Recommended Reading
Getting Started:
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
- A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield
- The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau
Autobiographies/Biographies can be a great source of inspiration:
- Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind by
- Wisdom Eccentrics by Ngakpa Chogyam
- Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki by David Chadwick
- Sit Down and Shut Up by Brad Warner
- After the Ecstacy, The Laundry by Jack Kornfield
On the development of virtue:
- For a Future To Be Possible by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenburg
Four immeasurable minds:
- Teachings on Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
Core Buddhist stuff:
- The Noble Eightfold Path, by Bhikkhu Bodhi, available for free or you can buy the book
- The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha by the Buddha, translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi
- The Heart Sutra by Red Pine
- An Arrow to the Heart by Ken McLeod, commentary on the Heart Sutra
More advanced books:
- Wake Up To Your Life by Ken McLeod
- Spectrum of Ecstasy by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen
- Reflections on a Silver River by Ken McLeod