VEDIC/YOGIC STUDY

• Alain Daniélou: Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation: The Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India 
• Joshua M. Greene: Gita Wisdom: An Introduction to India’s Essential Yoga Text 
• Swami B.V. Tripurari: The Bhagavad Gita: Its Feeling and Philosophy Its Feeling and Philosophy 
• Krishna: the Beautiful Legend of God: (Srimad Bhagavata Purana Book X)
• Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi
• Swami Sri Yukestwar: The Holy Science
• Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am That
• Baird Hersey: The Practice of Nada Yoga
• Swami Anubhavananda: Vigyan Bhairav: Verses and Meaning 
• Yamuna Devi: A Life of Unalloyed Devotion
• Devdutt Pattanaik: Seven Secrets of Shiva
• Christopher Wallis: Tantra Illuminated
• Joseph Selbie: The Yugas
• Krishna Das: Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
• Parvati Markus: Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed
• Ram Das: Miracle of Love, Be Here Now
• Vandana Shiva: Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth 

Buddhism-Specific Reading
Buddhism is still Vedic, offering a specific lens of yoga. Note for Buddhists: Most shown here is in the Mahayana tradition, and the core vision of my own dharma is the self-creation yoga outlined the 7th Boddhisattva Action of Compassion in Art described in the Garland Sutra. 

• Thích Nhat Hạnh: The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, Being Peace, The Heart of Understanding, Reconciliation, Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Art of Happiness, Essence of the Heart Sutra, Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment, The World of Tibetan Buddhism
• Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche*: Sacred Path of the Warrior, The Path of Individual Liberation, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation, Smile at Fear, Training the Mind, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, The Path is the Goal, Work, Sex, and Money, Meditation in Action, Cynicism and Magic
• Robert Thurman:* Infinite Life, The Vajra Rosary Tantra: An Explanatory Tantra of the Esoteric Community Tantra, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, The Esoteric Community Tantra with The Illuminating Lamp: Volume I, Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between
• Lama Thubten Yeshe: Introduction to Tantra, Becoming Your Own Therapist and Make Your Mind an Ocean, The Bliss of Inner Fire
• Joan Halifax: Being with Dying, The Fruitful Darkness, Standing at the Edge
• Norman Fischer: Training in Compassion, The World Could Be Otherwise
• Alan Watts: The Way of Zen, Out of Your Mind
• Mark Epstein: Advice Not Given, The Zen of Therapy 
• Tara Brach: Radical Acceptance
• The Pema Chodron Audio Collection
• Master Dogen: The Essential Dogen, Shobogenzo
• Lotus Sutra (Kern)
• Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginners Mind  
• Zenshin Florence Caplow: The Hidden Lamp 
• Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought
• Ross Bolleter: Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Keys to Enlightenment
• Yamada Koun: Zen the Authentic Gate
• Charlotte Yoko Beck: Everyday Zen
• Andrew Holecek: Dream Yoga, Preparing to Die
• Larry Rosenberg: Breath By Breath
• Lama Surya Das: Dzogchen Meditation Training 
• Traleg Kyabgon, Practice of Lojong
• Jack Kornfield: Bringing Home the Dharma
• Anyen Rinpoche: The Tibetan Yoga of Breath
• Frank Ostaseski: The Five Invitations
• Gelek Rimpoche: Good Life, Good Death
• Alexandra David-Neel: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
• Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence

Related Unity/Christ Consciousness Reading:

• Jiddu Krishnamurti: Self Knowledge is the Beginning of Wisdom 
• The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
• David Brakke: Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas
• Cynthia Bourgeault: The Wisdom Jesus, The Meaning of Mary Magdelene, The Heart of Centering Prayer
• A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts
• Elaine Pagels: The Gnostic Gospels, The Nag Hamadi Scriptures
• Jakob Boehme: The Way to Christ 
• The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
• Henri Nouwen: The Wounded Healer
• Thomas Merton: The Seven Storey Mountain
• Joseph Campbell: Hero’s Journey
• C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, The Problem of Pain
• Rabbi Tirzah Firestone: Woman’s Kabbalah
• Ken Wilbur: Kosmic Consciousness
• Daniel Siegel: Mindsight
• Gabor Mate: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
• Bruce Lipton: Biology of Belief
• Rupert Sheldrake: Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation
• Rudolf Steiner: Biodynamics
• Lao Tzu: Tao te Ching

Finally love to my heart’s favorite novelists and poets:

• Wendell Berry
• Mary Oliver
• John Keats
• Walt Whitman
• Emily Dickenson
• Virginia Woolf
• John Steinbeck
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Margaret Atwood