Wangapeka Books

Wangapeka Books have been publishing books on Buddhadharma by Tarchin Hearn since 1985.

Wangapeka Books is a non-profit organization quite separate from the Wangapeka Educational Trust which runs the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre.  It is dedicated to publishing material that furthers the work of awakening.

Except for printing and binding, all the work, including the writing, is done without pay by volunteers giving their skills, energy and time.  Monies accruing from sales are used to support further publications and, from time to time, donations are made to the Wangapeka Educational Trust to support its ongoing growth and maintenance.

As well as these publications a web archive of Tarchin’s writings is now available at www.greendharmatreasury.org. It includes articles, poems and essays, and you can sign up to receive Tarchin’s email articles on the website.

Ebooks are available on this page, below the list of books. Read about Tarchin Hearn.

To order books please contact:
Wangapeka Books
E-mail wanga.comms@gmail.com

Please let us know how many books you want and where you wish them to be sent. We will then calculate the total cost, including shipping, and let you know.

Payment within NZ can be by online banking; details will be provided when you are advised of the total cost.

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Books will be posted when we receive payment.

Kobo editions of Tarchin’s books are available for purchase and download from https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=tarchin+hearn

Kindle editions are available from
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Books are also available for purchase when visiting the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre.


Books


NEW: THIS NECTAR OF NATURALNESS, 2022

Tarchin has very generously donated 40 copies of his new book to the Wangapeka Trust to help support the Centre financially, as it rebuilds its operation after being heavily affected by the restrictions of COVID-19. Please consider whether you also are able to add a donation to support the Centre when your order this book? Thank you for your consideration.

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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 found throughout these pages are informed by years of engagement with Buddhism, they will be relevant to a wide range of people regardless their religious and philosophical backgrounds.  Between the covers is a collage of suggested explorations; encouragements; poetry to give a sense of larger possibilities; and imaginative thought experiments to stimulate deeper levels of question and curiosity. You are invited to delve into them; think, ponder, feel, and experiment with them. Doing this again and again, your sense of who and what and how you and we are, will surely enlarge.

May this book inspire and encourage you to deepen a way of being that is life affirming, profoundly engaging, and utterly natural. A book without beginning or end, reminders to refresh our investigations when we forget. May it bring you pleasure and may you also have the opportunity to share its essence with others.

157 pages, $20 NZ plus postage


FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS, A MANUAL FOR  MEDITATORS, REVISED AND EXTENDED, 2019

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 progression of mindful explorations, a very practical path for awakening fundamental life skills coupled with profound ecological understanding. Blending the pragmatic analysis and experimental questioning of the scientist with the ecstatic union of the mystic, this path of wholesome living is as vital and precious today as it was at the time of the Buddha.

Drawn from numerous sources and from Tarchin’s rich experience of more than 50 years of personal study and practice, “Foundations of Mindfulness” will be a valuable resource and reference for meditators wishing to enrich their exploration and understanding of this essential Buddhist Path.

There is no mystery more profound than mindfulness/awareness.
This is the path of living dharma.
This is spirituality and practical living all rolled into one.
This is the source of joy and well-being,
the well-spring of health and happiness,
the treasure at the heart of everything and everyone.
There is no greater mystery.
Mindfulness is the flavour of healthy knowing in action.

193 pages; $20 NZ. plus postage


WALKING IN WISDOM, 2019

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 Buddhist teaching.

“This booklet was not intended to be a philosophical treatise but I do want it to be meaningful. The original version was small enough to carry with you as you travel. Perhaps this version will accompany you on your smart phone. I hope it will help to remind you of something we all know but too often forget – that to be present; to be awake, alert and responsive to what is going on inside us and around us, is the key to resting easefully in the unending shifting and changing of being alive. . . .  If we wish to find peace and well-being, it will have to be in the midst of all this whirling movement. That’s why walking meditation is such a powerful practice.”

Did you know, my friend that
Each breath you take changes the world?
Have you realised that 
Every step you take transforms myriad lives?

74 pages; $18 NZ, plus postage


TRUE REFUGE, 2014

True Refuge is a beautiful blend of poetry, philosophy and practical instruction – a prolonged meditation on the mystery of refuge.

True Refuge“Celtic tradition sings of home and belonging. Deep ecologists celebrate their inseparable interweaving with all life. Physicists feel their way towards a beautiful theory that links everything. Devotees of religions of all kinds, yearn for union. Buddhists honor the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Sufis embrace the beloved. Christians give themselves over to the Christ Consciousness or to Godhead. Muslims practice surrender. Agnostics let go into the ineffable. This is the journey of everyone, a journey towards refuge, safety, belongingness, well being, and a profound sense of home.”
147 pages; $20 NZ, plus postage

 


SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR THE WORLD: A SHAKUHACHI SADHANA, 2008

Illustrated by Robert Sinclair

Something Beautiful for the WorldIn 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 flute) could be compared to crafting a fine human being. Along with these reflections, he suggested various meditative exercises, to be done with and without a flute, to help transform the ideas into direct personal experience.

