MINDFULNESS​

Guided Meditations

 

• Guided Mindfulness Meditation (20 minutes) with Sharon Salzburg - Excellent! Stop surfing and practice!

• I love Andrea Fella's teaching. Here is a nice 20 minute concentration practice, emphasis on relaxation. Good stuff.

• Alan Wallace is an extraordinarily accomplished practitioner and scholar. At 14:55 of this podcast he leads a very relaxing and restorative concentration meditation. Lasts about 24 minutes. Nice to do while lying down, if you can stay awake.

• Several great meditations led by Kristen Neff of UT Austin

• Several brief (3 - 19 minutes) meditations from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

 

Books

 

• Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman

• ​Buddha's Brain: Resources for Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson

• The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield

• Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge by Alan Wallace

• The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind by Alan Wallace

• ​Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind by Jeffrey Hayward and Fransisco Varela

• Train Your Mind Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley

• Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by the Arahat Daniel Ingram

 

Websites

 

• ​Ken McLeod has done groundbreaking work in making Buddhist practice and theory fully accessible without diluting its essence. His website is called Unfettered Mind.

• Daniel Ingram writes very clearly and directly, if sometimes abrasively, about Buddhist practice. You can find his opus online in wiki form here.

• The Mindfulness Bell contains an archive of articles on a wide variety of topics related to meditation and Buddhism, many by the renowned teacher and author Thich Nhat Hanh.

• Mind and Life Institute - an organization working to integrate modern science and contemplative wisdom

• Mindfulness Research Guide - a database of published studies related to mindfulness

• Rick Hanson's Blog - Your Wise Brain - "Practical insights into happiness, love, and wisdom from psychology, neuroscience, and Buddhism"

• International Symposia for Contemplative Studies - another great collaboration of contemplatives and scientists​​

• Self-Compassion at UT Austin - the research laboratory of Dr. Kristen Neff

• Nalanda Institute - an organization providing education and mentoring in contemplative practices, particularly Tibetan Buddhism​

• Dan Siegel's Website - Dr. Siegel is an MD working to promote the field of interpersonal neurobiology - good stuff!

• Association for Mindfulness in Education - just what it sounds like

• Buddhist Geeks - a podcast of interviews with a diverse group of individuals working in the world of modern contemplative practice​

• Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at U Mass Medical School - the research organization founded by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn to study applications of mindfulness in health care

 

Videos

 

• Rick Hanson also provides an interesting lecture on the physiology of meditation and happiness. It's about an hour long, and very worth the time.