• A 230-page workbook, designed as a complete self-guided curriculum. Organized into nine lessons, this workbook features more than 75 step-by-step mindfulness exercises, question-and-answer sections, glossaries, and photographs illustrating correct meditation postures.
• Two 70-minute compact discs with six guided meditations: Breath Meditation, Walking Meditation, Meditation on Body Sensations, Meditation on Hindrances, Meditation on Emotions, and Metta Meditation.
• Twelve study cards: daily reminders of the fundamentals of meditation in a convenient, portable form.

Sharon Salzberg has been a student of Buddhism since 1970, and has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion. She is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and the Forest Refuge, a new project for long term meditation practice. She is the author of the books Lovingkindness, Faith, and Heart as Wide as the World.

Jopseph Goldstein studied with many leading Buddhist teachers in India, Burma, and Nepal and has lead retreats worldwide since 1974. His is a cofounder and guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and the Forest Refuge, a new project for long term meditation practice. Joseph’s books include The Experience of Insight, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, and Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (with Jack Kornfield).

230-page spiralbound book, two audio cd’s, and 12 study cards, handsomely packed in a Velcro-sealed box.