Basic meditations for beginners Book 1

by Merlyn Seeley

Meditation has been gaining momentum over the past few years. Especially in 2011 there were numerous reports released that showed studies proving the effectiveness of meditation. No one specific meditation technique was named as the focus for all the studies for that year, the studies focused on different techniques. Each technique has a specific reward that it can offer those that meditate. If you are searching for happiness, health, healing, peace, tranquility, wisdom or what ever it may be, then meditation just may hold your key.

In this book you will learn how to do a very Buddhist meditation, it is called Mindfulness Meditation and has it's place among ancient ways of life. Some meditation techniques are thousands of years old and with their age comes their wisdom. This book is written in lamens terms and laid out in an easy to read format. The author is a Zen Buddhist priest with years of teaching under his robe. The information contained in this book comes highly recommended to anyone that is searching for more to life than what is offered by the world and mainstream perception as to how one should live.

You are challenged to read it and learn it and retain this knowledge using it to change your life and those lives around you for the better. When one decides to embark on the path of enlightenment meditation is the key. Even if you are not on the path of enlightenment and are seeking inner peace, faith, compassion, healing, wisdom or any great virtue like these, meditation is still your key to success. Meditation goes way back, farther than you may think.

In fact the great Buddha lived around 2500 years ago as of 2012 and meditation has been traced even further than his days. You may think that meditation requires a huge change in your life or that you must sacrifice something that means a lot to you in order to have a life of meditation. This is far from the truth and is just one weapon in Mara's arsenal that could be used to steer you from ever meditating. Who is Mara you ask? Mara is known as hell's leader.

He is the equivalent to the devil that is talked about in the Christian Bible. In Buddhism Mara is seen not as a physical hell, like what is portrayed in the Christian Bible, but more like living in hell on earth. Meditation in general is a way of connecting with your inner being. It is a way of detaching yourself from the everyday iniquities that exist in general life and finding a peace within yourself where you can reside as long as you like.

The more you visit this peace the more it will become real in your waking life, that is in ordinary everyday life. This is book 1 of 4, the series can be found on Amazon.com by the author.

11 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 9, 2012

About the author

Merlyn Seeley is a renowned author, Journalist and freelance writer. He is also a teacher of the Zen Buddhist tradition. He was born in a small town in the North Georgia mountains USA. He has written for many high profile places to include Yahoo! Examiner.com and CBS News online. His writing specialty includes, Buddhism, Natural Living, Appalachian Trail, and Homesteading although his books demonstrate his ability to write on just about any subject.