Reading List ~ Buddhist Psychology
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Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence, discusses how humanity might counter the escalating problem of destructive emotions with the Dalai Lama.
Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective by The Dalai Lama
Winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama discusses the role of patience.
A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama by The Dalai Lama
In these difficult times, people are looking for answers to finding inner peace and happiness and arguably the greatest teacher shares important insights to getting there.
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by The Dalai Lama
Psychiatrist Howard Cutler poses several of life's persistent questions to the Dalai Lama during an extended period of interviews.
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
by The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama discusses the relationship between scientists and those interested in spirituality because science is not neutral; it can be used for good or ill, and we must approach scientific inquiry with compassion and empathy.
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For readers who have thought about trying meditation but weren’t sure how to get started, Meditation for Beginners presents a complete introduction to "Insight" meditation with bestselling author and trusted teacher Jack Kornfield. Through step-by-step instruction in everything from breathing, posture, and attention to working with difficult emotions and physical discomfort, readers from any spiritual tradition will learn the essentials for creating a daily meditation practice.
Insight Meditation: A Step-By-Step Course on How to Meditate
by Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein
Course includes 2 CD's, Study Cards, and a workbook designed as a complete self-guided curriculum. Organized into nine lessons, your workbook features more than 75 step-by-step mindfulness exercises, question-and-answer sections, glossaries, and photographs illustrating correct meditation postures.
Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein
The fruit of some twenty years' experience leading Buddhist meditation retreats, this book touches on a wide range of topics raised repeatedly by meditators and includes favorite stories, key Buddhist teachings, and answers to most-asked questions.
Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
Goldstein and Kornfield, cofounders of the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, MA, discusses the development of Theravada, "The Middle Way" in its unique American form.
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
by Sharon Salzberg and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Sharon Salzberg, a meditation teacher and the one of the founders of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, focuses on a kind of Buddhist practice that emphasizes feelings of love, happiness, and compassion.
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An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chödrön guides us through this "sticky feeling" and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron
Pema Chödrön is an American bhikshuni, or Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition. Since her ordination in 1974, Ane Pema ("Ane" is a Tibetan honorific for a nun) has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America. She is the director of Gampo Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America. Pema Chödrön is also an acharya (master teacher) in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.
Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chodron
Pema Chodron discusses the relationship between internal and external aggression. She teaches how to stop the habitual emotional reaction to perceived hostility through patience, pausing, breathing.
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chodron
Chodron writes about awakening your own heart. She encourages you to begin NOW; there is nothing to wait for, no more perfect time.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
Chodron again reminds us that by letting go, we free ourselves to face fear and obstacles. Chodron writes as she speaks, clearly and gently encouraging us to face ourselves by drawing on traditional Buddhist wisdom.
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Rinpoche translates here for us the Tibetan book of living and dying. Introducing concepts unique to Tibetan Buddhism, he discusses the bardo, or in between time. Life and the times of transition are all practices for the time of transition between lifetimes.
