Minding Mind by Thomas Cleary - ISBN: 9781590306857
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Some types of meditation are aimed at promoting a sense of confidence and well-being in everyday life, while other types focus on producing altered states of consciousness, transcending the world, or developing skills for serving other people. This book includes instructions that focus on the highes…

Minding Mind

A Course in Basic Meditation

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    144 pages

  • Release Date

    1 June 2009

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Summary

A course in basic meditationMinding Mind is an extraordinary compendium of instruction manuals dealing primarily with ways of attaining the mode of experience characteristic of the highest form of meditation in the Zen tradition-pure, clear meditation arriving at being-as-is. The seven meditation manuals included here are some of the greatest treasures of the Zen tradition.The Treatise on the Supreme Vehicle is attributed to Hongren (602-675), who is known as the Fifth Patriarch of Chan Buddh…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781590306857
ISBN-10:1590306856
Author:Thomas Cleary
Publisher:Shambhala Publications Inc
Imprint:Shambhala Publications Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Edition:2nd
Release Date:1 June 2009
Weight:153g
Dimensions:191mm x 132mm x 9mm
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“Clear and lively.”-Library Journal

“Clear and lively.“—Library Journal

About The Author

Thomas Cleary

Thomas Cleary holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.

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