Call number
299 B1
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Publication
HarperOne (1996), Edition: 1st, 149 pages
Description
Get away from doing and into being with this lively, down-to-earth guide to your own meditation retreat by beloved mindfulness meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein. Presenting what Jon Kabat-Zinn has called "endearingly personal mindfulness wisdom," she offers a three-day retreat plan accompanied by timeless lessons -- always grounded in real life -- on how anyone can achieve calm, clarity and joy through meditation practices.
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LibraryThing member bexaplex
This is a self-guided meditation retreat that takes place over an evening / full day / morning. Turn phone ringers off, set devices to airplane mode and you can develop wisdom at home.
LibraryThing member uufnn
From the inside cover: Sylvia Boorstein teaches mindfulness and leads retreats across the United States. She is a co-founding teacher (with Jack Kornfield) at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in the Barre,
From p. 6 of the book: "The becoming wise part is a gradual process. By paying attention calmly, in all situations, we begin to see clearly the truth of life experience. We realize that pain and joy are both inevitable and that they are also both temporary. We remember, more and more often, that struggling causes suffering and that compassionate, considered responses make life manageable."
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Massachusetts. [She] is also a practicing psychotherapist."From p. 6 of the book: "The becoming wise part is a gradual process. By paying attention calmly, in all situations, we begin to see clearly the truth of life experience. We realize that pain and joy are both inevitable and that they are also both temporary. We remember, more and more often, that struggling causes suffering and that compassionate, considered responses make life manageable."
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Pages
149
ISBN
0060612525 / 9780060612528