The pages of this beautifully written and richly illustrated book oscillate back and forth between bamboo flute and human flute. Each is a metaphor for the other. Making a flute, bamboo or human, and playing it, are extraordinarily intertwined like a continuous loop. This book will be a treasury of inspiration for educators, artists, and meditators, in fact, for anyone who aspires to craft themselves into, Something Beautiful for the World.
96 pages; $20NZ plus postage


BREATHING: THE NATURAL WAY TO MEDITATE (COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION, 2005)

BreathingThe 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 meditation, weaving together ancient tradition and modern experimental methods and approaches.

Many clear and detailed techniques are given throughout, but in essence the natural way to meditate does not rely on technique. It flowers whenever we are interested in life. What is this marvel we call the body? What is this mystery called speech and communication? What is this wonder called mind? What could it mean to realise freedom while fully engaged in life? Thoroughly non-sectarian, this is a path of awakening that will speak to seekers from all traditions and backgrounds and stages of experience.
145 pages; $20NZ plus postage


RESPIRANDO

Breathing, PORTUGUESE EDITION translated by Verena Erismann Henman. Breathing is now available in Portuguese under the title Respirando: o modo natural de meditar 


GROWTH AND UNFOLDING – OUR HUMAN BIRTHRIGHT

bcguGrowth 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 cuts very quickly to the core of what is most important to all of us.
180 pages; $20 NZ plus postage


DAILY PUJA (FIFTH EDITION, 2007)

Daily PujaThis booklet is a collection of reflections or mini-contemplations inspired or taken directly from the Buddhist tradition. They are presented in a way that will speak to the universal nature of everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs.
40 pages; $12 NZ plus postage


NATURAL AWAKENING: THE WAY OF THE HEART, 1995

Natural AwakeningNatural 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 calls “the practice of already here.”

Throughout its pages travel interleaves with poetry, philosophy weaves with meditation techniques and science merges with mysticism. Twenty-two practical exercises are included, making a book of great clarity and relevance to all who are interested in health, awakening and the well being of the world.
238 pages; $10 NZ plus postage

MINDFULNESS TRILOGY

Foundations of Mindfulness, Walking in Wisdom, and Breathing: The Natural Way to Meditate compliment each other and together comprise an essential trilogy of mindfulness teaching.
Buy the set of three for $50 NZ plus postage.


Bulk Study Discount:

Over the years, a number of people have used one or more of Tarchin’s books as a springboard or guide for dharma teaching or discussion.  To more actively support this, Wangapeka Books is now offering approximately 35% discount, depending on the book, on any single title ordered in lots of 5 or more.

Exceptions: For Natural Awakening it no longer applies.  The $10 is what the cost is no matter how many books are bought.

Books currently available for bulk study discounts are:
Breathing: the Natural Way to Meditate – discounted rate = $NZ 14.00 plus postage and packing
Growth and Unfolding – discounted rate = $NZ 14.00 plus postage and packing
Natural Awakening – discounted rate = $NZ 10.00 plus postage and packing
Walking in Wisdom – discounted rate = $NZ 13.50 plus postage and packing
Daily Puja – discounted rate = $NZ 9.00 plus postage and packing
Something Beautiful for the World – discounted rate = $NZ 14.00 plus postage and packing


Ebooks

These e-books are all in PDF format and available for free download from the Green Dharma Treasury website. Please feel free to share them.  They are also listed here from the most recent publications through to the oldest.


FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS:
A MANUAL FOR MEDITATORS
NEW EDITION – 2019

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 progression of mindful explorations, a very practical path for awakening fundamental life skills coupled with profound ecological understanding. Blending the pragmatic analysis and experimental questioning of the scientist with the ecstatic union of the mystic, this path of wholesome living is as vital and precious today as it was at the time of the Buddha.

Drawn from numerous sources and from Tarchin’s rich experience of more than 50 years of personal study and practice, “Foundations of Mindfulness” will be a valuable resource and reference for meditators wishing to enrich their exploration and understanding of this essential Buddhist Path.
Click here for “Foundations of Mindfulness” – the entire book in PDF.


WALKING IN WISDOM – 2003, 2019

Revised, Extended and Illustrated – 2019
Walking in Wisdom presents a path of awakening to be realised in the midst of walking outdoors in nature. Filled with techniques, reflections and poems, it teaches us to be attentive and compassionately present while engaging in life. Simple yet profound, it re-awakens interest in many facets of life we have come to take for granted and touches some of the deepest themes of Buddhist teaching.
Click here for “Walking in Wisdom”– the entire 74 page PDF text.


