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Initial Studies in Dharma Practice & Meditation – Open Mind Centre Reading Resources - Initial Studies in Dharma Practice & Meditation - Open Mind Centre "How can I take this Path deeper?” As people prepare for and leave meditation retreat at Open Mind Centre, they often ask about reading and further studies that will give them a good understanding, and help keep their practice current and evolving. Among the enormous wealth of useful resources, here is a list of works that you may find useful places to start or continue your explorations. Each of the references included here will support your dharma practice in finding reliable practical healing approaches as you travel your path. Through informed meditation and path practice, we learn to cut through the talk, including “spiritual" talk, and enter directly into our experience - which already - now - includes so much of what we are searching for. Truly, it is not easy to really learn about meditation and path from reading and the internet alone. Our individual ways of understanding path practices and what happens in us as we work with them can be so varied. As well as getting a steady practice going, finding a qualified teacher who you can relate to is the most useful thing you can do. Knock on many doors! When one or more doors open, pay attention! “Where to start?” All the references here are highly recommended. ☀ Indicates a great place to start. Practical, well-grounded works which will help you with contemplation and meditation practice. � Indicates inspirational books you may want to keep near where you meditate to help you reconnect with both the potential and the resources for your path journey. They are mostly poems and verses that can be dipped into and read for a short time as part of "tuning the instrument" before your main practice. Each of these sections could be extended, depending on your interests. openmindcentre.asia Further study, meditation and Path support If you wish to take your path studies further, ask. You can email or set up a Skype appointment at openmindcentre.asia. Also, we can put together a study program - in Pai or online, and/or a meditation retreat to explore more deeply any of the themes in these or other dharma works. Meditation Practice & Finding Your Path - Start Here The references in this section are based on “Southern schools" Buddhism - Mindfulness, Vipassana etc . A good foundation in mindfulness has many benefits. Southern Schools teachings and practices also form the basis of the later Tibetan and Zen teachings and practices ☀ Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart Exploring and finding your Path - practice oriented ☀ Jack Kornfield The Wise Heart A practical examination of the main understandings of Buddhist meditation and contemporary psychology ☀ Jon Kabat-Zinn Full Catastrophe Living meditation practice overview and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction approach and techniques ☀ Tarchin Hearn Natural Awakening: The way of the heart Stephen Levine Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings Many useful applied meditation exercises Stephen Batchelor Buddhism Without Beliefs Online Ken McLeod - unfetteredmind.com Tarching Hearne - greendharmatreasury.org Jetsun Yeshe / Catherine Rathbun - friendsoftheheart.com Life of the Buddha & his main teachings ☀ Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White clouds openmindcentre.asia David & Indrani Kalupahana The Way of Siddhartha - a life of the Buddha ☀ Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary - Manual of Buddhist terms and doctrines The Pali teachings in detail with good cross referencing for ongoing study. Now available as an e-book online Tibetan Buddhism - Mahayana & Vajrayana approaches Overview, Path & Practice ☀ Pema Chödron The Places That Scare You - start here for a practical introduction to many Mahayana and Vajrayana central practices and teachings clearly written for western practitioners Catherine Rathbun Clear Heart, Open Mind Compassion practice (Chenrezi) in and for our modern world (available from friendsoftheheart.com and Open Mind Centre) Dilgo Khyentse The Heart Treasure of the Awakened Ones Compassion Chenrezi practice Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Tulku Urgen Rinpoche and Trulshik Adeu RinpocheSkillful Grace: Tara Practice for our times Palden Sherab and Tsewang Dongyal Tara's Enlightened Activity � Nichole Riggs Milarepa: Songs on the spot Teaching songs spontaneously composed and sung buy one of Tibet's greatest yogis and teachers to help his students. Among the several translations available, this book is clear and concise. Ngon-Dro Foundation work This work is not easy to learn from books alone - ask if you are interested Jamgön Kungtrul The Torch of True Meaning: Instructions and the Practice Text for the Mahamudra Preliminaries Several translations with similar titles are available. This recent clear