Experience of Meditation
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Experience of Meditation by Jonathan Shear
A fulfilled life and happiness is more than physical comfort or buyingnew things. It involves awareness and development of our inner beingand consciousness. The major meditation traditions of the world, eachin their own way, aim at the creation of an inner peace and happinesswhich provides a solid foundation for action and compassion in theworld. This book describes the techniques and experience of the majormeditation traditions impacting the West in the words of highlyrespected practioners of each tradition. Taken together, theyconstitute a solid overview of meditation and how the major traditionsare similar or different from one another.
Shear, Jonathan: - Jonathan Shear was a Fulbright Scholar in philosophy of science at the London School of Economics, and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his doctorate. He has enjoyed daily practice of Eastern procedures such as Zen, TM, taiji (t'ai chi) and qigong for more than forty years, and is an internationally known expert on meditation experiences, publishing and lecturing in India and China as well as the West. For the past nineteen years he has taught philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was also a founding editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, is an experienced meditation instructor, and a formal disciple in one of China's major taiji systems.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781557788573 |
| ISBN 10 | 155778857X |
| Title | Experience of Meditation |
| Author | Jonathan Shear |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Paragon House Publishers |
| Year published | 2006-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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