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Come and Sit : A Week Inside Meditation Centers

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What a helpful and insightful guide for beginning meditators! As interfaith minister and teacher of meditation of 18 years, I will recommend this book to those who wish to begin the process of learning how to sit and inwardly listen. I remember the days when I began meditating. Like Come and Sit, I went from tradition to tradition and technique to technique. Listening, searching and sometimes groping. This book --had it been available at the time---would have not only aided but perhaps simplified and streamlined my search.

I also appreciated the way the author "listened". The personal interviews with various individuals of different backgrounds are invaluable and lend an intimacy to the book. The reader (including myself) finds a bit of her/himself revealed through others on a similar spiritual path.

For someone wanting to begin meditation, this book is invaluable! There is also an extensive resource guide of books and meditation centers which would prove very useful.

Rev. Susanna Stefanachi Macomb
NYC

A nice, easy-to-read beginners' guide to meditation in a variety of traditions. Accurate in explaining each tradition, with a good use of personal stories to bring in the human interest side. Not for those who are looking for something to take them deeper than the first steps, though.

--Alan Zundel, the HeartAwake Center

What a helpful and insightful guide for beginning meditators! As interfaith minister and teacher of meditation of 18 years, I will recommend this book to all those who wish to begin the process of learning how to sit and inwardly listen. I remember the days when I began meditating. Like Come and Sit, I went from tradition to tradition and technique to technique. Listening, searching and sometimes groping. This book --had it been available at the time---would have not only aided but perhaps simplified and streamlined my search.

I also appreciated the way the author "listened". The personal interviews with various individuals of different backgrounds are invaluable and lend an intimacy to the book. The reader (including myself) finds a bit of her/himself revealed through others on a similar spiritual path.

For someone wanting to begin meditation, this book is invaluable! There is also an extensive resource guide of books and meditation centers which would prove very useful.

Rev. Susanna Stefanachi Macomb
NYC

What a helpful and insightful guide for beginning meditators! As interfaith minister and teacher of meditation of 18 years, I will recommend this book to all those who wish to begin the process of learning how to sit and inwardly listen. I remember the days when I began meditating. Like Come and Sit, I went from tradition to tradition and technique to technique. Listening, searching and sometimes groping. This book --had it been available at the time---would have not only aided but perhaps simplified and streamlined my search.

I also appreciated the way the author "listened". The personal interviews with various individuals of different backgrounds are invaluable and lend an intimacy to the book. The reader (including myself) finds a bit of her/himself revealed through others on a similar spiritual path.

For someone wanting to begin meditation, this book is invaluable! There is also an extensive resource guide of books and meditation centers which would prove very useful.

Rev. Susanna Stefanachi Macomb
NYC

I can't say anything really bad about this book. Ms. Nelson does a fine job of presenting several rather disparate meditation styles from different cultural backgrounds without expressing any particular bias.

On the other hand, there's no sense that she found any of these useful or different for her. I would, in fact, feel more comfortable with an entirely scholastic approach rather than this impersonal soft-sell approach.

Also, Ms. Nelson seems utterly determined that one can only meditate with an instructor and a group. Bleh on her.