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Begin your life of meditation with some expert advice from author and meditation teacher Susan Piver and Shambhala Publications. The Meditation for Beginners set includes:  

The Quiet Mind book-and-audio program which brings together some of the country's most beloved meditation teachers. Each contributor presents a short written teaching along with an audio recording of a guided practice.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, a modern spiritual classic, in which the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. 

And Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, a book that, in the forty years since its original publication, has become one of the great modern spiritual classics: much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen.

Susan Piver is an author and meditation teacher whose books include New York Times best seller The Hard Questions, How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life, and The Wisdom of a Broken Heart. Trained in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, she leads workshops and retreats around the United States.

Shambhala Publications has long been one of the premier publishers of dharma and spiritual books in the West. From simple beginnings in Berkeley at the height of the sixties counterculture, Shambhala Publications went on to become one of the most respected publishers of the most important books in the spiritual landscape. Their landmark titles include Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi, Edward Espe Brown's Tassajara Bread Book, Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics, best selling translations of the Art of War, Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones,  Pema Chödrön’s When Things Fall Apart, and Suzuki Roshi’s classic, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.

Shambhala Publications publishes books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet. It presents dharma expressed beyond the meditation cushion, in everyday activities and all spheres of human endeavor, including psychology and the sciences, the arts and creativity, business and economics, and health and healing.

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Turning the Mind Into an Ally not included. 

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