What Now? Meditation For Your Twenties and Beyond: A Selected Bibliography

November 30th, 2017

What Now? Meditation For Your Twenties and Beyond shares mindfulness practices to help twenty-somethings learn to identify and accept powerful feelings and respond - not react - to stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them. Yael Shy offers expert guidance on beginning a meditation practice and explores how to bring that practice to love, sex, social media, justice, and the ups and downs of everyday life. Yael Shy will discuss What Now? Meditation For Your Twenties and Beyond Thursday 12/7, 6pm at the Co-Op.

Radical Dharma, by Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah - Mentioned extensively in social justice section of my book: This book explores the connections between Buddhism and justice in a rich, thoughtful, delightful way. Powerful and important!

The Way of Tenderness, by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel - This book is required reading for anyone finding their way to Zen who wants an openhearted, thoughtful approach to topics like race, gender, sexuality and love. Written in rich and poetic language, it's impossible not to be moved by this book.

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, by Mark Epstein - One of the most meaningful books to me at the start of my meditation journey. All of Mark Epstein's books blend psychology and Buddhism with an accessibility that makes them delightful to read.

Sit, Walk, Don't Talk, by Jennifer Howd - A new favorite! For anyone who is considering going on a meditation retreat. Howd's story is funny, honest, vulnerable and SO helpful in describing the difficulties and the rewards of the practice.

About Yael Shy: Yael Shy is the Founder and Director of MindfulNYU (the largest campus-wide meditation initiative in the country) and the Senior Director of the Center for Global Spiritual Life at New York University. She leads meditation workshops, classes, and retreats around the country and the world and teaches weekly at MindfulNYU and at the meditation studio MNDFL in NYC.

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Radical Dharma : Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

By: Williams, Angel Kyodo; Owens,

Paperback | $12.95 | 9781623170981

Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective...

Way of Tenderness : Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender

By: Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn

Paperback | $16.95 | 9781614291251

"What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?"

In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using...

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

By: Epstein, Mark

Paperback | $14.95 | 9780767902359

An intimate guide to self-acceptance and discovery that offers a Buddhist perspective on wholeness within the framework of a Western understanding of self.

For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is...

Sit, Walk, Don't Talk: How I Survived a Silent Meditation Retreat

By: Howd, Jennifer

Paperback | $14.95 | 9781941529706

Jennifer Howd had been building a mindfulness practice for a few years before taking on the challenge of her first nine-day silent meditation retreat. In this debut memoir, she chronicles the humorous--and often harrowing--adventures of the dueling inner voices that emerge in the silence: one...

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