Yoga Meditation

In rummaging through our storage room, my husband recently unearthed a handful of books that dated back to his hippy youth.

One of them was Richard Hittleman’s Guide to Yoga Meditation (Bantam Books, 1969).

This was a real find!

Hittleman’s explanations of what he calls the “ordinary mind” and the “Universal Mind” are the clearest and most concise that I’ve read so far!

He provides strategies for detaching from the paranoid “ordinary mind” and experiencing the expanded awareness, strength, security, and peace of the “Universal Mind.”

Some of the activities are specific meditation techniques that you would employ by setting aside time, finding a quiet space, and so on.

Some of the strategies, however, are attitudes that you can adopt while you’re going about your everyday life.

I read – but did not take on board – what Hittleman had to say about reincarnation. He believes in it, but I’m pretty sceptical about it. I consider that to be a minor detail, though. His and my difference of opinion on that topic does nothing to detract from the practical support I’ve received from his book.

I am so glad my husband dug up this book!