12 best-selling philosophy books like The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh

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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…

"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

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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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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  • buddhism
  • eastern philosophy
  • zen
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"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. What the Buddha Taught

By: Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more

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  • buddhism
  • zen
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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  • self help
"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

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3. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

By: Pema Chödrön

4.28

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemp… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."

-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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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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  • buddhism
  • eastern philosophy
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"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

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5. Mindfulness in Plain English

By: Henepola Gunaratana

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

With his distinctive clarity and wit, "Bhante G" takes us step by step through the myths, realities… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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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
  • eastern philosophy
  • zen
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"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. 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
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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8. Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

By: Surya Das

3.66

Format: None pages,

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help

9. The Dhammapada

By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… 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 Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Padmakara Translation Group , Śāntideva

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is … read more

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12. In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Bhikkhu Bodhi

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

The works of the Buddha can feel vast, and it is sometimes difficult for even longtime students to … read more

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13. 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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  • buddhism
  • eastern philosophy
  • zen
  • theology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"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

14. Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

By: Brad Warner

4.33

Format: None pages,

Hardcore Zenis not your typical "Zen" book. Brad Warner, the young punk who grew up to be a Zen mas… read more

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15. The Way of Zen

By: Alan W. Watts

4.17

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more

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  • eastern philosophy
  • zen
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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  • self help
"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

16. The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

By: Jack Kornfield

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshak… read more

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17. No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva

By: Pema Chödrön , None

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Over the years, Pema Chodron's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing… read more

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18. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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19. The Art of Happiness

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Howard C. Cutler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else aroun… read more

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20. Be Here Now

By: Ram Dass

4.33

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more

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"Be here now."

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"Be here, now!"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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21. An Introduction to Buddhism (Core Teachings of Dalai Lama)

By: Dalai Lama XIV

3.78

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The "Core Teachings of the Dalai Lama" series begins with this small book of teachings by His Holin… read more

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Chögyam Trungpa

4.22

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What the Buddha Taught

Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

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Pema Chödrön

4.28

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Robert Wright

3.64

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Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook

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4.25

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4.22

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

4.30

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Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

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