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Summary: It's not about discipline...
Review: It's about wanting to meditate! How liberating! This book is full of practical, inspiring, easy, and approachable advice on how to ease into meditation and make doing it regularily attainable.
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Summary: Very good
Review: So many meditation books are trapped in the eastern traditions which they come from that it is difficult for an atheist like myself to get past all of the superficial trappings in order to gain anything from them. This book is different from any other meditation book I have ever read. The author is smart enough to realize that the trappings are unnecessary. He also presents a new side to meditation by explaining that meditation is a wonderfully sensual experience to be enjoyed for its own sake. I like this book a lot. I have been reading it a few pages at a time and enjoying it very much. If you are looking for a book on how to meditate which is very friendly to Westerners and the non-religious, this is very good.
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Summary: Great ! ! !
Review: This book helped me meditate. It has some great techniques and they were all easy to do. There were moments when I wanted to burn the book, and no I didn't, but sometimes it was just too boring. All in all, this is agreat book if you want to learn to meditate. It helped me alot!
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Summary: The title says it all. A great book.
Review: This book made meditation easy for me. Other authors I've read inevitably included meditation instructions that Roche would categorize as "Odious Rules". Their instructions only made meditation more difficult, eventually turning it into a chore. Roche aims to make meditation joyful and effortless, and in my opinion he succeeds. He encourages you to do whatever works, and he assumes you will experiment with many different types of meditation.His style reflects this, as well; the book is unpretentious and down-to-earth. I found it easy to read and absorb what Roche was saying. This is a practical guide and reference manual that will serve me well for many years to come. If you are looking for specific guided meditations, this is probably not the book for you. In line with his "whatever works" philosophy, the author refrains from leading the reader down any one path. I find this to be one of the book's great strengths, but others may find fault with this approach.
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Summary: The title says it all. A great book.
Review: This book made meditation easy for me. Other authors I've read inevitably included meditation instructions that Roche would categorize as "Odious Rules". Their instructions only made meditation more difficult, eventually turning it into a chore. Roche aims to make meditation joyful and effortless, and in my opinion he succeeds. He encourages you to do whatever works, and he assumes you will experiment with many different types of meditation. His style reflects this, as well; the book is unpretentious and down-to-earth. I found it easy to read and absorb what Roche was saying. This is a practical guide and reference manual that will serve me well for many years to come. If you are looking for specific guided meditations, this is probably not the book for you. In line with his "whatever works" philosophy, the author refrains from leading the reader down any one path. I find this to be one of the book's great strengths, but others may find fault with this approach.
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