What are some good meditation books any of you have read? I am trying to find some good ones.

Thank you

Zen flesh, Zen Bones, by Paul Reps, a compliation of traditional stories used in meditation, some predating Buddhism.

None about meditation, but all about meditation.

"This Light in Oneself...True Meditaion" by J. Krishnamurti. It is not a big book which is nice but it does have to be read slowely to really get the beauty of what he is saying.

Zen flesh, Zen Bones, by Paul Reps, a compliation of traditional stories used in meditation, some predating Buddhism.

None about meditation, but all about meditation.
Yes, yes, yes. Shunryu Suzuki (http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/author/742.cfm)'s (http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/author/742.cfm) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/0-8348-0052-7.cfm)
strikes me as a good jumping off point too. :D

I've read some about meditation. It's a lot like juggling. There is little to know about juggling in reading about it. It's something that really lives well in the doing. My experience with meditation (http://www.mro.org/zmm/meditation/) is like that.

The beginning varies for all of us and by doing, we, well, we get to begin... perfectly. ;)

Killing the Buddha (http://Killing%20theBuddha%3C/a%3E%20%3C/b%3E%3C/font%3E%3C/font%3E)

There's an old saying, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." The historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, on attaining enlightenment, is said to have realized that all beings, just as they are, are Buddhas. If that's so, meeting a Buddha on the road should be a pretty commonplace event! So should being a Buddha on the road! But that's where the word "meeting" comes in. It implies encountering something or someone outside or other than oneself... (http://www.ordinarymind.com/koan_killing.html)



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I found a great book "Learning to Dance Inside" by George Fowler. This book would be especially good for someone new to meditation as it talks about the why of meditating more than the how. According to the author " once we understand what is supposed to happen during meditation, the techniques will take care of themselves.

How about a detailed review saskman? I'd like to hear you go on a while. :D I'm not trying to make your life miserable. I'm speaking in earnest.

George Fowler gave up twenty years as a Trappist monk for meditation. He says, This book isn't intended to teach you how to meditate as much as it is aimed at helping you find your essential and overwhelming happiness"

"When setting out to meditate each of us has the task of understanding whatever spiritual principles are involved and then applying them in our own lives in our own way.

He has plenty to say about organized religion. "We must come to know clearly what lies beyond the myths and storyforms(the various forms religious stories take)that religions have taught and at which they so often stop.

I bookmarked a page as I was reading this book. In the chapter titled "A Glimpse of the Goal" was the following.

"What is the contemplative state like: It's finding yourself existing, be -ing, in a totally different kind of awareness than you've ever known. You have become aware, for the very first time, that you are an eternal "expression" of Existence, or, translating the Latin roots of that word, an "outpressing" of Eternal Existance, of God. When this astonishing realization registers, it becomes at that moment a dance in your spirit, a laughter somewhere inside, a clarity of the mind that is at once the most profound and simplest experience you've ever known, and at the same time the least specific."

That paragraph chokes me up when I read it.

Outstanding! Thank-you very much. Please write more everywhere. :D