{"id":1451,"date":"2026-08-19T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/tools-of-practice-appendix\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:05:26","slug":"tools-of-practice-appendix","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/tools-of-practice-appendix\/","title":{"rendered":"Appendix: Authors, Reading List &#038; Words to Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This page is an appendix to the teacher article <a href=\"\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/tools-of-practice\/\">Tools of Practice<\/a>, gathering the authors, reading list, and vocabulary words referenced there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"authors-to-study\">Authors to Study<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bhante Gunaratana<\/li><li>Bhikkhu Bodhi<\/li><li>Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/li><li>Joseph Goldstein<\/li><li>Jack Kornfield<\/li><li>Roshi Philip Kapleau<\/li><li>Sayadaw U Pandita<\/li><li>Sharon Salzberg<\/li><li>Stephen Batchelor<\/li><li>Thich Nhat Hanh<\/li><li>Thubten Chodron<\/li><li>Toni Packer<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"reading-list\">Reading List<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Breath by Breath<\/strong> by Larry Rosenberg<\/li><li><strong>Mindfulness in Plain English<\/strong> by Bhante Gunaratana<\/li><li><strong>Lovingkindness<\/strong> by Sharon Salzberg<\/li><li><strong>Old Path White Clouds<\/strong> by Thich Nhat Hanh<\/li><li><strong>What the Buddha Taught<\/strong> by Walpola Rahula<\/li><li><strong>The Dhammapada with commentary<\/strong> by Glenn Wallis<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"words-to-practice\">Words to Practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">action, awaken, awareness, belief, blame, breath, calm, cause, compassion, conscious, craving, critical, curiosity, deception, dependent, desire, direct, discipline, doubt, ego, emptiness, energy, enlightenment, equanimity, evidence, expectation, experience, expert, faith, fear, foundation, gain, generosity, habit, ignorance, impasse, impermanence, inquiry, insight, investigation, joy, judgement, knowledge, loss, meditation, memory, mind, mindfulness, morality, natural, nothingness, pain, patience, peace, pleasure, practice, praise, presence, purify, reaction, release, response, restless, retreat, self, sensation, serenity, skeptical, skilfulness, soft, spirit, stillness, student, study, suppress, teacher, thinking, tradition, train, trust, unconscious, understanding, unsatisfactoriness, vipassana, vitality, whole, wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8592; Back to <a href=\"\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/tools-of-practice\/\">Tools of Practice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is an appendix to the teacher article Tools of Practice, gathering the authors, reading list, and vocabulary words referenced there. Authors to Study Bhante Gunaratana Bhikkhu Bodhi Jon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/tools-of-practice-appendix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appendix: Authors, Reading List &#038; Words to Practice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"inspiro_hide_title":false,"inspiro_hide_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1451","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1451\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}