Sally Kempton - Meditation for the Love of It

This is classic wisdom of the East, cast in a very personal and accessible form. It is authoritative and inspiring and will make you want to meditate for the highest reasons and in the most effective ways.

This is an inspired, beautiful, and thoroughly sage-like book! Sally Kempton writes about meditation as very few cancombining the perspectives of scientist, devoted seeker, authoritative spokesperson of the ancient tradition, and, I venture to say, one who dearly loves and seeks to know the highest truths. Meditation for the Love of It offers both practical teachings on how to meditate and an inspired survey of what meditation ultimately is meant to lead us to, the recognition and capacity to live knowing that life is indeed sacred. I encourage anyone seeking more happiness, clarity, and love in their life to drink of its curative wisdombetter yet apply any of the practices that Sally, so expertly, lays out. You and our world will, no doubt, be made better for it.

Love this book! Sally Kempton is a modern communicator of a traditional practice, and in this book she generously shares her forty-plus years as a committed explorer of the soul. With great compassion and depth of experience, she affirms the challenges of quieting the mind while opening you to those realms of consciousness where you are able to exist wondrously within the pulse and flow of your own being. Her poetic prose invites you into the vast landscape of the mind, where all are welcome, all are divine. Im grateful to Sally for this how-to guide for the soul, and I am excited to deepen my own experience of meditation through her inspiration and guidance.

A thoughtful, intuitive, and uncommonly well-written book, which can only be welcomed by all who follow the way of meditation.

Sally Kempton is one of the great realized teachers on the meditation path, whose Integral understanding of life merges seamlessly with her mastery of meditation. She is a guide for our time.

One of the most practical, clear, and fascinating guides on meditation that has ever been written. This book can totally revolutionize your meditation practice and quite possibly your life!

Sally Kempton is a true gift to the yoga world, for she is able to communicate the living wisdom of meditation through her engaging, natural, and practical writing style, which vibrates with flowing consciousness. Sally awakens meditation from within, and her teachings in this book will resonate with people at all levels of experience on the spiritual path.

Deep thanks for Meditation for the Love of It. It is a warm, gentle, immediately relevant book that will help many people and touch many hearts.

Sally Kempton is well equipped to guide on how to love our way to the divine life and the joyous oneness it epitomizes. I often recommend Sally Kempton to my own meditation students as a realized guide on the path of awakening. The chapter on her three-week meditation program alone is worth the price of this book, but I would say that the true delight here begins with getting to know this extraordinary yogi Sally Kempton. We are all blessed to have her and her genuine tantric lineage and teaching transmission in our lifetime.

Meditation for the Love of It is a gift to the world; a kiss to the inner life.

MARIANA CAPLAN, PHD, author of Halfway up the Mountain and Eyes Wide Open

Sally Kempton can awaken your heart and still your mind in a way that will radically amaze and delight you. If you are going use just one guide to meditation, this book should be it.

Dont meditate because you think it is good for youthat can be a waste of timedo it because your soul craves the love it was meant for. Let sitting down on your cushion be a rendezvous with your beloved. Meditation can be the most fulfilling love relationship you will ever have in your lifea love that lasts more than one night, a love that is true, eternal, boundless, delight. With this book to show you how, begin now to meditate for the love of it.

Much of what I know about meditation I learned from Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, to whom I offer immense gratitude.

My inner life also owes a lot to the inspiration of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, to the Kashmir Shaivite guru Abhinavagupta and his disciple Kshemaraja, and to the twentieth-century sage Ramana Maharshi.

Thanks to everyone who read this book in both its earlier and later incarnations, and offered valuable suggestions, including Jonathan Shimkin, Margaret Bendet, Swami Ishwarananda, Paul Muller-Ortega, Rudy Wurlitzer, John Friend, Richard Gillett, and at Sounds True, Tami Simon, Jennifer Coffee, and my brilliant editor, Haven Iverson.

Thanks to the students whose questions and insights helped teach me how to communicate subtle truths in words. Deep bows to my friends on the journey, particularly to Ruthie Hunter, whose insightful support has been indispensable in my life as a teacher, and to Marc Gafni for his wisdom and creativity both as a colleague and as a provocateur. Bringing Meditation for the Love of It to publication would not have been possible without the help of Michael Zimmerman. Many thanks to him.

Finally, now and forever, I offer salutations to the original guru of gurus, Shiva Mahadeva, the inner guide who lives as Awareness in all of us, and is present wherever the truth is known and expressed. And above all, to the ever-playful Shakti, the pulsing love at the heart of reality, who has become all that is, and by whose grace we are each, in the end, set free.