Best Free Books on Meditation on the Internet

[thelerner]

What can we come up with?

 

I'll dig up the address on a Manual on Consciousness, which is a book/course on lucid dreaming.

 

 

Michael

[forestofsouls]

Here are two of my favorites:

 

 

Mindfulness in Plain English. The perennial classic on developing awareness.

 

A Course in Consciousness. Where physics meets advaita.

[Yoda]

excellent thread idea!

 

Yoda's perennial entry: advancedyogapractices.com

 

Killer freebie from Bodri I got yesterday: http://www.meditationexpert.com/ebok/howtomeditate.pdf

[DanC]

After looking at Bodri's PDF, I really dont see the need to buy another book at this stage, Ill print it

out and start sitting..

[rex]

Buddhist

Wesoteric

Alchemical

Orthodox

[Yen Hui]

While none of the following online recommendations actually qualify as meditation manuals, strictly speaking,

(except the last one, perhaps, on the Golden Flower, which is actually two-links-in-one,) they are, nontheless,

relevant canonical sources, a few of which are just a paragraph or two long. My original thought was to only

post numbers 4 and 15, but then thought afterward to include the other links which are of a related interest.

Technically they don't belong in this thread, but they are not totally foreign to it either. These are texts that

merit deep and prolonged contemplation from within the context of the life and practice of meditation itself :-

 

CANONICAL SOURCES:-

 

01 - Huainan Tzu's History of the Great Tao

 

02 - Lieh Tzu's Account of the Yellow Emperor

 

03 - The Yellow Emperor's Clue to the Unseen

 

04 - Kuan Tzu's Tradition on Inward Cultivation

 

05 - Deeper Implications of the Book of Changes

 

06 - On the Yarrow Stalks and Hexagram Lines

 

07 - On the Use of the Book of Changes

 

08 - Hexagram 02 - On the Receptive

 

09 - Hexagram 52 - On Keeping Still

 

10 - Lieh Tzu's Account of Confucius

 

11 - Chuang Tzu on Mental Fasting

 

12 - On Universal Understanding

 

13 - On the Imprint of the Heart

 

14 - On Respiration of the Embryo

 

15 - On the Secret of the Golden Flower

Edited April 16, 2007 by Yen Hui

[noah]

http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.htm

 

Both Zhuan Falun, and the book Falun Gong are excellent. FG contains the actual meditation exercise, but Zhuan Falun is far more comprehensive. It is all in there.

[thelerner]

Here's a 'Course on Consciousness' a week by week course on indepth dream work. Seems like a good method, well thought out, well done, but personally it didn't help me. If your interested in dream practice its worth a look and maybe a print out.

 

Michael

[Pero]

Here's a 'Course on Consciousness' a week by week course on indepth dream work. Seems like a good method, well thought out, well done, but personally it didn't help me. If your interested in dream practice its worth a look and maybe a print out.

 

Michael

 

Where?

 

Could you be thinking of the same thing Forestofsouls posted?

[thelerner]

No its different. I could have sworn I put in the address. Here it is again

http://www.geocities.com/lucidmetro/coursetable.htm

A good lengthy course on advanced dream work.

 

Michael