David’s Bookshelf

David’s Bookshelf

A number of books have been placed on a bookshelf in the Turner Senior Resource Center to create a lending library. These are books that were originally in David Lawson’s personal collection.

Prose

A

  • Abhayagiri Monastery, “Chanting Book”
  • Analayo, “Perspectives on Satipatthana”
  • Analayo, “Satipatthana Meditation: A Practice Guide”
  • Analayo, “Satipatthana: A Direct Path to Realization”
  • Analayo, “Mindfulness of Breathing”
  • Analayo, “Rebirth in Early Buddhism and Current Research”
  • Analayo, “Early Buddhist Meditation Studies”
  • Analayo, “A Meditator’s Life of the Buddha”
  • Analayo, “Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhhist Meditation”
  • Analayo, “Early Buddhist Meditation Studies”
  • Amaro and Pasanno, “The Island”
  • Armstrong, Guy, “Emptiness”
  • Armstrong, Karen, “Buddha”

B

  • Bloom, Pamela, “Buddhist Acts of Compassion”
  • Bhikkhu Bodhi, “In the Buddha’s Words”
  • Bhikkhu Bodhi, translation, “The Suttanipata”
  • Bhikkhu Bodhi, translation, “The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha”
  • Bhikkhu Bodhi, translation, “The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha”
  • Brahm, “Mindfulness, Bliss and Beyond”
  • Brown, “Pointing Out the Great Way
  • Buddhadasa Bikkhu, “Under the Bodhi Tree”

C

  • Caplow and Moon, Editors, “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty Centuries of Awakened Women”
  • Chah, Ajahn, “The Key to Liberation”
  • Chang, “The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa”
  • Chodron, Pema, “The Places that Scare You”
  • Chodron, Pema, “When Things Fall Apart”
  • Chodron, Pema, “Start Where You Are”

D

  • Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron, “Buddhism”
  • Dalai Lama, “Engaging Wisdom and Compassion” (two copies)
  • Dalai, Lama, “Mind of Clear Light”
  • Dalai Lama, “Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, vol. 2, Mind”
  • Dalai Lama, “An Open Heart”
  • Defede, Jim, “The Day the World Came to Town”
  • Dilgo Khyentse” “Enlightened Courage”

E

  • Easwaran, Eknath, translator, “The Bhagavad Gita’

F

  • Flickstein, Matthew, “Swallowing the River Ganges”
  • Fryba, “The Art of Happiness”
  • Fryba, Nyanaponika, “The Heart of Buddhist Meditation”
  • Fryba, Mirko, “The Practice of Happiness”

G

  • Gandhi, M. K. “The Way to God”
  • Garfield, “The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way”
  • Gawain, Shakti, “Creative Visualization”
  • Kenpo Gawang, “Your Mind is Your Teacher”
  • Genoud, Charles, “Gestures of Awareness”
  • Ghosananda, Maha, “Step By Step”
  • Glassman, Bernie, “Bearing Witness”
  • Goldstein, Joseph, “One Dhamma”
  • Goldstein, Joseph and Kornfield, Jack, “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom”
  • Goleman, Daniel, “The Meditative Mind”
  • Gunaratana, Bhante, “Meditation on Perception”

H

  • Hongzhi, Zen Master, “Cultivating the Empty Field”
  • Hopkins, Jeffrey, “The Tantric Distinction”
  • Huber, Cheri, “There is Nothing Wrong with You”

I

  • Isherwood, Christopher, “How to Know God” — Pantanjali Yoga Sutra Aphorisms

J

  • Jotiko, Ajahn Fuang, “Awareness Itself”

K

  • Kapstein, “Reason’s Traces”
  • Khema, Ayra, “Who is My Self?”
  • Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, “Pointing Out the Dharmakaya”
  • Knaster, Mirka, “Living this Life Fully: Stories and Teachings of Munindra”
  • Kongtrul, Jamgon, “The Great Path of Awakening”
  • Kornfield, Jack and Breiter, Paul, “A Still Forest Pool”
  • Kornfield, Jack, “Living Dharma”
  • Kornfield, Jack, “A Path with Heart”

L

  • Lamrimpa, Gen, “Realizing Emptiness”
  • Levine, Stephen, “A Year to Live”
  • Levine, Stephen, “Who Dies?”
  • Lief, Judith, “Making Friends with Death”

M

  • Maitland, Arnaud, “Living Without Regret”
  • McLeod, Ken, “An Arrow to the Heart”
  • McLeod, Ken, “Reflections on Silver River”
  • Mipham, Sakyong, “Ruling Your World”
  • Morinaga, Soko, “The Ceasing of Notions”
  • Mukerjee, Dada, “By His Grace”
  • Mullen, Glenn, “Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama”

