Books & Audio
A selection of books and CDs are available for sale at the Wednesday night class. IMCW does not sell these materials on the website and we can not take mail orders.
The following books have inspired members of the IMCW community:
* Denotes books that are good as an introduction to Buddhist practice and teachings.
Vipassana- Mindfulness or Insight Meditation
Analayo, Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization, (Windhorse Publications, 2003)
Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think: the Buddhist Way to Happiness, (Harper San Francisco, 1995)
Bhikkhu Bodhi, In the Buddha’s Words, (Wisdom Publications, 2007)
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance -- Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, (Bantam, 2003)*
Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: the Path of Insight Meditation, (Shambhala, 1987)*
Joseph Goldstein, One Dharma -- The Emerging Western Buddhism, (Harper, 2002)
Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English, (Wisdom Publications, 1991)*
Henepola Gunaratana, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness, (Wisdom Publications, 2001)
Larry Rosenberg, Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation, (Boston and London: Shambhala, 1999)*
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go There You Are -- Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, (Hyperion, 1994)
Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart -- A Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, (Bantam Books,1993)*
Jack Kornfield, with Gil Fronsdal, Teachings of the Buddha, (Boston and London: Shambhala, 1996)
Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, (Bantam, 2008) (ed.)
Wes Nisker, Buddha Nature -- Evolution as a Practical Guide to Enlightenment, (Bantam Books, 1998)
Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught, (New York: Grove Press, 1974)
Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness -- The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, (Shambhala, 1995)*
Ajahn Sumedo, The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho (Wisdom Publications, 2007)
Nyanaponika Thera, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation – A Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha’s Way of Mindfulness, (Samuel Weiser, 1965)
Zen
Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen, (Harper San Francisco, 1993)
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness, (Beacon Press, 1975)*
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, (Weatherhill, 1970)
Tibetan Buddhism
Tsultrum Allione, Feeding your Demons, (Little, Brown 2008)
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart -- Heart Advice for Difficult Times, (Shambhala, 1997)
Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You -- A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, (Shambhala, 2001)
Lama Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within -- Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World, (Broadway Books, 1997)
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, (Harper San Francisco, 1992)
Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Fearless Simplicity -- The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World, (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2003)
Diversity in Dharma
Hilda Gutierrez Baldoquin, Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism, (Parallax Press, 2004)
Engaged Buddhism
James Baraz, Awakening Joy: Ten Steps that will Put you on the Road to Real Happiness (Random House, 2010)
Fred Eppsteiner, The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism, (Parallax Press, 1985)
Joanna Macy, World As Lover, World As Self, (Parallax Press, 1991)
Donald, Rothberg, The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006)
Other
Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing, (Open Gate Publishing, 2004)
Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Puddledancer Press, 2003)
Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta (www.wisdom-books.com, 1990)
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