The book tells you that meditation is a matter of stopping the thoughts that continually pass through your mind - worry, plans, fantasies, possibilities, fears - all those things you have become accustomed to. In fact, before someone told you it was possible to stop thinking - to give the mind a rest - it never occurred to you that you were thinking all the time anyway. Or if it did, that this was necessarily a problem...The purpose of this book is twofold: First, to kill most or all of the preconception that we have about meditation and to knock over the majority of methods that are proposed as aids to meditation. You cannot "learn" meditation - you will only how to think you are meditating. Secondly to create a life in which meditation exists all the time - every hour of every day - for you. For meditation exists all around us, - we only have to take hold of it. - [from the Introduction (Charles E. Tuttle) ]

The book tells you that meditation is a matter of stopping the thoughts that continually pass through your mind - worry, plans, fantasies, possibilities, fears - all those things you have become accustomed to. In fact, before someone told you it was possible to stop thinking - to give the mind a rest - it never occurred to you that you were thinking all the time anyway. Or if it did, that this was necessarily a problem...The purpose of this book is twofold: First, to kill most or all of the preconception that we have about meditation and to knock over the majority of methods that are proposed as aids to meditation. You cannot "learn" meditation - you will only how to think you are meditating. Secondly to create a life in which meditation exists all the time - every hour of every day - for you. For meditation exists all around us, - we only have to take hold of it. - [from the Introduction (Charles E. Tuttle) ]