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Discovering Jewish Meditation 2/E: Instruction & Guidance for Learning an Ancient Spiritual Practice de Nan Fink Gefen

Discovering Jewish Meditation 2/E: Instruction & Guidance for Learning an Ancient Spiritual Practice

Autor Nan Fink Gefen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 sep 2011
This comprehensive introduction to a time-honored spiritual practice answers common questions about the nature and history of Jewish meditation, shows beginners how to start their practice and gives instructions for core Jewish meditative practices.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781683360308
ISBN-10: 1683360303
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Edition, New.
Editura: Turner

Notă biografică

Nan Fink Gefen, PhD, is a teacher of Jewish meditation, a writer and an editor. She has taught Jewish meditation to hundreds of students around the country. For six years, she directed a program to train Jewish meditation teachers at Chochmat HaLev, a center of Jewish meditation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She is a contributor to Meditation from the Heart of Judaism: Today's Teachers Share Their Practices, Techniques, and Faith (Jewish Lights), and author of Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Basic Books). She cofounded Tikkun magazine in 1985, and she is the cofounding editor of Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts.

Cuprins

Introduction to the Second Edition vii
Acknowledgments xiv

Part One: The Practice of Jewish Meditation
1. What Is Jewish Meditation? 3
2. The Promise of Jewish Meditation 17
3. States of Consciousness 29
4. Forms of Jewish Meditation 41
5. Getting Started 57

Part Two: The Core Meditations
6. Focused Meditations 81

  • Hineini Meditation 81
  • Shalom Meditation 85
  • Divine Light Meditation 88
  • Chesed Meditation 91
  • Thankfulness Meditation 94
  • Neshamah Meditation 97
  • Sh'ma Meditation 100
  • Yod-Hay-Vav-Hay Meditation 103

7. Awareness Meditations 109

  • Gam Zeh Kadosh Meditation 109
  • Walking Meditation 113

8. Emptiness Meditations 117

  • Ayin Breath Meditation 117
  • Space-between-the-Letters Meditation 120
  • Beyond-the-Self Meditation 123

Part Three: A Meditative Life
9. Challenges of a Meditative Life 129
10. Meditation and Jewish Spiritual Practice 151
11. A Morning Meditative Prayer Practice 169

Jewish Meditation Resource Guide for Beginning Meditators 173