Selected Readings

The Metta Sutta

 

 

Ajahn Viradhammo

• The Contemplatives Craft (PDF)
• The Stillness of Being (PDF)

Ayya Khema: 
Here and Now – Ten Dhamma Talks from a Meditation Retreat at Pelmadulla Bhikkhu Training Centre, Sri Lanka:

• Appreciation/ Preface
• The Meditative Mind
• Skillful Means
• Awake and Aware
• Supreme Efforts
• Expansion in Consciousness
• Kamma is Intention
• Spiritual Faculties
• Steps on the Way
• Pathways to Power
• Making the Most of Each Day
• Glossary

Bhikkhu Bodhi: 

• The Noble Eightfold Path
• Giving Dignity to Life
• Vesak Address to the United Nations – May 2000
• The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: Now Available from Wisdom Publications!

Ajahn Brahmavamso:

• The Basic Method of Meditation
• Using Non-Self To Let Go

Various Writers:

• Buddha Dhamma Teaching –  by Ajahn Chah (LINK)
• BuddhaSasana – A Buddhist Page by Binh Anson (LINK)
• How to Defend the Republic,  by S.N. Goenka  (LINK)

• Teachings by Ajahn Chah’s Disciples, Forest Sangha (LINK)

 

Selected Suttas

• Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
• Satipatthana Sutta:  Frames of Reference
• Kalama Sutta:  The Buddha’s Charter on Free Inquiry
• Metta Sutta: The Buddha’s Discourse on Loving-Kindness
• Aditta-Pariyaaya Sutta: The Fire Sermon
• Dhammapada translation: by Venerable Achariya Buddharakhita