![Three Steps to Awakening: A Practice for Bringing Mindfulness to Life by [Rosenberg, Larry, Zimmerman, Laura]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/418OSO-7bYL._SY346_.jpg)
It occurred to me as I finished this book that in a way Larry Rosenberg has written the same book three times (I'm referring to his first book, "Breath by Breath;" his second, "Living in the LIght of Death;" and now this one.
"Breath by Breath" was an instant classic - a true "desert island" guide to both mindfulness of breathing and carrying the practice off the cushion into every part of daily life. For many practitioners it can easily be the first -and last - meditation manual they will ever need.
"Living in the Light of Death," which came out some years later, offers even greater clarity and really does, as Rosenberg so wryly puts it, "attempt to answer the question of whether there is life BEFORE death" by showing us that the groundless, infinite mystery most of us spend our entire lives avoiding is always there to free us if we turn towards it instead and make it our practice. Unlike a zillion other books that offer speculation about what happens after death, it is a guide to how to live, moment by moment, developing a heart-mind that is ready for whatever comes next, whether the "next" in question is next moment or next life.
"Three Steps," in the context of these two other classic, essential books, is so short, so jargon-free and simple that a casual reader might miss the profound "pith essence" nature of the instructions it contains. It is the distillation of four decades of intensive practice and inquiry and an enormous amount of teaching. The three steps (mindfulness with breathing, the four applications of mindfulness, and choiceless awareness) are taught as precisely and concisely as possible, with helpful Q & A from students interspersed.
Rosenberg pays homage to all of his teachers here, but particularly to Krishnamurti, ending with a lovely afterword about his teaching and its impact. The flow through the three steps is something like this: get concentrated and settled; use your now-focused awareness in service of liberating insight; drop any residual clinging, and live in self-existing wakefulness, freedom and service. "Three Steps" joins Larry's two other books on a small shelf I've reserved for quintessential practice texts. I'm so grateful for his work.
- File Size: 563 KB
- Print Length: 177 pages
- Publisher: Shambhala (December 3, 2013)
- Publication Date: December 3, 2013
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GCELCIW
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- #123 in Theravada Buddhism (Kindle Store)
- #254 in Theravada Buddhism (Books)
- #2269 in New Age Meditation
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