How To Meditate: A Practical Guide To Making Friends with Your Mind

Description This comprehensive guide shows the reader how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mins to embrace the fullness of our experience as we discover: the basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points od posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness. Gentleness, Patience, and humor- the three ingredients for a well-balanced practice. Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present whatever arises. Thoughts and emotions as “sheer delight”- instead of obstacles in meditation. Here is indispensable book from the meditation teacher who remains a first choice for the students the world over.