Behind Closed Eyes- A Book on Meditation in the Form of a Novel
Book Specification
Item Code: | AZG903 |
Author: | Jason Siff |
Publisher: | Vajra Books, Nepal |
Language: | ENGLISH |
Edition: | 2017 |
ISBN: | 9789937623803 |
Pages: | 100 |
Cover: | PAPERBACK |
Other Details | 8.50x5.50 inch |
Weight | 130 gm |
Book Description
On another level, meditation is a way to expand and develop one's consciousness. In Behind Closed Eyes, Jason also touches on the philosophical issues of a higher self, transcendence, emptiness, and nibbana (nirvana). He discusses how he sees tranquility and insight manifesting in a person's meditation practice, and also explores how people conceptualize and put words to their inner experiences.
I have wanted to publish this book for many years, but only recently have I been motivated to do so. After 18 years, I still agree with most of what the meditation teacher says in his instructions and talks, though I would ask different questions and have longer dialogs with students if I wrote a similar book today. One thing about this novel, which I could never have predicted, is that certain strands of Vipassana meditation practice have moved more in the direction of Recollective Awareness Meditation over the past decade. If I had published it 18 years ago, it would have been seen as something radical, and probably would've been met with greater resistance, but now it can speak to a larger circle of Vipassana meditators, even though it is still outside of the mainstream.
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