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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
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This book is a mixed bag. I debated on whether to give it 2 or 3 stars. It has a lot of useful information to assist anyone who is interested in improving their meditation techniques. On the downside, it sometimes comes too close to "woo" statements and magical thinking for my taste. For anyone who is interested in purely secular meditation, there are better books out there.
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This book gave me a few helpful hints to help with my Vipassana Meditation. Overall I found the more I learned about the dogma, the more I disliked it. I will continue to meditate in spite of this book, but I did not appreciate certain underlying principles. I think because this book was recommended to me I had too high expectations, also I have watched a number of Youtube videos with Goenka and much of this felt repetitive.
As far as I know, this accurately describes the ideas behind Vipassana meditation as taught by Mr. Goenka. I am considering trying it and wanted to know what the meditation seminar was like. There is not much information about that. The language and suttas (sutras) used suggest that it is closet to Theravada, but it is claimed that it is neither Mahayana nor Theravada.
As far as I know, this accurately describes the ideas behind Vipassana meditation as taught by Mr. Goenka. I am considering trying it and wanted to know what the meditation seminar was like. There is not much information about that. The language and suttas (sutras) used suggest that it is closet to Theravada, but it is claimed that it is neither Mahayana nor Theravada.
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I read the Art of Dying before this. I think both books are extremely insightful, as a secular person that is interested in meditation and detaching myself from certain aspects of our conditioned world. I think the concept of acknowledging your own impermanence, and the futility of blind reaction to the things that happen around us, as it results in misery and suffering, is fascinating and offers interesting perspective. This book has definitely interested me in trying out Vipassana meditation through one of their retreats.