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Reading list

Introductory level books
Thich Nhat Hanh - Old path white clouds, Heart of Buddha's teachings, The miracle of mindfulness, Living Buddha living Christ, Peace is Every Step, Touching the Earth
Pema Chodron - The Places that Scare You, The Wisdom of No Escape, When Things Fall Apart, Start where you are
Christoper Titmus - The mindfulness manual
Martine Batchelor -  The Spirit of the Buddha
Charlotte Joko Beck - Everyday Zen, Nothing Special: Living Zen
Ajahn Chah - Food for the Heart (collected teachings)
Will Johnson - The Posture of Meditation
Jack Kornfield - The Path with Heart (and many other books)
Barry Magid - Ending the Pursuit of Happiness
Bhikkhu Nanamoli - The Life of the Buddha
Toni Packer - The Wonder of Presence
Reginald Ray - Touching Enlightenment (finding realisation in the body)
Larry Rosenberg - Breath by Breath
Shunryu Suzuki -  Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Glen Wallis - The Basic Teachings of the Buddha
Joanna Macy - Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy, World as Self, World as Lover, Thinking Like a Mountain
Jason Siff - Seeking Nibbana in Sri Lanka, Thoughts Are Not the Ennemy, Unlearning Meditation.


Books for the more established reader
Stephen Batchelor - Buddhism without Beliefs, Living with the Devil, Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, After Buddhism, The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture.
Rodney Smith - Stepping out of self-deception, Awakening.
Jack Kornfield - Living Buddhist masters
Loch Kelly - Shift into freedom
Bikkhu Nanamoli - The middle length discourses of the Buddha
Peter Fenner - Radiant mind
Ron Burbea - Seeing that Frees: Meditations on emptiness and dependent arising.
David L McMahan - The making of Buddhist modernism


Non Buddhist Books
Leonard Jacobson - Journey into now
A.H. Almaas - The unfolding now
Eckard Tolle - The power of now, A new earth


Websites
US website with talks www.dharmaseed.org
Worldwide website www.buddhanet.net
Recollective Awareness Website: www.skillfulmeditation.org

Lotus Library - free Buddhist eBooks: www.lotuslibrary.com
Sydney Insight Meditators acknowledges the Gadigal, Dharug and Dharawal peoples, the traditional custodians of the lands on which SIM is located. We acknowledge their ongoing connection to the land, water, sky, and animals. We pay our respects to the Elders, past, present, and emerging.
  • Home
  • Events Calendar
  • Newsletter
  • About us
    • Constitution
    • Membership
    • Committee
    • Our History
  • Groups
    • Illawarra
    • Inner West
    • Newcastle
    • North Sydney
    • Northern Beaches
    • Still Water Insight (NSW+Online)
    • Online - Sky Sangha
    • Southern Highlands
    • Southern Highlands Inquiring Minds
  • Teachers
  • Resources
    • Inner Rhythm of Being Recording 2025
    • Martine Batchelor Workshop Recording
    • Secular Dharma Recording
    • Guided Meditations
    • Reading list
    • Deepening Into Stillness Recording
    • Audio files >
      • Stephen Batchelor, Sydney 2014
      • Winton Higgins, Four frontiers for Secular Buddhists 2014
      • Other audio links
    • Retreat Reflections >
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 25
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 23
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 22
      • NY Reflections 21/22
      • NY Reflections 19/20
      • DIS Reflections 2017
      • NY Retreat 2016
    • Teachers Reflections >
      • Winton Higgins. January 2018
      • Jonathan Page. May 2018
      • Gawaine Powell Davies. November 2017
      • Jill Shepherd. October 2017
  • Contact Us
  • Retreats
    • DIS 2026
    • New Year 2025
    • High Country Retreat
    • Inner Rhythm of Being 2026