Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List
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Tantra
Daniel Cozort. Highest Yoga Tantra. ISBN: 1559390360
Explores the Tantric practices of generation and completion meditations leading to enlightenment. Emptiness and bliss are two main themes in the book.
Shri Dharmakirti. Mahayana Tantra: An Introduction. ISBN: 0143028537
Shri Dharmakirti, practitioner of Mahayana Buddhist Tantra, is a disciple of the current Dalai Lama. He received initiations and instructions in the practice of highest secret mantra and was inducted into the lineage of Lama Tsongkhapa.
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Recommended Reading: A Spiritual Reading List
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"Taoism"
John Blofeld. Taoism. ISBN: 1570625891
“From the Tao all the myriad objects derive their being, their illusory separateness being wrought by the interplay of yin and yang.” Blofeld has published many books on Buddhism, Taoism, and Tantra.
Thomas Cleary. Practical Taoism. ISBN: 1570622000
Cleary, a well-known translator of books on oriental philosophy and practice, here simplifies Taoist concepts, hence the use of the term “practical” in the title. Sometimes the simplest is the most profound.
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Zen Buddhism
Eugen Herrigel. Zen in the Art of Archery. ISBN: 0375705090
There is the Zen of no mind in which you eat when hungry, rest when tired, and stop when finished. There is also the Zen known through the ritualized arts of discipline and beauty such as archery, swordsmanship, brush-and-ink, the tea ceremony, or flower arranging. This book is Herrigel’s story of striking the target bull’s-eye blindfolded.
Robert M. Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. ISBN: 0060958324
This is a book suitable for the deepest thinker while at the same time opening the heart. It is worthy to be read many times. One of the best books Al has ever read.
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Buddhism
Stephen Batchelor. Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening. ISBN: 1573226564
According to this former Buddhist monk, you don’t need to believe anything in order to apply the practices of Buddhism such as mindfulness. Much of it comes down to being fully awake and present from moment to moment.
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Breathing
Dennis Lewis. Free Your Breath, Free Your Life: How Conscious Breathing Can Relieve Stress, Increase Vitality, and Help You Live More Fully. ISBN: 1590301331
Lewis demonstrates how to find breathing practices most suitable to you rather than assuming there is one best way to breathe for everyone. Choose from seven different self-directed ways of working with breath. Want to reduce the stress load in your life? Breathing properly is one of the best places to start.
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Alan Watts
For more than forty years, Alan Watts earned a reputation as the most authoritative and insightful interpreter of Eastern philosophies for Western readers. Watts has such a unique way with words that you might feel as if you were reading your own thoughts. Author of more than twenty-five books (everyone a gem to read), he was an editor, Anglican priest, graduate dean, broadcaster, lecturer, and entertainer. He held fellowships from Harvard University and the Bollinger Foundation and was Episcopal Chaplain at Northwestern University during the Second World War.
He became professor and dean of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, created the series “Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life” for National Educational Television, and served as a visiting consultant for psychiatric institutions, hospitals, and the United States Air Force. He traveled widely, including such countries as Japan, Burma, Ceylon, and India. Watts died in 1973.
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Franklin Merrell-Wolff
