Insight Mediations

The fruit of some twenty years’ experience leading Buddhist meditation retreats, this book touches on a wide range of topics raised repeatedly by meditators and includes favorite stories, key Buddhist teachings, and answers to most-asked questions.

Welcome to the second book in the “Basic Meditations For Beginners” series. “Basic Meditations For Beginners: Insight Meditation” is a comprehensive guide designed to help beginners understand and practice insight meditation. This book demystifies the ancient practice of insight meditation, making it accessible and relevant to modern life. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate this powerful practice into your daily routine. Authored by Spiritwalker, a lay Zen Priest with over 30 years of experience in practicing and teaching meditations, this book is a ...

A practical guide and map to the Anapanasati Sutta and Loving-Kindness Meditation (The Brahmaviharas). A new look at the practice of Mindfulness as it is taught only from the sutta texts of the Majjhima Nikaya. Bhante Vimalaramsi has found a step in the practice that has been left out. This book explains that step and the entire map of the Buddha's practice in a new way just using the sutta texts with no added commentaries. The Path to Nibbana is given to you right there in the suttas. Bhante has unlocked the code and practiced this technique and now shares it with the world. After 20 years...

This modern spiritual classic, presented as a 30-day meditation retreat taught by Joseph Goldstein, offers timeless practical instructions and real-world advice for practicing meditation - whether walking or sitting in formal practice or engaging in everyday life. Goldstein uses the retreat format to explain various basic Buddhist teachings including karma, selflessness, and the four noble truths, while also drawing connections to many different spiritual traditions.

Connecting with your mind and body are the first steps to greater insight. In order to access universal wisdom and a more alert state of mind - you must first master yourself. This meditation is all about helping you become more mindful and aware of your own existence and the world around you. It is designed to deepen your understanding and your appreciation of the present moment, allowing you to transcend the physical realm as you reach more insightful perspectives.

Freedom from suffering is not only possible, but the means for achieving it are immediately within our grasp - literally as close to us as our own breath. This is the 2,500-year-old good news contained in the Anapanasati Sutra, the Buddha's teaching on cultivating both tranquility and deep insight through full awareness of breathing. In this book, Larry Rosenberg brings this timeless meditation method to life.

What if you could go back and sit under a tree with the Buddha and listen to him giving his original meditation instructions? What did he teach over 2500 years ago, and are those original instructions valid for today’s practitioners? Most of us cannot travel through time, but we do have the records of the Buddha’s teachings in the Pali suttas. In this book, Mark Edsel Johnson, Ph.D., demonstrates that by following a meditation practice called Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation or TWIM, which is directly based on the records of the Buddha’s teachings, practitioners quickly experience ...

Whether you’re discovering Stoicism for the first time or revisiting its timeless teachings, this audiobook offers the perfect guide to clarity, self-mastery, and a deeper appreciation for life.

Connect with the present moment in each movement. Award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows listeners that fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches listeners how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine. Let's combine the two with exercise as meditation.

Buddhist master Achaan Chah spent years meditating in a forest monastery of Thailand. This remarkable book reflects his simple and powerful message as well as the quiet, joyful Buddhist practice of dhudanga, or "everyday mindfulness", with profound insights for the West.

Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist meditation teacher, Phillip Moffitt provides a fresh perspective on the Buddha's ancient wisdom, showing how to move from suffering to new awareness and unanticipated joy. With a strong message of self-empowerment, Dancing with Life offers a prescriptive path for finding joy and peace that will appeal to anyone searching for a more authentic life.

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Discover the 44 laws of life that are the missing link between the desire to meditate and the motivation needed to maintain a regular meditation practice, process the emotional fallout of meditative experiences, and find spiritual fulfillment.

The answers to the most profound spiritual questions lie within us-but how do we gain access to our deepest wisdom? "Breathing is the gateway to insight," reveals Scottish-born teacher Bodhipaksa, "and meditation gives us the key." In The Wisdom of the Breath, this master teacher guides listeners through breath-centered meditations for opening to the inner core of spiritual awareness we all possess.

This book shows how we can move beyond secular mindfulness and compassion techniques to the cultivation of insight - seeing into and thereby becoming free of the repetitive thinking that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering. Most books in the secular mindfulness tradition stop with mindfulness and self-compassion but do little to uncover the root causes of our suffering. Drawing on both Buddhist analyses of mind and current findings in psychology and neuroscience, the book explains how our thinking becomes fixed through our engaging with unconscious preferences and reactions.

Clairvoyance Explained: Unlocking Psychic Sight and the Secrets of Intuitive Perception is your comprehensive guide to understanding and developing one of the most powerful intuitive abilities—clairvoyance, or "clear seeing." Whether you’re a curious beginner or an experienced seeker, this insightful and practical book will help you tap into your inner vision, trust your intuition, and navigate the world with deeper spiritual clarity. Explore the fascinating history of clairvoyance, discover how it differs from other psychic abilities, and learn proven techniques like meditation, ...

I set out to study and practice Vipassana meditation in India fifty years ago. Then, as now, I characterized myself as both a spiritual seeker and a writer. During the six months that I sojourned in meditation centers and monasteries, observing the strict rules of retreat, I nevertheless spent several hours a day feverishly filling notebooks by lamplight with tightly packed script legible only to me, recording my internal experiences.

In 2029, Google is the most dominant company in the world. Dr. Bethany Andrews heads the company’s Artificial Intelligence Department and leads Project Bodi, the world’s most advanced Augmented Reality smartglasses that could one day revolutionize the tech space. Her lead programmer is Austin Sanders, a 26-year-old psychonaut who loves Burning Man and electronic dance music. Against all odds, they embark on a life-changing journey to design the breakthrough of the decade, and along the way they discover the mind’s source of innovation.

Mindfulness and insight - clearly knowing what is happening in one's present moment experience - and concentration - the ability of the mind to remain steady and undistracted - are foundational elements of meditation, yet people are often confused about how these aspects of the practice fit together. Should they be doing insight meditation or concentration practices? How does concentration fit into insight meditation? To help, The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation offers specific guidance.

This book is about GOD’S Cosmic Laugh. I can hear GOD laugh every day. No, I'm not delusional. I'm serious. It's not a normal laugh. It's a cosmic laugh. It's a soundless laugh which vibrates and pervades the entire universe. BUT why does GOD laugh? God was alone and felt lonely and bored. HE needed entertainment. So, in his wisdom, he created us human beings and gave us a special ability called a MIND. Some people have a wrong notion that GOD gave us a mind so that we could think intelligently and progress as a race. In fact, the contrary is true. GOD gave us a MIND so that the mind ...