Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice (Shambhala Classics)
By: Taizan Maezumi
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A collection of short, inspiring teachings on Zen koans, the Buddha, and more—from a leader in intr…
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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
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"Buddha is not divine. Buddha is your daily life."-Dainin Katagiri, Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life (Shambhala Dragon Editions)
2. The Art Of Living
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.43
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Master the art of living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders. Thich Nhat Hanh… read more
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"I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life)."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
"Whether this moment is happy or not depends on you. It`s you who makes the moment happy, not the moment that makes you happy. With mindfulness, concentration, and insight, any moment can become a hap…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
"Breathing in, I see all my ancestors in me: my mineral ancestors, plant ancestors, mammal ancestors, and human ancestors. My ancestors are always present, alive in every cell of my body, and I play a…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
"I see that this body—made of the four elements—is not really me, and I am not limited by this body. I am the whole of the river of life, of blood ancestors and spiritual ancestors, that has been cont…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
3. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
By: Chögyam Trungpa
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the comm… read more
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"Eventually we must give up trying to be something special."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
"Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
5. Mindfulness in Plain English
By: Henepola Gunaratana
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
With his distinctive clarity and wit, "Bhante G" takes us step by step through the myths, realities… read more
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6. Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Awakening of the Heartis a comprehensive, single volume collection of the Buddha's key sutras, tran… read more
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7. 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
8. 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
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9. The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Larry Dossey , Rachel Neumann
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In order to understand why people pray, The Energy of Prayerexamines the applications and effective… read more
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10. It Came from Beyond Zen!: More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master -- Vol. 2 of a Radical But Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
By: Brad Warner
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
In Japan in 1253, one of the great thinkers of his time died -- and the world barely noticed. That … read more
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11. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
By: Pema Chödrön
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compa… read more
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12. When Bad Things Happen to Good People
By: Harold S. Kushner
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he woul… read more
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13. Bankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei
By: None , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The eccentric Bankei has long been an underground hero in the world of Zen. At a time when Zen was … read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
17. More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.54
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate … read more
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"Only nothing is true."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"Past and future are myths: stories in the mind."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"The very foundations of truth are inherently subjective."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
"It is your head that is in your mind, not your mind in your head."-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
18. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
19. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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20. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
By: Duncan Ryūken Williams
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking history tells the little-known story of how, in one of our country’s darkest ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
21. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
22. How to Be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.37
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more
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"Racist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"I use “anticapitalist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
23. Sabrina & Corina
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths … read more
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"Age has nothing to do with sadness."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"And that is our story of everything."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"That poor girl. How the world just ate her up."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
24. Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans
By: Joan Sutherland
4.41
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Nautilus Book Award Winner An intimate spiritual and literary journey exploring how Zen koans make… read more
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- nonfiction
- zen
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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- buddhism
- nonfiction
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- zen
26. 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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- spirituality
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27. Vasubandhu's "Three Natures": A Practitioner's Guide for Liberation
By: Ben Connelly
4.56
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
A plain-English commentary on Vasubandhu's classic Treatise on the Three Natures that shows us an i… read more
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- buddhism
28. Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice (Shambhala Classics)
By: Taizan Maezumi
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A collection of short, inspiring teachings on Zen koans, the Buddha, and more—from a leader in intr… read more
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- nonfiction
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29. The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin: A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu (Shambhala Classics)
By: Hakuin Ekaku
4.17
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A fiery and intensely dynamic Zen teacher and artist, Hakuin (1685–1768) is credited with almost si… read more
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30. Integral Buddhism And the Future of Spirituality
By: Ken Wilber
3.82
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
What might the Buddhism of the future look like? With all that we have learned in the modern and po… read more
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31. Faith in Mind: A Commentary on Seng Ts'an's Classic
By: Sheng Yen
4.48
Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition
The Supreme Way is not difficultIf only you do not pick and choose.Neither love nor hate,And you wi… read more
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