Практика внимательности в повседневной жизни

by Charles T. Tart, M.P.Papusha (translator)

=The practice of mindfulness in daily life
Быть пробужденным! Почему этот так просто звучащий призыв составляет общую цель духовных традиций? В книге, основанной на стенограмме практического семинара, автор обучает применению практик Г.И.Гурджиева и буддийской медитации в повседневной жизни. Приводимые простые упражнения помогают развить в себе способность полного присутствия в настоящем моменте.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Buddhism, Self Help, Psychology

240 pages

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Charles T. Tart was an American psychologist and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in parapsychology.

Reviews

[McKenzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This only took me 11 months to get through... Charles Tart gave a multi-session workshop on mindfulness, particularly geared towards Westerners, and essentially this book is the transcript of that workshop. Parts of it are very helpful, and other parts do not translate well. I tried not to be skeptical about mindfulness, and thus some parts actually did help me focus on living in the present moment, letting small annoyances go, and paying attention to how I automatically react to daily occurrences; other parts (learn to listen through your kneecap?) were not so helpful for me. Tart's approach does a good job of being approachable for a Western audience, while referring to the Eastern traditions from which this practice originated, when appropriate.

[Anna Pervukhin Sammons · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meditation is difficult to write about

[Damey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just teaches you and gives you exercises to help be present in life.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

One very good idea--putting your attention in your body gets you out of your head. That's worth reading, and doing, but it could have been conveyed in a lot fewer pages.

[Falina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of the reason I read this so slowly (over eight months) is because I liked to read a couple of pages before bed. I found it soothing. There are a fair amount of insightful and meaningful passages in it. However, I didn't find it amazing because I disliked the format -- basically a touched-up transcription of a mindfulness workshop. It made the book clumsy, and the questions of the students never seemed to cover the things I REALLY wanted to know about mindfulness. I would rather the entire book had been laid out in a manner similar to the article in the appendix.