The Best Zen Philosophy Books 2024

1. Pre-Owned, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, (Hardcover)

Pre-Owned - This #1 New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing. Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo's clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list). With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house spark joy (and which don't), this international bestseller featuring Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home--and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.

Pre-Owned, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, (Hardcover)

2. Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration--many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality. Zen and the Art of Poker is the first book to apply Zen theories to America's most popular card game, presenting tips that readers can use to enhance their game. Among the more than one hundred rules that comprise this book, readers will learn to: * Make peace with folding* Use inaction as a weapon* Make patience a central pillar of their strategy* Pick their times of confrontationUsing a concise and spare style, in the tradition of Zen practices and rituals, Zen and the Art of Poker traces a parallel track connecting the two disciplines by giving comments and inspirational examples from the ancient Zen masters to the poker masters of today.

Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better Few books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man's search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters. It continues to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life. This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - One of the most books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father and his young son. A story of love and fear--of growth, discovery, and acceptance--that becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions, this uniquely exhilarating modern classic is both touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence . . . and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

5. The Key: And the Name of the Key Is Willingness, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - These insights from many years of Zen meditation practice appeal to a wide range of spiritual traditions and explore topics such as the difference between process and content, notions of right and wrong, ending self-punishment, and taking responsibility for one's experiences. Perfect for beginning Zen students and for those interested in Buddhism in general or eastern religion, it features deep spiritual insights and playful illustrations that add warmth and approachability to the topic.

The Key: And the Name of the Key Is Willingness, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

6. Journey to Center: Lessons in Unifying Body, Mind, and Spirit, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - In this practical guide to the art of centring, the author of the best-selling 'The Magic of Conflict' teaches vital Zen principles and techniques for achieving a more relaxed, energised and integrated approach to every aspect of our lives.

Journey to Center: Lessons in Unifying Body, Mind, and Spirit, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

7. The Zen of Eating, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - When it comes to weight loss, the emphasis today is shifting away from fad diets and compulsive workouts toward sane, sensible techniques that incorporate both the mind and the body. This is the first book to apply the 2,500-year-old principles of Zen Buddhism to the modem struggle with the vicious cycle of dieting, losing, and regaining weight. From a Buddhist perspective, overeating is a disorder of desire. This book will teach readers how to find freedom from eating problems and the tyranny of desire that triggers them. Filled with concrete, practical exercises and the wisdom of the ages, The Zen of Eating provides, at last, an alternative to ineffective diet programs, products, and pills.

The Zen of Eating, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

8. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (Shambhala Pocket Classics), Used [Paperback]

Zen Flesh, Zen Bonesis the best-selling collection of the most popular enlightenment stories, anecdotes, and koans of Zen literature, which introduced a generation of Americans to Zen. Included here are four Zen and pre-Zen classics:101 Zen Stories-anecdotes and enlightenment stories of the great mastersThe Gateless Gate-forty-eight Zen koans to awaken the enlightened mind The10 Bulls,or "Ox-Herding Pictures," depicting the ten stages of awarenessCentering-a four-thousand-year-old Sanskrit text that may well be one of the roots of Zen thought

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, Used [Paperback]

9. A Zen Wave : Basho's Haiku and Zen, Used [Paperback]

A cookbook that lets allergy sufferers?have their cake and eat it too ? Based on a philosophy for health and well-being, this cookbook offers a selection of sensational healthy food for all occasions, whether it's dinner for two, a family meal, or entertaining a large group. All recipes are gluten- and dairy-free, making?them perfect?for people with sensitivities, dieters, those suffering from allergies, or people who just want to look and feel healthier.?Mouthwatering meals-including marinated quail with red cabbage salad, seared tuna with panzanella and caper dressing, Portuguese-style duck rice, and baked pumpkin "gnocchi" with roasted tomatoes and salsa verde-fill each page, and all?recipes offer vegetarian substitutions. Includes dual measures.

A Zen Wave : Basho's Haiku and Zen, Used [Paperback]

10. Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Darlene Cohen discovered the secret to finding happiness in the midst of debilitating pain. She shares her knowledge in her popular workshops and now in this book. Cohen, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for eighteen years, was hobbling painfully to her local Zen center one day, when she made a discovery that changed her life: if she focused on the foot that was in the air rather than the one that was hitting the pavement, her stamina increased enormously. It was the beginning of a completely different approach to the crippling pain that had beset her for so long. As she demonstrates here, this approach can be expanded to all types of pain: physical, psychological, and spiritual.

Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain, Used [Hardcover]