11 must-read spirituality books like Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal

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Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra

By: Dakpo Tashi Namgyal

4.66

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A Buddhist Classic A practical manual for both teacher and student alike, Clarifying the Natural St…

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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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"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

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2. 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

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3. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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4. Essentials of Mahamudra: Looking Directly at the Mind

By: Khenchen Thrangu

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

What would you see if you looked directly at your mind? The Tibetan Buddhist teachings on mahamudra… read more

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5. Awakening The Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy

By: Tenzin Wangyal

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awakening the Luminous Mindis the third book of guided meditation practices in a series by the accl… read more

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6. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

By: Douglas E. Harding

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instanta… read more

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7. Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book

By: None

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

* Author posits that enlightenment is an attainable goal* Argues that meditation is a method for ex… read more

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8. Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more

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9. 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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10. Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

By: Anthony de Mello , J. Francis Stroud

3.94

Format: 450 pages,

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11. Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism

By: Matthieu Ricard , None , Helen Tworkov

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Advice and encouragement from a leading spiritual teacher and popular author on how to approach the… read more

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12. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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13. 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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14. Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

By: Chögyam Trungpa

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to aw… read more

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15. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

By: Michael A. Singer

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can y… 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. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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18. 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

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19. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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20. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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21. In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

By: Yongey Mingyur

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan… read more

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"Actually, everything is in-between."

-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

"No separate me loved the world. The world was love. My perfect home. Vast and intimate. Every particle was alive with love, fluid, flowing, without barriers."

-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

"To approach the finality of our bodies while paying no attention to the mini-deaths of daily life is like confusing diamonds with pebbles and throwing them away."

-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

"It [mind of absolute reality] is everywhere and nowhere. It’s somewhat like sky—so completely integrated with our existence that we never stop to question its reality or to recognize its qualities."

-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

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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

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23. Awake: It's Your Turn

By: Angelo DiLullo

4.62

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

You can wake up from the dream of separation. If you know what that means, then you’re in luck, thi… read more

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24. 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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25. 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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26. The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom

By: Willa Baker

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A highly practical and approachable guide to somatic meditation with easy practices for accessing t… read more

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"All the tension and darkness of our embodied life is held in a scaffolding of balance and symmetry, a natural order that is hard to see, like the ocean’s turbulence is held by its depths."

-Willa Baker, The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom

"If meditation is doing its job, space opens within. In the space opened by practice, every memory and trauma will revisit us, every fear will surface. Our shadow will come out to play. This is not a …"

-Willa Baker, The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom

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27. The Magic of Vajrayana

By: Ken McLeod

4.63

Format: None pages, None

"A moving description of a life in practice which goes far beyond text-based ideas of prayer, devot… read more

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Cover of Crystal Clear: Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators by Khenchen Thrangu

28. Crystal Clear: Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators

By: Khenchen Thrangu

4.68

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Crystal Clear, by the learned and realized Tibetan Master Thrangu Rinpoche, is a companion volume t… read more

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29. Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra

By: Dakpo Tashi Namgyal

4.66

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A Buddhist Classic A practical manual for both teacher and student alike, Clarifying the Natural St… read more

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30. Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World

By: Tsoknyi Rinpoche

4.66

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Fearless Simplicity is about training in the awakened state of mind, the atmosphere within which al… read more

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"The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's lo…"

-Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World

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31. Nejang: Tibetan Self-Healing Yoga

By: Nida Chenagtsang

4.76

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Nejang (Tibetan གནས་སྦྱངས་) is a gentle healing yoga practice consisting of twenty four simple phys… read more

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13 Best buddhism books like Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal

Transform Your Habits

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Chögyam Trungpa

4.22

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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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Essentials of Mahamudra: Looking Directly at the Mind

Khenchen Thrangu

3.88

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In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

Yongey Mingyur

4.30

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Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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4.21

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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