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This nonsectarian guide to meditation can help us understand the common ground of contemplative practice, and practice it according to our own belief system. Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within An excellent book for those who have curiosity about meditation, or those who want to learn to meditate but don't know where to begin. Father Kevin Hunt, Trappist monk and Zen teacher Mystical spirituality requires some sort of contemplative method of prayer or meditation, and these methods become the way to break through to the other side, to part the veil in order to see where everything comes from, and to where it will all return. They are ways to deepen our knowledge of reality, others, God, and ourselves. from the Foreword by Wayne Teasdale A fascinating walk-through of the world's major meditation practices, written in a lively, accessible style. Nan Fink Gefen, author of Discovering Jewish Meditation: Instruction and Guidance for Learning an Ancient Spiritual Practice, and co-director of Chochmat HaLev, a center of Jewish meditation This engagingly written and wise philosophical answer to how and why people meditate is a pleasure to read. Sylvia Boorstein, author of That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist

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Marcia Z. Nelson is a meditator, freelance journalist, teacher, and writer specializing in religion, whose articles have appeared in Utne Reader, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Tribune. She is also the author of The God of Second Chances: Stories of Lives Transformed by Faith (Sheed and Ward). Wayne Teasdale was a lay monk and best-selling author of The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions; Bede Griffiths: An Introduction to His Interspiritual Thought and A Monk in the World. As a member of the Bede Griffiths International Trust, Teasdale was an adjunct professor at DePaul University, Columbia College, and the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Wayne Teasdale was coeditor of Awakening the Spirit, Inspiring the Soul: 30 Stories of Interspiritual Discovery.

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