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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
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  • Home
  • Events Calendar
  • About us
    • Membership
    • About us, AGM & Constitution
    • Committee
    • Our History
    • Newsletter
  • Groups
    • Blue Mountains
    • Bondi Junction
    • Illawarra
    • Inner West
    • Newcastle
    • North Sydney
    • Northern Beaches
    • Northern Beaches (Narrabeen)
    • Southern Highlands
  • Teachers
  • Resources
    • 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 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