Buddhist Meditation

Quiet Mind: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation

by Sharon Salzberg

This unique book-and-audio program brings together some of the country's most beloved meditation teachers. Each contributor presents a short written teaching along with an audio recording of a guided practice...

Meditation for Beginners

by Jack Kornfield

For readers who have thought about trying meditation but weren't sure how to get started, Meditation for Beginners presents a complete introduction to "Insight" meditation with bestselling author and trusted teacher Jack Kornfield...

Meditation For Beginners - 22-Day Course (Simple Meditation Programs)

by Vern Lovic

Meditation for Beginners is just that... an easy to get started 22-Day meditation course to help you begin meditating.The author has meditated for over a decade using this simple form of focusing on the breath...

Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly

by Tai Sheridan

Poet-philosopher and Zen Priest Tai Sheridan's 'Buddha in Blue Jeans' is an extremely short, simple and straight forward universal guide to the practice of sitting quietly and being yourself, which is the same as being Buddha...

Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Introduction and EncouragementThis eBook Modern Buddhism ? The Path of Compassion and Wisdom, in three volumes, is being distributed freely at the request of the author Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (the Kindle Store sets the minimum price at 99 cents and also additional taxes are added in many countries)...

Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 1

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Perhaps no other person has done more to bring mindfulness meditation into the contemporary landscape of America than Jon Kabat-Zinn. Th rough a number of research studies, and through Kabat-Zinn's pioneering work at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is founder of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, mindfulness is finally being recognized as a highly effective tool for dealing with stress, chronic pain, and other illnesses...

The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Miracle of Mindfulness is a sly commentary on the Anapanasati Sutra, the Sutra on Breath to Maintain Mindfulness. "Sly" because it doesn't read like a dry commentary at all...

Wherever You Go, There You Are (ROUGH CUT)

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living - a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness - here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake...

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

by Rick Hanson

If you change your brain, you can change your life. Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else?s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world...

The Art of Zen Meditation

by Howard Fast

Bestselling author Howard Fast?s straightforward introduction to Zen meditationHoward Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. The Art of Zen Meditation, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press in 1977, is the fruit of Fast?s study: a brief and instructive history of Zen Buddhism and its tenets, written with a simplicity that is emblematic of the philosophy itself...