Selected Books

Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, is an excellent primer on Vipassana meditation.

* Denotes Recommended for beginners.

Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, (1993)
Gavin Harrison, In the Lap of the Buddha, (1994)
Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart -- A Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, (1993)
Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think, (1995)
Jon Kabat-Zinn,Wherever You Go There You Are -- Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, (1994)
Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness -- The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, (1995)
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Long Road Turns to Joy -- A Guide to Walking Meditation, (1996)
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness, (1975)
Wes Nisker, Buddha Nature -- Evolution as a Practical Guide to Enlightenment, (1998)

Joan Halifax, Standing at the Edge (2018)
Ruth King, Mindful of Race (2018)
Rhonda Magee, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness (2019)
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmothers Hands (2017)
Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage (2020)
Larry Ward, America's Racial Kharma (2020)
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah, PhD, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (2016)

Thanissaro Bhikkhu, The Wings to Awakening, (1996)
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance -- Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, (2003)
Achaan Chah, A Still Forest Pool, (1985)
Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, (1987)
Joseph Goldstein, One Dharma -- The Emerging Western Buddhism, (2002)
Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, (2016)
Bhanta Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English, (1991)
Bhanta Gunaratana, Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English, (2012)
Ayya Khema, Being Nobody Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path, (1987)
Ayya Khema, Who Is My Self?: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation, (1997)
Jack Kornfield, Living Dharma : Teachings of Twelve Buddhist Masters, (1996)
Jack Kornfield (ed.), Teachings of the Buddha, (1996)
Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry -- How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path, (2000)
Sharon Salzberg, A Heart as Wide as the World -- Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness, (1999)
Sharon Salzberg, Faith, (2002)
Amy Schmidt, Knee Deep in Grace -- The Extraordinary Life and Teachings of Dipa Ma(2003)
Nyanaponika Thera, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation – A Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, (1965)
Larry Yang, Awakening Together (2017)

Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen, (1989)
Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen, (1993)
Robert E. Buswell, Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen, ( 1991)
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, (1970)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home -- Jesus and Buddha as Brothers, (1999)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha Living Christ, (1995)
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Being Black, (2000)
Bernie Glassman, Bearing Witness (1999)

Dalai Lama, A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night -- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, (1994)
Dalai Lama, The Good Heart -- Buddhist Perspectives on the Teachings of Jesus, (1996)
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness -- A Handbook for Living, (1998)
Dalai Lama, Essence of the Heart Sutra -- The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings, (2002)
Pema Chodron, Start Where You Are -- A Guide to Compassionate Living, (1994)
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart -- Heart Advice for Difficult Times, (1997)
Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You -- A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, (2001)
Matthieu Ricard, Journey to Enlightenment -- The Life and World of Khyentse Rinpoche, Spiritual Teacher from Tibet, (1997)
Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within -- Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World, (1997)
Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Fearless Simplicity -- The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World, (2003)
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Rainbow Painting, (1995)

Lex Hixon, Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions, (1978)
Stephen Levine, A Gradual Awakening, (1979)
Stephen Levine, Healing Into Life and Death, (1987)
Stephen Levine, A Year to Live -- How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last, ( 1997)
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That (1973)

David Bohm and F. David Peat, Science, Order, and Creativity, Second Edition, ( 2000)
David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, (1981)
Joanna Macy, Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General System Theory -- The Dharma of Natural Systems, (1991)
Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, The Tree of Knowledge - The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, (1987)
Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan, The Quantum and the Lotus – Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet, (2001)
Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind -- Cognitive Science and Human Experience, (1991)
B. Alan Wallace, Choosing Reality, (1996)
Renee Weber, Dialogues with Scientists and Sages -- The Search for Unity, (1986)
Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life -- A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, (1996)
Fritjof Capra and David Steindl-Rast, Belonging to the Universe -- Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality, (1992)

Matty Weingast, First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns (2020)

Nonfiction

Fiction

Susan Carol Stone
The Kosambi Intrigue; A Tale in the Time of the Buddha (2012)
The Jealous Heart: A Hundred Hues of Green in the Time of the Buddha (2016)
The Yes Sayers: Affirmation in the Time of the Buddha (2018)

Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, (1997)
Stephen Batchelor, The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture, (1994)