A popular Buddhist teacher guides you through strategies to build and maintain a rock-solid daily meditation practice—from setting reminders to dealing with setbacks to introducing the philosophical concepts underpinning Buddhist meditation—and everything in between.
It’s widely known that there are many benefits to meditation, particularly if undertaken regularly, but making it a daily habit can be a challenge for many people. Why? Because it takes more than willpower.
Here, longtime meditation teacher and Buddhist blogger Bodhipaksa presents a collection of strategies and tools to help build a rock-solid daily meditation practice into your life. The book is divided into 28 chapters, one for each day.
Each chapter starts with a Practice Reminder, just a few words reminding readers of the importance of practicing meditation rather than merely reading about it. There’s also a link to a web page of guided meditations.
Following that is a Today section, a brief summary of the day’s reading.
Then there’s a Strategies section, which offers suggestions to help readers build the habit of meditating daily. Strategies can be as simple as setting reminders or using a meditation timer, or more involved tools such as changing any belief that you lack what it takes to meditate daily.
That’s followed by a Going Deeper section, with a deeper exploration of some of the Buddhist teachings underpinning our practice, often referring to the suttas, or scriptures, of early Buddhism.
Next is a Journal/Reflection section, which encourages readers to make the content of the Going Deeper section more experiential.
Each chapter ends with a Last Words section, quickly summarizing the Going Deeper section.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Day 1: Track Your Practice
- Day 2: Have a Plan B
- Day 3: Master the Hindrance in Your Pocket
- Day 4: Tap into the Power of Rewards
- Day 5: Change Your Self-View
- Day 6: Keep Yourself Accountable
- Day 7: Chain Your Habits
- Day 8: Celebrate the Small Stuff
- Day 9: Make Practice Enjoyable at the Beginning, Middle, and End
- Day 10: Consider Every Sit a Good Sit
- Day 11: Step It Up
- Day 12: View Challenges and Setbacks as Opportunities
- Day 13: Adopt a Growth Mindset
- Day 14: Support Your Practice with Ritual
- Day 15: Outsmart Your Resistance
- Day 16: Be Kind to Future You
- Day 17: Don’t Wait Until You Feel Like Sitting
- Day 18: Practice in Sickness and in Health
- Day 19: Don’t Believe Everything You Think
- Day 20: Surf Those Urges
- Day 21: Remember You’re Fallible
- Day 22: Learn to Sit with Pain
- Day 23: Incubate Your Potential
- Day 24: Find Your Edge
- Day 25: Keep Going Through the Motions
- Day 26: Find Your Deeper “Why”
- Day 27: To Defeat Māra, Congratulate Him
- Day 28: Keep Going to the Tipping Point
- Afterword: The Rest of Your Life
- Appendix 1: Before and After Sitting
- Appendix 2: Meditation Instructions
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
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