6 Top religion books like On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind by Taizan Maezumi

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On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind

By: Taizan Maezumi

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This updated landmark volume makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were …

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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

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2. The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style

By: Dinty W. Moore

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Accidental Buddhist is the funny, provocative story of how Dinty Moore went looking for the fai… read more

Similar categories in Dinty W. Moore's The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style book and Taizan Maezumi's On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind

  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. 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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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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4. Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.27

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generati… read more

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"Partners,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Trashy people puke,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Tell me everything it explains,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

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5. 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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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki, Huston Smith, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker

6. 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
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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7. 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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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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8. Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her pl… read more

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9. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

By: Robert Wright

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more

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  • buddhism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

10. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… 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. The Thing Around Your Neck

By: None

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

16. A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

By: Stephen Levine

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?,teaches us how to li… read more

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17. That Which You Are Seeking Is Causing You to Seek

By: Cheri Huber , June Shiver

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The teachings of Zen are presented to Westerners in this book, which is comprised of many short sec… read more

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18. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more

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19. 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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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

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21. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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22. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

By: Tarana Burke

4.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder and activist behind the largest movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuri… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can't empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"

-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"

-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

"Never let anyone touch your private parts, they’d say. But I wasn’t told why I had to protect my private parts, just that it was imperative that I did. Because of this, when I thought of my experienc…"

-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

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23. Bewilderment

By: Richard Powers

3.92

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more

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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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24. Wake Up: How to Practice Zen Buddhism

By: Bonnie Myotai Treace

4.23

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn to walk the path of Zen every day.Zen can only be understood through practice. Until you put … read more

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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25. On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind

By: Taizan Maezumi

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This updated landmark volume makes available for the first time in decades the teachings that were … read more

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8 Best philosophy books like On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind by Taizan Maezumi

Transform Your Habits

The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style

Dinty W. Moore

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Stephen Mitchell , None , Seung Sahn

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Dainin Katagiri , Andrea Martin

4.29

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

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Transform Your Habits

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Joe Abercrombie

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

Transform Your Habits

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)

James S.A. Corey

3.81

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