Journey of Awakening : A Meditator's Guidebook
Author: Ram Dass
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ISBN: 0553285726
Publisher: Bantam (01 July, 1990)
Sales Rank: 8,612
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
For new explorers of spirituality & meditation
A friendly invitation and beginner's guide to meditation--of various forms, from various traditions, Eastern and Western--with suggestions for picking a form suited to you, and helpful advice for the times when you get lost or stuck. Sprinkled with quotes from all sorts of wise people and cute little drawings of a meditator. Includes an extensive directory of groups offering meditation instruction, plus a good list of suggestions for further reading. Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, left his position as a psychology professor at Harvard in the 1960s to explore mind-expansion through psychedelic drugs and then through the guidance of an Indian guru. His bestselling 1971 book "Be Here Now" includes a chronicle of this journey and, like "Journey of Awakening," invites the reader to spiritual practice, but it focuses more on Hinduism and is written, illustrated, and typeset in a very hippie, psychedelic style, so you might prefer or definitely not prefer that book.
Welcome to spiritual practice!
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Meditation in itself
I read this book as a form of meditation. The pace, the language, even the mandalas and other drawings can be used as tools to launch onesself into the deeper life. Best read or listened to during the morning commute to set a good tone for the rest of a hectic day.
Rating: 5 out of 5
awesome book
Awesome amounts of information about meditation, unique in that it does not focus on any particular technique. It has generous amounts of information on many different methods of meditation.
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