Enlightenment Reading List

[WorthyBird]

Forgive me (and please re-direct me) if a similar thread already exists elsewhere, but thought it may be valuable to start a list of suggested readings on the topic(s) of enlightenment and consciousness work. Of course not suggesting these books will "make you enlightened" (you have to do the work etc), but you never know what may lead to new insights and I'm sure there are many others in the community who enjoy reading anything they can get their hands on related to the subject. I will start with a few favorites.

 

Suggested Readings:

The Book of Not Knowing (Peter Ralston)

Pursuing Consciousness (Peter Ralston)

This is It (Allan Watts, essay)

The Gospel of Thomas

Waking Up (Sam Harris)

[AlwaysBeNice]

Conversations with God by Neale Walsch (all parts free to read online, was on the NYT best seller list for 137 weeks, incredibly intelligent) http://www.universe-people.com/english/svetelna_knihovna/htm/en/en_kniha_conversations_with_god_1.htm p1

[WorthyBird]

If you are looking to seriously do the work, I can't recommend enough "The Book of Not Knowing". It's like a heavy-lifting book of consciousness work. 

[Emerald]

I just finished up with "The Science of Enlightenment" by Shinzen Young. It was really good, and I enjoy his writing style. His personality comes through well in the text.

[Hero in progress]

I really like this post, its a brilliant idea.

if we can get this going, and get lots of comment/suggestions I think it would really help everyone.

I'll give a little contribution to.

First of all Osho, this guy regardless of what you may of heard or what you think of him, he was very intelligent, he has tons of books on you name it zen, taoism,suffism, yoga, Buddhism ect. 

Few examples

The book of secrets.

The Art of dying. 

Courage, The joy of living dangerously.

Intuition, knowing beyond logic.

The Buddha said.

And so on.

[Primeval]

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali

The Gospel of Thomas

[Prabhaker]

The Orange Book: The Meditation Techniques of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/Meditation/OrangeBook.pdf

THIS Orange Book is a collection of meditation techniques that Osho has given over the years, together with extracts and quotations from the books of his morning discourses.

[Hero in progress]

Krishnamurti the way of intelligence

PDF download

Krishnamurti - The Way of Intelligence.pdf