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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>


 

 
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