Recommended Books
Many students find reading about mindfulness helps ground their meditation practice and deepen their understanding. This is a list of books we have found useful. Books with a '*' are highly recommended.
Mindfulness
- Calming your Anxious Mind, Jeffrey Brantley
- Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn *
- Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine, Saki Santorelli
- Living the Mindful Life, Charles T. Tart
- Living Well with Pain and Illness, Vidyamala Burch *
- The Mindful Way through Depression, Jon Kabat-Zinn et al.
- Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
- The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh *
- Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Present Moment, Wonderful Moment, Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation
- The Art of Meditation, Matthieu Ricard
- Simple Steps: Essential Meditation, Duncan Baird Publishers
- Meditation, David Fontana *
- Meditation for Beginners, Jack Kornfield
- Meditation for Life, Martine Bachelor
- True Meditation, Adyashanti
Neurobiology
- Destructive Emotions, Daniel Goleman
- The Mindful Brain, Daniel Siegel
- Mindsight: Change your Brain and your Life, Daniel Siegel
- My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor
- Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain, Sue Gerhardt
Psychotherapy and Psychology
- Buddhist Psychology, Caroline Brazier
- The Compassionate Mind, Paul Gilbert
- Focusing, Eugene Gendlin
- Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis, Barry Magid
- Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway, Susan Jeffers
- Creative Visualisation, Shakti Gawain
- Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, Matthieu Ricard
- The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life, Daniel Stern
- Towards a Psychology of Awakening, John Welwood
- The Wisdom of Imperfection, Rob Preece *
- The Wisdom of Listening, Mark Brady
Yoga and Breathwork
- Breath: The Essence of Yoga, Sandra Sabatini
- The Breathing Book, Donna Farhi *
- The Little Book of Yoga Breathing, Scott Shaw
- Ways to Better Breathing, Carola Speads
- Yoga: The Iyengar Way, Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta
- The Yoga Book, Maxine Tobias and Mary Stewart
Buddhism
- Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for a New Millennium, Dalai Lama
- Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Buddha for Beginners, Jane Hope and Borin Van Loon
- The Blooming of a Lotus: Guided Meditation for Achieving the Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Comfortable with Uncertainty, Pema Chodron
- Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Chogyam Trungpa
- A Guide to the Buddhist Path, Sangharakshita
- An Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey
- A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield *
- Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Places that Scare You: a Guide to Fearlessness, Pema Chodron
- The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron *
- Working with Anger, Thubten Chodron
Tibetan Teachings
- The Alchemical Buddha: The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Rob Preece
- Dakini’s Warm Breath, Judith Simmer-Brown
- Luminous Emptiness, Francesca Fremantle
- No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, Pema Chodron
- Shambala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa
- Taming the Tiger, Akong Tulku Rinpoche
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
- The Way of the Bodhisattva, Shantideva
Zen Teachings
- Complete Enlightenment, Ch’an Master Sheng-yen
- Everyday Zen, Charlotte Joko Beck
- An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, DT Suzuki
- Nothing Special: Living Zen, Charlotte Joko Beck
- Zen Haiku, Jonathan Clements
- Zen: a Way of Life, Christmas Humphreys
- Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
Theravadan Teachings
- Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, Ayya Khema
- The Dhammapada
- Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away, Ajahn Chah
- The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, Nyanaponika Thera
- What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Sri Rahula
Other
- The End of Your World, Adyashanti
- The Good Retreat Guide, Stafford Whiteaker
- A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
- Non-violent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg
- The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle *
- Practising the Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
- Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle
- Wild Geese, Mary Oliver
CDs
- Body Scan, Vidyamala Burch
- Breathing, Andrew Weil
- How to Meditate, Pema Chodron
- True Happiness, Pema Chodron
- Kindly Awareness, Vidyamala Burch
- Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness CDs *
- Meditation for Optimum Health, Andrew Weil and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Mindfulness of Breathing, Vidyamala Burch *
- True Meditation, Adyashanti