translation published by KTD Publications is recommended openmindcentre.asia Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche The Excellent Path to Enlightenment Kalu Rinpoche The Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism Mahamudra Again, this approach to the nature of your mind is truly not easy to learn without an active connection with a teacher. However, you can make a useful start with the books below. Ask if you get interested. It would be a very good idea to have a daily practice of Mindfulness Meditation for at least a few months before engaging this material Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche Essentials of Mahamudra Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning Dzogchen Ponlop Wild Awakening: The heart of Mahamudra and Dzogchen Overview, History & Teachings These are excellent resources for study and overview while you are engaged in meditation and path practice. John Powers Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Reginald Ray 2 vols: Indestructible truth & Secret of the Vajra world A good overview for more serious students Practical Contemporary Buddhist Practice In addition to the references in the Meditation Practice & Finding Your Path section above (mostly Theravadin or Foundational approaches), here are some additional mostly Mahayana and Vajrayana approaches Dzogchen Ponlop Rebel Buddha Tenzin Palmo Reflections on a Mountain Lake: A western nun's talks on practical Buddhism (Tenzin Palmo is the nun whose biography is Cave in the Snow below) Ken McLeod Wake Up to Your Life - in depth and detailed - most useful for intermediate and advanced levels openmindcentre.asia Ken McLeod has many excellent teachings available as podcasts. You can check these out at unfetteredmind.org Tarchin Hearn has many inspiring published books, e-books and downloads at greendharmatreasury.org (Tarchin is an inspiring teacher trained in Theravadin, Mahayana and Vajrayana approaches). Chogyam Thrungpa Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Path from Hindu - Universalist Perspectives ☀ Nisargadatta I Am That ☀ Shantimayi In Our Hearts We Know A.K. Ramanujan Speaking of Shiva - poems ☀ � Robert Bly (translator) Kabir: Ecstatic Poems - Universalist perspective, Hindu & Moslem-Sufi roots Christ’s teachings from the original language of the New Testament � Neil Douglas-Klotz Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Arameic words of Jesus Re-translations by a Sufi master from the original language in which Jesus taught. Wonderful fresh insights in which Jesus' teachings come alive, including the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes. Includes many practical meditation exercises. If you like this little book, read Douglas-Klotz's Blessings of the Cosmos and The Genesis Meditations Neil Douglas-Klotz has other titles and audio teachings available at abwoon.org Sufi perspectives ☀ � Rumi Hidden Music Poems � David & Sabrineh Fideler Love's Alchemy Poems Indries Shah Tales of the dervishes teaching stories of the Sufi masters over the past thousand years openmindcentre.asia Indries Shah The incredible Mulla Nasrudin Also several other titles of Nasruddin stories Our Human Potential All the books of poems in this list are wonderful ways to (re) connect with our human potential. This potential is with us every moment, no matter how we are feeling today. Keep some of these works next to where you meditate to bring freshness of overview and motivation. In particular, the poetry of Kabir, Rumi, Ryokan, Milarepa... Meditation and healing Jim Bedard Lotus in the Fire Meditation & spiritual practice working with severe illness Ken Wilbur Grace and Grit Spiritual practice living and working with severe illness Ged Sumner Body Intelligence Meditation: Finding presence through embodiment If you are interested in Craniosacral therapy or using mindfulness approaches to explore the body, energy and health, Ged Sumner also has many more useful, well-grounded meditations on youtube and at bimeditation.com Healing conditioning, trauma, memory - Contemporary Body-Based Psychology Each of these books can help you find your way out of the sometimes endless discursive thought and speculation concerning the ”why" of an issue in your life, and into the "what" and "how". From one point of view, healing equals integrating, finding practical ways to include the parts that scare or worry us. Becoming integrated, becoming whole. Many people find it really helps them to let go of relying on our interpretations and beliefs in favour of opening to an intimate, practical relationship with our experience. Robert Karen Becoming attached - First relationships and how they shape our capacity to love openmindcentre.asia Peter Levine In an unspoken voice - how the body releases trauma and restores goodness Judith Herman Trauma and recovery - the aftermath of violence Babette Rothschild The body remembers - the physiology
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