South Bay Insight LA
Books
Embracing Life As It Is
Lessons From Wabi-Sabi, Haiku and Zen
Your Heart Was Made For This:
Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love
Emptiness Dancing
The Ego, Illusion, Compassion, Letting Go, the Eternal Now, and More
Turtle Island
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1975
Wake Up Grateful
The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted
True Refuge
Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
When Awareness Becomes Natural
A Guide to Cultivating Mindfulness in Everyday Life
The Power of Mind
A Tibetan Monk’s Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge
Don't Tell Me To Relax
Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs
Ralph de la Rosa
Referenced in the April 2025 Contemplation
A Year To Live
How To Live This Year As If It Were Your Last
Stephen Levine
The text for SBILA's "A Year To Live" Community Offering
Each Moment Is The Universe
Zen and the Way of Being Time
Dainin Katagiri
Referenced in the December 2024 Contemplation
Peace Is Every Step
The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Thich Nhat Hanh
Referenced in the November 2024 Contemplation
Unseen Beings
How We Forgot The World Is More Than Human
Eric Jampa Andersson
Referenced in the October 2024 Contemplation
Bring Me the Rhinoceros
And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
John Tarrant
The text for the South Bay Study Group 2024-2025
Zen in the Age of Anxiety
Wisdom for Navigating our Modern Lives
Tim Burkett
Referenced in the August 2024 Contemplation
A Healing Space
Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times
By Matt Licata, PhD
Referenced in the July 2024 Contemplation
The Big Bang, The Buddha, And The Baby Boom
The Spiritual Experiments Of My Generation
By Wes "Scoop" Nisker
The Dharma Book Club Selection, June 2024
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
A Buddhist Perspective On Wholeness
By Mark Epstein, MD
Referenced in the May 2024 Contemplation
Bittersweet
How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By Susan Cain
The Dharma Book Club Selection, February 2024
Sacred Instructions
Indigenous Wisdom of Living Spirit-Based Change
By Sherri Mitchell
The Dharma Book Club Selection, November 2023
Upside Down Zen
Finding the Marvelous in the Ordinary
By Susan Murphy
Referenced in the October 2023 Contemplation
Singing and Dancing are the Voice of the Law
A Commentary on Hakuin's "Song of Zazen"
By Busshō Lahn
Referenced in the August 2023 Contemplation
The Dude and the Zen Master
A Conversation
By Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman
The Dharma Book Club selection, September 2023
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
By the Bestselling Author of A History of God
By Karen Armstrong
The Dharma Book Club selection, July 2023
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Dharma Book Club selection, May 2023
The Zen Master's Dance
A Guide to Understanding Dogen and Who You are in the Universe
By Jundo Cohen
Referenced in the May 2023 Contemplation
AWE
The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By Dacher Keltner
The Dharma Book Club selection, March 2023
How We Live Is How We Die
A Shambhala Press Publication
By Pema Chodron
The Dharma Book Club selection, January 2023
Relational Mindfulness
A Handbook for Deepening Our Connections with Ourselves, Each Other, and the Planet
By Deborah Eden Tull
The Dharma Book Club selection, October 2022
Buddha's Nature
A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos
By Wes Nisker
Referenced in the September 2022 Contemplation
In Love with the World
A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Referenced in the August 2022 Contemplation
The Beginner's Guide to Walking the Buddha's Eightfold Path
A Jean Smith Guide
By Jean Smith
The Dharma Book Club selection, August 2022
Pass It On
Five Stories That Can Change the World
By Joanna Macy and Norbert Gahbler
The Dharma Book Club selection, June 2022
Ten Poems to Set You Free
Ten Poems Series
By Roger Housden
The Dharma Book Club selection, April 2022
Say What You Mean
How to Find Your Voice, Speak Your Truth & Listen Deeply
By Oren Jay Sofer
The Dharma Book Club selection, February 2022
Wintering
The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By Katherine May
Referenced in the January, 2022 Contemplation
The Dharma of Poetry
How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy
By John Brehm
The Dharma Book Club selection, December 2021
Dipa Ma
The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
By Amy Schmidt
The Dharma Book Club selection, October 2021
In Paradise
A Novel
By Peter Matthiessen
Referenced in the September, 2021 Contemplation, and the Dharma Book Club selection, September 2021
Ten Poems for Difficult Times
Ten Poems Series
By Roger Housden
Referenced at the Palos Verdes Practice Group, July 25, 2021
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
By David A Treleaven
Referenced at the Palos Verdes Practice Group, July 25, 2021
The Transformation
Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma
By James S. Gordon M.D.
