A Beginner's Guide to Meditation by Rod Meade Sperry

A Beginner's Guide to Meditation by Rod Meade Sperry

A practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation, with pointers from some of today's most respected Buddhist teachers, including Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, Cyndi Lee, and Sharon Salzberg.

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives. This practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation introduces you to the practice, explains how it is approached in the main schools of Buddhism, and offers advice and inspiration from Buddhism's most renowned and effective meditation teachers, including Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Sharon Salzberg, Norman Fischer, Ajahn Chah, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Sylvia Boorstein, Noah Levine, Matthieu Ricard, Judy Lief, and many others.

Topics include how to build excitement and energy to start a meditation routine and keep it going, setting up a meditation space, working with and through boredom, what to look for when seeking others to meditate with, how to know when it's time to try doing a formal meditation retreat, how to bring the practice off the cushion with walking meditation and other practices, and much more.

MELVIN MCLEOD is the editor-in-chief of the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is also the author of Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide to Making the World a Better Place.

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ISBN 13	9781611800579
ISBN 10	1611800579
Titel	A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Autor	Rod Meade Sperry
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Shambhala Publications Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-03-11
Seitenanzahl	320
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