Change Your Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation [Paperback]

Paramananda (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2004

An accessible and thorough guide to meditation, written in a light and modern style. Colourfully illustrated with anecdotes and tips from the author's extensive experience as a meditator and teacher.

"Inspiring, calming and friendly."-Here's Health

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'Inspiring, calming and friendly' Here's Health --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Born John Wilson in London, Paramananda was curious about Asian ideas but it was not until the death of his father that his interest in Buddhism was aroused. Ordained in the Western Buddhist Order in 1985, he has been teaching meditation, Buddhism and body awareness full-time in San Francisco and London since then.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Windhorse Publications; 2nd edition (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0904766810
• ISBN-13: 978-0904766813
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,908,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written, exceptionally grounded, and not airy-fairy, March 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Change Your Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Paperback)

This compassionate and exceptionally well-written book helped me start a daily Buddhist meditation practice, which I've continued now for several months. This book includes a number of great meditation exercises, an introduction to the mindfulness of breathing and to Metta Bhavani (universal loving kindness). It provided great comfort to me during a stressful time in my life, and I often pick it up and re-read passages of it; it has really changed my life, and I am so thankful that I discovered it.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Guide to Meditation and How to Live Life, March 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Change Your Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book. I'm new to Buddhism and meditation, but have read a number of books on the subject. Paramananda explains meditation in a straightforward manner. More importantly, he clearly illustrates the linkage between meditation, Buddhism, and living a mentally healthy life. I believe that I will return to this book throughout my life.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just yet another book on Meditation, February 19, 2001

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This review is from: Change Your Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Paperback)

The Book starts with a personal account as to what meditation can provide. It sounds convinsing very much because it is simple. In deed the Zen like character of the teaching as to how to meditate makes it trully engaging. It is clear to the point, personal and human. There are a lot of books about tecniques and alot of them quite good. But some of them seem too full of the particular brand of Buddhism they come from, so much so that one almost fells as if to meditated one has to become Tibetan or Chinnese.Some others are so much explain in like magical lenguage that the magic of the simple act of meditation goes away. Good books about meditation are few and rare. What must of us need is to get our buts on the cushion and just do it , this books does just that, makes you fell like meditating on that moment.