7 Top zen books like The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice by Meido Moore

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The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice

By: Meido Moore

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The first accessible beginner's guide to Rinzai Zen practice.The recognition of the true nature of …

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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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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Buddha is not divine. Buddha is your daily life."

-Dainin Katagiri, Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life (Shambhala Dragon Editions)

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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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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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3. 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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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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4. 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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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • zen
"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

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5. Everyday Zen: Love and Work

By: Charlotte Joko Beck

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Zen guide to the problems of daily living, love, relationships, work, fear and suffering. Combini… read more

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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6. The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

By: Michael A. Singer

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes this thought-provokin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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7. Hara: The Vital Center of Man

By: Karlfried Graf Dürckheim , Sylvia-Monica Von Kospoth , Estelle R. Healey

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The classic text on balance, inner calm, and the cultivation of tranquillity using the age-old tech… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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8. 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
  • zen
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

9. 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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10. 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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11. How to Meditate with Pema Chodron: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

By: Pema Chödrön

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Audio CD

***How to Meditate Has Been Named One of Library Journal s Best Books of 2013*** Pema Chodron is tr… read more

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12. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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13. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

By: C.G. Jung , None

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the world's leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a … read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

By: Kristin Neff

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more sel… read more

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18. Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca , Robin Campbell

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more

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19. The Book of Tea

By: Kakuzō Okakura

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add gra… read more

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20. Zen in the Art of Archery

By: R.F.C. Hull , None , Eugen Herrigel , Φοίβος Ι. Πιομπίνος

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Pro… read more

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21. 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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22. Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

By: Philip Glass , Thubten Yeshe , Jonathan Landaw

3.50

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This introduction recognizes and explains how to channel the powerful energies aroused by human des… read more

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23. Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

By: James Clavell

4.41

Format: 1152 pages, Paperback

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e… read more

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"I can't use hope against swords."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now ."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Horses are far worse than men for treachery..."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

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24. Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas

By: Leigh Brasington

4.38

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus ass… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • spirituality
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25. The Essence of Chan: A Guide to Life and Practice according to the Teachings of Bodhidharma

By: Guo Gu

4.45

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago, an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrive… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
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26. Reality (New 2020 Edition)

By: Peter Kingsley

4.27

Format: 600 pages, Paperback

Reality introduces us to the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies right at the roots of weste… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"[G]radually, skillfully, [Parmenides] conjures up the image of us humans as stuck at this place where the road divides—unable to decide between the two paths, incapable even of seeing what the choice…"

-Peter Kingsley, Reality (New 2020 Edition)

"Perhaps the simplest way of describing the situation would be to say that, two and a half thousand years ago in the West, we were given a gift — and in our childishness we threw away the instructions…"

-Peter Kingsley, Reality (New 2020 Edition)

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27. 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
  • religion
  • zen
  • spirituality
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28. The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice

By: Meido Moore

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The first accessible beginner's guide to Rinzai Zen practice.The recognition of the true nature of … read more

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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29. The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom

By: Willa Baker

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A highly practical and approachable guide to somatic meditation with easy practices for accessing t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"All the tension and darkness of our embodied life is held in a scaffolding of balance and symmetry, a natural order that is hard to see, like the ocean’s turbulence is held by its depths."

-Willa Baker, The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom

"If meditation is doing its job, space opens within. In the space opened by practice, every memory and trauma will revisit us, every fear will surface. Our shadow will come out to play. This is not a …"

-Willa Baker, The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom

Cover of Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan by Alex Kerr

30. Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan

By: Alex Kerr

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Forty years ago, after learning of the Heart Sutra in Japan, Alex Kerr set out on a quest to seek t… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • religion
"Gyo(行) You practice; you reach a new level; and then you practice again."

-Alex Kerr, Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan

"Gyo 行 ('practice' and also 'to practice') is what monks undergo in their training inside the temple; it's an ordeal, a trial to be mastered. And it never ends. You practice; you reach a new level; an…"

-Alex Kerr, Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan

"Sunyata, in contrast to rupa, is the realm of pure spirituality, hovering beyond everything material. It's quiet, pure, empty. It's the nothingness that seems to be at the core of subatomic particles…"

-Alex Kerr, Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan

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31. More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age

By: Antonia Macaro

3.68

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Modern readers tend to think of Buddhism as spending time alone meditating, searching for serenity.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9 Best religion books like The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice by Meido Moore

Transform Your Habits

Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life (Shambhala Dragon Editions)

Dainin Katagiri , None , None

4.21

Transform Your Habits

What the Buddha Taught

Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Everyday Zen: Love and Work

Charlotte Joko Beck

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity

Soko Morinaga , Belenda Attaway Yamakawa

3.75

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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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