rabbi_david_cooper___ bibliography


Below is a recommended reading list, prepared by Rabbi Cooper,
of titles of importance to contemplatives. Clicking the title
will take you to a detail page on Amazon.com, where you may
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Al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness, Muhammad Ashraf (Lahore), 1964

Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing, Harper San Francisco, 2004.

Arberry, A.J., Sufism, Dover, 2001

Attar, Fariduddin, Muslim Saints and Mystics, Arkana, 1990

Attar, Fariduddin, The Conference of the Birds, Penguin, 1984

Augustine, St., Confessions, Spire, 2005

Behari, Bankey, Sufis, Mystics and Yogis of India, Bhavan's Book University (Bombay, India), 1962

Bennett, John G., Long Pilgrimage, Dawn Horse Press (Clearlake, California), 1983

Ben-Amos, D., and Mintz, J.R, trans., In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov, Schocken Books (New York), 1970

Boehme, Jacob, Mysterium Magnum, Lutterworth, 2002

Bokser, Ben Zion, The Jewish Mystical Tradition, Pilgrim Press (New York), 1981

Bokser, Ben Zion, Abraham Isaac Kook, Paulist Press (New York), 1978

Brown, Raphael trans., The Little Flowers of St. Francis, Doubleday (Garden City, New York), 1958

Buber, Martin, The Legend of the Baal-Shem, Schocken Books (New York), 1955

Buber, Martin, Tales of the Hasidim, (2 vol.) Schocken Books (New York), 1947

Buber, Martin collected by, Esther Cameron trans., Paul Mendes-Flohr ed., Ecstatic Confessions, Syracuse, 1996

Chah, Ven. Ajahn, Jack Kornfield & Paul Breiter ed., A Still Forest Pool, The Theosophical Publishing House (Wheaton, Ill.) 1985

Chogyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom, Shambhala (Berkeley, California), 1976

Deshimaru, Taisen, Sit: Zen Teachings, Hohm, 1996

Dionysius The Areopagite, The Divine Names, Mystical Theology, Ibis, 2004

Faris, Amin Nabih trans., The Mysteries of Purity, Kitab Bhavan, 1992

Foster, R.J., Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, Harper San Francisco, 1988

Frankl, Viktor E., Man's Search for Meaning, Simon & Schuster (New York), 1963

Gibran, Kahlil, The Prophet, Random House (New York), 1923

Ginzberg, Louis, The Legends of the Jews (6 vol.), Jewish Publication society of America (Philadelphia), 1982

Godman, David ed., The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Arkana (London & New York), 1985

Goldstein, Joseph, The Experience of Insight, Shambhala (Boston), 1983

Goleman, Daniel, Varieties of the Meditative Experience, E.P. Dutton (New York), 1977

Govinda, Anagarika, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism, According to the Esoteric Teachings of the Great Mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, S. Weiser (New York), 1970

Herrigel, Eugene, Zen in the Art of Archery, Random House (New York), 1974

Heschel, Abraham, The Sabbath, Farrar, Straus, Giroux (New York), 1951

Hesse, Herman, Siddhartha, New Directions (New York), 1951

Ignatius, St., Anthony Mottola trans., The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Doubleday (Garden City, New York), 1964

Jacobs, Louis, Hassidic Prayer, Schocken Books (New York), 1972

Jacobs, Louis, Hasidic Thought, Behrman House (New York), 1976

James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Viking Penguin (New York), 1982

John of the Cross, St., Selected Works, Paulist Press, 1987

Jou, Tsung Hwa, Shoshana Shapiro ed., The Tao of Tai-Chi Chuan, Tai-Chi Foundation (Warwick, New York), 1980

Kadowaki, J.K., Joan Rieck trans., Zen and the Bible, Orbis, 2002

Kaplan, Aryeh, Meditation and Kabbalah, Weiser Books (York Beach, Maine), 1989

Kaplan, Aryeh trans., Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, Breslov Research Institute (Jerusalem), 1984

Kaplan, Aryeh, Meditation and the Bible, Weiser Books (York Beach, Maine), 1978

Kapleau, Philip, The Three Pillars of Zen, Anchor/Doubleday (Garden City, New York), 1980

Khan, Hazrat Inayat, The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan (12 vol.), Barrie & Jenkins (London), 1972

Khan, Pir Vilayat, Toward the One, Harper and Row (New York), 1974

Khan, Pir Vilayat, Sufi Masters, Sufi Order (Paris/New York), 1971

Krishnabai, Mother, Guru's Grace: Autobiography of Mother Krishnabai, Swami Ramdass trans., Anandashram (Kanhangad, India), 1964

Krishnamurti, J., Think on These Things, Harper Perennial (New York) 1989

Langer, Jiri, Nine Gates, James Clarke & Co. (Cambridge, England), 1961

Lawrence, Brother, Practice of the Presence of God, Whitaker House (New Kensington City, Pennsylvania), 1982

Levin, Meyer, Classic Hassidic Tales, Penguin Books (New York), 1975

Levine, Stephen, A Gradual Awakening, Anchor (Garden City, New York), 1979

Lysebeth, Andre Van, Yoga Self Taught, Weiser Books (York Beach, Maine), 1999

Mahasi Sayadaw, Practical Insight Meditation, Unity Press (Santa Cruz, California), 1972

Mascaro, Juan, trans. The Bhagavad Gita, Penguin Classics (New York), 2003

Meher Baba, Discourses (3 vol.), Sufism Reoriented (Walnut Creek, California), 1967; also Sheriar Press (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)

Merton, Thomas, The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, New Directions (New York), 1975

Merton, Thomas trans., The Wisdom of the Desert, New Directions (New York), 1970

Mindell, Arnold, Working on Yourself Alone, Lao Tse Press (Portland, Oregan), 2002

Mukerji, A.P., The Spiritual Instructions of Swami Muktananda, Dawn Horse Press (Clearlake, California), 1974

Nachman of Breslov, Rebbe, Avraham Greenbaum trans., Advice, The Breslov Research Institute (Jerusalem), 1983

Osborne, Arthur, ed. The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, Samuel Weiser (York Beach, Maine), 1996

Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Crystal Clarity Publishers (Nevada City, California), 1975

Paramananda, Swami, Secret of Right Activity, Ananda Ashrama (LaCrescenta, California), 1923

Peers, E. Allison, The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, Doubleday (New York, New York), 1960

Pennington, Basil, Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

Prabhavananda, Swami and Christorpher Isherwood trans., How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Pantanjali

Ram Dass, The Only Dance There Is, Doubleday (Garden City, New York), 1974

Ram Dass, Be Here Now

Ram Dass, Grist for the Mill

Reps, Paul, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Schachter, Zalman, Fragments of a Future Scroll

Schimmel, Annemarie, Mystical Dimensions of Islam

Scholem, Gershom, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

Sivananda, Swami, Japa Yoga, Divine Life Society (Himalyas, India), 1967

Steinsaltz, Adin., Beggars and Prayers, Basic Books (New York), 1985

Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Weatherhill (New York), 1973

Teresa of Avila, St., Kavanaugh & Rodriguez trans., The Interior Castle, Paulist Press (New York), 1979

Underhill, Evelyn, Mystics of the Church

Vivikananda, Swami, Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center (New York), 1973*

Vivikenanda, Swami, Raja Yoga, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center (New York), 1955