Books
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Books for living with curiosity — centered, warm, clear, playful, and awake to the world
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CENTERED
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Books about grounding, presence, inner balance, and coming home to yourself.
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Sixty-Four of You — The I Ching Mirror
A fresh way of reading the I Ching, discovering its ancient patterns as mirrors for the ordinary changes, choices, and seasons of everyday life. |
When Cupid Calls – An Anthropology of the Heart
A warm, thoughtful guide to the myths, rituals, language, and everyday mysteries of human love. |
Dangerous Questions – A Journal for Living More Deeply
A journal for asking better questions, listening inwardly, and meeting your life with more honesty, courage, and attention. |
Holy Cow, I’m in a Body
An affectionate guide to the strange experience of having a body—and learning to meet yourself through curiosity, humor, and embodiment. |
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WARM
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Books about love, kindness, relationship, compassion, and the human heart.
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EMOJISA field guide to the small symbols that have transformed human language. From faces and gestures to food, animals, and objects, emojis carry emotion, tone, humor, identity, and social meaning across cultures, creating a new visual language for the digital world.
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NOSES-Same & DifferentA field guide to the ordinary feature at the center of every face. Through anatomy, family resemblance, beauty, language, prejudice, breath, and belonging, NOSES reveals how people can be unmistakably different while sharing the same basic human form.
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A Field Guide to the MarketA field guide to one of civilization's most familiar places, where shopping carts, checkout lines, bananas, and bargain bins tell the larger story of human life.
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Every word, gesture, and symbol carries a little piece of culture.
CLEAR
Books about seeing clearly, understanding ourselves, and meeting life with awareness.
Welcoming Silence & Gravity
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These books begin with lived experience rather than doctrine. They explore stillness, friendship, aging, practice, and the quiet forces that shape a human life. Their invitation is simple: become present enough to feel the depth of what is already here.
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The Stillpoint
A quiet guide to returning to yourself through silence, gravity, and the simple practice of coming home to your own life. The Stillpoint offers a grounded place to rest beneath activity, confusion, and the constant pressure to become someone else.
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Buddha in Blue Jean Series
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These books bring Zen into contemporary daily life. Written in plain language, they offer brief teachings, prayers, reflections, and practices for meeting happiness, difficulty, change, and death with greater honesty, tenderness, and awareness.
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Buddha in Blue JeansA short and accessible guide to sitting quietly and being fully human. With warmth and simplicity, it brings timeless Zen wisdom into walking, waiting, listening, working, and the ordinary moments that make up a life.
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Zen Prayers for
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Relax, You’re Going to DieA warm and direct invitation to stop fighting the inevitable and begin living more fully. Blending humor, wisdom, and gentle reflection, the book explores mortality as a doorway to gratitude, freedom, kindness, and a more intimate relationship with life.
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Secrets of True HappinessA playful and practical exploration of happiness without promises, formulas, or grand spiritual claims. Through brief teachings and simple observations, the book points toward the everyday habits of attention, humor, gratitude, and kindness that allow happiness to appear.
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A One Hour Short
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The Sacred Image Series
These books approach major Buddhist teachings through poetry, reflection, and contemporary imagination. They do not replace the traditional texts; they open additional doors into them, helping ancient images and insights speak to modern readers.
The Zen Wheel of Life MandalaA poetic journey through the traditional Buddhist Wheel of Life and its vision of suffering, habit, change, and awakening. The book turns an ancient mandala into a living mirror for recognizing the forces that keep human beings circling—and the openings that lead toward freedom.
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The Bare Bones Dhammapada: Big Mind Big Love
The Dhammapada is one of Buddhism’s oldest and most beloved texts: 423 teachings attributed to the Buddha on awakening, integrity, love, kindness, and the wise conduct of a human life. In Tai Sheridan’s sparse contemplative style, these ancient truths are distilled into clear, spacious language for modern readers seeking a direct and living path.
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Celestial Music: Sutras of EmptinessA collection of spacious contemplative poems inspired by the Buddhist teaching of emptiness. Quiet, musical, and luminous, these sutras invite the reader beyond fixed ideas of self and world into the living mystery of interdependence, change, and boundless presence.
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The Buddhacarita:
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AT PLAY IN THE WORLD
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Books about humor, food, culture, creativity, and the pleasures of everyday life.
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It Must Be Tuesday
A plainspoken book about creativity, freedom, and what Tai Sheridan learned from artist and teacher Douglas Walton. These stories explore trust, mistakes, unfinished work, and the courage to stop forcing everything into shape—and begin seeing what is actually there. |
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THE FOOD BOOKS
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A curious tour through the foods people make, share, fear, crave, argue about, and occasionally regret. Each book begins with something edible and follows it into culture, history, language, ingenuity, and laughter.
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THAT’S NOT A BAGELThe World’s Doughy Delights
A bagel is only the beginning. This lively journey explores the many breads people roll, twist, flatten, boil, bake, fill, and claim as their own. Along the way, dough reveals migration, tradition, ingenuity, appetite, and belonging. |
DESSERTS THAT CAN KILLSweet Risks from Around the World
Dessert looks innocent until somebody adds poison, fire, raw eggs, hidden pits, dangerous plants, or enough sugar to stop a charging elephant. This darkly playful tour explores sweet foods whose pleasures sometimes arrive with a warning. |
ANIMAL CRACKERSAnts, Grubs, Frogs, and Other Wild Snacks
People eat far more creatures than most supermarket shoppers ever encounter. From insects and frogs to unexpected delicacies, this book explores the animals people roast, fry, skewer, season, and serve around the world. |
CURIOUS EXPLORATIONS
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Books that wander into history, symbols, objects, ideas, and the strange richness of being human.
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A Field Guide to Underground Dwelling
People have long made homes beneath the ground—in caves, dugouts, tunnels, and carved rooms. This field guide looks at underground shelter as protection, adaptation, imagination, and culture, revealing our enduring ability to create a life wherever the earth allows.
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Tied Up in Knots
A field guide to one of humanity’s oldest inventions, revealing how knots have shaped work, travel, trade, rescue, memory, ceremony, and everyday life. Simple loops of rope become evidence of ingenuity, patience, skill, and the many ways people hold things together.
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The Potty: A Field Guide to Toilet Seat
A close look at one of the most ordinary objects in human life. Toilet seats reveal surprising stories about privacy, comfort, design, embarrassment, manners, and bodily necessity—showing how even the humblest object can open a door into culture.
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