Michael Hess Who/What/Where/When

author: Jack Kornfield asin: 0553372114 binding: Paperback list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $12.24 USD

In undertaking a spiritual life, we must make certain that our path is connected with our heart, according to author and Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield. Since 1974 (long before it gained popularity in the 1990s), Kornfield has been teaching westerners how to integrate Eastern teaching into their daily lives.

author: Jon Kabat-zinn asin: 0786880708 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95

In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake. To Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important because it brings about a state of "mindfulness," a condition of "being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the moment rather than the past, the future, or the multitudinous distractions of modern life.

author: Khenchen Trangu Rinpoche asin: 1559391065 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD

This is a practical manual to the two types of mediation that form the core of Buddhist spiritual practice.

author: Shunryu Suzuki asin: 0834800799 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $10.36 USD

A respected Zen master in Japan and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, Shunryu Suzuki has blazed a path in American Buddhism like few others. He is the master who climbs down from the pages of the koan books and answers your questions face to face. If not face to face, you can at least find the answers as recorded in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, a transcription of juicy excerpts from his lectures.

author: Lama Surya Das asin: 0767901576 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD

If you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey?

author: Eknath Easwaran asin: 0915132664 binding: Paperback list price: $13.95 USD amazon price: $11.16 USD

This handbook of meditation practice is a complete guide to a unique approach to tapping inner resources by training concentration on inspirational passages. Meditation and the Eight-Point Program that compliments and supports it can be used by anyone who wanst sity of California, Berkeley, in 1960 on the Fulbright exchange program and established the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in Northern California in 1961. His 1968 Berkeley class is believed to be the first accredited course in meditation at any Western university.

author: Ramana Maharshi asin: 0877730245 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $14.00

The transcribed conversations of Ramana Maharshi are known among spiritual seekers the world over and prized for their great inspirational power, which transcends all religious differences. Here is a collection of Sri Ramana's instructions and discourses, in question-and-answer format, on such topics as work and renunciation, silence and solitude, peace and happiness, and the discipline of self-inquiry.

author: Thich Nhat Hanh asin: 0807012394 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $11.20 USD

Miracle of Mindfulness is a sly commentary on the Anapanasati Sutra, the Sutra on Breath to Maintain Mindfulness. "Sly" because it doesn't read like a dry commentary at all. One of Thich Nhat Hanh's most popular books, Miracle of Mindfulness is about how to take hold of your consciousness and keep it alive to the present reality, whether eating a tangerine, playing with your children, or washing the dishes.

author: Dalai Lama asin: 0722540302 binding: Hardcover list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $20.00

The mind is central to all human experience. Whether one is in harmony with the world or not depends upon one's relative emotional and spiritual health. For this reason, the core teachings of Buddhism have always emphasized various forms of mind training. In Transforming the Mind, based on an edited series of his lectures, the Dalai Lama provides a succinct overview of the basic techniques of spiritual development in Tibetan Buddhism.