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Walking Buddha's Path    by Derek Joe Tennant
You set the price! 54460 words. Published on January 14, 2009. .

Derek is in Thailand to finalize a divorce. His wife tricks him, sending him to jail. Trying to call for help, he’s beaten severely. These spiritual teachings are useful to any who follow them. Walking Buddha’s Path is an introduction to a way of being that permeates everyday life and fills it with spiritual energy & delight. The virtues taught and demonstrated help all who utilize them.
Answer Your Love Letters: Footnotes to a Zen Practice    by Adam Fisher
Price: $9.99 USD. 48150 words. Published on May 9, 2010. .

"Answer Your Love Letters" is a series of short reflections and observations by an author who has spent 40 years practicing Zen Buddhism. The book offers no cookie-cutter answers to the serious and intimate questions any reader might have. "Answer Your Love Letters" is, in its way, simply a love letter that the reader may choose to answer.
A View from a Height    by J. E. Murphy
Price: $7.99 USD. 242690 words. Published on February 2, 2011. .

A tale of karma, reincarnation and redemption, here is a love story. But not the usual kind of love story; this is about the kind of love that can send the world spinning in new directions without the world even knowing it was done. A discovered manuscript tells of a life that bridges the spirit world and the physical world, and of the young woman who attempts to repair the rift between them.
The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva    by David Tuffley
Price: $2.99 USD. 7600 words. Published by Altiora Publications  on March 24, 2011. .

Tokme Zangpo's classic 14th Century guide for travellers on the path to enlightenment. A companion to Santideva’s classic work the Bodhicaryavatara. While there are English translations of this text, they are a little difficult to understand for many readers living in the 21st Century. The mode of expression and the figures of speech are the product of that far-off time. T
The Yoga of Offering Food    by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Price: $0.99 USD. 7320 words. Published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive on July 15, 2011. .

All the things we do -- eating, walking, washing, working, talking -- everything can become very powerful methods for quickly achieving enlightenment. Through the Mahayana practice of offering the food we eat which is based on the Hinayana and adorned with the Vajrayana our lives become most beneficial, not only for ourselves but for all sentient beings.
Lucky Now and Zen    by Melissa Yuan
Price: $5.99 USD. 44170 words. Published by Olo Books on September 18, 2011. .

Luke Gallagher rules the world as the luckiest guy on the planet. Well, not literally. But he gets the grades, the girls, and the goals ever since he rubbed the belly of the Laughing Buddha statue in Chinatown. His luck drops in the crapper on the first day of university. Now Luke's got to shovel his way out and maybe, just maybe, find true love...plus a little Zen Buddhism and real magic.
Lives of the Saints    by James David Audlin
Price: $10.00 USD. 46040 words. Published on December 2, 2011. .

I think the time has come to embalm these stories and commit them to the museum of the written word. I beg you, though, to bear in mind that these stories are meant not at all to be read silently. Try reading them aloud, especially before a good campfire, and see if the mummies do not escape their wrappings and walk about in the firelight, as strange and beautiful as when first they came to me.
Bodhisattva Attitude: How to Dedicate Your Life to Others    by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Price: $0.99 USD. 68300 words. Published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive on March 12, 2012. .

This book is drawn from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s essential teachings given from 2008 onward. It is the first volume in LYWA’s Heart Advice Series. The topic of ‘Bodhisattva Attitude’ is how to develop bodhicitta by practicing it throughout the day, from start to finish.
37 Practices of a Bodhisattva: The Way of an Awakening Being    by Brian Robertson
Price: Free! 2220 words. Published on December 7, 2012. .

Description: A Tibetan Buddhist classic by Thogme Zangpo, 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva is given a lovingly expanded and updated translation and commentary by Brian Robertson. For beginners to longtime students the book is a practical manual and contains such famous lines such as: "All suffering comes from wanting only your own happiness. Perfect awakening is born from wanting to benefit others."
The Prince and the Singularity - A Circular Tale    by Pedro Barrento
Price: $2.99 USD. 44670 words. Published on January 19, 2013. .

This is the story of the Prince aka the Master aka Francis, who is more or less immortal and goes through the millennia fighting Desire and Rejection, the roots of all unhappiness and evil. He always fails until the moment he loses interest and decides to die, which he doesn't. Instead he gets promoted.