Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha: The Life and Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi
By: Tangen Harada
4.54
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From narrowly surviving World War II through enduring the profound rigors of traditional Zen traini…
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1. A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more
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"Maketa,"-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Live. For Now. For the time being."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"True freedom comes from being unknown."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
2. Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
By: Dainin Katagiri , Andrea Martin
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It's easy to regard time as a commodity--we even speak of "saving" or "spending" it. We often regar… read more
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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
"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
4. The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto
By: Norman Waddell , Baisao
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Poet, Zen Buddhist priest, renowned thinker, and seller of tea -- Baisao was all of these things, a… read more
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5. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more
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"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
6. Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: the Zen journal & letters of Maura "Soshin" O'Halloran
By: Maura O'Halloran , None , Dai-En Bennage , Elizabeth O'Halloran
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
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7. 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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9. 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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10. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
By: Eckhart Tolle
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, "The Power o… read more
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11. Buddhism Plain and Simple
By: Steve Hagen
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book offers a clear, straightforward approach to Buddhism in general and awareness in particul… read more
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12. A Year in Japan
By: Kate T. Williamson
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films… read more
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13. Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
By: None
3.82
Format: None pages,
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14. 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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15. Breakfast with Buddha
By: Roland Merullo
3.67
Format: 499 pages,
The only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end---for you never know w… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. Taking the Path of Zen
By: Robert Aitken
4.40
Format: 304 pages,
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both … read more
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19. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
20. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
21. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
22. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
23. Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion
By: Koshin Paley Ellison
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Though we are seemingly more connected to our world than ever before, many of us cannot ignore a na… read more
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24. The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World
By: Barbara O'Brien
4.28
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A comprehensive, accessible guide to the fascinating history of Zen Buddhism--including important f… read more
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25. Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude
By: Meredith McKinney
4.37
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyō, whose aesthetics of nature, love, a… read more
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26. My Picture Diary
By: Maki Fujiwara
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
The wife of Japan’s most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry. … read more
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27. Saigyo
By: Saigyō
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are alm… read more
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28. Three Japanese Buddhist Monks (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Saigyō
3.81
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the b… read more
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29. Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"
By: Shunryu Suzuki
4.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Shunryu Suzuki's extraordinary gift for conveying traditional Zen teachings using ordinary language… read more
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"A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"
30. Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha: The Life and Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi
By: Tangen Harada
4.54
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From narrowly surviving World War II through enduring the profound rigors of traditional Zen traini… read more
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31. Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
By: Matthieu Ricard
4.43
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of renowned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard and his extraordinary journey toward inner fr… read more
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"Meditating on a mandala is not an imaginary stroll through an enchanting paradise; it is a deep dive into the very nature of our own mind and the world of phenomena. All forms are perceived as the ma…"-Matthieu Ricard, Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
