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yourself a h c: <: TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS MEDITATION NTC FubUsHng Group TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS MEDITATION James Hewitt KTTC Publishing Group Long-renownedastheauthoritativesourceforself-guidedlearning-withmore than 30million copiessoldworldwide -the Teach Yourselfseriesincludes over200titlesinthefieldsoflanguages,crafts,hobbies,sports,andotherleisure activities. Thiseditionwasfirstpublishedin1994byNTCPublishingGroup,4255WestTouhy Avenue,Lincolnwood(Chicago),Illinois60646-1975U.S.A.Originallypublishedby HodderandStoughtonLtd. Copyright© 1992JamesHewitt Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval system,ortransmittedinanyform,orbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,orotherwise,withoutpriorpermissionofNTCPublishingGroup. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:93-85119 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyCox&WymanLtd,Reading,Berkshire. Contents Preface i i Meditation for Mystical Consciousness 3 2 Meditation for Better Health and Psycho- Physical Relaxation 18 3 How to Meditate - Poised Posture, Poised Breathing, Poised Awareness 23 4 Awareness of Breathing: Counting Breaths 42 5 Following the Breath or Mindfulness of Breathing 60 6 Visual Meditation 77 7 Listening Meditation 112 8 Who (or What) Am I? or the Onion Game 121 9 Love Finds the Way 142 10 Say the Word 161 11 Combining Methods 183 Bibliography 187 Index 193 Acknowledgments The author and publishers are grateful to the following for permissiontoquotecopyrightmaterial: Basil Blackwell and Mott Ltd. (Professor Ben-Ami Scharfstein, MysticalExperience); TheBuddhistSociety (BhikkhuMangalo, A Manual of the Practice of Recollection); Chatto and Windus Ltd. (C. E. Montague, A Writer's Notes on his Trade); Con- stable Co. Ltd. (Dom Cuthbert Butler, Western Mysticism); Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd. (Dr. Una Kroll, TM: A Signpost for the World); Faber and Faber Ltd. (E. Kadlovbov- skyand G. E.H.Palmer,WritingsfromthePhilokalia);Fleming H. Revell Co. (Samuel M. Zwemer, A Moslem Seeker after My God); Victor Gollancz Ltd. (Victor Gollancz, Dear Timothy); T. J. S. Gray and HongKongUniversityPress (Wu Wei Wu, Open Secret and The Tenth Man); M. D. Gunasena and Co. Ltd. (the Ven. Parawahera Vajiranana Mahathera, Buddhist Meditation in Theory and Practice); Hamish Hamil- ton Ltd. (AubreyMenen, TheSpacewithin theHeart); Hodder and StoughtonLtd. andAnthonySheilAssociatesLtd. (Monica Furlong, Contemplating Now); Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd. (Lu K'uan Yu (Charles Luk), The Secrets of Chinese Meditation; Lama Anagarika Govinda, The Way of the White Clouds; E. H. Shattock,An Experiment inMindfulness; Profes- sor Giuseppe Tucci, Theory and Practice of the Mandala; Dr. Paul Brunton, TheSecret Path and The Questfor the Overself; J. Marques-Riviere, Tantrik Yoga, Hindu and Tibetan); Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (J. W. N. Sullivan, Beethoven: His Spiritual Development); Macmillan Ltd., and the Trustees of the Tagore Estate (Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana) Methuenand Co.Ltd. ; (Evelyn Underfill, Mysticism); William Morrow and Co. (Dr. Herbert Benson, The Relaxation Response) John Murray Ltd. ; (A. C. Graham, TheBookofLieh Tzu);NewAmericanLibrary (Professor Walter T. Stace, The Teachings of the Mystics); Penguin Books Ltd. (D. C. Lau, trans., Too Te Ching; Ernest Wood,Yoga; F. C. Happold,Mysticism; ChristmasHumphreys, Buddhism); Sri Aurobindo Ashram (The Mother, Bulletin); The SufiMovement (HazratInayatKhan, TheWayofIllumin- ation); Turnstone Press Ltd. (Reshad Feild, TheLast Barrier); Thames and Hudson Ltd. (Alan Watts, The Way of Zen); Village Press (John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy ofSolitude); Watkins Publishing (Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, On the Prayer of Jesus); John Weatherhill, Inc. (Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training); Wildwood House Ltd. (Alan Watts, The Supreme Identity). The author would like also to thank Ronald Hutchinson for readingtheworkinmanuscript