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How To Meditate - A Beginner's Guide To Peace(Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu)
Quoted from Introduction to the book:
IntroductionThis booklet is taken from a six-part video series on YouTube (
http://www.youtube.com/yuttadhammo). It was originally intended for use in the Los Angeles Federal Detention Center, where it was impossible to distribute teachings by video, but has since become my preferred means of introducing the meditation practice to newcomers in general. While the videos provide a useful visual guide, this booklet contains much updated and expanded information that is not in the videos.
The lessons are laid out according to how I would expect a new-comer to learn meditation step-by-step. It may seem odd that chapters two, three and five are presented in the opposite order in which they are to be practiced. The reasoning is that sitting meditation is easiest for a beginner to appreciate. Once one has become comfortable with the concepts involved in meditation, they may expand their practice to include walking and even mindful prostration if they are so inclined.
My only intention in completing this task is that more people may benefit from the meditation practice. It seems proper that if one wishes to live in peace and happiness, one should work to spread peace and happiness in the world in which one lives.
I would like to thank all who have helped to make this book possible: my parents and all of my past teachers, my current teacher and preceptor, Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo, and those kind beings who originally transcribed the teachings from the YouTube videos.
May all beings be happy.
Yuttadhammo
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