Quote Originally Posted by chris40
I think mental exploration is a little more complicated than "24.99".
Mental exploration is actually free but I know what you mean. This book is volume 1 and covers many of the basics that any meditator would need to learn in the first three years of practise in say, a Mahayana setting. It also explains some practises from Tantra, and later Atiyoga, and looks at 'View' and its role in the enlightenment experience. I don't think that's a bad start for 24.99

I've practised very seriously as a meditator for a long time, spending 6 years almost entirely alone at one point to concentrate on my studies, But although I learned more and more along the way, it quickly became apparent - and what higher teachings point out - that what's needed to be done to reach realisation, and to explore, is to do less; and that the process is simpler than it seems if you go about it in the right way.

In Chinese traditions they call this understanding that you don't have to spend years traveling the world as a monk to discover that the means to realisation is already within your own mind, the "Monk leaving home with a precious jewel (enlightenment) sown in the hem of his clothes"

The simplest means and auspicious circumstances, not lifetimes, and bookfulls, of searching.

What I've written and will write in volume two I would hope would be a good grounding-to-intermediate level book for anyone wanting to do mental exploration/ meditation. No the be all and end all, of course not when there are books by Leary et al, but I really believe that I've covered a quite extensive area of exploration of the dope high.

MelT