Library

Many students find reading about mindfulness helps ground their meditation practice and deepen their understanding. The library is open to all regular Mindful Space students. If you would like to request or discuss a book please phone or email. Books with a '*' are highly recommended.

Mindfulness

• Calming your Anxious Mind, Jeffrey Brantley
• Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn *
• Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine, Saki Santorelli
• Living the Mindful Life, Charles T. Tart
• Living Well with Pain and Illness, Vidyamala Burch *
• The Mindful Way through Depression, Jon Kabat-Zinn et al.
• Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh *
• Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Present Moment, Wonderful Moment, Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation

• The Art of Meditation, Matthieu Ricard
• Simple Steps: Essential Meditation, Duncan Baird Publishers
• Meditation, David Fontana *
• Meditation for Beginners, Jack Kornfield
• Meditation for Life, Martine Bachelor
• True Meditation, Adyashanti

Neurobiology

• Destructive Emotions, Daniel Goleman
• The Mindful Brain, Daniel Siegel
• Mindsight: Change your Brain and your Life, Daniel Siegel
• My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor
• Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain, Sue Gerhardt

Psychotherapy and Psychology

• Buddhist Psychology, Caroline Brazier
• The Compassionate Mind, Paul Gilbert
• Focusing, Eugene Gendlin
• Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis, Barry Magid
• Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway, Susan Jeffers
• Creative Visualisation, Shakti Gawain
• Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, Matthieu Ricard
• The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life, Daniel Stern
• Towards a Psychology of Awakening, John Welwood
• The Wisdom of Imperfection, Rob Preece *
• The Wisdom of Listening, Mark Brady

Yoga and Breathwork

• Breath: The Essence of Yoga, Sandra Sabatini
• The Breathing Book, Donna Farhi *
• The Little Book of Yoga Breathing, Scott Shaw
• Ways to Better Breathing, Carola Speads
• Yoga: The Iyengar Way, Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta
• The Yoga Book, Maxine Tobias and Mary Stewart

Buddhism

• Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for a New Millennium, Dalai Lama
• Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Buddha for Beginners, Jane Hope and Borin Van Loon
• The Blooming of a Lotus: Guided Meditation for Achieving the Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Comfortable with Uncertainty, Pema Chodron
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Chogyam Trungpa
• A Guide to the Buddhist Path, Sangharakshita
• An Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey
• A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield *
• Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Places that Scare You: a Guide to Fearlessness, Pema Chodron
• The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron *
• Working with Anger, Thubten Chodron

Tibetan Teachings

• The Alchemical Buddha: The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Rob Preece
• Dakini’s Warm Breath, Judith Simmer-Brown
• Luminous Emptiness, Francesca Fremantle
• No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, Pema Chodron
• Shambala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa
• Taming the Tiger, Akong Tulku Rinpoche
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
• The Way of the Bodhisattva, Shantideva

Zen Teachings

• Complete Enlightenment, Ch’an Master Sheng-yen
• Everyday Zen, Charlotte Joko Beck
• An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, DT Suzuki
• Nothing Special: Living Zen, Charlotte Joko Beck
• Zen Haiku, Jonathan Clements
• Zen: a Way of Life, Christmas Humphreys
• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki

Theravadan Teachings

• Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, Ayya Khema
• The Dhammapada
• Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away, Ajahn Chah
• The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, Nyanaponika Thera
• What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Sri Rahula

Other

• The End of Your World, Adyashanti
• The Good Retreat Guide, Stafford Whiteaker
• A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
• Non-violent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg
• The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle *
• Practising the Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
• Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle
• Wild Geese, Mary Oliver

CDs

• Body Scan, Vidyamala Burch
• Breathing, Andrew Weil
• How to Meditate, Pema Chodron
• True Happiness, Pema Chodron
• Kindly Awareness, Vidyamala Burch
• Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness CDs *
• Meditation for Optimum Health, Andrew Weil and Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness of Breathing, Vidyamala Burch *
• True Meditation, Adyashanti