What Is Meditation?: Buddhism for Everyone
If you are looking for a book about the fundamentals of  Buddhism, without complicated theories or explanations of involved  techniques, you have found it in Rob Nairn'sWhat is  Meditation?. In the sparest terms, Nairn outlines the major  divisions of Buddhism, the Buddha's core teaching, and what it means  to be a Buddhist at the most basic level. He goes on to provide three  simple exercises in meditation that will suffice for anyone who wants  to get his or her feet wet without being sucked into whirlpools of  terminology. Like swimming, meditation requires just a brief amount of  instruction in technique, and the rest is up to the practitioner. If  you find the water welcoming, from Nairn's springboard you can jump  off to slightly more involved books byThich Nhat Hanh,Sharon  Salzberg,Jack  Kornfield, orSurya Das. Wherever  you end up going, if you know nothing about Buddhism now,What is  Meditation?is a good place to start.--Brian Bruya--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.