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Meditation & Other Contemplative Practices

The Best Guide to Meditation

Victor N. Davich
The Best Guide to Meditation
Renaissance Books

Sailing Home

Norman Fischer
Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
Free Press

Insight Meditation

Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom
Shambhala Publications

The Experience of Insight

Joseph Goldstein
The Experience of Insight:
A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation

Shambhala Publications

Christian Zen

William Johnston
Christian Zen
Fordham University Press

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go, There you are:
Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Hyperion

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein
Seeking the Heart of Wisdom:
The Path of Insight Meditation

Shambhala Publications

The 8 gates of Zen

John Daido Loori
The Eight Gates of Zen:
A Program of Zen Training

Shambhala Publications

Awakening Through Love

John Makransky
Awakening Through Love:
Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness

Wisdom Publications

In the Spirit of Happiness

The Monks of New Skete
In the Spirit of Happiness
Back Bay Books

The Miracle of Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness:
A Manual on Meditation

Beacon Press

Zen Mind Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Weatherhill

Voices of Insight

Voices of Insight
(edited by Sharon Salzberg;
essays by many meditation teachers)
Shambhala Publications

Meditation as Contemplative Inquiryempty

Arthur Zajonc
Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry
Lindisfarne Books

 

Resources for the Contemplative Workplace

James A. Autry & Stephen Mitchell
Real Power:
Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching

Riverhead Books

Coming to our Senses

Jon Kabat-Zinn
Coming to Our Senses
Hyperion

The Reinvention of Work

Matthew Fox
The Reinvention of Work:
A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time

Harper San Francisco

Zen at Work

Les Kaye
Zen at Work:
A Zen Teacher's 30-Year Journey in Corporate America

Crown Publishers

Lewis Richmond
Work as a Spiritual Practice:
A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth
and Satisfaction on the Job

Broadway Books

The Heart Aroused

David Whyte
The Heart Aroused:
Poetry and the Preservation of Soul in Corporate America

Currency/Doubleday

Crossing the Unknown Sea

David Whyte
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
Riverhead Books

 

Attending Retreats

Come and Sit

Come and Sit: A Week inside Meditation Centers
Marcia Z. Nelson and Wayne Teasdale
Skylight Paths Publishing

This book devotes a chapter to each of seven traditions: Christianity, Zen, Theravadan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, Judaism, and Hinduism.

Lighting the Lamp of Wisdom

Lighting the Lamp of Wisdom: A Week inside a Yoga Ashram
John Ittner and David Frawley
Skylight Paths Publishing

Making a Heart for God

Making a Heart for God: A Week inside a Catholic Monastery
Dianne Aprile and Patrick Hart
Skylight Paths Publishing

Waking Up

Waking Up: A Week inside a Zen Monastery
Jack Maguire, Foreword by John Daido Loori
Skylight Paths Publishing

 

Spiritual Search: Fiction and Memoir

Meeting Faithempty

Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of A Black Buddhist Nun
by Faith Adiele
W. W. Norton Publishing

Mount Analogueempty

Mount Analogue
by René Daumal
Overlook Press

Making Waves and Riding the Currents

Making Waves and Riding the Currents:
Activism and the Practice of Wisdom
by Charlie Halpern,
Chair of our Board of Directors
This memoir demonstrates the benefits of integrating a commitment to social justice with the cultivation of wisdom--essential for effectively addressing the challenges of the 21st century. Learn more about upcoming events with Charlie Halpern.

Stumbling Toward Enlightenmentempty

Stumbling Toward Enlightenment
by Geraldine Larkin
Celestial Arts

Surfing the Himalayasempty

Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
by Frederick Lenz
St. Martin's Press

Asian Journals of Thomas Mertonempty

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
by Thomas Merton
New Directions Publishing

Breakfast with Buddhaempty

Breakfast With Buddha
by Roland Merullo
Algonquin Books

Pure Heart, Enlightened Mindempty

Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Life and Letters of an Irish Zen Saint
by Maura O'Halloran
Wisdom Publications

Dreaming Meempty

Dreaming Me
by Jan Willis
Riverhead Books

 

Nature and Contemplation

Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future
Chris Highland, Ed.
Wilderness Press

Meditations of John Muir

Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple
Chris Highland, Ed.
Wilderness Press

Meditations of Henry David Thoreau

Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods
Chris Highland, Ed.
Wilderness Press

Meditations of Walt Whitman

Meditations of Walt Whitman: Earth, My Likeness
Chris Highland, Ed.
Wilderness Press

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