Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular form of an ancient and powerful technique for reducing stress, elevating one's mental state, and improving the practitioner's overall quality of life. Award-winning author and mindfulness meditation teacher Joseph Emet now takes you down a step-by-step path to integrate this potent form of meditation into your daily life.

Offering tips, techniques, and practices from mindfulness meditation coupled with stories from the authors life as a teacher - Buddhas Book of Meditation guides you to a life teeming with the benefits of regular meditation practice. This volume also includes original music by the author that the reader can access through the web - calming the mind and enhancing the meditation experience.

Joseph Emet trained with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village in France and was made a Dharma teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh's tradition. He has a doctorate in music from Boston University and is the author of Buddha's Book of Stress Reduction and Buddha's Book of Sleep (winner of the 2013 COVR Award for Book of the Year). The founder of the Mindfulness Meditation Centre in Montreal, Emet lives in Pointe-Claire, Canada.

Contents:  Buddha's Book of Meditation:  Mindfulness practices for a Quieter Mind, Self-awareness and Healthy Living
Foreword by Tich Nhat Hanh	xiii
Introduction	xv
1.  Are you brainful or mindful?  Guided meditation: listening*	1
2.  Serenity meditation: Meditation theme: Watching the river of feelings	19
3.  Positive rumination, earworms, and mantras: Practice song: "It's the light that I long for"*	39
4.  Wholehearted living. Practice song: "A smile with every breath"*	49
5.  Meet the flintstones: Guided meditation: The mirror mind*	59
6.  Riding dragons and embracing tigers. Practice theme: Developing a peaceful heart . Guided meditation: Directing my attention*	69
7.  Anthropology: Practice song: "You're a leaf on the tree of life"*	83
8.  A rainbow of feelings: Practice song: "Heal yourself with the mind of love"*	95
9.  Need vs greed. Practice song: "There's honey in each moment"*	105
10. Getting out of the box of yourself. Practice theme: Surrender to your breath. Practice poem. "The beach".	113
11. Self-regulation. Practice song: "Just Breathe:*	129
12. Buddha's garden. Practice song: "Buddha's garden"* Practice theme: Create a Buddha garden	147
13. The practice of moning home. Practice song: "Coming back home"*	155
14. A relationship is every step.  Practice song:"The light in each one shines and shines"*	165
15. Make your own weather. Practice song: "the island of peace"*	179
16. Meditating on a battlefield.  Meditating on a battlefiedl. Meditation theme: Peace meditation	185
17. Moving on. Practice Song: "Lay down your burden"*	193
18. An inspired life. Practice song: "Be yourself"*	203
Afterword:  No regrets	213
Acknowledgments	217
*Audio accompaniment for the guided meditations and practice songs is available for download at Mindfulnessmeditationcentre.org under Buddha's book of meditation.