Come and Sit: A Week Inside Meditation Centers

By Marcia Z. Nelson

Book Overview

From Christian centering prayer to Sufi dhikr (chanting the names of God) to Zen Buddhist zazen (formal silent meditation), this book demystifies the kinds of meditation practiced in different spiritual traditions and gives you a real feel for which method might suit you best

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683365534
• ISBN13: 9781683365532
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Invaluable Guide for Beginning Meditators

What a helpful and insightful guide for beginning meditators! As interfaith minister and teacher of meditation of 18 years, I will recommend this book to those who wish to begin the process of learning how to sit and inwardly listen. I remember the days when I began meditating. Like Come and Sit, I went from tradition to tradition and technique to technique. Listening, searching and sometimes groping. This book --had it been available at the time---would have not only aided but perhaps simplified and streamlined my search. I also appreciated the way the author "listened". The personal interviews with various individuals of different backgrounds are invaluable and lend an intimacy to the book. The reader (including myself) finds a bit of her/himself revealed through others on a similar spiritual path. For someone wanting to begin meditation, this book is invaluable! There is also an extensive resource guide of books and meditation centers which would prove very useful.Rev. Susanna Stefanachi MacombNYC

An Invaluable Guide for Beginning Meditators

What a helpful and insightful guide for beginning meditators! As interfaith minister and teacher of meditation of 18 years, I will recommend this book to all those who wish to begin the process of learning how to sit and inwardly listen. I remember the days when I began meditating. Like Come and Sit, I went from tradition to tradition and technique to technique. Listening, searching and sometimes groping. This book --had it been available at the time---would have not only aided but perhaps simplified and streamlined my search. I also appreciated the way the author "listened". The personal interviews with various individuals of different backgrounds are invaluable and lend an intimacy to the book. The reader (including myself) finds a bit of her/himself revealed through others on a similar spiritual path. For someone wanting to begin meditation, this book is invaluable! There is also an extensive resource guide of books and meditation centers which would prove very useful.Rev. Susanna Stefanachi MacombNYC