Books

This Nectar of Naturalness is a book about meditation and contemplation. It is about the nature of mind and knowing and being. It is also about the mind of nature and how we – all creatures – might live well with each other. While the explorations foun... Read more: This Nectar of Naturalness

It’s Bonni’s 75th Birthday! Let’s celebrate with a collection of her essays. These were curated by her for the Sunshine Coast Retreat House website in the 2000’s. They are focused on getting started in the dharma. My two favourites are “Giving a... Read more: Living the Dharma With Bonni Ross

The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is one of the most succinct and detailed outlines, given in the Buddhist tradition, for addressing the challenge of how to live well in this world of continuous transformation and change. It sketches out, in a step by step progre... Read more: Foundations of Mindfulness

Illustrated by Robert Sinclair. In January 2007, a group of people gathered in New Zealand to explore a week of meditation and flute making. During this week, Tarchin gave teachings on the theme of how making a fine shakuhachi (a Japanese bamboo... Read more: Something Beautiful for the World

True Refuge is a beautiful blend of poetry, philosophy and practical instruction – a prolonged meditation on the mystery of refuge. “Celtic tradition sings of home and belonging. Deep ecologists celebrate their inseparable interweaving with all... Read more: True Refuge

The Natural Way to Meditate invites us to couple our breathing with love and clear seeing and to meditatively explore the world within and around us. A beautifully written, practical and uplifting book, it elucidates the Buddha’s teaching on breathing... Read more: Breathing

Growth and Unfolding combines poetry and vision with clear instruction and good down-to-earth common-sense. It leads us step by step to a life that is awake, integrated and joyous and truly universal in scope. At times humorous and at times biting, it... Read more: Growth and Unfolding

Growth and Unfolding combines poetry and vision with clear instruction and good down-to-earth common-sense. It leads us step by step to a life that is awake, integrated and joyous and truly universal in scope. At times humorous and at times biting, it... Read more: Daily Puja (Fifth Edition)

Natural Awakening is a book of great inspiration and beauty. The teaching is direct and profound without being complicated. It encourages us to develop friendliness and interest towards every moment of life and to immerse ourselves in what Tarchin call... Read more: Natural Awakening

Graced with beautiful photos and printed in full colour, Walking in Wisdom teaches us to be compassionately present in the midst of movement. It reawakens interest in aspects of life we often take for granted, and touches some of the deepest themes of... Read more: Walking in Wisdom

Coming to Your Senses gives detailed instructions for cleansing and then exploring each of the five senses. This booklet was compiled after a cleansing of the senses retreat given in Tasmania in early 2002. I hope that it will serve as a practical manu... Read more: Coming to your Senses

Do you have a sense of community, a sense of sangha? If you don’t, how can you find it? Assuming you have a community, does it work, does it function well? What can be done to get it working? How can we recognize sangha, heal sangha, unfold and strengt... Read more: Sangha Work