Mindfulness in Plain English, Updated and Expanded Edition

This step-by-step guide to Insight Meditation is truly practical and direct. This new edition includes the complete text of its best selling predecessor and a new chapter on loving-kindness, an especially important subject in today's fractious world.

If you'd like to read about meditation and then go back to your regular life, don't get this book. Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, warns us that vipassana meditation is "meant to revolutionize the whole of your life experience." In one of the best nuts-and-bolts meditation manuals, he lays out the fundamentals of basic Buddhist meditation, the how, what, where, when, and why, including common problems and how to deal with them. His 52 years as a Buddhist monk make Mindfulness in Plain English an authority on a living tradition, and his years of teaching in America and elsewhere give it the clarity and straightforwardness that has made it so popular. If you'd like to learn the practice of meditation, you can't do better. --Brian Bruya

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-20-2009; One of the most profound and useful books ever written; How do you even begin to review a book that changed your life? Especially when you can count on one hand, the number of books that have done this. I came to this book during a hard time in my life, having it recommended to help me with...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2009; Superb; Nutshell review - This is one of the best books on meditation that I have read. If you are looking for a book on Buddhist (vipassana/insight) meditation then this is it. If you only ever read one book on the subject then make it this...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-12-2009; One way of meditating; Be aware that this is a Buddhist monk teaching a method of Buddhist meditation. There are many types of meditation and mindfulness which are not covered. Just keep that in mind while reading this book.; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-31-2009; In plain English?; This is a good book but IMO some of the language is anything but plain English. For example, Mr. Gunaratana writes:1. Mindfulness sees the true nature of all phenomena. 2. It is mindfulness that notices the change. 3. Mindfulness is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-20-2009; One of the most profound and useful books ever written; How do you even begin to review a book that changed your life? Especially when you can count on one hand, the number of books that have done this. I came to this book during a hard time in my life, having it recommended to help me with...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-12-2009; One way of meditating; Be aware that this is a Buddhist monk teaching a method of Buddhist meditation. There are many types of meditation and mindfulness which are not covered. Just keep that in mind while reading this book.; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-19-2002; Not Profound nor Particularly Well Written; Based mainly on the strength of the many 5-star reviews at Amazon.com, I purchased this book. While the price was not too bad, the author says he intends to write a simple "how-to" guide to meditation. While it is in many aspects simple,...; read full review | report as inappropriate