Consciousness Series

Meditation

From Practice to Inquiry

Meditation can begin with something very simple: sitting quietly,
attending to the breath, observing thought, or becoming more intimate
with experience.

But the inquiry need not end with the practice.

Meditation explores what happens when attention turns not only
toward thoughts, emotions and sensations, but toward the meditator itself.
Who is trying to become still? What is attention? What does it mean to be
aware? And what remains when meditation is no longer approached merely
as something we do?

The book moves gradually from meditation as practice toward meditation
as direct inquiry—without requiring the reader to accept a spiritual
conclusion in advance.