Books by Ethan

Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds

Coming May 21, 2024. In today’s culture of intense polarization and constant change, how do we find the confidence to navigate life’s challenges? Is now really the time for meditation, for looking inward? What do we do with mindfulness? Nichtern, one of the leading meditation teachers of our time, tackles these questions head-on in Confidence. This provocative book takes contemporary considerations of power, identity, ethics, and confidence to new heights, offering readers an essential guide to self-discovery. Pre-order via Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.

Click Here to get an early PDF of the book and a free guided audio meditation when you pre-order!

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The Dharma of the Princess Bride

Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of “The Princess Bride” teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective.

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The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path

Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?

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One City: A Declaration of Interdependence

A 21st Century Book on Buddhism, Life, and Our Completely Interconnected World

What you wear. What you say. What you think/ignore/buy/don’t buy… Welcome to One City-Population: Everyone-where EVERYTHING you do matters. You’ve lived here your whole life, whether you know it or not.

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Your Emoticons Won’t Save You

Ethan’s first book; a short novel with poetry.

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The Dharma of the Princess Bride

Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of “The Princess Bride” teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective.

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One City: A Declaration of Interdependence

A 21st Century Book on Buddhism, Life, and Our Completely Interconnected World

What you wear. What you say. What you think/ignore/buy/don’t buy… Welcome to One City-Population: Everyone-where EVERYTHING you do matters. You’ve lived here your whole life, whether you know it or not.

Emoticons (1).png

Your Emoticons Won’t Save You

Ethan’s first book; a short novel with poetry.