Recommended reading materials.....
The best resource you can rely upon when it comes to true learning is your own personal experience. Life is a gift to be explored, learned from and enjoyed. Immerse yourself in it, in all its ups and downs its challanges and beauty. Throw yourself into your life experience like there is no tomorrow, smell the wind, feel the air, taste the one hundred thousand things, but do so with non-attachment an attitude of immersion yet watching as all things pass by like autumn leaves in the wind, transient, fragile yet intensely estatic. Books of course are useful and reading or listening to anothers experience along the path to awakening is important. But remember these are not your experiences, yours are unique to you, although anothers may and will inspire you.
Meditation/mindfulness practices are a great forum for self exploration and learning. Yoga with the assistance of a good teacher, one who understands and practices the relationship between mind and body,a true gift. There is nothing quite like being in the presence of one who embodies truth ! It has a certain aroma,a quality of energy, a resting place, that can be gently explored and learned from while sitting and absorbing thee qualities.
We are sentient beings and I truly believe this quality of absorbtion is one of our more important methods of true learning.
But by all means read on and be inspired by the list of books below which I will keep adding to as I am an ardent reader, but attune kindly to your own experiences and do not undermine or deny them.
In light and blessings
Mary
Barbara Anne Brennans
Hands of Light,
Light Emerging.
Alberto Villoldo
Shaman Healer sage.
Tenzin Wangyl Rinpoche (Tibetan Bon Tradition).
Healing with Form, Energy and Light in Shamanism, Tantra and Dzogchen.
Wonders of the natural mind.
The Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep.
Sogyal Rinpoche (Ningma, Tibetan Buddist Tradition).
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
Mantak Chia
Taoist Secrets of Love
Cultivating male sexual energy.
Mantak and Maneewan Chia
Healing Love Through the Tao.
Cultivating Female sexual energy.
Miranda Shaw
Passionate Enlightenment.
Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson
Dancing in the Flames.
The dark Goddess in the transformation of consciousness.
Tulku Thondup
The Healing Power of Mind.
Dr. Yeshe Dhonden
Healing from the Source,
The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine.
The Ambrosia Heart Tantra.
Morag Campbel
A Promise Kept.
A.H. Almass
Essence with the Elixer of Enlightenment.
Namkhai Norbu
Dream Yoga
and the Practice of the Natural Light.
Khempo Palden Sherab Rinpoche
Ceaseless Echos of the Great Silence.
A Commentary on the Heart Sutra.
Thinley Norbu
Magic Dance
The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis.
Th essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddism.
Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart by
Radmila Moacanin
Masters of the Living Energy
The Mystical World of the Qero by
Joan Parisi Wilcox
Embracing the Beloved
Relationship as a path to awakening.
Stephen and Ondrea Levine
Luminous Emptiness
Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Francesca Fremantle
