The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
By: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel , None
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. Practicing Peace in Times of War
By: Pema Chödrön , Sandy Boucher
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
With war and violence flaring all over the world, many of us are left feeling vulnerable and utter… read more
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"When we’re putting up the barriers and the sense of “me"-Pema Chödrön, Practicing Peace in Times of War
"If there are whole parts of yourself that you are always running from, that you even feel justified in running from, then you’re going to run from anything that brings you into contact with your feel…"-Pema Chödrön, Practicing Peace in Times of War
"But the Buddhist teachings also say that this is not really what causes us misery in our lives. What causes misery is always try-ing to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain an…"-Pema Chödrön, Practicing Peace in Times of War
2. Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Edward Espe Brown , Zen Center San Francisco
4.31
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Practising the true spirit of Zen. Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is frame… read more
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"When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves."-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
"To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then natur…"-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
"Usually when you practice zazen, you become very idealistic, and you set up an ideal or goal which you strive to attain and fulfill. But as I have often said, this is absurd. When you are idealistic,…"-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
"If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acqu…"-Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
3. Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
By: Angel Kyodo Williams , Lama Rod Owens , Jasmine Syedullah
4.38
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- spirituality
"I do the things that I do because I know that I can die at any second. I experience great suffering when I forget my impermanence. My teachers have taught me to love myself, and that has cause me to …"-Angel Kyodo Williams, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
4. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
5. Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path
By: Ayya Khema , Zoketsu Norman Fischer
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In this lucid classic, beloved teacher Ayya Khema introduces the reader to the essence of the Buddh… read more
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- zen
6. 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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"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
7. The Novice: A Story of True Love
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
3.00
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Fans of Thich Nhat Hanh's Peace is Every Stepand Anger, and Deepak Chopra's Buddha,will appreciate … read more
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- buddhism
- spirituality
8. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more
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- zen
9. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
By: Shunryu Suzuki , None , Mel Weitsman , Michæl Wenger
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mindwas published in 1972, it was enthusiastically… read more
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- buddhism
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- zen
10. Bloodchild
By: Octavia E. Butler
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more
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11. You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Sherab Chödzin Kohn
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the es… read more
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- buddhism
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12. The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
By: Pema Chödrön
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves and we can only e… read more
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13. You Have to Say Something
By: Dainin Katagiri
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dainin Katagiri was a central figure in the transmisison of Zen in America. Selections of his talks… read more
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14. The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
By: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel , None
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, co… read more
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- zen
- gender
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- social justice
15. The Three Pillars of Zen
By: Philip Kapleau
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Phil… read more
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16. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.32
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering an… read more
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"Everything is in your own heart."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"The greatest miracle is to be alive."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"The greatest gift we can offer anyone is our true presence."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
17. 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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18. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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19. The Four Noble Truths
By: Ajahn Sumedho
4.36
Format: 94 pages, ebook
A small booklet of edited talks given by Ajahn Sumedho on the central teaching of the Buddha: that … read more
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20. The Issue at Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice
By: Gil Fronsdal
3.93
Format: 245 pages,
Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice. An inspiring and very accessible compilation of essays and… read more
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21. Flamer
By: Mike Curato
4.32
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more
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22. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
23. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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24. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
25. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. Upright Women Wanted
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more
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"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
27. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)
By: Lewis Hancox
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more
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28. Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.38
Format: 320 pages, ebook
In this masterful work, one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today shares his wis… read more
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"Sometimes even if we think we want to be heard, we're not always ready for it."-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
"We can make the most of the Earth and benefit from its beauty, but in such a way that we respect the Earth, just as a bee respects the flower."-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
"You trust that you contain the whole cosmos; you are made of stars. And that is why you respect yourself and offer reverence to yourself. And, when you look at another person, you see that they are a…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
"This is the attitude of bodhisattvas: to practice meditation not only for yourself, but for the world, to relieve the suffering. And, when others suffer less, you suffer less. When you suffer less, t…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
29. Across a Field of Starlight
By: Blue Delliquanti
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic sci-fi graphic novel romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another thr… read more
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30. Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
By: Lama Rod Owens
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberatio… read more
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"The body tells the truth regardless of if we speak its language or not. ... Often my practice has focused on trying to meet my body where it is, instead of constantly trying to get it to meet me wher…"-Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
31. Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
By: Cheryl A. Giles
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, … read more
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