Breath by Breath: Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation - Softcover

Rosenberg, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0722538189 ISBN 13: 9780722538180

Publisher: Thorsons, 1999

Synopsis

The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation ‘A book of delicious simplicity and revolutionary wisdom. Some of the clearest teachings on mindfulness.’ Jack Kornfield

Larry Rosenberg, one of the most prominent Buddhist teachers in the West, shows readers how to cultivate tranquillity and deep insight through the full awareness of breathing. He discusses how to use the breath to attain greater awareness of body, mind and feelings and how to bring awareness to daily life. He shows us how freedom from our dissatisfaction can be as near to us as our own breath.

The book also includes a translation of the Buddha’s original teachings on breath, the Anapanasati Sutra. It is the most up-to-date version of this profound, accessible and little known teaching.

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Review:

In any meditation class, one of the first things one learns is the importance of breathing. For Larry Rosenberg, a seasoned instructor of insight meditation, the breath is everything. And he is not in bad company since the Buddha himself delivered a sutra on the subject. Rosenberg's Breath by Breath is an elaboration on this short classic, but couched in familiar language liberally spiced with anecdotes from Rosenberg's decades of practice and teaching. It's Rosenberg's earthy humour and patient instruction that make him such a popular teacher and that make Breath by Breath a rewarding read. He takes the beginning student from the wandering "doggy mind" to becoming a chicken, along the way getting a teacher's bite and sitting like a frog. For the hurried and harried, he includes a nutshell two-step version of the sutra's 16-step practice (appended is the full text of the sutra). More of a coach than a disciplinarian, Rosenberg takes a "see what happens" attitude. "You don't make liberation happen", he says. "To contemplate breathing is to contemplate life itself". --Brian Bruya

Review:

‘...a book that every beginning meditator – as well as experienced ones – should read.’
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, author of Mindfulness in Plain English

‘..a unique contribution to our understanding of the path of meditation... wonderfully accessible and relevant’
– Joseph Goldstein

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0722538189
• ISBN 13: 9780722538180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224