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A review by roshnara
Calm: Vintage Minis by Tim Parks
3.0
This is almost like my internal monologue every time I try meditation! Tim Parks goes through all the frustrations of a skeptic meditator - the uncomfortable poses, the pins and needles, the runaway thoughts, the thoughts running after the runaway thoughts - and he manages to push through and actually experience Vipassana and its rewards. (Unlike me)
A lot of what he writes is what an average stressed city dweller would think about, on meditation, and somehow he addresses the concerns in a manner that is equally cryptic and believable.
I'm semi-torn between reading the full book from which this excerpt was taken(Teach Us to Sit Still), and finding a meditation retreat myself so I can see if it really does pay off. That's how nice a read this is.
A lot of what he writes is what an average stressed city dweller would think about, on meditation, and somehow he addresses the concerns in a manner that is equally cryptic and believable.
I'm semi-torn between reading the full book from which this excerpt was taken(Teach Us to Sit Still), and finding a meditation retreat myself so I can see if it really does pay off. That's how nice a read this is.