This Windhorse Publications best-seller is a comprehensive guide to the methods and theory of Buddhist meditation. Written in an informal, accessible style, it provides a complete introduction to the basic techniques, as well as detailed advice for more experienced meditators seeking to deepen their practice.

The author is a long-standing member of the Western Buddhist Order, and has been teaching meditation for over seventeen years. In 1979 he helped establish a semi-monastic meditation community in North Wales, which has now grown into a public retreat center. For more than a decade he and his colleagues have been developing approaches to meditation that are firmly grounded in Buddhist tradition but readily accessible to people with a modern Western background. Their experience — as meditators, as students of the traditional texts, and as teacher — is distilled in this book.

The result is on the one hand a practical handbook, with a wealth of helpful detailed advice, completely with trouble-shooting guides and maps of the places our practice might take us. But it is also an inspiring exploration of the principles underlying Buddhist meditation, and of its real aims: heightened awareness, emotional positivity, and — ultimately —liberating insight into the true nature of reality.

Paperback, 304 pages, with photographs and charts
September 1996
List Price: $22.95