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How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discovery
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.12
EAN: 9780316880626
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0316880620
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 14, 1999
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Editorial Review:
Meditation "is an ageless human experience that has been discovered and explored and used in every period and every culture that we know about," writes Lawrence LeShan, a psychotherapist and scholar. LeShan discusses the psychological and physiological effects of meditation, why meditation has these effects, and different types (or "paths") of meditation. To get the feel of it, he suggests starting with 15 minutes of breath counting--harder than it sounds. "The road of meditation is not an easy one," says LeShan. "The first shock of surprise comes when we realize how undisciplined our mind really is; how it refuses to do the bidding of our will." He gives detailed instructions for several meditations of different types and guidelines for choosing a program and a teacher. This is not a snappy "five minutes to perfect meditations" or a promise of "read this book, achieve instant peace." Rather, How to Meditate is a serious, thoughtful book. "In this most serious area--inner development--we are interested in evolution, which is stable, rather than revolution, which is not," says LeShan. You will see changes, he promises, but gradually. This is the new edition of the classic that has been teaching people to meditate since 1974. How wonderful that How to Meditate has been reissued, giving another generation the benefit of LeShan's work and guidance. --Joan Price
Meditation "is an ageless human experience that has been discovered and explored and used in every period and every culture that we know about," writes Lawrence LeShan, a psychotherapist and scholar. LeShan discusses the psychological and physiological effects of meditation, why meditation has these effects, and different types (or "paths") of meditation. To get the feel of it, he suggests starting with 15 minutes of breath counting--harder than it sounds. "The road of meditation is not an easy one," says LeShan. "The first shock of surprise comes when we realize how undisciplined our mind really is; how it refuses to do the bidding of our will." He gives detailed instructions for several meditations of different types and guidelines for choosing a program and a teacher. This is not a snappy "five minutes to perfect meditations" or a promise of "read this book, achieve instant peace." Rather, How to Meditate is a serious, thoughtful book. "In this most serious area--inner development--we are interested in evolution, which is stable, rather than revolution, which is not," says LeShan. You will see changes, he promises, but gradually. This is the new edition of the classic that has been teaching people to meditate since 1974. How wonderful that How to Meditate has been reissued, giving another generation the benefit of LeShan's work and guidance. --Joan Price
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A great book for beginners and potentially for the advanced
A friend handed me this book coincidentally at a time when I was becoming interested in meditation again after a brief experimentation several years ago. Turns out it was perfect as an icebreaker for me. It is simple and elegant, written concisely and with great clarity. Although it was written more than three decades ago, it reads like a timeless classic on meditation.
This book helped me correct various misconceptions about meditation that I had somehow acquired earlier. It also provides ... Read More
Rating: - A Good Guide to Meditaiton
This book and the other book by LeShan, THE MEDIUM, THE MYSTIC, AND THE PHYSICIST, were early inspirations in my spiritual journey. Although somewhat dated, the book has good notes and observations. It also gives some good guide lines about integrating psychotherapy and meditation. This something that I feel the work of Almaas, the contemplative psychotherapists, the alchemical hypnotherapists, the focusing work, and the process oriented hypnotherapists have gone deeper into since the publication of ... Read More
Rating:  - opinion
informative, has a few preliminary practices but 80%of it is lectures on types and systems of meditation. I say it is a must have if you dont know anything about meditation
Rating: - Good as starter book
To its credit, I must say this was the first book that inspired me because a few days before purchasing, an inner voice in me told me to return back to the store I saw it at and buy it.
Can't say I was all that disappointed and in fact at least one or more of the techniques are helpful. However, one statement certainly turned out quite inaccurate in my own case. He states or at least implies that meditation goes hand in hand with being a good businessman. Well, if THAT were the case I ... Read More
Rating: - Insightful introduction to Meditation
I first read this book 10 years ago and was inspired by Le Shan's insightful introduction to meditation. He tells it straight, describes the history of Western (christian) and Eastern meditation, reviews the basic types of meditation (structured/unstructured, mind/body/feeling centred) and points out potential pitfalls that may befall the beginner and the experienced meditator (more often it's the experienced meditator who gets sid-tracked by uplifting 'experiences' during meditation - such as seeing lights ... Read More
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