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OfflineGrylls
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Good Meditation Books?
    #7702961 - 12/01/07 02:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I've been meditating now for 6+ months. I developed my own relaxation techniques and have experience in Robert Monroe's Hemi-Sync, and the induction of out-of-body travel. I've used an audio session from Alan Watts and have used BrainWave Generator.

I want to learn more about meditation and to take my perception deeper within. I usually just fall asleep at a certain point and wake up 15 minutes later from a state I like to call "the incogitable void." I wake up realizing that 'I exist' and I have a physical life. I want to get past that point and go deeper without losing awareness and succumbing to a light slumber (although I do wake up light and energetic afterwards).

Before I go down to my local library to look for books on meditation, I'd like to ask some of you for the good ones. I'm sure there are many "Suzy Homemaker's Guide to Meditation," or even worse something like "Martha Stewart's Easy 1-2-3 Meditation," books. I'm not looking for that. I'm looking for something esoteric, and/or philosophical.

Any suggestions would be welcome!


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Grylls]
    #7702983 - 12/01/07 02:23 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Free online, cheap on amazon.

http://www.budsas.org/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: TheHateCamel]
    #7702990 - 12/01/07 02:26 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Ram Dass - Be Here Now


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: sleepy]
    #7703043 - 12/01/07 02:51 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Meditation by Eknath Easwaran
Easwaran's translation of The Bhagavad Gita


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Lion]
    #7703052 - 12/01/07 02:53 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

bug, what is the difference with his version/translation as opposed to another?


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: WScott]
    #7703063 - 12/01/07 02:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

It's the only one I've read, so the only one I can recommend :grin: :tongue:

He's a very good writer, IMO, so you can't go wrong with his stuff.


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Lion]
    #7703858 - 12/01/07 06:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Hmmm... I will write these suggestions down and see what the library has to offer. Ram Dass' work is definitely a shot in the dark where I live. I live in a state that is dominated by strong, religious oppression. It rhymes with "Mootah."

Even A. Huxley's Doors to Perception is not available in my library!


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Grylls]
    #7704897 - 12/02/07 12:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Ram Dass - Journey of Awakening

Adyashanti - Emptiness Dancing & True Meditation

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Grylls]
    #7706826 - 12/02/07 02:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

undoing yourself with energized meditation by christopher hyatt

http://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Yourself-Energized-Meditation-Devices/dp/1561840572

originally recommended by robert anton wilson.  it was out of print for the longest time.. but after a 2 year quest, i finally found it in print once again (about 4 years ago)


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: starseed]
    #7706839 - 12/02/07 02:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Great book.:thumbup:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: starseed]
    #7706853 - 12/02/07 02:17 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Mindfulness in Plain English is a very good book and talks about the details of meditation in a way thats easy to understand. Good for beginers.

http://www.realization.org/page/namedoc0/mipe/mipe_0.htm


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Grylls]
    #7706862 - 12/02/07 02:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

'I exist' and I have a physical life. I want to get past that point

Give it time sonny.:thumbup:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Grylls]
    #7706883 - 12/02/07 02:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)



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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: dorkus]
    #7707755 - 12/02/07 06:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I dont think this is a meditation book of the sorts you seek, but i just started reading my first Alan Watts book: "This is IT"

and im diggin it


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: Lion]
    #7708317 - 12/02/07 08:26 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Yea i read Easwaran's versions of the Upanashads and Bhagavad gita. His introductions to these are awesome, though these are also the only versions Ive read. Im deffinatley gonna have to check out his book on meditation.


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: daytripper23]
    #7708380 - 12/02/07 08:40 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, by Nyanaponika Thera


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #7709824 - 12/03/07 07:35 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Still The Mind- Alan Watts. Not strictly a book, since it's just a compilation of his speeches on the subject but it's very useful.

Also, Be Here Now by Ram Dass.


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Re: Good Meditation Books? [Re: EllisDSox]
    #7713969 - 12/04/07 03:58 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Honestly ANYTHING by Allan Watts is a score IMO. The man is a genius, have you seen his videos? Check out "work as play" on youtube its quite entertaining!

I have been engrossed in Allan's The Way of Zen recently.

Also of note is perhaps Robert Aitken for a beginner.

Good luck!


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