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Like most colleges and universities there’s about a 14 minute introduction and acknowledgements given by college professors before His Holiness gives an easy to understand introduction to the nature of our mind.
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Written in a very friendly-encouraging manner for beginners and those of us having trouble with their practice.
This is the main book used by Shambhala for their beginner guided meditation classes, and with good reason. Sakyong Mipham has lived in the west for most of his life and relates many of the Buddhist teachings in an easy to understand conversational style.
Chapter 11 covers the 9 Stages of Training the Mind. This is a very easy to understand explanation of the signs of how our practice is progressing.
For those of us who lead a busy life style, this book was written for our distracted culture.
The essence of this practice, 7 different meditations, is about relaxing the mind and opening up to allow clarity and simplicity to flow naturally.
Even though the practices are simple, there are building blocks to help us pay more attention to our mind and the results may not come quickly.
