10 Ways To Meditate

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For me, this book's message — no, let's call it a hint, a whisper, an eye-opening "Now!" — is that meditation or inner calm is for all, that it's simply doing your own thing in the right, the natural, way. As the author said in a recent letter to me: "I'm not trying to tell you how to meditate so much as to tell you to consider how for yourself, to find your own way. If it isn't yours, it's worthless. When it's yours, it's priceless." What could I possibly add to this? So all I've done is design a physical book that I hope is rough and simple and fitting enough to let the book's poem-like words and icon-like pictures shine with their own remarkable light. As for the man himself, I know him well and can speak. Reps says simply that he's an American who travels the globe proving it's not flat. I can add that he too shines with a remarkable light, as apparent in Japan in Norway, in his Hawaiian home (built with his own hands) as in the many university halls where he lectures to enthusiastic audiences, in the cities of the world where he's exhibited his picture-poems, hanging them on clotheslines and letting them flap in the breeze. He is not an interior decorator. He lives his words, giving away gusts of joy wherever he moves. He's medium in stature, and as high as the mountains. He's a man of advancing years, as young as tomorrow. He's a thinker, and lives by instinct. He flies with angels, sparkling like a child. He can laugh, and cry, and love. He can also sit still. What more is there to say? - Meredith Weatherby [Editor's Postscript.] list of ink paintings : 6 to begin : 7 1 completely release me : 9 2 enter breath : 15 3 inlisten 19 4 inlight : 23 5 move still : 27 6 wake 31 meditate: to think deeply to reflect turns into searching INquiry into who I am i>cnf^f hferf' 7 silencing : 35 8 inchant : 39 9 accordingly : 43 10 mind of light : 47 there is : 50 some questions, some answers : 54 editor's postscript : 56