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Eastern Books
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Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,923 ratings — published -350
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.94 — 591,389 ratings — published -500
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.78 — 249,428 ratings — published 1974
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.21 — 51,022 ratings — published 1970
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.09 — 906,200 ratings — published 1922
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,947 ratings — published -400
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.94 — 64,492 ratings — published 1645
The Upanishads (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,098 ratings — published -500
The Dhammapada (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.27 — 31,854 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,670 ratings — published -475
The I Ching or Book of Changes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,041 ratings — published -850
The Way of Zen (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,962 ratings — published
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.01 — 133,006 ratings — published 1982
Tao: The Watercourse Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,882 ratings — published 1975
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,120 ratings — published 1716
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,579 ratings — published 1966
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,399 ratings — published 1906
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,714 ratings — published 1975
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.15 — 536,001 ratings — published 2018
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,223 ratings — published 1000
Monkey: The Journey to the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,417 ratings — published 1592
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.80 — 280,421 ratings — published 2005
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,719 ratings — published 1350
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.33 — 111,871 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.93 — 280,175 ratings — published 1948
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.11 — 569,624 ratings — published 2002
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,798,159 ratings — published 2007
The Way of the Bodhisattva (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,016 ratings — published 700
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.33 — 22,075 ratings — published 1998
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,136,994 ratings — published 1997
The Book of Chuang Tzu (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,417 ratings — published -350
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.98 — 761,398 ratings — published 1987
Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,907 ratings — published -350
Mindfulness in Plain English (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,278 ratings — published 1992
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,582,943 ratings — published 2003
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,056 ratings — published 1975
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.03 — 45,926 ratings — published 1914
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.65 — 756,055 ratings — published 2015
Dream of the Red Chamber (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,930 ratings — published 1791
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.42 — 103,256 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.17 — 127,267 ratings — published 1998
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.95 — 347,072 ratings — published 2009
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.02 — 136,982 ratings — published 2020
Tales from the Cafe (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.95 — 145,372 ratings — published 2017
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.01 — 113,815 ratings — published 2021
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.16 — 83,663 ratings — published 2005
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.66 — 401,536 ratings — published 2016
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.34 — 675,552 ratings — published 2017
The Rig Veda (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,762 ratings — published -1000
The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eastern)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,007 ratings — published 2004
“The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.
So long as man clamors for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.
The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but is seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.”
―
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.
So long as man clamors for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.
The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but is seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.”
―
“Easterners get excited if the train arrives on time. Westerners deem such an event implicit. What for some represents a trivial circumstance, is for others a festival.”
― Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections
― Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections
