Resources

Articles:

Ruth King article: https://www.lionsroar.com/healing-the-broken-body-of-sangha/

Hanuman’s Goleman’s article: https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/checking-my-inner-world/

Atia Sattar:  https://tricycle.org/magazine/racism-in-buddhism/

About unconscious bias: https://www.lionsroar.com/what-do-you-see/

About unconcious bias: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/understanding_our_new_racial_reality_starts_with_the_unconscious

Lama Rod article: https://www.lionsroar.com/do-you-know-your-true-face/

Greg Snyder article: https://www.lionsroar.com/waking-up-to-whiteness/

Linda Heuman – Whose Buddhism is Truest? https://tricycle.org/magazine/whose-buddhism-truest/

Books:

Mindful of Race, Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, Ruth King

Deep Diversity, Overcoming Us vs. Them, Shakil Choudhury

White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, Larry Yang

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, Rev angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens w/ Jasmine Syedullah.

Talks:

http://gaybuddhist.org

INTRODUCTORY 
MEDITATION

  • Mindfulness 
in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
  • A Gradual Awakening by Stephen Levine
  • The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Nyanaponika Thera

GENERAL

Buddhism: 
A Concise Introduction by Huston Smith – one of the best basic books there is for general information on Buddhism

A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield

A Wise Heart by Jack Kornfield

          Eight-Fold Path by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart by Mark Epstein

Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein

Life of the Buddha – Bhikkhu Nanamoli

Mindfulness by Joseph Goldstein

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron

Spirit of the Buddha by Martine Batchelor

The Experience of Insight by Joseph Goldstein

The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Lovingkindness- The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg

Emptiness and Compassion by Bhikkhu Analayo

SUTTA 
STUDY

  • In the Buddha’s Words by Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Satipatthana: Direct Path to Realization by Analayo
  • The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Nanamoli
  • The Connected Discourses of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • The Dhammapada translated by Gil Fronsdal
  • The Long Discourses of the Buddha by Maurice Walshe

FURTHER READING


  • A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery by Kevin
Griffin
  • A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
  • After Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor
  • Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation by Larry
Rosenberg
  • Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hans
  • Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
  • Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor
  • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa
  • Dancing with Life by Phillip Moffitt
  • Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
  • Embracing the Beloved by Stephen Levine
  • Food for the Heart by Ajahn Chah
  • Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha’s Teaching on Voidness by Buddhadasa
Bhikkhu
  • Living with the Devil by Stephen Batchelor
  • The Sound of Silence by Ajahn Sumedho
  • Who Dies by Stephen Levine