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Doubt & Faith: A Zen Meditation

By James Ford — 2021

I follow a way of doubt. I follow a way of energy, sometimes even a way of wrath. But, in the last analysis I’ve found this way is one of putting down my opinions and opening up my heart. After all the struggling, finally, finally, this way is actually one of opening my hand and my eyes and seeing the grace of this world.

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Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism

The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l’histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugène Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism—and Indian Buddhism in particular—for the next hundred years.

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Eugène Burnouf, Katia Buffetrille (translator), Donald S. Lopez Jr. (translator)
2010
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What Makes You Not a Buddhist

So you think you're a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies.

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Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
2008
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Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology

The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigate the workings of the mind and the states of human consciousness. In this book, Chögyam Trungpa shows how an examination of the formation of the ego provides us with an opportunity to develop real intelligence.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2001
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The Seven Storey Mountain

The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks.

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Thomas Merton
1999
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Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women (20th Anniversary Edition)

Tapping the Power Within offers a powerful path to self-empowerment through the revitalization of one’s spiritual and ancestral roots. Written with Iyanla’s signature healing stories, this classic guide teaches that only you have the power to make a change for the better.

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Iyanla Vanzant
2018
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The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication

This reference explores Qabbalah, Sibyls, Fairies, Poltergeists; phenomena such as intuition and karma; objects useful in the attempt to cross the divide, including tarot cards, flower reading, and runes; and related practices such as Shamanism, transfiguration, meditation, and mesmerism.

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Raymond Buckland
2005
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Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent

Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker, Martin Buber.

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Paul Mendes-Flohr
2019
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How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America

This new updated edition of How the Swans Came to the Lake includes much new information about recent events in Buddhist groups in America and discusses such issues as spiritual authority, the role of women, and social action.

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Rick Fields
1992
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Awakening: Conversations with the Masters

With more than two million books sold and countless admirers throughout the world, Anthony de Mello is regarded as one of the most influential religious teachers of the past fifty years. Since his death in 1987, widespread recognition of his work’s enduring value has continued to grow.

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Anthony de Mello
2003
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Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance

Why do so many women of faith have such a strong aversion to feminism? And why do so many feminists have an ardent mistrust of religion? These questions are at the heart of Helen LaKelly Hunt's illuminating look at the alliance between spiritual conviction and social action.

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Helen LaKelly Hunt
2004
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