Books & Tapes Of Interest
Dharma books and audio of interest.

A selection of books, tapes and CDs are available for sale at the Wednesday night class.
IMCW does not sell these materials o­n the website and we can not take mail orders.

IMCW is pleased to make a selection of Tara's dharma talks and other audio content available o­n the web. Please feel free to listen, using either the streaming audio or the downloadable content. For older talks streaming audio and downloadable content are available o­n the download page.

More recent talks are available on the audio archives page.

Tara Brach's podcasts

Download iTunes and listen to Tara Brach's Podcast of recent dharma talks. Or, copy and paste the RSS feed address: http://www.imcw.org/audio/TBPodcasts.xml into your favorite podcatcher.

A selection of Tara Brach's talks are also here.

The following books have been important dharma doors for members of the IMCW community.

* Recommended for beginners

Western Buddhism

Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think, (Harper San Francisco, 1995)*
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance -- Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, (Bantam, 2003)*
Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, (Shambhala, 1987)
Joseph Goldstein, One Dharma -- The Emerging Western Buddhism, (Harper, 2002)
Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English, (Wisdom Publications, 1991)
Gavin Harrison, In the Lap of the Buddha, (Shambhala,1994)*
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go There You Are -- Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, (Hyperion, 1994)*
Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart -- A Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, (Bantam Books,1993)*
Jack Kornfield (ed.), Teachings of the Buddha, (Shambhala, 1996)
Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry -- How the Heart Grows Wise o­n the Spiritual Path, (Bantam Books, 2000)
Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness -- The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, (Shambhala, 1995)
Sharon Salzberg, A Heart as Wide as the World -- Stories o­n the Path of Lovingkindness, (Random House, 1999)
Amy Schmidt, Knee Deep in Grace -- The Extraordinary Life and Teachings of Dipa Ma,with stories from Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein and others, (Present Perfect Books, 2003) See Dipa Ma Web site.
Nyanaponika Thera, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation – A Handbook of Mental Training Based o­n the Buddha’s Way of Mindfulness, (Samuel Weiser, 1965)

Zen

Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen, (Harper & Row,1989)
Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen, (Harper San Francisco, 1993)
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, (Weatherhill,1970)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home -- Jesus and Buddha as Brothers, (Riverhead Books, 1999)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha Living Christ, (Riverhead Books, 1995)
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Long Road Turns to Joy -- A Guide to Walking Meditation, (Parallax Press, 1996)*
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness, (Beacon Press, 1975)*

Tibetan Buddhism

Chandrakirti, Introduction to the Middle Way – Chandrakirti’s Madhyamakavatara with Commentary by Jamgon Mipham, (Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, 2002)
Dalai Lama, A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night -- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, (Shambhala, 1994)
Dalai Lama, The Good Heart -- Buddhist Perspectives o­n theTeachings of Jesus, (Wisdom Publications, 1996)
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness -- A Handbook for Living, (Riverhead Books, 1998)
Dalai Lama, Essence of the Heart Sutra -- The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings, (Wisdom, 2002)
Pema Chodron, Start Where You Are -- A Guide to Compassionate Living, (Shambhala, 1994)
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart -- Heart Advice for Difficult Times, (Shambhala, 1997)
Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You -- A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, (Shambhala, 2001)
Matthieu Ricard, Journey to Enlightenment -- The Life and World of Khyentse Rinpoche,Spiritual Teacher from Tibet, (Aperture, 1997)
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,(Harper San Francisco, 1992)
Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within -- Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World, (Broadway Books, 1997)
Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Fearless Simplicity -- The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World, (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2003)
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Rainbow Painting, (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1995)

Spiritual Journey

Malidoma Some', The Healing Wisdom of Africa -- Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community, (Tarcher/Putnam, 1999)
Stephen Levine, A Gradual Awakening, (Anchor Books,1979)
Stephen Levine, Healing Into Life and Death, (Doubleday,1987)
Stephen Levine, A Year to Live -- How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last, (Bell Tower, 1997)
Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar -- Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village, (Tarcher/Putnam, 1998)

The Natural World

Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, (Sierra Club Books,1988)
Thomas Berry, The Great Work -- Our Way into the Future,(Bell Tower, 1999)
Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life -- A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, (Anchor Books, 1996)
Fritjof Capra and David Steindl-Rast, Belonging to the Universe -- Explorations o­n the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality, (Harper San Francisco, 1992)
Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self, (Parallax Press, 1991)

Science and Buddhism

David Bohm and F. David Peat, Science, Order, and Creativity, Second Edition, (Routledge, 2000)
David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, (Routledge, 1981)
Joanna Macy, Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General System Theory -- The Dharma of Natural Systems, (State University of New York, 1991)
Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, The Tree of Knowledge - The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, (Shambhala, 1987)
Wes Nisker, Buddha Nature -- Evolution as a Practical Guide to Enlightenment, (Bantam Books, 1998)
Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan, The Quantum and the Lotus – Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet, (Crown, 2001)
Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind -- Cognitive Science and Human Experience, (MIT Press, 1991)
B. Alan Wallace, Choosing Reality, (Snow Lion, 1996)
Renee Weber, Dialogues with Scientists and Sages -- The Search for Unity, (Arkana, 1986)