Practicing the Jhanas: Traditional Concentration Meditation as Presented by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayada w
By: Stephen Snyder
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Two experienced American meditators explain the stages and techniques of concentration meditation, …
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1. Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
By: Jack Kornfield , Joseph Goldstein , Amy Schmidt , Sharon Salzberg
4.45
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This biography of one of the few women in her generation to devote herself entirely to the pursuit … read more
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2. The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
By: Cynthia Bourgeault
4.12
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the fir… read more
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"A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
"It's not about right belief; it's about right practice."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
"To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
"As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
3. The Essential Ginsberg
By: Allen Ginsberg
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem “Howl,” this remarkable volume showcases a selectio… read more
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4. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook
By: Jack Kornfield , Ajahn Brahm
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Discover how meditation can be a way to radically encounter bliss and to begin—and sustain—real tra… read more
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5. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
By: Steven Pinker
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
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6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
7. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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8. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II
By: None , Leon Trotsky , Thomas P. Whitney , Georgi Plekhanov
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is a question if any work of literature in our era other than The Divine Comedyis commensurate w… read more
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9. The Science of Enlightenment: Teachings and Meditations for Awakening Through Self-Investigation
By: Shinzen Young
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Audio CD
What is enlightenment? Is it a myth or is it real? On The Science of Enlightenment, you will learn … read more
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10. The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering
By: Bhikkhu Bodhi
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This book offers a clear, concise account of the Eightfold Path prescribed to uproot and eliminate … read more
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11. The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
By: Adyashanti
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Audio CD
For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know w… read more
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12. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
13. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
14. Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
By: Adyashanti
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
The story of Jesus has not waned in its power to change lives. Yet today, even though the majority … read more
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15. The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen
By: Namkhai Norbu
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In The Crystal and the Way of Light, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu examines the spiritual path from the vie… read more
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16. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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17. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
18. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
19. Consorting with Spirits: Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies
By: Jason Miller
4.29
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Spirits have power and knowledge. Learn how to summon, communicate, and negotiate with the unseen. … read more
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20. Why I Am Not a Buddhist
By: Evan Thompson
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world’s most w… read more
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21. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.80
Format: 1500 pages, Hardcover
Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? A… read more
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"On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"To Heraclitus it was the logos; to Lao Tzu the tao; to Confucius lǐ; in Hinduism Brahman, and to the Vedic tradition Ṛta; in Zen ri; o Arabic peoples, since pre-Islamic times, Allah; to Hebrews YHWH.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Wittgenstein wrote: 'To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.' And he continued: 'To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end o…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
22. Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
By: Andrew Holecek
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Lucid dreaming―waking up and becoming fully conscious in your dreams―has intrigued legions of those… read more
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"Just like we don't take responsibility for how we actualize our confusion and its resulting view of duality, we don't take responsibility for actualizing wisdom and its view of nonduality."-Andrew Holecek, Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
23. Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas
By: Leigh Brasington
4.38
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus ass… read more
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24. Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
By: Rob Burbea
4.65
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
In this ground-breaking and seminal work, esteemed Buddhist teacher Rob Burbea lays out an original… read more
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25. Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
By: Henepola Gunaratana
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of Mindfulness in Plain English invites us to explore the joyful benefits of… read more
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"One who sincerely seeks inner peace and happiness sees the power of loving friendliness."-Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
"Loving friendliness motivates you to behave kindly to all beings at all times and to speak gently in their presence and their absence"-Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
"We should practice metta in all these activities. Anger, resentment or disappointment can arise at any time over the course of the day. We risk perpetuating our confused way of relating to others if …"-Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
"We'll find that practicing metta changes our behavior at every level. Of course we can only do our own personal practice of metta, just as other people must do their own practice. And when we do so o…"-Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
26. Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
By: Christopher D. Wallis
4.54
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Tantric philosopher and Oxford scholar Christopher Wallis calls out the seemingly helpful spiritual… read more
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27. Practicing the Jhanas: Traditional Concentration Meditation as Presented by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayada w
By: Stephen Snyder
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Two experienced American meditators explain the stages and techniques of concentration meditation, … read more
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28. Jhāna Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience
By: Paul Dennison
4.67
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jhāna meditation and how it can transform our understa… read more
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29. Somatic Descent: How to Unlock the Deepest Wisdom of the Body
By: Reginald A. Ray
4.44
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A powerful meditation practice for connecting with your body's innate, guiding wisdom . Have you e… read more
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30. Dependent Origination - Dukkha (Suffering): The 12 Links of Dependent Origination
By: Delson Armstrong
5.00
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
The purpose of this book is to help the earnest seeker to understand the concept of, and the links … read more
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