Training the Mind: Book IV: Tranquility and Insight Meditation

Mind-Training, using the mind to look at the mind, is not just for meditators anymore, but is going secular. Tibetan Buddhist methods of mind training are useful to anyone willing to learn them. Here is a series of very-short, easy-to-read, articles on training the mind, many of which can be used at any time in our busy work schedule, and not just on the cushion. This volume presents the basic Tranquility Meditation (Shamata) and Insight Meditation (Vipassana) Meditation.