Texts
After you have chosen your words, they must be weaved together into a fine and delicate fabric. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Here is a collection of books and texts related to the topics explored by The Empty Robot. These texts are not necessarily reflective of our views, and many times will even contradict each other. They are here as a collection of influential, referenced, or interesting texts within the domains of philosophy, science, mindfulness, Buddhism, and more.
- Life of Buddha by Aśvaghoṣa
- Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Determinism or Free-Will? by Chaptman Cohen
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
- Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
- The Dhammapada
- The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
- The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory by Max Planck
- Khuddaka Nikāya ("The Collection of Minor Discourses")
- Tipiṭaka ("The Pāli Canon")
- Dīgha Nikāya ("The Collection of Long Discourses")
- Majjhima Nikāya ("The Collection of Middle-length Discourses")
- Ambaṭṭha Sutta ("With Ambaṭṭha")
- Aggañña Sutta ("The Origin of the World")
- Dasuttara Sutta ("Up to Ten")
- Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta ("The Wheel-Turning Monarch")
- Āṭānāṭiya Sutta ("The Āṭānāṭiya Protection")
- Brahmajāla Sutta ("The Prime Net")
- Janavasabha Sutta ("With Janavasabha")
- Jāliya Sutta ("With Jāliya")
- Kassapa Sīhanāda Sutta ("The Longer Discourse on the Lion’s Roar")
- Kevaṭṭa Sutta ("With Kevaddha")
- Kūṭadanta Sutta ("With Kūṭadanta")
- Maha-Govinda Sutta ("The Great Steward")
- Lohicca Sutta ("With Lohicca")
- Lakkhaṇa Sutta ("The Marks of a Great Man")
- Mahanidāna Sutta ("The Great Discourse on Causation")
- Mahāli Sutta ("With Mahāli")
- Mahāpadāna Sutta ("The Great Discourse on the Harvest of Deeds")
- Mahaparinibbāna Sutta ("The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment")
- Mahasamaya Sutta ("The Great Congregation")
- Mahasatipaṭṭhāna Sutta ("The Longer Discourse on Mindfulness Meditation")
- Pāsādika Sutta ("An Impressive Discourse")
- Mahasudassana Sutta ("King Mahāsudassana")
- Pāṭika Sutta ("About Pāṭikaputta")
- Pāyāsi Sutta ("With Pāyāsi")
- Poṭṭhapāda Sutta ("With Poṭṭhapāda")
- Sakkapañha Sutta ("Sakka’s Questions")
- Sāmaññaphala Sutta ("The Fruits of the Ascetic Life")
- Sampasādaniya Sutta ("Inspiring Confidence")
- Saṅgāti Sutta ("Reciting in Concert")
- Soṇadaṇḍanta Sutta ("With Soṇadaṇḍa")
- Sigalovada Sutta("Advice to Sigālaka")
- Subha Sutta ("With Subha")
- Tevijja Sutta ("The Three Knowledges")
- Udumbarika Sihanada Sutta ("The Lion’s Roar at Udumbarikā’s Monastery")
- Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse
- Aṅguttara Nikāya ("Collections of Numbered Discourses")
- Saṁyutta Nikāya ("The Linked Discourses")