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  • The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation

  • Mindfulness, Concentration, and Insight
  • By: Richard Shankman
  • Narrated by: Alan Taylor
  • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

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The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation

By: Richard Shankman
Narrated by: Alan Taylor
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The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation offers a practical guide to building a strong meditation practice by unifying mindfulness, concentration, and insight into a single, integrated approach.

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 for cultivating both insight and concentration in meditation.

This book will be of interest to both beginning and experienced meditation practitioners who wish to familiarize themselves with, deepen their understanding of, and increase their practical skills in mindfulness, concentration, and insight meditation. New meditators who want hands-on skills they can easily put into practice will find the step-by-step instructions accessible and easy to understand. Experienced practitioners will find a complete and useful guide for deepening insight and cultivating the deeper stages of concentration known as jhana.

This book also discusses the most common experiences that can arise as the meditation process unfolds, and will help you find the approaches and techniques that work best for you.

©2015 Richard Shankman (P)2016 Wetware Media
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After reading this I bought a copy for my sister

I highly recommend this book. I have meditated now for over a year and every part of this book has rung true with my actual experience. Meditation has changed my life for the better so I bought a copy of this book for my sister in the hope it will benefit her too.

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Meh

There's a good bit of info here that could potentially help a lot of people. I found my mind wandering a lot, though. Perhaps this audiobook could function as an object of concentration practice :D

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