All you need to know to properly learn how to meditate: a comprehensive 500-page workbook, a complete course for practitioners of Yoga and Meditation. Published by the Dharma Fellowship of His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa, The Hermitage Meditation Manual is the key guide used by Buddhist monastics and lay practitioners attending the Fellowship's centers in North America. In an accessible style, the manual explains how to enter the meditative state, deepen that state, how to gain meaningful insights, and how to radically improve life for the better, while pursuing the Path of Awakening. Here are the authentic methods of Calm-abiding Meditation, Love Meditation, and Intuitive Insight and Mindfulness. Chapters cover not only the teachings of the Buddha, but explain the nature of the Human Constitution, the Syndromes of the Personality, the mystery of Double Consciousness, Hatha-yoga, Light-body circuitry, and applied M-therapy.

Hermitage Meditation Manual : All You Need to Know to Properly Learn How to Meditate, Rodney P. Devenish, Paperback, 486 pages, $30.00

Rodney P. Devenish is Spiritual Director of the Dharma Fellowship of His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa and co-founder of the Hermitage, Denman Island, BC Canada. He has been teaching meditation, personally guiding individuals as they develop their meditation practice for over forty years. For a ten year period as a Buddhist monk, Lama Rodney spent his long winters in isolated meditation retreat in the snowy wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, where he completed the Kagyu practices given him by his teacher Namgyal Rinpoche, with particular focus on the Six Yogas of Naropa and Mahamudra.