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This guide to the inner being reveals techniques for moving beyond troublesome thoughts, finding keys to unlock practices like mantra repetition, and learning how to troubleshoot your own meditation practice.

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Swami Durgananda has studied and taught under the guidance of Siddha Yoga meditation master Gurumayi Chidvilasananda for the last two decades, offering courses and workshops in meditation and yoga philosophy all over the world. In 2002, she became a lay teacher under her given name, Sally Kempton.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, Concise, Informative, and most of all, Expansive!!, Mar 9 2003

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jaroslav majer (st. petersburg, florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience (Paperback)

This book is one of the Master guides on Meditation. It is quite agreeable to anyone from any tradition. It deffinitly becons the mind to open into ever new and expansive view points. Even if one starts with some pre-concieved ideas, don't be surprised if you find those pre-conceptions falling away during your read............allowing the heart to peirce through the heavyness of dogmatic and contracted thinking into a freer, and more natural state.

I am quite impressed with this beautiful explanation of the many stages and qualities of meditation in book form.

It is intersperced with quotes from Saints, Buddha's, and Master's from all traditions. It gives great pointers on how to get through many of the obsticals that arise in anyones meditation. It also clearly points to the goal of meditation and elequantly expands on the experience of the goal of meditation through the writers own direct and personal experience. Yet, so beyond the subjective ego (reflective of the state of the author), it is easily accesable by anyone who is interested in starting a meditation practice, to anyone who has been meditating for a very long time. It is so fresh this book, it offers a range of techniques, as well as a section of self questioning which helps the reader align with their own personal style of meditation. It is both explanitory and contemplative. It puts seemingly complicated essoteric teachings into a language that illumines them as common sense. the book is like reading into one's own heart. So honest, so beautiful, so eloquent. There is a sense of openess as one reads, as if the words expand past the confines of a mere book, past the confines of mere form. The words themselves are so reflective of her own deep experience of the Truth, that one can not help but experience the state she speaks from. It is deffinitly perfectly titled as, "The Heart of Meditation."

Do yourself a most profound favor, have a Heart to Heart with your own essentual nature through this wonderful book that can expand current paradigms or forge one ahead into new and more greatly expanded paradigms. The fruit of this book, is most deffinitly enlightenment. What is that exactly? Ahhhhh, read the book and apply what it points to in your own life and you will realize that it is your own natural innermost state of being. So close, you will wonder how you ever did miss it, and have a good laugh in that wondering as well.

In a very practical sense:
A first class book on Meditation!

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Voice Returns, Jan 24 2003

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Sally Kempton's pen hasn't lost its power since the days she wrote for Esquire and New York Magazine, and helped galvanize a generation. Now she's translated into the American idiom the understandings she's gleaned in three decades of inner exploration. I for one am very grateful to catch up with her again. Even if you don't have a Guru, and don't feel ready for one, it's great to feel the light of Kempton's intelligence and heart shining on these big questions, to hear her own personal take on time-honored strategies for plunging into the depths of Being. Once again, she's tapped into the zeitgeist.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a must : amazing, refreshing , a bliss a real pathway, Jan 21 2003

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There is no word to describe the intelligence within this book, it is definitly a clear practical pathway to a deeper experience.
this could be the only book you need to read in order to clear within you the process of meditation.
Robert from switzerland

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1.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual Plagiarism
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