How to Meditate: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Kathleen McDonald, Robina Courtin

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What is meditation? Why practice it? Which technique is best for me? How do I do it? The answers to these often-asked questions are contained in this down-to-earth book, compiled and written by Kathleen McDonald, a Western Buddhist nun with solid experience in both the practice and teaching of meditation. How to Meditate contains a wealth of practical advice on a variety of authentic and proven techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Your lifespan is decreasing continuously......Page 54
   4. Human life-expectancy is uncertain......Page 55
   6. The human body is very fragile......Page 56
   7. Your loved ones cannot help......Page 57
   9. Your own body cannot help......Page 58
   1. Karma is definite......Page 62
   2. Karma increases......Page 63
   3. If we do not do an action, we will not experience its result......Page 64
   4. Karma is never lost......Page 65
   1. The power of regret......Page 69
   3. The power of remedy......Page 70
   4. The power of resolve......Page 71
   1. The suffering of suffering......Page 73
   2. The suffering of change......Page 74
   3. All-pervading suffering......Page 75
   Tonglen using one’s own problem......Page 86
   Tonglen for another person’s problem......Page 87
   The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation......Page 144
   Dedication......Page 148
   2. The power of regret......Page 157
   3. The power of remedy......Page 158
   1. The power of reliance......Page 159
   4. The power of resolve......Page 160