The Light That Shines through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life
By: Dainin Katagiri
4.53
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
A Zen Buddhist perspective on the universal flow of cosmic energy and how to incorporate that energ…
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1. Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Edward Espe Brown , Zen Center San Francisco
4.31
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Practising the true spirit of Zen. Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is frame… read more
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"When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves."-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
"To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then natur…"-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
"Usually when you practice zazen, you become very idealistic, and you set up an ideal or goal which you strive to attain and fulfill. But as I have often said, this is absurd. When you are idealistic,…"-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
"If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acqu…"-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
2. Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
By: Norman Fischer
4.48
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A prominent Zen teacher offers a “direct, penetrating, and powerful” perspective on a popular mind … read more
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"Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care."-Norman Fischer, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
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. 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
5. The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza
By: Taigen Dan Leighton , John Daido Loori
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
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6. 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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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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8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
9. 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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10. The Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy
By: Ajahn Brahm , Ajahn Brahmavamso
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Whether mere bumps in the road or genuine crises, we live in a world of unwanted events that no wil… read more
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11. 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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12. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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13. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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14. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
By: Philip B. Yampolsky , Hui-Neng , None
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The "Platform Sutra" records the teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, who is revered as one … read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
18. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
19. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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20. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
21. Termination Shock
By: Neal Stephenson
3.83
Format: 708 pages, Hardcover
A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more
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22. Orwell's Roses
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more
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"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
23. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more
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24. Unprotected: A Memoir
By: Billy Porter
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Billy Porter, the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, Unprotected is a powerful … read more
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"Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the mater, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first wa…"-Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir
"Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the master, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first w…"-Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir
25. 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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26. Discovering the True Self: Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation
By: Kodo Sawaki
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“You can’t see your true Self. [But] you can become it. Becoming your true Self is zazen.” Profound… read more
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27. 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
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28. Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa
By: Kobun Chino Otogawa
4.08
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
Kobun Chino Otogawa was an instrumental figure in the transmission of Zen to America and it's evolu… read more
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"Life has to be freed and lived, instead of being known."-Kobun Chino Otogawa, Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa
"You can say that before the Absolute all are equal, but there are not two, but one person, who is you."-Kobun Chino Otogawa, Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa
"I have roots in Japan, so I go back to contemplate where my root is, and I find there are many gods in Japan. And it finally settled down to the belief that they all originated from one God. ... From…"-Kobun Chino Otogawa, Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa
29. The Light That Shines through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life
By: Dainin Katagiri
4.53
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
A Zen Buddhist perspective on the universal flow of cosmic energy and how to incorporate that energ… read more
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30. TO YOU: Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki
By: Reiho Jesse Haasch
4.81
Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition
Kodo Sawaki Roshi [1880–1965] was commonly referred to as “Homeless Kodo” due to his nomadic lifest… read more
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31. Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A Translation of the Eihei Shingi (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies)
By: Dōgen
4.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Presents a complete, annotated translation of Dogen's writing on Zen monasticism and the spirit of … read more
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