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Buddhist Meditation for Beginners

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As a psychotherapist interested in Buddhism I discovered Jack Kornfield recently and was pleased his book was indeed what I was searching for. His life endeavour is to balance his first-hand Buddhist experiences with living in the Western world. He reveals theory and insight in a personal intelligent way: a diverse presentation also offering practical examples of meditations. Although he reveals meditation as something one can do immediately from where one is now in the world, he does not present meditation as an instant cure, realizing that deep emotional difficulties can need other therapeutic interventions as well. The book for me is one of grounded inspiration.

Excellent tapes for beginning to meditate. Kornfield, as always, speaks about spirituality in a straight forward manner. His instructions and suggestions accurately anticipate some of the problems with beginning meditation and he makes the process much easier. Many of his suggestions are helpful while not meditating as well. I can't think of a single negative thing to say about these tapes.

these are fine as an introduction to the principles of meditation and buddhism. they convey many of the basic ideas and address many of the common roadblocks to meditation practice, not really a whole lot better or worse than the many other available guides.

but where is it written that meditation CDs have to have soft hooty native-american-type flutey sounds, and a guide that sounds like a kindergarten teacher on valium?

sure, i wouldn't want a meditation teacher that sounded angry or anything...but his voice actually got to the point where it sounded absurd to me; i found it hard not to laugh a few times at his inflections getting a bit odd and pointless.

whatever, there's still good lessons here for beginning meditators, if you can overlook a voice trying just a bit toooooo haaaaaaarrrrrd to be soooooooooothiiiinggg.

These CDs are great. Easy to just pick up anywhere along and get a few moments of meditation during the day. It's approachable and relatable meditation, not hokey-pokey at all. Very useful and a good place to start for a beginner like me.

Jack Kornfields soothing voice is the perfect vehicle for introducing one to beginning to meditate. I love his books and his cd's

The meditation cds were the same cd over and over....six of them. Not what I thought I was buying. I kept putting the next one in and heard the same information and anecdotal stories over and over. EEEK!

This is a grat CD, and I got a great deal on it. It was much more expensive through a popular mail order catalog.