Product: Meditation: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
***How to Meditate Has Been Named One of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2013***Pema Chodron is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan nun presents her first book exploring in depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.When we look for a meditation teacher, we want someone who has an intimate knowledge of the path. That's why so many have turned to Pema Chödrön, whose gentle yet straightforward guidance has been a lifesaver for both first-time and experienced meditators. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book that explores in-depth what she considers the essentials for an evolving practice that helps you live in a wholehearted way. More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, compassion, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind to embrace the fullness of our experience as we discover: The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness The Seven Delights-how moments of diffi culty can become doorways to awakening and love Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises Thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight"-instead of obstacles-in meditation Here is in indispensable book from the meditation teacher who remains a first choice for students the world over.Part One: The Technique of Meditation1. Preparing for Practice and Making the Commitment2. Stabilizing the Mind3. The Six Points of Posture4. Breath: The Practice of Letting Go5. Attitude: Keep Coming Back6. Unconditional Friendliness7. You Are Your Own Meditation InstructorPart Two: Working With Thoughts8. The Monkey Mind9. The Three Levels of Discursive Thought10. Thoughts as the Object of Meditation11. Regard All Dharmas as DreamsPart Three: Working With Emotions12. Becoming Intimate with Our Emotions13. The Space within the Emotion14. Emotions as the Object of Meditation15. Getting Our Hands Dirty16. Hold the Experience17. Breaking with the Emotion18. Drop the Story and Find the FeelingPart Four: Working with Sense Perception19. The Sense Perceptions20. The Interconnection of All PerceptionsPart Five: Opening Your Heart to Include Everything21. Giving Up the Struggle22. The Seven Delights23. The Bearable Lightness of Being24. Beliefs25. Relaxing with Groundlessness26. Create a Circle of Practitioners27. Cultivate a Sense of Wonder28. The Way of the BodhisattvaExcerptThe mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.

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