Quiet Mind Open Heart: A Practice Period in Meditation
By Carolyn Atkinson.
Description
How can we quiet our minds, right in the midst of our everyday lives? How can we open our hearts, in the face of our lifelong habits of grasping and resistance? How can we unwind these habit energies and live more peacefully? This book offers an approach to stillness and openness through two forms of Buddhist meditation: Stillness Abiding (an interpretation of Zen Shikantaza), and Vipassana or Mindfulness meditation. Based on lectures and meditation coaching sessions given during a Practice Period at Everyday Dharma Zen Center in Santa Cruz, California, the book presents a series of steps t...
ISBN(s)
0615173470, 9780615173474
