The purpose and practice of Buddhist meditation : a source book of teachings

How Much Meditation Is Good For You? Why Visualize An Enlightened Being? Are There Places That Meditation Doesn't Reach? All Of These Questions And Very Many More Are Tackled In This Substantial Compilation Of Sangharakshita's Teachings On Meditation, Drawn From Previously Published Works And From The Unpublished Transcripts Of Seminars. Discussions Reveal How Sangharakshita Learned The Practices On Which His System Of Meditation - 'an Organic, Living System' - Is Based, And How That System Has Evolved Over The Years. Amid Much Curiosity About Dhyana And Insight The Book Also Explores Such Questions As How To Deal With Fear Or Distraction, Doubt, Drowsiness Or Desire. This book is a substantial compilation of Sangharakshita's teachings on meditation, drawn from previously published works and from the unpublished transcripts of seminars in a wide range of Buddhist texts, from the Pali canon to the songs of Milarepa. The dialogue form of the text is a reminder that teaching is a communication, a creative meeting between the depth and breadth of the teacher's knowledge and the experience and willingness of the students to ask the kinds of questions any meditator would like to ask i they had the chance.