We've prepared a meditation buffet with the hope that you'll gain a taste of meditation levels 1-4, gain a broader understanding of the bigger picture, and find a meditation method that suits your tastes.
Although it's not my style right now, I hope that someday, when circumstances change and my tastes evolve, I can use it as a meditation guide to look back on and say, "What kind of meditation was there?"
--- p.14

If we think about why we meditate, the specific goals may vary—health, relaxation, peace, improved concentration, enlightenment—but if there's one common reason, it's the desire to change our current lives in some way.
However, despite the desire to start meditating, there are times when thoughts like, "I don't know how to do this," or "Is this really effective?" arise, and you don't even try meditating.
This is exactly when Andy is needed.
--- p.19

In the process of teaching meditation, there are often cases where only 'concentration', 'being calm', and 'seeing' are emphasized, but the unique feature and advantage of this book is that it introduces 'seeing anew', 'caring', and 'connecting' as the goals and results of meditation.
--- p.32

“People ask me,
Why is mindfulness so popular in Silicon Valley? First, it works.
Even if it's just 6 seconds.
The more you do it, the more effective it is.
It's like when you exercise your muscles a lot, they get stronger.
The second reason is that it changes our lives.
Just as a change from poor health to healthy health changes every aspect of your life, mindfulness, fitness for the mind, also changes every aspect of your life.”
--- p.39

The various 'thoughts or judgments' that arise during meditation are similar to the 'commentary' heard during a sports broadcast on TV.
Just as turning the TV volume down completely allows you to watch the game from a new perspective, the direct attention and observation we engage in meditation gives us the opportunity to see and understand our bodies and minds from a new perspective.
--- p.48

The 'relaxation response' refers to a series of bodily states that occur when the mind is calm, including a decrease in heart rate, a decrease in breathing rate, a drop in blood pressure, a slowdown in brain waves, and a decrease in metabolism.
So the relaxation response has the effect of breaking the vicious cycle of stress-induced harmful physical states such as anxiety, depression, and anger.
Meditation stimulates endocrine gland activity and activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which induces a relaxation response and brings peace to the body and mind.
--- p.58

Jinpa also gets hurt and hurts in his relationships with people, but when that happens, he tries to understand where his emotions come from.
Most emotional pain comes from disappointment, and disappointment occurs when expectations are not met.
Understanding your own feelings makes it much easier to deal with pain.
Opening your heart can be a path to becoming more vulnerable, but it can also be a path to greater experience, learning, and wisdom.
--- p.90

If you convert meeting time into money, it becomes quite expensive because you have to add up the hourly wages of all the attendees.
The desire to hold efficient and productive meetings is something that almost every office worker desires.
If you adopt the mindfulness meeting method recommended by Janice, you may gain completely new perspectives and ideas that are different from the meetings you've been holding so far.
--- p.102

Burpen's book is one of the most compassionate meditation books I've ever read.
It shows good and bad examples of sitting and lying meditation postures with pictures, and explains in detail the meditation program of 10 to 20 minutes a day, 6 days a week for 8 weeks, so that you can follow it just by reading the book.
--- p.114

Are there activities you frequently engage in that you lose track of time while doing, only to often regret afterward? Many people would cite excessive drinking, smoking, gaming, YouTube, TV, and social media as examples of these addictive habits.
Mapen's 8-week program outlines several specific activities to help you break your habits.
--- p.127

I think the ultimate reason we meditate is to discover and achieve what we truly want.
Have you ever thought about what you truly want to do? What kind of daily routine are you living to achieve it?
--- p.141

I'll just give you a taste of what happens when each temperament grows and changes.
The obsessive nature seeks out the good in people and transforms one's home and community into a place of material and spiritual harmony, creating 'beauty' and 'abundance'.
The temperament that was once hated has 'discernment' and 'clarity' and creatively resolves conflicts.
The foolish temperament gains 'calmness' and 'understanding' by asking questions with innocence and beginner's mind.
--- p.158

Chopra says it's most effective to begin the practice in the body, not the mind, because most people experience themselves as existing within a physical body.
When you stop seeing the body as a collection of flesh and bones and start seeing it as a form of consciousness, many changes occur. Now you see why I called him radical.
--- p.183

By thoroughly understanding and realizing that a life centered on the ego may seem good in the short term, but ultimately causes suffering to both ourselves and others, we become spiritual humans who live a different way (acceptance, joy, and passion).
The most effective way to avoid the ego trap is to live in the present moment, that is, through meditation.
Rather than recommending a specific meditation technique, Tolle kindly and consistently explains the ego and the egoless life to help us understand it.
Why is there so much emphasis on the ‘now’ in meditation?
--- p.203

When the goals of meditation and life are interlocked like cogwheels, both meditation and life will support each other and function well.
If meditation helps you achieve your life goals, a virtuous cycle is created in which you meditate even harder to achieve your life goals.
Before you begin meditating, it's a good idea to deeply reflect on your reason for meditating (your goal) and your ultimate goal in life, and also find the point where those two goals connect.

--- p.263