Mindfulness: A Guide to Awakening

The mind contains the seeds of its own awakening—seeds we can nurture to reap the rewards of a life lived mindfully. To guide us along this path, the author shares the wisdom he has gained through four decades of teaching and practice. Joseph Goldstein has built this book around the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha’s foundational discourse from which Vipassana developed, one of the most widely practiced forms of meditation today. In an interpretation that is both rich and detailed yet accessible, he offers us the essential keys to understanding this teaching and beginning to live mindfully, seeing ourselves and the world in a new light by bringing greater attention to the body, feelings, and thoughts. This guide to awakening is therefore an indispensable companion for anyone wishing to learn to live consciously and embark on the path to inner freedom.