"What is presented here is simply a set of meditation tools that anyone can use to make his or her life better. The intention is to offer each of these lessons in a manner that is accessible and welcoming for everybody. Each lesson provides methods and principles that anyone can apply whether one is a humanist, a Christian, Communist or a Buddhist or a follower of any other belief system."
Practical and informative, this primer guides the meditator whether experienced or novice through the basics of posture and focus to wisdom and compassion. There are many how to books on meditation but this is the best I've read. And it is all available free on line both in text and voice.
I read this during a yoga-and meditation retreat. For this it was a perfect book. I struggled with reading it in my "ordinary life". Brings an easy-to-understand summary of the some of the Buddhist teachings, suitable also for meditators who does not want to be connected to any religion.