I found myself with no money, no friends and a large dose of homesickness, and ended up staying in a Buddhist monastery in Bangkok for six weeks. I lived with the monks, meditating for eight hours a day. And, to my surprise, this turned out to be the best thing that had ever happened to me…..in the monastery, with no other option but to sit and at least try to meditate, I slowly found that I could sit for longer and longer, sometimes more than an hour.
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The historical background 3 Meditation in the twentieth century onwards 6 Psychology 7 Neuroscience 13 The study of religion, the academic environment and the literary world 14 Christianity 16 Practice traditions 17 Perceptions of practitioners 19 Selected Bibliography 25
