Cutting right to the heart of meditiation, Steve Hagen strips away cultural and religious jargon and delivers an accessible, simple, and thorough guide.A unique focus on meditation not simply as a spiritual technique, but as a way of livingA 360–degree treatment, from newcomers' most basic concerns to the difficulties that entangle the most experienced meditatorsA clear description of where most of us get stuck in meditation –– and how to get unstuckEssential (and often surprising) guidance on topics that other books rarely or never addressAn answer to why things commonly viewed as meditation aren't meditation at allSimple practices to help avoid needlessly complicating meditation