How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
ISBN-10
8184958056
ISBN-13
9788184958058
Series
How to Meditate
Category
Body, Mind & Spirit
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2016-01-18
Publisher
Jaico Publishing House
Author
Pema Chödrön

Description

More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, compassion, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind to embrace the fullness of our experience as we discover: • The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness • Gentleness, patience and humor – three ingredients for a well-balanced practice • Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises • Thoughts and emotions as “sheer delight”– instead of obstacles-in meditation Here is a indispensable book from the meditation teacher who remains a first choice for students the world over. Ani Pema Chödrön is an American-born Tibetian Buddhist nun and best selling author. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.

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