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Have you ever thought about trying meditation, but didn't know where to start? With Meditation for Beginners, trusted teacher Jack Kornfield shows you how simple it is to start--and stick with--a daily meditation practice. Now, this indispensable guide that has sold more than 100,000 copies in previous formats, is available in paperback for the first time. "Insight" or vipassana meditation is the time-honored skill of moment-to-moment mindfulness which results in greater clarity and "effortless flow" in any situation. In this complete course created especially for beginners, renowned teacher Jack Kornfield offers a straightforward, step-by-step method for bringing the fruits of insight meditation into your life. Using the six guided meditations on the included CD, readers will discover how easy it is to use the breath, physical sensations--and even difficult emotions--to create tranquility and lovingkindness in everyday life. These simple, elegant practices are so easy to learn that readers will begin enjoying the benefits of meditation immediately--while laying the foundation for a lifetime of inner discovery and awakening.
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Customer Reviews:
• Meditation Book
16 July, 2009
I really liked this book and found it very helpful. It also included the CD to go along with some of the exercises in the book. If your just getting started, this book is not complicated and makes a good guide.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Meditation For Beginners
29 December, 2009
I bought the two-disk cd version of this insightful lecture and meditation.
Jack Kornfield is a clinical Buddhist psychologist who presents the teachings of the four noble truths combined with meditations to awaken the heart. In the second cd, Kornfield explains that the teachings of the dharma are meant to be practiced as a path of virtue or an awakening of the heart. As he presents the first noble truth, or the existence of suffering, he proceeds to explain that without this healing cannot take place. Therefor, the first meditation involves facing our suffering. Jack Kornfield further explains that 80% of the work achieved through the initial months of meditation retreats, etc involves facing one's own suffering and sense of inadequacy as well as fear. In this aforementioned meditation we are to feel the body or to note the sick or wounded places, places we have perhaps ignored, as well as those silent sorrows, fears, hurts, conflicts.
The second noble truth is our reaction to suffering - attachment, greed, hatred, delusion. Self-acceptance and forgiveness is half of meditation. The second meditation is then a powerful forgiveness meditation.
The third noble truth is the end of suffering, which he describes as "letting go into each moment with things as they are, with the reality of the present." Kornfield recommends that we not accumulate and grasp, for we do not truly own anything within this lifetime - it all transient and in process. The final question as one lay dying is not what one did or build, but "Was it a path with heart?"
The author proceeds to present a meditation on the state of Death - such as how there is constant death and rebirth - on the preparation to bring the mind to good deeds - to note the state of consciousness - to note how it effects the heart and mind.
"We cannot do great things in life. We can only do small things with great love." - Mother Theresa
For one to meditate properly, Kornfield says, one must become intimate with one's breath and body as well as heart and mind, and life and death. This instills freedom.
The fourth noble truth is the eightfold path, existing fluently throughout the law of karma, or, how we think and react creates our response.
Finally, under the best circumstances,
"It is this tenderness and liberation of the heart that results in real fearlessness, or, the ability to live in the world with the heart and compassion of a Buddha." -Trunghchen Rinpoche
Meditation for Beginners is an excellent work for beginning meditation as well as an introduction for Buddhist Psychology, a very exciting field. I also recommend A Quiet Mind, which has very diverse mediations and Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach. I enjoyed the wisdom in the various stories the author relates. Now we know through Buddhism a way to face our suffering and develop a wise heart. It definitely helped me understand the psychology of Buddhism.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Great Introduction...jack Kornfield Is Wonderful
10 July, 2009
Anything of Jack Kornfield's is wonderful..his way of integrating East and West with an extra serving of loving kindness is incredibly helpful for me in my life. This CD is a clear, progressive (step-by-step) intro to meditation. Highly recommended. Also highly recommended--JK's "The Wise Heart"...deeply touching and clear.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Classic On Mindfulness Meditation
08 March, 2010
Jack Kornfield is one of the most influential teachers of mindfulness meditation. Study everything he has written or says. For those of you who want to learn more about mindfulness meditation, I recommend The Path of Mindfulness Meditation
- Amazon Customer Review
• Meditation For Beginners Cd
07 June, 2009
The CD arrived in a timely fashion. It provides you with a guide to begin meditating. Like all things you do, meditation takes practice.
- Amazon Customer Review
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