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Buddhism and Buddhist Meditation
Practice
Sufism and Islam
Non-Violence, Socially Engaged Spirituality
Environmental Justice and Deep Ecology and Systemic Social Change
Diversity and Cultural Identities
Politics and History
Other Writing
Literature And Poetry |
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Basic Recommended Reading for Beginners
Recommended Reading for Coaching, Consulting, Hypnosis
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| Buddhism and Buddhist Meditation Practice |
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Meditation and Mindfulness Practice
Mindfulness in Plain English Ven, Gunaratana
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
Touching Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh .
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Suzuki Roshi
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Nyanaponika
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield
Loving Kindness. The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg
Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa
Buddhist Teachings and Practice
The Essence of Buddhism by Traleg Kyabgon *
What the Buddha Taught by Wapola Rahula *
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Faith to Doubt by Stephen Bachelor
For A Future to be Possible by Thich Nhat Hanh
Living Buddhist Masters by Jack Kornfield
Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy
Mind of Clover by Robert Aitken
Moon in a Dewdrop by Dogen
Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil by Stephen Batchelor
A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack by David Loy
Bodhisattva Archetypes Taigen by Daniel Leighton
Trust in Mind by Mu Soeng
Buddhist History and Schools
Buddhism: An Outline of Teachings and Schools by Hans
Schumann
The Buddhist Religion by Richard Robinson
Buddhism After Patriarchy by Rita Gross
Mahayana Buddhism by Paul Williams
In the Footsteps of the Buddha by René Grousset
The Awakening of the West by Stephen Batchelor
Dharma, Color, and Culture by Hilda Gutierrez Baldoquin
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Sutras and Early Buddhist Texts
- Mahayana Sutras and Texts
Sutra of Hui Neng trans. Thomas Cleary
A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way of Life Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara. trans. Bachelor or Wallace
Manifestation of the Tathagata trans. Chen
The Heart Sutra The Heart of Understanding trans. Peter Levitt and Thich Nhat Hanh
The Diamond Sutra The Diamond That Cuts through Illusion trans Thich Nhat Hanh
- Suttas from the Pali Cannon
Breathe You Are Alive. Anapanasati Sutta (Mindfulness of Breathing) trans Thich Nhat Hanh
Transformation and Healing. Satipattana Sutta (Four Establishments of Mindfulness) trans Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Appointment with Life. Theramano & Bhaddekaratta Suttas trans. Thich Nhat Hanh
In The Buddha's Words. An Anthology from the Pali Cannon. by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Majjhima Nikaya. Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha trans. Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi
Samyutta Nikaya. Connected Discourses of the Buddha trans Bhikkhu Bodhi Digha Nikaya. Longer Discourses of the Buddha trans TW Rhys Davids
Scholarly Books on Buddhism
Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis by David Kalupahana
Ethics in Early Buddhism by David Kalupahana
Mutual Causality in Buddhism an General Systems Theory by Joanna Macy
Buddhist Thought In India by Edward Conze
The Buddhist Teaching of Totality (Hua Yen/Avatamsaka) by Garma C.C. Chang
Mahayana Buddhism by Paul Williams
Psychological Attitudes of Early Buddhist Philosophy by Lama Govinda
A Buddhist Kaleidoscope: Essays on the Lotus Sutra Ed. Gene Reeves
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Jay Garfield
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Sufism and Islam |
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Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong
Mystical Dimensions of Islam by Annemarie Schimmel
Rumi's World by Annemarie Schimmel
Rending The Veil. Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi by Shamram Shiva
No God But God by Reza Aslan
Ibn al' Arabi. The Bezels of Wisdom by R.W.J. Austin
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| Non-Violence, Engaged Spiritual
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All Men Are Brothers by M. Gandhi
Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace by V. Geetha
The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World by Donald Rothberg
Nonviolence. 25 lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlanski
Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism by David Cortright
The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace by Helen Ware
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace by Vandana Shiva
Seeds
of Peace by Sulak Sivaraksa
Conflict, Culture, Change. Engaged Buddhism in a globalizing world by Sulak Sivaraksa
Social Face of Buddhism by Ken Jones
Joining Hands Politics and Religion Together for Social Change by Roger Gotlieb. |
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Environmental Justice, Deep Ecology, and Systemic Social Change |
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The Great Turning by David Kortin
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Having Faith. An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber
Towards A Transpersonal Ecology by Warwick Fox
World as Lover, World as Self by Joanna Macy
Dharma Rain. Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism by Kaza and Kraft
Dharma Gaia by Alan Hunt Badiner
Woman and Nature by Susan Griffin
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
The Environmental Justice Reader Joni Adamson by Mei Mei Evans and Rachel Stein
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| Diversity and Cultural Identity/ies |
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Diversity, Race, Unlearning Oppression
All God's Children by Fox Butterfield
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism ed.
Hernandez & Rehman
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria
Anzaldúa
Essays by June
Jordan
All About Love by bell hooks
Killing Rage by bell hooks
Walking with the Wind. A Memoir of
the Civil Rights movement by John Lewis
Speeches and Sermons by Martin Lither King
Autobiography by Malcolm X
The Cornell West Reader by Cornell West
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice Various editors (especially Chapter 5)
White Like Me. Reflections on Race from A Privileged Son by Tim Wise
Fantasies of the Master
Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians by Ward Churchill
A Little Matter of Genocide. Holocaust
and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill
Orientalism by Edward Said
The Colonizer's Model of the World Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History by J. M. Blaut
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire
Gender and Queer Identity
Transgender Studies Reader by Stryker and Whittle
Genderqueer by Nestle, Howell, and Wilchins
Transgender Warriors. Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
Speaking Sex to Power by Pat Califia
Sex Changes by Pat Califia
Pomosexuals by Carol Quwwn and Lawrence Schimel
S/HE Minnie by Bruce Pratt
Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures by Sabrina Petra Ramet
Women with Moustaches and Men without Beards by Afsaneh Najmabadi
Woman Native Other by Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
What Makes a Man by Rebecca Walker |
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Politics and History |
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The Great War for Civilization. The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Power Politics. Globalization and privatization trample social justice and a democratic future by Arundhati Roy
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Questions and Swords. Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution by Sucommandante Marcos
Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galleano
10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank by Kevin Danaher
In the Presence of Fear by Wendell Berry
Blood Rites. Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People. Torture and denial by John Conroy
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
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Other Writing
Dharma from different angles |
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Widening Circles. A spiritual Memoir by Joanna Macy
The Zapatista Reader ed. Tom Hayden
The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
Goat Walking by Jim Corbett
Grandfather by Tom Brown Jr
Becoming Native to This Place by Wes Jackson
Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry
The Year 1, Global Process Work by Arnold Mindell
Form, Substance and Difference by Gregory Bateson (in Steps to an Ecology of Mind)
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Literature
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Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus trans Barrow and Macy
Everything Yearned For by Manhae
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Poet's Dante Twentieth Century Responses to Dante ed.
Peter Hawkins, Rachel Jacoff Constantine Cavafy: Collected Poems trans. Keely and Sherrard
Kissing God Goodbye: Poems by June Jordan
Odes of Horace trans. David Ferry
Open Closed Open: Poems.by Yehuda Amiichai
New and Collected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Poems by Jalaluddin Rumi, Keats, Wordsworth, Hardy, Auden, May Oliver, Marina Tsvetayeva, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara etc
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