Enlightened Reading list, continued
TweetIf you were to ask on Twitter, “What is your #1 book on meditation or spirituality?” this is what you would get. At least from my Twitterverse. Enjoy! Read them all! Or just read one with absolute comprehension! Become enlightened!
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Hidden Words
Baha’u’llah
Mindfulness Yoga
Frank Boccio
Meditation for Dummies
Stephan Bodian
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
Sylvia Boorstein
The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
When Things Fall Apart (named by six people)
Pema Chodron
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
Smile to Your Heart Meditations
Irmansyah Effendi
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
Mark Epstein
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Anger;
Being Peace; (mentioned by two people)
The Miracle of Mindfulness;
No Death, No Fear;
Old Path, White Clouds;
Thich Nhat Hahn
There’s Nothing Wrong with You
Cheri Huber
Experience of Insight
Joseph Goldstein
The Easiest Way
Mabel Katz
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder
Creating Sacred Space
Karen Kingston
A Path with Heart;
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
Jack Kornfield
Yoga Body/Buddha Mind
Cyndi Lee
Life Of Pi
Yann Martell
Turning the Mind Into an Ally (mentioned by two people)
Sakyong Mipham
One City: A Declaration of Interdependence
Ethan Nichtern
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin Sharma
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (mentioned by three people)
Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation and Its Practice
Swami Rama
The Radiance Sutras
Lorin Roche
Breath by Breath
Larry Rosenberg
Faith
Sharon Salzburg
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Shunryu Suzuki Rosh
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism;
Meditation in Action;
The Myth of Freedom;
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior (named by four people)
Chogyam Trungpa
The Tao te Ching
Lau Tzu; Stephen Mitchell (transl)
Talks on Buddhist Meditation
Godwin Samararatne
Hardcore Zen
Brad Warner
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Coming to our Senses
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Pema Chodron’s books (mentioned by two people)
2 comments







I’ve read some of these, will look at the others. Thanks for pulling this list together.
Another book to consider is Peter Matthiessen’s “The Snow Leopard”. While not strictly (but perhaps in a way mostly) a Buddhist text, it finds the same target in my opinion. I count it as one of the top ten books of any genre I’ve ever read.
I’ve never read that! Will have to pick it up. Many thanks.