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Resources for Continuing Practice
by Philip L. Jones
This page is meant as a general guide to information offered. The actual handout had information specific to my community.
Meditation Groups
Community A
Insight
Meditation and Buddhist Practice
Name of Local Group
Sitting: Types of Groups, Times
Location:
Street and City
Contact
Persons: Name(s), Phone Number(s), Email Address(es), Website
Zen
Name of Local Group
Sitting: Types of Groups, Times
Location:
Street and City
Contact
Persons: Name(s), Phone Number(s), Email Address(es), Website
Community B
Insight
Meditation:
Name of Local Group
Sitting: Types of Groups, Times
Location:
Street and City
Contact
Persons: Name(s), Phone Number(s), Email Address(es), Website
Retreats
Many
groups, Buddhist, Christian and others, sponsor retreats. [Local retreat sponsoring organization] is known to group leaders.
Retreat Sponsoring Organization
• Sponsors
3-10 day insight meditation residential retreats 4-5 times per year as
well as several non-residential retreats.
• Occasionally
sponsors Buddhist meditation teachers and monks or nuns for public presentations.
• You
can sign up to get on the mailing list.
Other
retreats: see [organization's web site] as well as Inquiring Mind under
"Literature: Magazines and Newspapers" for retreats nationwide.
Literature: Books
The
books listed are ones that I like and have found helpful in my practice.
These books can usually be ordered through your local bookshop and are
also available through the internet.
Mindfulness
in Plain English by Venerable Henepola Gunaratana, Wisdom Publications, Boston
Journey
to the Center by Matthew Flickstein, Wisdom Publications, Boston,
paper,
The
Experience of Insight by Joseph Goldstein, Shambhala, Boston,
Eight
Mindful Steps to Happiness by Venerable Henepola Gunaratana, Wisdom Publications,
Boston
Insight
Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein, Shambhala,
Boston
Seeking
the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein
& Jack
Kornfield,
Shambhala, Boston
The
Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation As Taught By S.N. Goenka by William
Hart, Harper, San Francisco
Full
Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Dell Publishing, New York
The
Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, Novato, CA
In
the Lap of the Buddha by Gavin Harrison, Shambhala, Boston
Start
Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
When
Things Fall Apart
The
Places that Scare You, all three by Pema Chodron, Shambhala, Boston
Loving-Kindness:
The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg, Shambhala, Boston
A
Heart As Wide As the World by Sharon Salzberg, Shambhala, Boston
The
Miracle of Mindfulness, Beacon Press, Boston
Being
Peace, Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA
Touching
Peace, all three by Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA
Everyday
Zen: Love & Work, Harper & Row, San Francisco
Nothing
Special: Living Zen, both books by Charlotte Joko Beck, Harper & Row,
San Francisco
Literature: Magazines and Newspapers
Inquiring
Mind - a newspaper covering the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock
Meditation Center meditation communities. Published
twice a year. Includes a list of retreats and usually has interesting articles.
To
subscribe (free!), write: Inquiring Mind, P.O. Box 9999, North Berkeley
Station, Berkeley, CA 94709
Tricycle:
The Buddhist Review - a quarterly magazine covering Buddhism in the West.
Internet
Access
to Insight<http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index.html>
[The
primary site on the Web for information about insight meditation. It has
an extensive collection of Theravada Buddhist texts.]
[web site for local and or regional group]
DharmaNet<http://www.dharmanet.org>
BuddhaNet<http://www.buddhanet.net/>
Bhavana
Society http://www.bhavanasociety.org/
Insight
Meditation Society, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and Sharon Salzberg's
and Joseph
Goldstein's
Home Pages<http://www.dharma.org/>
Spirit
Rock Meditation Center<http://www.spiritrock.org/>
Forest
Way Insight Meditation Center < http://www.forestway.org>
Audiotapes/Downloadable Talks
Dharma
Seed, Box 66, Wendell Depot, MA 01380<http://www.dharmaseed.org>
Audio
Dharma, <
http://www.audiodharma.org/>
Meditation Cushions
DharmaCrafts,
405 Waltham Street, Ste. 234, Lexington, MA 02173, Phone (617) 862-9211
<http://www.dharmacrafts.com>
Samadhi
Cushions, R.R. 1, Box 1, Church Street, Barnet, VT 05821, Phone (800) 331-7751
<http://www.samadhicushions.com>
Carolina
Morning Designs, Rt. 67, Box 61, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723, Phone (704) 293-5906
<http://www.zafu.net>
