Product Details

• Actors: Jack Kornfield
• Format: Color, Unabridged, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sounds True Video
• VHS Release Date: September 16, 1998
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1564553906
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,351 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A Complete Video Introduction to the Inner Art of Meditation. The first video instruction course with Jack Kornfield shows you how to start-and stick with-a daily meditation practice. In this full-length video course, Jack introduces you to the vipassana practice of meditation, and how its principles can help you cultivate a profound inner calm, while awakening to the truth of life. Video demonstrations teach the fundamentals of breathwork, posture, and four complete meditations to get you started. Learn to use physical sensations-even difficult emotions-to create a more peaceful life for you and the world. Now you can begin meditating today-in just the time it takes to watch Meditation for Beginners. Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. is a meditation teacher, author, and psychotherapist. After returning in 1972 from Asia, where he lived as a Buddhist monk for five years, Jack Kornfield cofounded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and obtained a doctorate in clinical psychology. His books include A Path with Heart; Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (with Joseph Goldstein); and Stories of the Spirit,Stories of the Heart (with Christina Feldman). Dr. Kornfield currently lives with his wife and daughter near California's Spirit Rock Center, where he is a guiding teacher.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you can't find a teacher, this video is excellent, September 16, 2000

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Rick Waugh (Pitt Meadows, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meditation for Beginners: A Complete Video Introduction to the Inner Art of Meditation [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you live somewhere where you can't find instruction, or simply don't want to go the route of trying to find one, this is a wonderful way to learn. Trying to learn from books is difficult; insight meditation is really a very simple thing, but without someone to 'tell' you about it, there always seems to be a nagging doubt about whether you're doing it correctly. This video really opened our eyes about the practice, along with providing Jack Kornfield's usual excellent advice about spiritual practice in general.

90 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Meditation Source I've Ever Found!, November 22, 1999

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Eileen La Fleur (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meditation for Beginners: A Complete Video Introduction to the Inner Art of Meditation [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The title of this review tells it all. Jack Kornfield explains and exhibits the essence of the purpose of meditation. His stories and explanations make things "click". I feel like this is the starting point of a major...maybe the major progression...in my ability to manifest the power inherent in meditative exercises. It's a lot to say about a video, I know. I'm sure glad I came across this video. I checked it out at the local library. Now I'm going to buy it and use it everyday and share it with others.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific, November 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Meditation for Beginners: A Complete Video Introduction to the Inner Art of Meditation [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I run relaxation groups. I have utilized this video to
teach meditation. Groups members love Dr. Kornfield and
truly learn from him.
I have been meditating for many years and find that I
have learned new techniques from Dr. Kornfield. He has
made my job much easier