Beck Anamin

The Silenced Mind: Meditation from the Roots of Yoga Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Whether the meditator's needs are worldly or spiritual, this book on Yoga meditation supports both the beginner and those practicing at higher levels. In aiming to help people truly understand meditation, it begins with establishing universal basics. First, the ability to meditate is a natural trait of our species. Second, all meditation is about stilling mind activity. Third, a stilled mind brings the meditator to experience consciousness beyond everyday experience. The author reassures the meditator that there is no right way. It is important to match chosen practices to the personal life experience. The book's discussion of the historical roots focuses on the ancient Samkhya philosophy, first composed more than 4000 years ago, which is the source of the meditation in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras from 2000 years ago. Since the highest three of the Yoga Sutras eight limbs are at the heart of practices described here, their discussion leads to important understanding leading to good practice.In preparation for presenting meditative practices, the book introduces the nature of alternate consciousness experiences. It discusses the relationships to prayer, mantras, chants, and other religious or quasi-religious practices. It follows that with the needed guidance for meditative sessions, discussing issues of attitude, time, place, props, and body. The chapter presenting methods of practice assigns each practice to one of the three meditative Yoga Sutras limbs. 'Concentration' (Limb 6) practices are perfect for the beginner and developing meditators. 'Meditation' (Limb 7) practices bring the experienced meditator to new levels of consciousness experience. 'Absorption' (Limb 8) practices yield increasingly strong spiritual experiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stinson Art Studio
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781543949667
• ISBN-10: 1543949665
• Artikelnr.: 56974219

Autorenporträt

In 1936 Beck Anamin's upstate New York life began in a small town. After the eighteen years of family life and education, he earned a bachelor's degree in Geology and a master's degree in Management. Fortunate to be offered a job programming for first generation computers, he began supporting his family with income from the burgeoning field of information technology. His working career in that technology and its management spanned 38 years. In 1970 a huge change came about in his personal life after experiencing several spontaneous spiritual events. Already yearning for that spirituality, he now knew it was possible, and began study and practice of Integral Yoga at Swami Satchidananda's nearby ashram. Two years later, he began what would become 45 years of yoga teaching. Over time he earned additional accreditation and obtained advanced training in pranayama and meditation. His teaching programs expanded from the core Integral Yoga program, to include meditation, pranayama, and the Yoga Sutras. After retiring in 1998 from his twenty-year job as manager of a large Information Technology Center, he bought a house on a pond in New Hampshire. By then alone, the setting enabled further settling into what he calls No One's Land, a personal mind space free of outside influences, where no one owns people, viewpoints, or the truth. He became further absorbed in his passion for research and writing of his three Truth books. Final editing of each took place in 2017.