The Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation - Tapa blanda

Weisman, Arinna; Smith, Jean

 
9780861716715: The Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation
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ISBN 10: 086171671X ISBN 13: 9780861716715
Editorial: Wisdom Publications,U.S., 2010

Sinopsis

In this informative introduction to insight meditation, Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their own personal stories that highlight challenges and insights from their practice. The authors offer advice about going on retreat, as well as help in choosing a teacher and a sangha (practice community). Any newcomer to insight meditation can get started right away with this enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings beginners need to know.

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Acerca del autor

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, including365 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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Editorial
Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
086171671X
ISBN 13 
9780861716715
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
268
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