This book presents the most basic form of Jewish meditation, and serves as a practical guide.  It assumes no special background on the part of the reader either in Judaism or in meditation.  It is a gentle, clear introduction and provide exercises and practices that can be used right away by any Jew who wants a deeper prayer experience.

The author presents Jewish contemplative techniques that foster the development of a heart of wisdom and compassion.  This contemporary approach to meditation, accessible to all, focuses on using the distilled wisdom of Buddhism and Judaism as a way to learn from life experience.

Contents: Waking up in the Midst of Your Life;  Beginning a Practice;  The Nature of Mind;  Making the Darkness Conscious; Embracing the Divine;  Prayer and Meditation;  A Blessing Practice;  L'chayyim - Into Life.

A highly revered Sanskrit treatise written sometime in the 13th century dealing with understanding and explaining the state of being 'spiritually free while living.'

A highly revered Sanskrit treatise written sometime in the 13th century dealing with understanding and explaining the state of being 'spiritually free while living.' The book is translated into English from the Kannada original work by Swami Harshananda, a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order and notably erudite scholar.

The path of knowledge which leads to realization of the oneness of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul. This American edition includes also the series of lectures titled, Practical Vedanta. Quality paperback.

Indian edition.

This seventh century work was the most widely used handbook of the ascetic life in the ancient Greek Church. The ascetic life is portrayed as a ladder which each aspirant must ascend, each step being a virtue to be acquired or a vice to be surrendered.

An interesting, well researched and documented biography of Josephine MacLeod interwoven with the story of Vivekananda's Vedantic mission and the early history of the Ramakrishna movement in the West as well as in the East.