Referenced at the Palos Verdes Practice Group, July 25, 2021
The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Referenced at the Palos Verdes Practice Group, July 25, 2021
Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By Suzanne Simard
The South Bay InsightLA Dharma Book Club Selection, July 2021
What the Buddha Taught
Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
By Walpola Rahula
Referenced at the Mary and Joseph Retreat Center Meditation, June 20, 2021
The Deepest Peace
Contemplations from a Season of Stillness
By Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Referenced in the June, 2021 Contemplation
The Grace in Aging
Awaken as You Grow Older
By Kathleen Dowling Singh
Referenced at the Palos Verdes Practice Group, May 9, 2021
When You Greet Me I Bow
Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen
By Norman Fischer
Referenced in the May, 2021Contemplation and the Dharma Book Club August, 2021 Selection
Drinking from the River of Light
The Life of Expression
By Mark Nepo
Referenced at the South Bay InsightLA Dharma Workshop "Haiku by our Sangha" March, 2021
Haiku Mind
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
By Patricia Donegan
Referenced at the South Bay InsightLA Dharma Workshop "Spring Breeze: A Haiku Workshop" March, 2021
The Hidden Lamp
Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
Edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon
Referenced during February 9th RB Practice Group
A Fierce Heart
Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment
by Spring Washam
The South Bay InsightLA Dharma Book Club Selection, March 2021
Grieving is Loving
Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable
by Joanne Cacciatore
Referenced at South Bay InsightLA Dharma Kitchen, February, 2021
Awake in the Wild
Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery
by Mark Coleman
Referenced at the South Bay InsightLA Special Event "Awake in the Wild" February, 2021
Active Hope
How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy
by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Referenced in the January, 2021 Contemplation
not about dinosaurs
(Poetry from our very own Linda!)
Yoga Nidra
A Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing
by Richard Miller
Referenced at the South Bay InsightLA Special Event, "Yoga Nidra: Waking Up to Deeper Intentions" December, 2020
Waking Up to the Dark
Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
by Clark Strand
Referenced in the December, 2020 Contemplation
True Refuge
Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
by Tara Brach, Ph.D.
Referenced at the Palos Verdes Meditation Practice Group, October 11, 2020
Rabindranath Tagore
The Myriad-Minded Man
by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson
Referenced in the September, 2020 Contemplation
Training in Compassion
Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
by Norman Fischer
Referenced during August 4th RB Sitting Group
See No Stranger
A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
by Valarie Kaur
Referenced in our August, 2020 Contemplation
America's Racial Karma
An Invitation to Heal
by Larry Ward, PhD
Referenced in our July, 2020 Contemplation
Standing at the Edge
Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
by Roshi Joan Halifax
Referenced in our June, 2020 Contemplation
Unlearning Meditation
What to do when instructions get in the way
by Jason Siff
Referenced at the Redondo Beach Practice Group, Guest Speaker Jason Siff "The Power of Remembering" dharma talk.
Thoughts are not the enemy
An innovative approach to meditation practice
by Jason Siff
Referenced at the Redondo Beach Practice Group, Guest Speaker Jason Siff "The Power of Remembering" dharma talk.
The Places that Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron
Referenced at the Redondo Beach Practice Group, "Sowing the Seeds of Compassion" dharma discussion.
Awaken Every Day
365 Buddhist Reflections to Invite Mindfulness and Joy
by Thubten Chodron
Referenced in our March, 2020 Contemplation
Buddha Is As Buddha Does
The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living
by Lama Surya Das
Referenced in our December, 2019 Contemplation
The Little Book of Being
Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness
by Diana Winston
Referenced in our October, 2019 Contemplation