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Meditation: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind by [Chödrön, Pema]

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***How to Meditate Has Been Named One of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2013***

Pema Chodron is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan nun presents her first book exploring in depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.

When we look for a meditation teacher, we want someone who has an intimate knowledge of the path. That's why so many have turned to Pema Chödrön, whose gentle yet straightforward guidance has been a lifesaver for both first-time and experienced meditators. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book that explores in-depth what she considers the essentials for an evolving practice that helps you live in a wholehearted way.

More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, compassion, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind to embrace the fullness of our experience as we discover:

The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness
The Seven Delights-how moments of diffi culty can become doorways to awakening and love
Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises
Thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight"-instead of obstacles-in meditation

Here is in indispensable book from the meditation teacher who remains a first choice for students the world over.

Part One: The Technique of Meditation

1. Preparing for Practice and Making the Commitment

2. Stabilizing the Mind

3. The Six Points of Posture

4. Breath: The Practice of Letting Go

5. Attitude: Keep Coming Back

6. Unconditional Friendliness

7. You Are Your Own Meditation Instructor

Part Two: Working With Thoughts

8. The Monkey Mind

9. The Three Levels of Discursive Thought

10. Thoughts as the Object of Meditation

11. Regard All Dharmas as Dreams

Part Three: Working With Emotions

12. Becoming Intimate with Our Emotions

13. The Space within the Emotion

14. Emotions as the Object of Meditation

15. Getting Our Hands Dirty

16. Hold the Experience

17. Breaking with the Emotion

18. Drop the Story and Find the Feeling

Part Four: Working with Sense Perception

19. The Sense Perceptions

20. The Interconnection of All Perceptions

Part Five: Opening Your Heart to Include Everything

21. Giving Up the Struggle

22. The Seven Delights

23. The Bearable Lightness of Being

24. Beliefs

25. Relaxing with Groundlessness

26. Create a Circle of Practitioners

27. Cultivate a Sense of Wonder

28. The Way of the Bodhisattva

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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can’t escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand—and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.

There are numerous ways to work with the mind. One of the most effective ways is through the tool of sitting meditation. Sitting meditation opens us to each and every moment of our life. Each moment is totally unique and unknown. Our mental world is seemingly predictable and graspable. We believe that thinking through all the events and to-dos of our life will provide us with ground and security. But it’s all a fantasy, and this very moment, free of conceptual overlay, is completely unique. It is absolutely unknown. We’ve never experienced this very moment before, and the next moment will not be the same as the one we are in now. Meditation teaches us how to relate to life directly, so that we can truly experience the present moment, free from conceptual overlay.

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File Size: 489 KB
Print Length: 166 pages
Publisher: Sounds True; 1 edition (May 1, 2013)
Publication Date: May 1, 2013
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00C2BYPMY
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,921 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #22 in Buddhist Rituals & Practice (Kindle Store)
- #37 in Meditation (Kindle Store)
- #82 in New Age Meditation

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Sheryl A. Carlsen

One of the best books on meditation

May 11, 2014

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Few people have explained the process of meditation as detailed and from a practical acceptance of the difficulties in quieting the mind. Most people who talk about meditation just explain the logistics of meditation such as when, where and for how long to meditate. Rather than lecturing about the need to stop the wandering mind, the author breaks down the dynamics of the wandering mind. Then she encourages the meditator to accept it, not force it to change and suggests ways to work towards a settling calmness when the mind is ready.

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daveonbass

Worthwhile read

October 7, 2015

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Not sure why I was drawn to this particular book as my first thought when I look at the title is "I already know how to meditate", but I'm sure I was looking for another Pema Chodron book to read after finishing "Taking The Leap", so this was the one I went to. Great book, love her writing, I'll be looking for another one to add to the on deck circle as soon as I finish this review.

I went back and forth on 4/5 star rating for this book before settling on four stars, mainly because some of the early parts moved slow for me, I left it and read another book before coming back and finishing this one - and that alone doesn't say "five star read" to me. But the last parts of this book are very good. The entire book is a great read, I probably picked it because I've been neglecting my meditation practice for quite some time now and would like to get back into it. Certainly reading this book is motivational to do just that.

I don't like using guided imagery for meditation, and wouldn't like a book that gives you "meditation exercises" to follow, either. There are exercises included in parts of this book, but that's not the main gist of it. This book is more about where to take yourself, what techniques to use, what personal gain can be attained when adding meditation to your life. It found me when I needed it. If you've read this far, read it yourself because it found you as well... and it's a very good book.

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Frank G. Dunn

Clear and Readable Presentation of Meditation Essentials

August 15, 2017

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I have been a student trying to learn how to meditate for over four decades. Pema Chödrön, one of the best and clearest teachers of spiritual practice alive today, has given me a gift in this book that makes more sense of stuff I've struggled with than any other book in the field. She practices and teaches Tibetan Buddhism, but is liberally accessible to persons, like me, who come from and follow other spiritual traditions. I cannot imagine that her book would not be helpful to anyone who wishes to get a firmer grasp, both intellectually and experientially, on meditation.

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Claudia Skelton

Returning to a meditation practice

March 11, 2015

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There are numerous books on meditation. I had neglected to keep this practice present in my life during the past decades. To refresh my mind, I knew Pema Chodron would be a good place to start. This book is simple and easy to adapt to my current life, an explanation of meditation that is kind and doable.

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Valsesito

This book is excelent!!!!!

July 28, 2013

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How many times in this modern world, friends tell us to meditate and we feel like YES, but HOW???? In what should i think?, in nothing?, can i do it alone, what posture should i adopt, what is the purpose of this meditation, is this something a religion wants me to do??????
All this answers are gracefully answered inthis beautiful and useful book!!!! The monk tells us, NORMAL NOT ILLUMINATED PEOPLE how we must start and follow our meditation. The purpose and benefits of doing it regularly.
Even that i go to buddist meditation, this book was a great great help, because describes more accurately what, how and why we meditate.
Enjoy and i reccomend.
I wish PEACE for all, especially my brothers humans who buy this book and are learning to calm their minds, as i do.

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What I love is that Chodron is so down to earth and ...

October 10, 2014

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I am using this book as my guide for a meditation class that I teach. What I love is that Chodron is so down to earth and presents the approach to meditation in a way that is very accessible and relatable. There is so much mystery about meditation - How do I do it? Am I doing it right? What should I be feeling? Should I try to shut off all my thoughts? Why don't I see bright colors and flashing lights? Her approach and language bring all down to earth, letting us know that we can let go of some of those lofty expectations about what we "should" feel when meditating. I highly recommend it for anyone starting a meditation practice.

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hoges1

simply great! to the point and easy to follow.

September 18, 2013

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Pema Chödrön makes meditation understandable and accessible in this incredibly helpful and insightful, gentle little guide.
I highly recommend it to anyone interested in either mindfulness, meditation, buddhism or just simply finding a simple way of reducing stress in life and gaining more insight into the experience of being human.

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Jon Anda

Well said.

August 28, 2017

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As someone long familiar with Buddhism but not yet over the hump in terms of a regular sitting practice, this is the book that (finally) got me over that hump. She writes clearly and cogently...in a way that makes you both understand her point but also curious to find your own truths in meditation. I finished the book and just thought...thanks.

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