Book Recommendations

With this accessible guide, meditators (and non-meditators) can understand how to attain extraordinary states with relative ease. Shaila Catherine has a friendly, wise approach to the meditative states (jhanas) that lead to liberating insight.

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. The authors show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.

Was die Hirnforschung über Meditation herausgefunden hat und wie die alten Lehren so verstanden werden können. Was Meditierende über ihr Gehirn und ihr unbewusstes Denken wissen sollten.

In this ground-breaking and seminal work, esteemed Buddhist teacher Rob Burbea lays out an original and comprehensive approach to deepening insight.

While other authors have touched on the subject, this is the first book fully devoted to explaining and working through spiritual bypassing, providing an in-depth look at the unresolved or ignored psychological/emotional issues that are often masked or marginalized through what we do with spirituality.

This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power.

Teachers Sallie Jiko Tisdale, Gil Fronsdal, Norman Fischer, and more explain how removing mindfulness from Buddhism may set a dangerous precedent. 

The author makes a passionate case for altruism—and why we need it now more than ever. In this major work, Matthieu Ricard presents a global vision based on decades of personal experience and insight, a road map for the 21st century.

Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World

This book is an essential collection of Stephen Batchelor’s most probing and important work on secular Buddhism.