The Best Guide to Meditation

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Summary: Great Guide
Review: I don't need to say too much about this book, but I found that it is one of the best books on meditation! I refer to it often.

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Summary: Broad scope
Review: I found this book to be a perfect starter for meditation. It's an easily read and comprehensive book, and I strongly recommend any beginner to give this a try. It presents a well rounded approach that allows the reader to decide for themselves how they want to do meditation.

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Summary: buety in simplicity
Review: I found this book to be a perfect starter for meditation. It's an easily read and comprehensive book, and I strongly recommend any beginner to give this a try. It presents a well rounded approach that allows the reader to decide for themselves how they want to do meditation.

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Summary: my 3rd book on meditation
Review: i had to muddle through 2 other books before finding this one. it answers all the questions i had, like "what if i get an itch? can i scratch it?" and "i just had an insight. can i stop and write it down?" the meditation exercises given actually work! to be honest, i'm not through reading this book, and i may never be. when i finish reading it cover to cover, i intend to consult it regularly.

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Summary: my 3rd book on meditation
Review: One of them is meditation. When I tried it a few years ago, it was clear my life improved in many different ways. Wanting to try it once more and to adopt it as part of my life, I was looking for a book as free of esoterism, cults, new-age fads and the like as possible. Although this is somewhat a new-age book, it fulfilled my basic expectations. It presents an (although not detailed, this is an introduction book) overview of various kinds of meditations (western, eastern, modern, traditional). It is a practice-oriented book, after each topic you'll find a simple or simplified exercise. Lots of quotations, not the usual "after the night the sun rises," but well chosen paragraphs that illustrate the topics being explained. No guru is in charge here, you don't have to follow rules and you are free to choose the meditation that best suits you. The language is plain and the layout makes it quite comfortable to read. I almost quit reading it when the author talked about the doubts that may arise about the practice of meditation in a very critical way, like we were supposed to believe (=have faith) in his words. He must have forgotten that later on, he quotes a great master saying that doubts are important and should not be disregarded in the learning process. Other than that, I feel safer now to choose what kind of meditation I want to study and practice, no longer lost in a jungle of buzzwords.

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Summary: Broad scope
Review: This book covers all sorts of meditation from many different countries to many different religions. It shows the reader step by step how to meditate as well as answering many frequently asked questions (FAQ). This book also covers the history behind many culture's reason for meditation and the roots behind various meditations. This is a very complete book in that the reader can pick from whatever style of meditation they want and then they have a step by step description of how to go about it.