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Meditation on Compassion

By Jack Kornfield

To cultivate compassion, let yourself sit in a centered and quiet way. In this traditional form of practice you will combine a repeated inner intention with visualization and the evocation of the feeling of compassion.

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Meditation for Relaxation: 60 Meditative Practices to Reduce Stress, Cultivate Calm, and Improve Sleep

The meditation strategies and practices inside this book will help you find calm, get better sleep, and beat stress. Reset your thoughts and settle your emotions with a quick meditation or use belly breaths to achieve deep and restful sleep.

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Adam O’Neill
2019
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Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective

The line between psychology and spirituality has blurred, as clinicians, their patients, and religious seekers explore new perspectives on the self.

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Mark Epstein
2013
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Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness

Meditation is one of the most important things to learn in order to live a life of joy, health and love. This is a rare meditation book that offers advanced meditations made simple. Loch Kelly goes to the root of suffering by introducing us to the ultimate medicine of awake awareness.

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Loch Kelly
2015
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Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here—each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa—have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training.

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Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chödrön (foreword)
2003
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Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us

If you grew up in struggle―overcoming homophobia, sexism, trauma, shame, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or social injustice―you need a different type of meditation . . . one that doesn’t pretend the struggle doesn’t exist.

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Justin Michael Williams
2020
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The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day

Quiet the mind, feel less stressed, less tired, and achieve a new level of calm and fulfillment in just ten minutes a day Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, the Voice of Headspace, and the UK’s foremost mindfulness expert, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day...

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Andy Puddicombe
2025
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Meditations

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) went from his origins in a small south Indian village to become one of the great spiritual teachers of the twentieth century.

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J. Krishnamurti
2018
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Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom

In Insight Meditation, Joseph Goldstein provides an overview of Buddhist practice and its context generally while focusing on vipassana meditation specifically.

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Joseph Goldstein
2003
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Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience

Meditation is like a love affair with your innermost self. At times it can be ecstatic and entrancing, other times simple and still―and sometimes you might not even feel its profound effects until later.

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Sally Kempton
2011
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Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important

Jon Kabat-Zinn is regarded as “one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you’ll ever encounter” (Jack Kornfield). He has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2025
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