Insight meditation (vipassana)
* suitable for beginners
*** suitable for experienced meditators
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation: A Practice Guide
Bhikkhu Anālayo 2018. download
Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators ***
Guy Armstrong 2017
Older and Wiser: Classical Buddhist Teachings on Aging, Sickness, and Death
Mu Soeng, Gloria Ambrosia, Andrew Olendzki 2017 Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas ***
Leigh Brasington 2015
Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation ***
Bhikkhu Analayo 2015
Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising ***
Rob Burbea 2014
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening ***
Joseph Goldstein 2013
Stepping Out of Self-Deception ***
Rodney Smith 2010
The Issue at Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice *
Gil Fronsdal
available as a PDF here
Breath by Breath *
Larry Rosenberg 1998
In This Very Life: The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha ***
Sayadaw U Pandita 1995
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
U Silananda 1995
Mindfulness in Plain English *
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana 1992
The Experience of Insight *
Joseph Goldstein 1987
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation
Nyanaponika Thera 1973
Brahmavihara heart practices and relational meditation
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
David Treleaven 2018
Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to True Happiness *
James Baraz 2012
A Heart Full of Peace *
Joseph Goldstein 2007
Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom
Gregory Kramer 2007
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness *
Sharon Salzberg 2002
Theravada Buddhism
A Whole-Life Path: A Lay Buddhist’s Guide to Crafting a Dhamma-Infused Life
Gregory Kramer 2020
Parami: Ways to Cross Life’s Floods
Ajahn Sucitto 2012
available as an ebook here
The Noble Eightfold Path
Bhikkhu Bodhi 2006
Small Boat, Great Mountain ***
Ajahn Amaro 2002
available as an ebook here: http://www.abhayagiri.org/books/small-boat-great-mountain
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha’s Path *
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana 2001
Wings to Awakening
Thanissaro Bhikkhu 1999
Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha’s Teachings on Voidness
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu 1995
Being Nobody, Going Nowhere
Ayya Khema 1987
A Still Forest Pool *
Ajahn Chah 1985
The Buddha’s original teachings
The Dhammapada *
Gil Fronsdal
In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
Bhikkhu Bodhi, ed.
Secular Approaches to Meditation and Dharma
Wherever You Go, There You are *
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Buddhism Without Beliefs *
Stephen Batchelor
Social justice issues and Buddhism
Deep Diversity, Overcoming Us vs. Them
Shakil Choudhury 2015
The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel 2015
Dharma, Color, and Culture
Hilda Gutierrez Baldoquin, ed.
Buddhism and the Climate Crisis
Buddha-Nature, Human Nature
by Ajahn Sucitto Amaravati Publications 2019
Buddha-Nature, Human Nature is a book about our environment and the effects that Buddhism has had and can have upon it.
Available to download here
EcoDharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis
by David Loy Wisdom Publications 2019
This landmark work is simultaneously a manifesto, a blueprint, a call to action, and a deep comfort for troubling times. David R. Loy masterfully lays out the principles and perspectives of Ecodharma—a Buddhist response to our ecological predicament, introducing a new term for a new development of the Buddhist tradition.
Buddhism, psychology and neuroscience
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
David Treleaven 2018
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Dan Siegel 2011
Buddha’s Brain *
Rick Hanson 2009
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha *
Tara Brach 2004
Thoughts without a Thinker
Mark Epstein 2004
Books from other Buddhist traditions
Tibetan Buddhism
The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness *
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Eric Swanson and Daniel Goleman 2008
When Things Fall Apart *
Pema Chödrön 1997
The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness *
Pema Chödrön 1991
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Chogyam Trungpa 1973
Zen Buddhism
Everyday Zen *
Charlotte Joko Beck 1989
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Suzuki Roshi 1970
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