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The Less Dust the More Trust: Participating In The Shamatha Project, Meditation And Science Paperback – January 7, 2014

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  • Paperback: 418 pages
  • Publisher: Mantra Books; Reprint edition (January 7, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1780999488
  • ISBN-13: 978-1780999487
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsA practical and insightful exploration into Buddhist meditation and science
By J. Boekhoven on January 5, 2014
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Adeline van Waning's book "The less dust, the more trust" is a unique journey into mindfulness and awareness, into consciousness and the essence of what it is to be human. She tells the story of her participation in The Shamatha Project retreat (2007), embracing three months of concentration-calm meditations and scientific research into what happens to mind, thought and emotions, in a group of persons practising Buddhist meditation for many hours a day. She addresses the current research outcomes of this unique ongoing project, and adds more recent considerations.
The book is written from a contemplative and scientific point of view, and includes many personal elements about life during the Shamatha Project retreat. The author shares her reflections with many diary fragments about what she experienced, thought and felt. Every chapter offers a guided meditation in a way that the reader can `join in being on retreat,' for a direct experience into the themes the author addresses. The book makes meditation a very real and interesting activity, and shows that it - far from being an escape - provides a key to getting more familiarity with and control over one's emotions and thoughts, and to leading a more fulfilling life.
The author discusses important elements of Buddhist meditation like observing one's thoughts and emotions without getting involved in them, and tells her first-hand experiences. When increasingly she could let go of habitual attachment to self, she could feel that not she did things but that things happened through her, resulting in experiences of spaciousness and openness, with feelings of subtle lightness and joy. She noticed how sometimes there was the sense of transcending her physical senses and yet experiencing everything around her more clearly.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful journey through an intense meditation training.
By Jane L. on May 8, 2014
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Contains descriptions of a personal journey during a three-month long meditation training and retreat. There are wonderful personal observations and you get to see firsthand what this kind of training can be like. Also there are wonderful overviews of the Meditation instructions. This book can be a guide for how to deepen and strengthen one's meditation practice. It is written clearly enough that both beginning and advanced practitioners will find it extremely helpful. The author participated in B. Alan Wallace's shamatha project.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Less Dust" joins scientific studies, Buddhist teachings and personal experience for a 3 month Shamatha meditation retreat.
By Jim G on April 1, 2014
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This chronicles a three month Shamatha meditation retreat led by B. Alan Wallace where the participants were medically monitored 6 ways from Sunday, before during and after. I have listened to several podcasts of similar retreats held later in Phuket, Tailand, that lacked the scientific monitoring.
I am about 1/3 through this book. It contains sample guided meditations along with summary results of the scientific monitoring for the group. Alongside this are samples from the author's personal retreat diary. I appreciate the organization and cross references in this book. Dr van Waning is a practicing psychiatrist with Buddhist background and writes well.
So how can this type of retreat change a participant? How long do the changes last? How do the scientific measurements and published studies support claims for the benefits of shamatha meditation practice? Let's read on and see.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe definitive account of meditation under the microscope, as hearts and minds take flight with authentic Dharma practice
By Jim Cahill on February 15, 2014
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I am both gratified and relieved that Adeline has written this ambitious book: gratified because our extraordinary opportunity and experiences in this project simply needed to be documented, and relieved because she is exactly the right person for the job. The Shamatha Project set a new standard of rigor in design and methodology for studies of meditation, and this book reflects that standard in its thoroughness and loving rendering. It provides an insider’s view of the gratitude and life-changing shifts we research subjects enjoyed as we daily received impeccable, authentic teachings and then meditated for long hours in an idyllic setting high in the Rocky Mountains, all the while certain that we were simultaneously contributing to science, to Dharma, and to the cultivation of our own hearts and minds. Adeline’s intelligent and thoughtful psychological and philosophical contextualization of her personal experiences makes this book appealing to those interested in meditation, Dharma, contemplative neuroscience, and the many hybrid and integrative disciplines arising from them.
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