A Beginner's Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers

Meade Sperry, Rod & Editors of the Shambhala Sun (editors)

ISBN 10: 1611800579 / ISBN 13: 9781611800579

Published by Shambhala, Boca Raton, FL, 2014

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8vo, 270 pp.

Seller Inventory # 108694

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers
• Publisher: Shambhala, Boca Raton, FL
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611800579
• ISBN 13: 9781611800579
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Nearly fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eastern Philosophy

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Synopsis

A practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation, with pointers from some of today's most respected Buddhist teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Cyndi Lee, and Sharon Salzberg.

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives. This practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation introduces you to the practice, explains how it is approached in the main schools of Buddhism, and offers advice and inspiration from Buddhism’s most renowned and effective meditation teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Sharon Salzberg, Norman Fischer, Ajahn Chah, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Sylvia Boorstein, Noah Levine, Matthieu Ricard, Judy Lief, and many others.

Topics include how to build excitement and energy to start a meditation routine and keep it going, setting up a meditation space, working with and through boredom, what to look for when seeking others to meditate with, how to know when it’s time to try doing a formal meditation retreat, how to bring the practice “off the cushion” with walking meditation and other practices, and much more.

About the Author

ROD MEADE SPERRY is an editor and writer for the Shambhala Sun, North America's leading Buddhist-inspired magazine. Sperry is also the Editorial Director of LionsRoar.com and of Lion's Roar's Special Projects. He was a founding member of what is now called Boundless Way Zen, a rapidly growing Buddhist community based in New England.