The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful

by Kelsang Gyatso

Book Overview

The New Meditation Handbook is a practical guide to meditation that teaches us how to make ourselves and others happy by developing inner peace, and in this way making our lives more meaningful.21... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948006900
• ISBN13: 9780948006906
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Tharpa Publications
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Practical Instruction

I am so pleased to have found this book! As a beginner to meditation, I really connect with the idea of meditation being about familiarizing my mind with a virtuous object, as opposed to trying to "clear" my mind. The instructions here are very clear and have yielded good result in terms of my own ability to deal with the stresses of every day life. I would recommend this to anyone interested in meditation who doesn't quite know where to start. (Probably also good for seasoned meditators).

great book - I use it every day

This book has a very clear introduction about what meditation is and how to meditate, but what makes this book really worth owning is the cycle of 21 meditations, starting with understanding how precious our lives are, through developing compassion and learning about the ultimate nature of reality.My practice gets deeper with every round of meditations I do.Highly recommended.

The most important book you will ever buy

I have read a lot of books on Buddhism and gleaned some basic understanding from each of them. But this book is very, very special. This book hands to you the complete path to enlightenment in twenty-one meditations that will change your life. Geshe Kelsang is a brilliant scholar and a truly remarkable teacher. His presentation of this ancient path is extremely clear and easy to follow. The world would be a better place if everyone practiced the meditations in this book!

No more questions about how meditation brings us forward...

This book helps us Western people to focus on the important things while meditating. In a very clear and easy speach it explains us step by step how we get a clear view beyond all our daily activities through to what really makes our life as human beings so very precious. I can recommend this book to anyone trying to approach meditation or trying to get further into meditating on a regular basis.

The Stages of the Path

For both the beginner interested in meditation, or the skilled practitioner with many years of experience, this profound text provides the reader with everything he or she needs to achieve enlightenment. The stages of the path or "lamrim" in Tibetan are detailed in a series of 21 different meditations, leading up to profound meditations on emptiness. Each meditation builds upon the other, so one can contemplate truly complex subjects with great ease and clarity of mind. This book should be in the hands of every person who meditates. I've seen no better text that describes how to meditate and generate a truly happy mind.