Power of Meditation: A Complete Guide to Transforming Your Mind

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains meditation from the preparation of a space and the cultivation of motivation through posture and focused attention. His step-by-step teaching offers a starting point for newcomers while giving experienced practitioners a way to reconsider familiar techniques.

The discussion distinguishes calm-abiding practice, or shamatha, from insight practice, or vipashyana. Guidance on taking awareness beyond the meditation cushion connects the instructions to everyday conduct within the author’s Mahayana Buddhist approach.