The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation

by Arinna Weisman, Jean Smith

Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their personal stories highlighting some of the challenges and insights of practice. The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation offers advice about going on retreat and help in choosing a teacher and a community to practice with. This is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.

Genres: Buddhism, Nonfiction, Meditation, Spirituality

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Andrea Laine]

I read this in a time in my life when I wasn't comfortable with who I was, where I was or anything in my life.

I was depressed to say the least. I hated everything and every one, most of all myself.

This book changed my life.

[Jim Stevens]

Perfect as both an introduction to Insight Meditation/Buddhism and as a manual to keep and refer to over and over again.

[Siddharth Nair]

Amazing introduction to Buddhism and it breaks down a lot of the buddhist texts into the basics but takes it further than what people would normally get from an introductory course. It gives you a glimpse of the amazing detail with which the Buddha broke down the thought process and tried to structure the unseen, unheard and unfelt quality of cognitive process. It gives you hope that you can someday be the master of your conscious and to some extent subconscious mind. Must read if you want to dip your ankle into Buddhism and don't mind some theory.

[Kayleigh]

I thought that this was a really helpful and, ahem, insightful book. It really addressed the main points of a Buddhist practice in a clear and concise way that was very accessible.

[Mark Gelula]

This is a good, basic introduction to Insight Meditation which is a form of Theravada Buddhism.

[Arianna Dominguez]

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[Holli B]

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[ana]

Wonderfully written. A perfect book for people learning meditation. I have used it in my curriculum teaching meditation and it was well-received by the group's participants.