Marcher-en-Sagesse-coverMARCHER-EN-SAGESSE

A French translation of ‘Walking in Wisdom’
Click here to download the entire ‘Marcher en Sagesse’ PDF (82 pages)


Coming to your sensesCOMING TO YOUR SENSES – 2002, 2017

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 manual for people wishing to explore this work on their own and that it will be a useful reminder for those wishing to share the work with others. It is not intended as something to just read. Rather it’s a guide to hands-on-direct experience. The heart of the booklet will be revealed in the experiences you have through actually doing the exercises and meditations.
Click here for the 53 page Coming to Your Senses PDF text.


TRUE REFUGE – 2014

True Refuge is a beautiful blend of poetry, philosophy and practical instruction – a prolonged meditation on the mystery of refuge.
Click here to download True Refuge PDF e-book


Something Beautiful for the WorldSOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR THE WORLD: A SHAKUHACHI SADHANA – 2008

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 flute) could be compared to crafting a fine human being. Along with these reflections, he suggested various meditative exercises, to be done with and without a flute, to help transform the ideas into direct personal experience.
Click here to download Something Beautiful PDF e-book


Daily Puja bcdpDAILY PUJA (FIFTH EDITION) – 2007

This booklet is a collection of reflections or mini-contemplations inspired or taken directly from the Buddhist tradition. They are presented in a way that will speak to the universal nature of everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs. Puja means to honour or to venerate. With these contemplations we honour the mystery of life and refresh our intention to live in a sane, healthy and compassionate manner.
For the entire text in PDF format, click here

Click here for the entire Apple Book (epub) version

Click here for the entire Kindle Book (mobi) version


Sangha WorkSANGHA WORK: ESSAYS, CONTEMPLATIONS AND PRACTICAL EXERCISES TO SUPPORT A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS IN DHARMA – TOOLS FOR A HEALTHY AND HAPPY COMMUNITY – 2005, 2006

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 strengthen sangha? All of these explorations come under the term, sangha work. Click here for the entire PDF text of Sangha Work.


BreathingBREATHING:
THE NATURAL WAY TO MEDITATE – 1991, REVISED – 2005

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 meditation, weaving together ancient tradition and modern experimental methods and approaches. Thoroughly non-sectarian, this is a path of awakening that will speak to seekers from all traditions and backgrounds and stages of experience.
Click here to download Breathing PDF e-book


GROWTH AND UNFOLDING – 1985, 2004

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.
Click here for Growth and Unfolding PDF e-book


lovingkindnessLOVING KINDNESS – 1999

A collection of essays and articles written by a number of dharma teachers who teach regularly in NZ; compiled and edited by Tarchin Hearn. Click here for the entire 52 page PDF text.


CYCLE OF SAMATHA –1996

Cycle of Samatha is a simple yet rich practice for living with ease and insight in the midst of whatever is occurring. Based on five reminders; smiling breathing, present, appreciating, and offering, this little booklet has been a pocket mentor of sense and sanity for many people, ever since it was first published in 1996.
Click here to download the 23 page pdf in English

Click here to download the 20 page pdf in German. Translated by Peter Gerdes.


Natural AwakeningNATURAL AWAKENING – 1995

Natural Awakening is a book of great inspiration and beauty. Throughout its pages, travel interleaves with poetry, philosophy weaves with meditation techniques and science merges with mysticism. Twenty-two practical exercises are included, making a book of great clarity and relevance to all who are interested in health, awakening and the well being of the world. Click here to download Natural Awakening PDF e-book


Meditative First Aid bcmfaMEDITATIVE FIRST-AID: A DOORWAY TO HEALTH – 1990

Ten simple exercises that will help balance your energies and bring more vitality into your life. Click here for the Introduction to Meditative First-Aid: A Doorway to Health and a link to the entire 23 page PDF text.


COMMONSENSE RETREAT – 1984

‘Commonsense Retreat’ is a small booklet introducing some of the broadly practical considerations that will help support a solitary retreat. It was originally written in 1984 to help introduce people to the use of retreat huts at the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre in N.Z. Though based on general Buddhist principles, it speaks to people from a wide range of traditions and backgrounds. It touches on themes such as one’s motivation for retreating, basic preparation, the environment or place for retreat, physical health, diet, basic mindfulness practice, and how to smoothly emerge from retreat. Click here to download the entire ‘Commonsense Retreat’ PDF (10 pages)


Books by Ven. Namgyal Rinpoché
are available from Bodhi Publishing in Canada
at www.bodhipublishing.org.