Recommended Reading

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Meditation & Other Contemplative Practices

	Victor N. Davich The Best Guide to Meditation Renaissance Books
	Norman Fischer Sailing Home: Using Homer’s Odyssey to Navigate Life’s Perils and Pitfalls Free Press
	Joseph Goldstein Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom Shambhala Publications
	Joseph Goldstein The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation Shambhala Publications
	William Johnston Christian Zen Fordham University Press
	Jon Kabat-Zinn Wherever You Go, There you are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life Hyperion
	Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation Shambhala Publications
	John Daido Loori The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training Shambhala Publications
	John Makransky Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness Wisdom Publications
	The Monks of New Skete In the Spirit of Happiness Back Bay Books
	Thich Nhat Hanh The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation Beacon Press
	Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind Weatherhill
	Voices of Insight (edited by Sharon Salzberg; essays by many meditation teachers) Shambhala Publications
	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
	Jon Kabat-Zinn Coming to Our Senses Hyperion
	Matthew Fox The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time Harper San Francisco
	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
	David Whyte The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of Soul in Corporate America Currency/Doubleday
	David Whyte Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity Riverhead Books

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Attending Retreats

	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: A Week inside a Yoga Ashram John Ittner and David Frawley Skylight Paths Publishing
	Making a Heart for God: A Week inside a Catholic Monastery Dianne Aprile and Patrick Hart Skylight Paths Publishing
	Waking Up: A Week inside a Zen Monastery Jack Maguire, Foreword by John Daido Loori Skylight Paths Publishing

 

The Spiritual Search

	Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of A Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele W. W. Norton Publishing
	Mount Analogue by René Daumal Overlook Press
	Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom by Charlie Halpern
	Stumbling Toward Enlightenment by Geraldine Larkin Celestial Arts
	The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton New Directions Publishing
	Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo Algonquin Books
	Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Life and Letters of an Irish Zen Saint by Maura O’Halloran Wisdom Publications
	Dreaming Me by Jan Willis Riverhead Books

 

Nature and Contemplation

	Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future  Chris Highland, Ed. Wilderness Press
	Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple  Chris Highland, Ed. Wilderness Press
	Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods  Chris Highland, Ed. Wilderness Press
	Meditations of Walt Whitman: Earth, My Likeness  Chris Highland, Ed. Wilderness Press

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