Secular Buddhism reading list

Borrowed from the Secular Buddhism podcast page

• No Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners - Noah Rasheta
• *After Buddhism – Stephen Batchelor
• *Altruism – Matthieu Ricard
• At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace by Claude Anshin Thomas
• Awakening is Real – Jack Kornfield
• Basic Buddhist Concepts – Mizuno
• Be an Island: The Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace - Ayya Khema
• *Become What you Are – Alan Watts
• *Beyond Religion – Dalai Lama
• *Bright Dawn – S.K. Kubose
• *Bring me the Rhinoceros – John Tarrant
• *Buddha – Karen Armstrong
• *Buddha’s Brain – Rick Hanson
• Buddhism for Busy People – David Michie
• *Buddhism Without Beliefs – Stephen Batchelor
• Confession of a Buddhist Atheist – Stephen Batchelor
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism – Trungpa
• Ethics for the New Millennium – Dalai Lama
• *Everyday Suchness – Gyomay Kubose
• Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better – Pema Chodron
• Gautama Buddha – Vishvapani Blomfield
• Great Disciples of the Buddha – Nyanaponika Thera & Hellmuth Hecker
• How to Practice: The way to a Meaningful Life – Dalai Lama
• In the Buddha’s Words – Bhikkhu Bodhi
• Living Buddha, Living Christ – Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mahamudra for the Modern World – Reginald Ray
• Mahayana Buddhism – Beatrice Lane
• *No Self, No Problem – Anam Thubten
• *Old Path White Clouds – Thich Nhat Hanh
• *On the Path to Enlightenment – Matthieu Ricard
• Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
• *Rebel Buddha – Dzogchen Ponlop
• *Secular Buddhism – Noah Rasheta
• *Secular Buddhism – Stephen Batchelor
• Shakyamuni Buddha – Niwano
• Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
• Smile at Fear – Chogyam Trungpa
• The Art of Communicating – Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Art of Happiness – Thich Nhat Hanh
• *The Book of Joy – Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, with Douglass Abrams
• *The Buddha is Still Teaching – Jack Kornfield
• *The Center Within – Kubose
• The Essence of Buddhism – Traleg Kyabgon
• The Essential Dogen – Dogen
• The Heart of the Buddha – Trungpa
• The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching – Thich Nhat Hanh
• *The Magic of Awareness – Anam Thubten
• The Myth of Freedom – Trungpa
• The Path is the Goal – Trungpa
• The Skill of Happiness – Matthieu Ricard
• The Universe in a Single Atom – Dalai Lama
• The Way of the Bodhisattva – Shantideva
• The Way of Zen – Alan Watts
• Thoughts Without a Thinker – Mark Epstein
• Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness – Trungpa
• Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life – Karen Armstrong
• *Untangling Self – Olendzki
• What Makes you Not a Buddhist – Khyentse
• *Why Buddhism is True – Robert Wright
• Why I am a Buddhist – Stephen Asma
• You are Here – Thich Nhat Hanh
• Zen Koans – Gyomay Kubose
  Finding Our True Home - Thich Nhat Hanh

Spiritual teachers / philosophers / speakers to study

Great philosophers

The Dalai Lama
Thich Nhat Hanh
Socrates
Bertrand Russell

Authors

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Daniel Amen
Daniel Goleman
Piero Ferruci
Eckhart Tolle
Viktor E. Frankl (read Man's Search For Meaning again)
Byron Katie (read Loving What Is, recommended by Daniel Amen)

Podcasters

Noah Rasheta
Jay Shetty

Not sure of what category to put them in yet

Pema Chodron
Shunryu Suzuki
Stephen Batchelor
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ajahn Sumedho

Future You

This is a cool video series that looks at how technology will change how human beings are by 2050.

Jay Shetty and Dr. Daniel Amen

I really love Jay Shetty's podcast - it's inspirational and educational.  In the current podcast, he interviews Dr. Daniel Amen, who (so far as I've listened) talks about the brain, patterns, and how to have conscious control over the truth of your thoughts.

He references Byron Katie's "Loving What Is", which is now on my library hold list.

(to be continued as I listen more)

D Beat and new punk bands

I've been checking out some really cool D Beat bands, which I didn't even know was a subgenre.  I really like them - Wolfbrigade, Skitsystem and Disfear.  I need to find more.

I've also been listening to newer punk bands, to get some inspiration for a drummer I'm playing with.  I've been listening to The Bronx, E>K>U>K, Gallows, The Drips, and Poison Idea.