How To Be - Resources

Shown below are links to some preliminary resources for our enquiry into How To Be.

"Mindfulness in Plain English" by the venerable Henepola Gunaratana  From the Introduction: This book is a 'How to.' It is written for those who actually want to meditate and especially for those who want to start now. Theravada Buddhism presents us with an effective system for exploring the deeper levels of the mind, down to the very root of consciousness itself. In this volume, we will make every effort to separate the ornamental and the fundamental and to present only the naked plain truth itself.

"Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English" --  This book is intended to serve as a clearly comprehensible meditators’ handbook, laying out the path of concentration meditation in a fashion as close to step-by-step as possible.Also, this book assumes you have readMindfulness In Plain English or something similar, that you have begun to cultivate a mindfulness practice, and that you are now ready to take the next step—beyond mindfulness.

"The Reality of Being" -- Jeanne de Salzmann  -- Based on notebooks kept by G. I. Gurdjieff's closest follower, this book offers new insight on his spiritual teaching --  a way of gnosis or "knowledge of being" passed on from remote antiquity.