Calm Abiding and Special Insight (Geshe Gedun Lodro)

Full Title: Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation
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(This is a revised edition of the earlier Walking Through Walls). Gedun Lodro’s approach is similar to Jam-yang-shay-ba’s classic Great Exposition of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions. See also the teachings in Lati Rinbochay’s Meditative States [...]

Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient (Will Johnson)

Full Title: Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness
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Excellent introduction to how to sit and the importance of awareness of body sensations. Most thoughts are reactions to subtle sensations in the body. The thoughts dissipate attention so that we never experience those sensations. Following the instructions [...]

Creation and Completion (Jamgon Kontrul)

Full Title: Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation
Major Topic: creation and completion phase practice in Vajrayana
Level: experienced and advanced
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Practical exposition of the key points in Vajrayana practice and how to integrate the many different elements of this form of practice. For Vajrayana practitioners, this book will [...]

Wake Up To Your Life (Ken McLeod)

Full Title: Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
Major Topic: how to practice Buddhism
Level: all levels
A comprehensive manual, almost an encyclopedia, of practice methods, starting with basic meditation and ending with the experience of no separation. The methods are derived principally from the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. The commentary is likely [...]

Clarifying the Natural State (Dakpo Tashi Namgyal)

Full Title: Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra
Major Topic: Mahamudra, direct awareness practice
Level: experienced and advanced
Very accessible, succinct, and precise meditation manual for the practice of Mahamudra meditation. Best studied thoroughly with a qualified teacher. If you’ve had instruction in mahamudra, this book will clarify many practice points.

Golden Letters (John Myrdhin Reynolds)

Full Title: Golden Letters
Major Topic: dzogchen, direct awareness
Level: experienced and advanced
Detailed commentary on the three instructions of Garob Dorje, the basis of all Dzogchen practice. Best studied thoroughly with a qualified teacher. If you’ve had instruction in dzogchen or mahamudra, this book will clarify many practice points.

Eight Simple Qigong Exercises for Health (Jwing-Ming Yang)

Full Title: Eight Simple Qigong Exercises for Health: The Eight Pieces of Brocade
Major Topic: qigong
Level: all levels
Simple set of exercises that helps to balance the energy generated in meditation practice. Do the exercises regularly and you will feel better in mind and body.

Lamp of Mahamudra (Tsele Natsok Rangdrol & Erik Pema Kunsang)

Full Title: Lamp of Mahamudra
Major Topic: Mahamudra, direct awareness practice
Level: experienced and advanced
Concise, comprehensive treatment of Mahamudra meditation. This is a practice manual. Study the fundamentals and let the richness of the teachings unfold in your practice.

Mindfulness in Plain English (Bhante Henepola Gunaratana)

Full Title: Mindfulness in Plain English: Updated and Expanded Edition
Major Topic: Mindfulness
Level: all levels
Simple, clear explanation of how to approach meditation and the practice of mindfulness. A good way to clear up misconceptions about mindfulness and meditation and keep your practice on track.

Breath by Breath (Larry Rosenberg)

Full Title: Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation
Major Topic: Using the breath as a basis for mindfulness.
Level: all levels
Contemporary commentary of one of the fundamental sutras of Buddhism–The Full Awareness of Breathing Sutra. This and the Foundations of Mindfulness Sutra are the basic practice texts of both Zen and Theravada Buddhism.. [...]