Meditation category: 34000 books

The purpose of this handbook is to provide the reader with easy to follow instructions on how to meditate. By using this straight forward approach, you can be practicing meditation in a very short time, confident that the following advice will put you on the path, with a centered approach towards life.

When I painted the Zendo door and sat in meditation watching it dry, a powerful new meditation tool emerged. Suddenly I was with the Creator, He answered all my questions, and showed me even more. I was astounded, it became just too much, and I asked to go back. In a flash I returned to the Zendo,...

In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and ’90s—a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When Claire Hoffman’s...

Born with only one hand, Joan Tollifson grows up feeling different, finds identity as a bisexual lesbian and a disability rights activist, but also sinks into drug addiction and alcoholism. She embraces Zen Buddhism and then a very bare-bones spirituality that has no form. Bare-Bones Meditation reveals...

The Power of Om explains the benefits of meditation in todays material world. Meditating Om, chanting Om, reminds us that life can be good, no matter what challenges we may face in every walk of our lives. Learn to practice the art of opening the seven chakras in the form of meditation. Meditation is a simple but powerful method that will unfold energy and inner peace in daily life.

Dzogchen (Great Perfection) goes to the heart of our experience by investigating the relationship between mind and world and uncovering the great secret of mind's luminous nature. Weaving in personal stories and everyday examples, Pema Rigtsal leads the reader to see that all phenomena are the spontaneous...

Combining thought-awareness, loving-kindness practice and mindfulness meditation, this simple, time-tested method can be used throughout the day to quiet your critical voices and ease the mind. Through short, accessible phrases, readers will learn to reorient thinking when their inner critic shows...

Mark Watts compiled this book from his father's extensive journals and audiotapes of famous lectures he delivered in his later years across the country. In three parts Alan Watts explains the basic philosophy of meditation how individuals can practice a variety of meditations and how inner wisdom grows naturally.

Celebrated Vipassana meditation teacher S. N. Goenka interprets the Buddha’s teachings in this collection of lectures, essays, and interviews. These writings provide insights into how one of the most influential contemporary Buddhist practitioners defines Vipassana and how he uses it to achieve...

It is rare for a foreign woman to be accepted for instruction in intensive meditation in a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Jane Hamilton-Merritt writes about this experience from the inside, describing the extraordinary journey into the self, the expansion of her consciousness. In a personal account...

Learn to meditate with the most complete and easy to understand book on meditation available.

The essence of Zen Bodhisattva offers the true disciple the clear way to train through the direct path of zazen meditation and koan practice through realizing all ten perfections of the bodhisattva way of enlightenment through the Prajnaparamita-Sutra. All four volumes are practical guides offering...

There are all manner of books on this very subject and that makes it confusing for readers to decide upon which book will better serve them. This book has been written in a very simple way but covers a lot of territory within its pages: ●      Learn how to use the breath to maximize...

This handbook to spirituality gathers together Danish meditation teacher Jes Bertelsen's advice on training the mind through wordless prayer and meditation to realize the essence of consciousness. Bertelsen has been teaching philosophy and meditation since the early 1970s; in 1989, he met the Tibetan...