 | Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen by Shunryu Suzuki
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £3.86 A beautiful book about the Soto Zen way. A sparkling dharma gem.
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 | The Compass of Zen (Shambhala Dragon Editions) by Zen Master Seung Sahn
Buy new: £15.39 / Used from: £4.57 Here's a teacher with a true Lion's Roar... Great book on zen from a contemporary master
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 | The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry and Translations, 1952-1998 by Gary Snyder
Buy new: £13.58 / Used from: £15.58 For lovers of poetry, dharma, nature - here's the spiritual arrow-point of the Beats : Great Bodhisattva of the Wild, Gary snyder... A book you'll want to bring to solitary places
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 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by William Blake
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £3.28 Poet, printer, and seer of visions... Blake's poetry will always follow me.
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 | Walden (Norton Critical Editions) by H D Thoreau
Buy used from: £1.77 Hey, it's a classic.
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 | Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy new: £4.66 / Used from: £1.11 Whitman is another classic. And a must.
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 | Essential Ken Wilber: An Introductory Reader by Ken Wilber
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £4.00 Some people love him, some hate him.. Anyone with an interest in spirituality SHOULD read him, though.
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 | Reader by Thomas Merton
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £2.37 Here's an American poet, a Catholic monk, a man you want to get to know...
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 | The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 I stumbled onto this book by chance, searching for Meister Eckhart. But it was a happy coincidence - Eckhart Tolle strikes to the core and offers it outside of any -ism.
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 | Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.92 Maybe last on the list (and the book with the fewest pages..), but definitely not least. Gentle, yet insisting - on the practice of the present moment.
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