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Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their personal stories highlighting some of the challenges and insights of practice. The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation offers advice about going on retreat and help in choosing a teacher and a community to practice with. This is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.

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A thoughtful presentation of the teachings of the Buddha and an invitation to the reader to begin a meditation practice. A wonderful support to those new on the path. -- Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness A wonderful book which moves with graceful clarity through the terrain of Theravada Buddhism, bridging relevant contemporary concerns with the Buddha's classical blueprint for freedom. A beautiful mosaic. -- Steven Smith, guiding teacher of Vipassana Hawai'i and Insight Meditation Society The truth will make us free, and the Buddha's truth has been doing just that for the last two and a half millennia. Now Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith have made the language simple and the practice easy to apply. That is a gift indeed. May this good book help thousands of us to be free. -- Eric Kolvig, teacher of Insight Meditation How wonderful to have such a warm and inviting and encouraging tone wrapped around so much helpful, straightforward information. -- Sylvia Boorstein, author of Don't Just Do Something, Sit There This ...good-hearted primer ...is the perfect starter kit for people curious about Buddhism ... -- Publishers Weekly This book acomplishes exactly what it intends to do: it provides an excellent and accessible overview of insight meditation. It's the perfect book to give someone who is interested in Buddhism but doesn't know where to begin. It's also an excellent overview for those newcomers on the path who are asking a lot of questions and seeking intelligent answers. -- Inquiring Mind

A magnificent book that moves with graceful clarity.--Steven Smith, guiding teacher and co-founder of Vipassana Hawai'i Library Journal A thoughtful presentation and an open invitation to the reader to begin a meditation practice--a marvelous support to those new on the Path.--Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness Library Journal Highly recommended.-- Library Journal How wonderful to have such warmth and encouragement wrapped around such helpful, straightforward information!--Sylvia Boorstein, author of Don't Just Do Something, Sit There Library Journal The perfect starter kit for people curious about Buddhism-who may or may not adhere to another faith. A gentle, good-hearted primer whose first-person stories nicely support the how-to portions of the text.-- Publishers Weekly

A thoughtful presentation of the teachings of the Buddha and an invitation to the reader to begin a meditation practice. A wonderful support to those new on the path. <br>-- Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness <br> A wonderful book which moves with graceful clarity through the terrain of Theravada Buddhism, bridging relevant contemporary concerns with the Buddha's classical blueprint for freedom. A beautiful mosaic. <br>-- Steven Smith, guiding teacher of Vipassana Hawai'i and Insight Meditation Society <br> The truth will make us free, and the Buddha's truth has been doing just that for the last two and a half millennia. Now Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith have made the language simple and the practice easy to apply. That is a gift indeed. May this good book help thousands of us to be free. <br>-- Eric Kolvig, teacher of Insight Meditation <br> How wonderful to have such a warm and inviting and encouraging tone wrapped around so much helpful, straightforward information. <br>-- Sylvia Boorstein, author of Don't Just Do Something, Sit There <br> This ...good-hearted primer ...is the perfect starter kit for people curious about Buddhism ... <br>-- Publishers Weekly <br> This book acomplishes exactly what it intends to do: it provides an excellent and accessible overview of insight meditation. It's the perfect book to give someone who is interested in Buddhism but doesn't know where to begin. It's also an excellent overview for those newcomers on the path who are asking a lot of questions and seeking intelligent answers. <br>-- Inquiring Mind <br>

Author Information

Arinna Weisman has studied insight meditation since 1979 and has been teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison who was empowered by the great teacher U Bha Khin. She is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Center of the Pioneer Valley. Her dharma practice and teaching have been infused with her political and environmental activism. She was the first out queer teacher with Eric Kolvig to lead insight meditation retreats for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Queer community. She also leads 'Uncovering the Heart Retreats' integrating the practice of awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation. Jean Smith is the author/editor of numerous successful books on Buddhism, including 365 Zen, A Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation, and Breath Sweeps Mind. A longtime associate of the Insight Meditation Society, she is the head of the executive board of the Mountain Retreat Center, in Taos, New Mexico, where she lives.

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