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Meditation for beginners : six guided meditations for insight, inner clarity, and cultivating a compassionate heart / Jack Kornfield.

By: Kornfield, Jack, 1945-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bantam, 2005Description: 87 p. ; 20 cm. + 1 sound disc (1 hr., 8 min. : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0553816926 :; 9780553816921.Subject(s): Meditation | Religion | Self-help & personal development | Popular psychology | Mind, body, spirit: thought & practiceDDC classification: 158.12 KOR Summary: This is a step-by-step guide for bringing meditation into your life - including 6 guided meditations on CD.
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library Ground Floor Main 158.12 KOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Has CD Available 38888000908081
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Ever though about trying meditation but didn't know how to get started? With Meditation for Beginners Jack Kornfield shows you how simple it is to start - and stick with - a daily meditation practice.

'Insight' or visspana meditation is the time-honoured skill of calming the spirit and clearing the mind for higher understanding. Now, in this complete course created for beginners, renowned teacher Jack Kornfield offers a straightforward, step-by-step method for bringing meditation into your life.

Using six guided meditations on the CD attached, you will discover how easy it is to use your breath, physical sensations - and even difficult emotions - to create tranquillity and loving kindness in your everyday life. These simple, elegant practices are so easy to learn that you will begin enjoying the benefits of medication immediately - while laying the foundation for a lifetime of inner discovery and awakening.

Accompanied by audio CD.

Formerly CIP. Uk

This is a step-by-step guide for bringing meditation into your life - including 6 guided meditations on CD.

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Meditation for Beginners offers the central trainings and teachings found in the best Buddhist monasteries translated for Western society. In Meditation for Beginnings, you will find some of the simplest and most universal of the practices of meditation-in particular, the practices of mindfulness and lovingkindness. The point of these teachings has nothing to do with becoming a Buddhist, or learning any Eastern ceremonies or rituals or bowing. The point is that you learn how to work with meditation in order to find benefits from it in your life. When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our lives could be lived with greater compassion and greater wakefulness. To meditate is to support this inner potential and allow it to come forth into our lives. Excerpted from Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Jack Kornfield was trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught around the world since 1974. He also holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and of the Spirit Rock Center. He lives in northern California.

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