N

  • Nairn, Rob, “Living Dreaming Dying”
  • Namgyal, Dakpo Tashi, “Mahamudra – The Moonlight – Quintessence of Mind and Meditation”
  • Namkhai Norbu, “Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light” – (two copies)
  • Nanamoli, Bhikku, “The Life of the Buddha”
  • Nanasampajanno, Acariya Maha Boowa “Venerable Acariya Mun: Bhuridatta Thera”

O

  • Godman, David, “Be As You Are – The Teachings of Shri Ramana Maharshi”
  • Osborne, Arthur, “Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”
  • Osborne, Arthur, “The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi”
  • Osborne, Arthur, “The Essential Teachings of Ramana Marharshi: A Visual Journey”
  • Osborne, Arthur, “For Those with Little Dust”
  • Osborne, Arthur, “Ramana Maharshi”

P

  • Packer, Toni, “The Works of this Moment”
  • Padmasambhava, “Natural Liberation”
  • Paine, Jeffrey, “Re-Enchantment”
  • Patrul Rimpoche, “The Words of My Perfect Teacher”
  • Pine, Red, “The Platform Sutta: The Zen Teaching of Hue-Neng”
  • Pine, Red, “The Diamond Sutra”

Q

R

  • Ram Dass, compilation, “Miracle of Love”
  • Ricard and Thuan, “The Quantum and the Lotus”
  • Ricard and Revel, “The Monk and the Philosopher”
  • Robbins, James, “Build a Better Budd
  • Rosenberg, Larry, “Living in the Light of Death”

S

  • Sachs, Robert, “Rebirth into Pure Lan
  • Sogyal Rimpoche “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying”
  • Sucitto Bhikkhu, “The Dawn of the Dhamma”
  • Swami Sivananda Radha, “Divine Light Invocation”

T

  • Thera, Nyamaponika, “The Vision of Dhamma”
  • Thera, Nyamaponika, “The Four Sublime States”
  • Thera, Nyamaponika, “The Heart if Buddhist Meditation”
  • Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Blooming of a Lotus”
  • Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Heart of Understanding”
  • Thurman, Robert, “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”
  • Chogyam Trungpa, “The Path of Individual Liberation”
  • Chogyam Trungpa, “The Collected Works”
  • Chogyam Trungpa, “The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness”

U

V

  • Verghese, Abraham, “My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story”

W

  • Wallace, Alan, “Buddhism with an Attitude”
  • Wenger, Michael, editor, “Wind Bell”
  • Wilbur, Ken, “The Essential Ken Wilber”
  • Wilbur, Ken, “No Boundary”

X

Y

  • Yen, Chan Master Sheng, “The Method of No Method”

Z

Poetry

A

  • Aitken, Robert, “The Dragon Who Never Sleeps”

B

  • Bly, Robert, “The Soul is Here for its Own Joy”
  • Bly, Robert, “The Kabir Book”
  • Bobin, Christian, “The Secret of Francis of Assisi”
  • Byron, “The Heart of Awareness”

C

  • Cohen, Leonard, “The Flame”
  • Cohen, Leonard, “Beautiful Losers”
  • Cohen, Leonard, “Book of Longing”

D

E

  • Eliot, T. S., “Four Quartets”

F

G

H

  • Hafiz, “The Subject Tonight is Love”
  • Hafiz, “I Heard God Laughing”

I

J

K

L

M

  • Merton, Thomas, “The Way of Chuang Tzu”

N

  • Nepo, Mark, “Reduced to Joy”

O

P

Q

R

S

  • Snyder, “Snyder, Gary, “Left Out in the Rain”

T

U

V

W

  • Weingast, Matty, “The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns”

X

Y

Z

DVD’S

(listed alphabetically by title)

  • “Brilliant Moon – Dilgo Kyentse”
  • “Koyaanisgatsi: Life Out of Balance”n — Directed by Godfrey Reggio, Music by Phillip Glass
  • “Milarepa/Magician, Murderer, Saint” — A Film by Neten Chokling
  • “Prajna Earth/ Journey into Sacred Nature” — Narrated by Sharon Stoe, Direct Pictures, Sacred Journe
  • “Teachings on Milarepa”—Shining Moon Productions
  • “The Four Dharmas of Campopa” – by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
  • “The Lion’s Roar” – Portrait of the 16th Century Gyalwa Karmapa
  • “The Tibetan Book of the Dead / A Way of Life. The Great Liberation” – Narrated by Leonard Cohen
  • “The Yogis of Tibet: A Film for Posterity” — Jehn Films
  • “Vajra Sky Over Tibet” – Direct Pictures, Sacred Journey 3
  • “Voices of Truth / Twenty-First Century Mystics Share Their Vision for World Peace” –
  • Executive Producer: Matthew Flickstein, Co-Producer: Carol Flickstein. Director/DP: Eric Temple
  • “With One Voice / Awaken to the Reality that Unites Us All” — Forest Way Productions, Matthew Flickstein and friends

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