Japanese Philosophy

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    • How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness
    • By: Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
    • Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm, January LaVoy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,701 ratings
    • The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous best seller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be....

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    • The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
    • By: Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,736 ratings
    • Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally best-selling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai....

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    • The Japanese Philosophy of Finding Balance and Peace in Everything You Do
    • By: Ken Mogi
    • Narrated by: Susan Momoko Hingley
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Life is ephemeral and ever-changing; in Japan, it's called ukiyo—"floating world." How can we adapt to its fluctuations without being overcome? The answer is nagomi: a philosophy of balance—and the secret to a harmonious life....

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    • A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
    • By: Thomas Cleary
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • With a bright, conversational narrative by Thomas Cleary, this book is indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian culture, martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its people....

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    • The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code....

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    • How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day
    • By: Ken Mogi
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • Ikigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as "your reason to get up in the morning". Ikigai can be small moments: the morning air, a cup of coffee, a compliment. It can also be deep convictions....

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    • The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way
    • By: Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
    • Narrated by: Louis Ozawa Changchien
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Find happiness by living fully in the present with this definitive guide to ichigo ichie - the Japanese art of making the most of every moment - from the best-selling authors of Ikigai....

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    • Patterns of Japanese Culture
    • By: Ruth Benedict
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Essential for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States....

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    • Finding Strength in Imperfection
    • By: Céline Santini
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Japan is an inspiration in the personal growth and development field. Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold. This practical book will help you overcome rough times, heal your deepest wounds, and become whole again....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 266 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • By: Leonard Koren
    • Narrated by: Brian Richy
    • Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Nearly every book with "wabi" or "wabi sabi" in the title is based on the concepts first elucidated in this book....

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    • 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy
    • By: Shunmyo Masuno
    • Narrated by: Louis Ozawa Changchien
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally best-selling guide to simplifying your life by a Japanese monk who embodies the wisdom of Zen....

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    • A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
    • By: Kaiten Nukariya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Techosky
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Zen was uniquely suited to the Samurai of Japan. The high moral principles of Buddhism....

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    • Confessions of a Wayward Monk
    • By: Shozan Jack Haubner, Leonard Cohen
    • Narrated by: Shozan Jack Haubner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didn’t really start out to be one.....

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    • Lessons for Finding Happiness and Living Your Life's Purpose
    • By: Tim Tamashiro
    • Narrated by: Tim Tamashiro
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Ancient, time-tested wisdom: Okinawa, Japan, is a tiny, tiny island south of the Japanese mainland where people live their life's purpose every day. How is it possible for so many to live each day in such meaningful ways? The Okinawan concept of Ikigai....

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