Steve: The edition I have is the one from 1993. I'm saying this because I wouldn't be surprised of a new up to date version. Personally I connect better with his old stuff. But this is just me. Mayka --- On Sun, 10/4/11, SteveW <[email protected]> wrote:
From: SteveW <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Buddhist meditation practices To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 10 April, 2011, 23:00 --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > Steve; >  > I don't know whether if you are familiar with the meditation book "The > Blooming Of A Lotus" by TNH. This was my very first introduction into > meditation. I recommend it to everyone who is not familiar with the > subject. It's a book of a range of exercises with the purpose of healing > and transformation. They are guided meditations to better to be done in a > sangha. Amongst the exercises there are some pretty good visualisation > over getting old, sickness, death, impermanence.....Amongst this > visualisations there is one very moving and that is the one of visualisation > of seeing first one as a five years old child....then one father as five > years old....then one mother as five years old...This meditation have > brought tears to all of us who have done for first time. It was amazing the > first time we did this one during a retreat with my sangha. I recall it as > amongst the most moving experience had with the sangha at that time. Do mind that > the Scotts are very reserve people and that seeing them expressing themselves > in such courageous openness was an overwhelming experience.   >  > Agree with you Steve and we have to be opened as different ways of meditation > are for different purposes. For instance I entered a couple of years ago > into just sitting down. This could be well change at any time. There is > no better or worse methods here but just whatever help us to be in contact > with reality at different periods, moments in our lives. >  > Mayka >  > > Thank you, Mayka. I will look up The Blooming of The Lotus, by Thich Nhat > Hanh. I do enjoy his books. Steve > >
