Five Classic Meditations

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Summary: Effective training for an important skill.
Review: Audiotapes are a great way to learn meditation. Much better than a book. All you have to do is close your eyes and follow instructions. I've listened to many meditation-training tapes and Shinzen Young's is my favorite because you learn not only WHAT to do, but WHY you're doing it and what you can expect for results. And he makes everything clear and simple.

Although Young has had extensive training in Buddhist meditation in Japan, he is a born-American and can speak to our needs as Westerners in a modern society. He has successfully stripped away the merely ornamental aspects of meditation and delivers only the essential and fundamental.

Shinzen Young has not only been trained in Buddhist practices in the East, but is an accomplished scholar and successful businessman in the West. He has a practical mind and a lucid way of teaching...If you would like to learn to meditate, or if you want to deepen your practice, Five Classic Meditations contains the kind of teaching that can really help.

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Summary: Disappointing Production Values
Review: Mr. Young is an inspiring teacher, but this tape sounds like it was speeded up to fit on one cassette. He talks so fast that it rather negates the calming intent of meditation. Mr. Young, if you're out there, expand it to two tapes or cut it.