A meditator's diary - Jane Hamilton-Merritt

It is rare for a foreign woman
to be accepted for instruction in intensive meditation in a Buddhist temple
in Thailand. Jane Hamilton-Merritt writes about this experience from the
inside, describing the extraordinary journey into the self, the expansion of
her consciousness. In a personal account of her struggles, her fears and her
experiences - some euphoric, some terrifying, some beautiful in the form of
psychedelic visions and some that were genuinely threatening. A Meditator's
Diary is an intellectually disciplined attempt to understand what Buddhist
meditation techniques have to offer us, those in the Western world caught up
in a cycle of destruction that we cannot control, and shows how to access its
secrets. Jane Hamilton-Merritt describes her own dawning understanding of
'compassion without attachment', her eventual arrival at a state of peace and
reconciliation and the sense of living flow with the whole of the universe
that has transformed her life. Encouraging her readers to try meditation she
describes how we can take the first steps on the long road to tranquillity
for ourselves.