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Live a life of meaning and purpose by following the Eightfold Path and discover true happiness.

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Books by Ryuho Okawa

Ryuho Okawa is World Teacher, Founder and CEO of Happy Science Group (a global utopian movement), and an international best-selling author with a simple goal: to help people find true happiness and create a better world. Okawa’s deep compassion and sense of responsibility for the happiness of everyone has prompted him to publish over 3,000titles of religious, spiritual, and self-development teachings. Okawa's books have been translated in 41languages and sold over 100 million copies worldwide.

Ryuho Okawa

Becoming one with Buddha.

In “The Essence of Buddha,” Ryuho Okawa explains the original teachings of the mind Shakyamuni Buddha taught 2,600 years ago; how to attain inner happiness, wisdom to conquer ego, human perfection, and the path to enlightenment. Okawa imparts the contents of Buddha's enlightenment in simple and accessible language for people in the contemporary era; a way of life that anyone can practice to achieve a lifelong self-growth, compassionate living, and true happiness.

The Story: Gautama Siddhartha’s inner struggle to enlightenment and how he became Shakyamuni Buddha
The Eightfold Path: a daily self-reflection practice guide for character improvement and live in the Middle Way, the righteous path
The Six Paramitas: a guide to spiritual discipline and altruistic living
The Void: a teaching to liberate soul from material constraints as well as a theory to bridge spirituality and physics
The Law of Causality: 'what goes around comes around' - our own fortune or misfortune always has its cause in the past and how it was tended
The Path to Enlightenment: with strong aspiration and tireless spiritual discipline, we can strive for human perfection as well as being compassionate to others


	The Challenge of Enlightenment	The Rebirth of Buddha	The Challenge of the Mind	The Laws of Great Enlightenment	The True Eightfold Path	Rojin, Buddha’s Mystical Power

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Synopsis:	Most authentic, comprehensive Buddhist guidebook.	The ideal way of Buddha’s living disciples in the world today.	Explore the laws of cause and effect, Buddha-Nature, the Middle Way, and more.	Discover how Buddha’s enlightenment, forgiveness and compassion apply in the modern day.	The daily guide to modern practice of the Eightfold Path.	Learn how to develop and use the power of Rojin to refine your soul.
Genre:	Buddhism / Enlightenment	Buddhism / Enlightenment	Buddhism / Enlightenment	Buddhism / Enlightenment	Buddhism / Enlightenment	Buddhism / Enlightenment
Published:	December 15, 2022	August 15, 2022	November 15, 2018	November 7, 2019	March 30, 2021	September 24, 2021