The Meditation Manual is a straightforward guide created for beginners & anyone new to meditation, as a way to effectively explain just what meditation is, as well as what we are at our core. It sets out to show that by understanding our true nature, the practice of meditation is one that can help us move beyond the ego-centric life we live, and instead inhabit a space of peaceful awareness. Created as a result of practices that span powerful Hindu & Buddhist teachings as well as modern methods, Koi Fresco aims to show us that by finding a method of Meditation which works for us, and doing so simply without the unnecessary confusion most meditation books bring, we hold the ability to awaken & relieve ourselves from suffering, sadness, anxiety & more.

The New Meditation Handbook is a practical guide to meditation that teaches us how to make ourself and others happy by developing inner peace, and in this way making our lives more meaningful. Without inner peace there is no real happiness at all. Problems, suffering and unhappiness do not exist outside the mind; they are feelings and thus part of our mind. Therefore, it is only by controlling our mind that we can permanently stop our problems and make ourself and others truly happy. The twenty-one Buddhist meditation practices presented in this book are actual methods to control our mind and experience lasting inner peace. This extremely practical guide is an indispensable handbook for those seeking happiness and meaning in their lives.

In contemplating illness and recovery, family and church life, Rohde's personal reflections and wry observations shed new light on life's unique occurrences.

Uses the words of Spock, Data, Kirk, Picard, Dax, and Worf to explore human experience and personal fulfillment in a series of daily meditations.

Present Fresh Wakefulness is more than a set of general instructions on how to practice, it is the quintessential advice of an experienced, living master on what he considers to be the absolute necessities today's yogis to arrive at liberation and complete enlightenment. We should know how to make the distinction between self existing wakefulness and dualistic mind. Believing that we are sustaining the natural state of mind while we are caught up with ordinary thinking is not much use. We need to identify the genuine, the authentic -- this is important. We need to identify that which is utterly empty, utterly naked, not confined to anything, totally clear and cognizant yet not fixated on anything. Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche In this series of teachings and conversations, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, a revered abbot, Tibetan meditation master and author of Union of Mahamudra & Dzogchen, Bardo Guidebook and Indisputable Truth, conveys the indispensable principles for arriving at the heart of Buddhist practice in his characteristic style, filled with humor, candor and wit.

Originally published in the '40s, this book was the first to accurately and clearly present the Buddhist practice of meditation and adapt it to Western understanding and lifestyles. Now considered one of the standard manuals, this practical guide begins by strengthening the mind through concentration, then explains the deeper spiritual development available through meditation.