Naked in the Zendo: Stories of Uptight Zen, Wild-Ass Zen, and Enlightenment Wherever You Are
By: Grace Schireson
4.02
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A collection of charming and funny stories on how to turn the awareness we find on the meditation c…
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1. 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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- nonfiction
- zen
"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
2. The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
By: Pico Iyer
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhis… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
By: Daniel Goleman , Eric Swanson , None
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation. But how does it work? A… read more
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- buddhism
- nonfiction
4. 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
- nonfiction
- zen
5. Human Acts
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more
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6. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- nonfiction
7. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Shantaram
By: Gregory David Roberts
3.85
Format: None pages,
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choi… read more
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9. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
10. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
11. Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
By: Charlotte Joko Beck , None
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Dian… read more
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12. Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
By: Natalie Goldberg
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The author of Writing Down the Bonesrecounts her journey awakening from the profound sleep of a sub… read more
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13. Nothing Special
By: Charlotte Joko Beck , None , Steve Smith
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
WHEN NOTHING IS SPECIAL, EVERYTHING CAN BE The best-selling author of 'Everyday Zen' shows how to a… read more
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14. No Self No Problem: Awakening to Our True Nature
By: Anam Thubten
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
No Self, No Problemis about how to realize the ultimate meaning of life in each moment by dissolvin… read more
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15. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
16. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
17. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
By: Timothy Snyder
4.36
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more
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"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
18. Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
By: Mark Galeotti
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h… read more
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19. The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life
By: Mark Epstein
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year's w… read more
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- nonfiction
20. One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
By: Henry Shukman
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
One Blade of Grass tells the story of how meditation practice helped Henry Shukman to recover from … read more
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"I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good ."-Henry Shukman, One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
21. Naked in the Zendo: Stories of Uptight Zen, Wild-Ass Zen, and Enlightenment Wherever You Are
By: Grace Schireson
4.02
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A collection of charming and funny stories on how to turn the awareness we find on the meditation c… read more
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22. Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha: The Life and Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi
By: Tangen Harada
5.00
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
From narrowly surviving World War II through enduring the profound rigors of traditional Zen traini… read more
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