recommended resources

Books

• How to Be Sick
  Toni Bernard

• The Brain that Changes Itself, The Brain’s Way of Healing
  Norman Doidge

• True Refuge, Radical Acceptance
  Tara Brach

• In the Lap of the Buddha
  Gavin Harrison
  (on AIDS but useful for all terminal illness)

• Turning Suffering Inside Out
  Darlene Cohen

• Medicine and Meditation
  Nancy A. Welch

• Karma: What It Is, What It Isn’t, Why It Matters
  Traleg Kyabgon

• Dancing w/ Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning in the Face of Suffering
  Phillip Moffitt

• The Grace in Dying : How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die
  Kathleen D. Singh

• Break Through Pain: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming Chronic and Acute Pain
  Shinzen Young

Articles and Essays

• Back from the Brink
  Jim Willems, published in Buddhadharma magazine

• Love Is All Around
  John Makransky

• The Buddha’s Eight Worldly Winds
  Stephanie Noble

• A Buddhist’s Perspective on Grieving
  Joan Halifax

• Learning to Fall
  Philip Simmons, published in Tricycle magazine

• Forget the Lotus Position: How to Meditate — ADHD Style

By Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo, B.S., A.C.T., SCAC, published in ADDitude magazine