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Tao & Longevity: Mind-Body Transformation by Nan Huai-Chin

This is absolutely a mandatory basic beginner's book on spiritual cultivation regardless of your religious calling, no questions about it. If you want to learn meditation for real spiritual growth, this book is a MUST! It not only explains the physical changes you will experience on the spiritual path, but also contains insights into holistic medicine and complete lessons on Taoism, Buddhism, Tantra, yoga, internal alchemy and Zen. If you don't know the material on jing (ching), chi (qi) and shen alone then you don't know anything about spiritual cultivation. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika doesn't have even a fraction of the material in this book, which should be every meditator's beginner's book. If you could only select just one book from this list, then get this one and study it.

Twenty-Five Doors to Meditation: A Handbook for Entering Samadhi by William Bodri and Lee Shu-Mei

Most books about meditation never tell you why meditation works, and they only aim at helping you calm your mind rather than attain any genuine spiritual stage of spiritual awakening. This book is different. It not only teaches you 25 different meditation methods -- which is far more than you'll find elsewhere -- but it actually explains why those methods work using an interdisciplinary approach that links cultivation teachings from dozens of spiritual schools. Kundalini, sexual cultivation, pranayama breathing methods, mindfulness, mantras, chakras, centering prayer -- they're all here along with advanced material (and references) that blow other meditation primers away. Best to study this with a group so that more people benefit.

Working Toward Enlightenment: The Cultivation of Practice by Nan Huai-Chin

This book is the first half of a two volume set, the second volume being To Realize Enlightenment listed below. This cultivation material is extremely advanced and touches upon almost every facet of spiritual cultivation--meditation techniques to use, spiritual barriers you'll encounter, physical kung-fu you'll experience, psychic powers, cultivating samadhi and dhyana, the three realms of existence, the dharmakaya-sambhogakaya-nirmanakaya bodies of spiritual cultivation, and so on. It's heavily oriented to Zen, Buddhism, Taoism, Tibetan esotericism and Chinese culture. Before you delve into this material, it's better to read Tao and Longevity first.

To Realize Enlightenment: Practice of the Cultivation Path by Nan Huai-Chin

This is the second half of the two volume set, the first half listed above. Within these two books Nan Huai-Chin lays out the complete structure of the universal cultivation path that's found in the world's genuine religions. A very advanced book that references hundreds of Buddhist and Taoist scriptures and touches upon countless topics of the path to enlightenment. Don't dare attempt reading this set until you have already read Tao and Longevity.

Basic Buddhism: Exploring Buddhism and Zen by Nan Huai-Chin

In this scholarly work, Nan Huai-Chin sets straight the history of Zen and history of Buddhism, and in particular the transmission of Buddhism into China and the establishment of the Zen monastic system. This is the only book in print with detailed translations of the Chinese monastic rules of discipline relevant to the re-establishment of monastic training centers today. Together with The Story of Chinese Zen, these two books paint a picture of the history of Chinese Buddhism, Zen and the path to enlightenment which corrects many mistaken notions propagated by the scholars and cultivation schools of today.

Socrates and the Path to Enlightenment by William Bodri

Most books on Socrates discuss his use of semantics, but this one is different in that it pulls apart Plato's writings to prove that Socrates had attained samadhi and prajna wisdom, had cultivated his character to reflect a high state of virtue, and taught many of the standard enlightenment teachings of the Tao. He is shown to be the "first Zen master of the West," and yet western philosophy has neglected his instructions on how to cultivate the Tao which is why the houses of science, philosophy and religion built upon his foundations have leaned toward materialism ever since. If you're a teacher who wants to influence the course modern education and reestablish the path of "true learning," this book is a must read; correct the earliest educational depatures from Socrates' original message, and the whole educational tower tends to naturally straighten of itself.