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Summary: A Good Find
Review: I would rate this book with 5 stars because they wrote and edited this book in very easy words, It tells you how to meditate, why to meditate, advice for begginers and much more.
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Summary: The Next Best Thing To Private Instruction
Review: I've read a number of books on meditation, some good and some not so good. It's a tough topic. But this book is a primer on a gift-basket of techniques in Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Clear, encouraging, simple instructions make it easy to read and easy to use. I'm a lousy meditator with a mind that loves to start jumping from topic to topic. This book is the first tool to help me start developing past all that. As another reviewer pointed out, this book is teaching in a specific tradition. If you have some knowledge about Tibetan Buddhism and know it's not for you, skip this book. If you're new to meditation, or open to techniques in this tradition, this book is a gem.
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Summary: The perfect guide to meditation
Review: This book has enormous value for anyone who wishes to begin a meditation practice. Kathleen McDonald is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, but I feel that this book offers useful advice to anyone of any spiritual persuasion. I have to disagree with some of the other reviews who feel that this book is for aspiring Buddhists only. Meditation can be correctly seen as a highly effective technology that can be employed to tame the mind. In fact, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has stated that Tibetan Buddhism exists somewhere in between science and religion.I also want to comment on the warmth with which McDonald has crafted this text. She writes with great simplicity, yet she manages to impart a great deal of valuable and sophisticated information. If a book can be described as being " friendly ", that would certainly apply here. Clearly interested in creating a book that in no way intimidates or overwhelms, her approach is gentle and reassuring. This is a wonderful book!
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Summary: One of the best guides to Tibetan Meditation
Review: This heartfelt book is written with skill and compassion. It is an excellent guide to Buddhist (Tibetan) style meditation. It is of interest to anyone wanting to learn how to meditate, or to deepen their practice.
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Summary: The Next Best Thing To Private Instruction
Review: This is a real find. Just scrumptous! The author is a Tibetan
nun in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism (the same as the Dali Lama). So you will be taught to meditate in the same way that the Dali Lama meditates! She does try to cover all schools of meditation. But she still teaches primarily Tibetan. And
her meditations are mainly Gelugpa. What is so wonderful about this book is that it is for beginners. But intermediates like
me can learn so much from it as well. And for advanced practioners, I have no doubt that they can learn a thing or two as well. You will find out how to sit. When to sit. How long to sit. How to pick out a certain meditation. Dealing with problems frequently encountered in meditation. How to deal
with negative problems such as depression, anger, and anxiety.
Nevertheless, I would only recommend this book to people who think they might want to practice in the Tibetan tradition. Or
for people who want to practice Buddhist meditation but don't care what tradition they practice in. This is really a great and helpful book. Thank you.
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Summary: Just Fabulous!!!
Review: This is a real find. Just scrumptous! The author is a Tibetan
nun in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism (the same as the Dali Lama). So you will be taught to meditate in the same way that the Dali Lama meditates! She does try to cover all schools of meditation. But she still teaches primarily Tibetan. And
her meditations are mainly Gelugpa. What is so wonderful about this book is that it is for beginners. But intermediates like
me can learn so much from it as well. And for advanced practioners, I have no doubt that they can learn a thing or two as well. You will find out how to sit. When to sit. How long to sit. How to pick out a certain meditation. Dealing with problems frequently encountered in meditation. How to deal
with negative problems such as depression, anger, and anxiety.
Nevertheless, I would only recommend this book to people who think they might want to practice in the Tibetan tradition. Or
for people who want to practice Buddhist meditation but don't care what tradition they practice in. This is really a great and helpful book. Thank you.
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