-Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
"You cannot reach lofty heights in art if you do not first discover the unsurpassable beauty in your own heart. If you would like to play the flute truly well, you must find your true self on the Path…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
"He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of …"-Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
6. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
By: Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When Zen Flesh, Zen Boneswas published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire genera… read more
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7. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
8. 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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9. An Introduction to Zen Training
By: Trevor Leggett , None , None , None
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
An Introduction to Zen Trainingis a translation of Sanzen Nyumon,a key text by one of the foremost … read more
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10. The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering
By: Bhikkhu Bodhi
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This book offers a clear, concise account of the Eightfold Path prescribed to uproot and eliminate … read more
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11. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
By: Red Pine , None
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although … read more
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12. Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
By: Brad Warner
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In Sit Down and Shut Up,Brad Warner tackles one of the great works of Zen literature, the Shobogenz… read more
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13. 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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14. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
15. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
By: Nāgārjuna , Jay L. Garfield
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is u… read more
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16. 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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17. 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
18. 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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19. 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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20. The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
By: Jim Harrison
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search fo… read more
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21. 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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"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
22. The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being
By: Brad Warner
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A reader-friendly guide to Zen Buddhist ethics for modern times In the West, Zen Buddhism has a re… read more
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23. Demystifying Awakening: A Buddhist Path of Realization, Embodiment, and Freedom
By: Stephen Snyder
4.63
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
See the potential that is within each of us—the realization and embodiment of our true nature. W… read more
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24. 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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25. Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening
By: Guo Gu
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Our natural awakening—or buddha-nature—is inherent within all of us and waiting to be realized. Bud… read more
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26. The Surangama Sutra - A New Translation with Excerpts from the Commentary by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
By: Hsüan Hua
4.44
Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition
For more a thousand years, the Surangama (Shurangama) Sutra — the "Sutra of the Indestructible” has… read more
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27. My Heart is a Golden Buddha
By: Chong Go "Daehaeng" Sunim, Seon Master
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of inspiration and wisdom, seen through the tales of housewives and kings, monks and b… read more
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28. Trust in Awakening: A Zen Teaching on Accessing the Absolute
By: Stephen Snyder
4.60
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
A unique and fulfilling map to realization and Awakening offered by one of today’s finest spiritual… read more
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29. The Making of American Buddhism
By: Scott A Mitchell
4.00
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figure is… read more
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30. Like Lions Learning to Roar: Dharma talks by Seon Master Daehaeng
By: Daehaeng
4.50
Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition
What if you could see the best in everyone? What if you could see the light in everyone, and not g… read more
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31. Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening and Embodied Realization
By: Meido Moore
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Discover hidden practices, secretly transmitted in authentic Zen lineages, of using body, speech, a… read more
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