Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation

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 sangha (practice community), as well as suggestions for further reading and information on various Insight Meditation or Vipassana centers and resources. Here is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.


From the Trade Paperback edition.