{"title":"Author - Lerner, Eric","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the publication of \u003ci\u003eJourney of Insight Meditation\u003c\/i\u003e in 1978, Lerner moved to Los Angeles to study with the Rinzai Zen Master Joshu Sasaki Roshi. For several years he edited the literary\/spiritual journal \u003ci\u003eZero: Contemporary Buddhist Life and Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, before embarking on a career as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Lerner’s screen credits include \u003ci\u003eBird on a Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKiss the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAugustus\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written a novel, \u003ci\u003ePinkerton’s Secret\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently another memoir, \u003ci\u003eMatters of Vital Interest: A Forty-year Friendship with Leonard Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"6622","title":"Journey of Insight Meditation - eBook (PDF | ePUB | MOBI)","description":"    \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to look inside the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781681725789'); \u003c\/script\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e   \t   \u003cp\u003e\"I set out to study and practice Vipassana meditation in India fifty years ago. Then, as now, I characterized myself as both a spiritual seeker and a writer. During the six months that I sojourned in meditation centers and monasteries, observing the strict rules of retreat, I nevertheless spent several hours a day feverishly filling notebooks by lamplight with tightly packed script legible only to me, recording my internal experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eI wanted to tell a story, because I am by nature a story teller, but on my return to America I was a bit disconcerted to find that my detailed accounts read like data recorded by a naturalist hidden in the bush observing the behavior of a strange creature in the wild, information that would have little interest to anyone except an extreme specialist in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eUp until then my unpublished works were lightly fictionalized autobiographical accounts of my young life, but fiction wouldn t be accurate enough to tell this tale. Instead, I created a protagonist, a bit of a hero, who was both me and not me, Eric Lerner. I re-created the external world of people and teachers and places he d encountered, as well as ideas and beliefs adopted and discarded. In other words, a setting and a plot. All of it was real, or real enough, the product of memory and interpretation, a new veracity. A memoir.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e Eric Lerner\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eItaly, March 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003chr\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"margin-left: 20px\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e With a guru, in monasteries, and isolated for weeks at a time in forests, [Lerner] practiced the Buddhist art of vipassana or  insight meditation.  From exercises which took him  inside his body  to undo knots of pain, he progressed through various stages of awareness... Sensitively and convincingly written, his self-absorbed book nearly succeeds in describing the ineffable.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Journey of Insight Meditation not only gives a fine introduction to Vipassana but sets a standard of excellence for spiritual journals of its kind. It is so good because Lerner is highly aware of the difference between the twin pitfalls of over-enthusiasm and over-analysis. His book is readable, thought-provoking and very real. Strongly recommended.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e Library Journal\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Lerner captures with exquisite clarity the psychological underworld of the hardcore meditator. With candor and warmth he shares the pain, agony, occasional ecstasy and hard-earned insight he found as a student of Vipassana. His is a compelling travelogue of the mind.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e Daniel Goleman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e I have shared many of the teachers, friends, and experiences of which Eric Lerner writes in this meditation diary. His characterization of the death gasps of our romanticism about self and journey I find to be a chillingly lucid and refreshingly accurate account of what is.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e Ram Dass\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e              ","brand":"Lerner, Eric","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101604614238,"sku":"765772","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/775772_1981aae9-9f51-42b6-be33-71e726981054.jpg?v=1760548962"},{"product_id":"6556","title":"Journey of Insight Meditation by Eric Lerner (Pariyatti Edition)","description":"    \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to look inside the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781681725789'); \u003c\/script\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e   \t   \u003cp\u003e\"I set out to study and practice Vipassana meditation in India fifty years ago. Then, as now, I characterized myself as both a spiritual seeker and a writer. During the six months that I sojourned in meditation centers and monasteries, observing the strict rules of retreat, I nevertheless spent several hours a day feverishly filling notebooks by lamplight with tightly packed script legible only to me, recording my internal experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI wanted to tell a story, because I am by nature a story teller, but on my return to America I was a bit disconcerted to find that my detailed accounts read like data recorded by a naturalist hidden in the bush observing the behavior of a strange creature in the wild, information that would have little interest to anyone except an extreme specialist in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUp until then my unpublished works were lightly fictionalized autobiographical accounts of my young life, but fiction wouldn t be accurate enough to tell this tale. Instead, I created a protagonist, a bit of a hero, who was both me and not me, Eric Lerner. I re-created the external world of people and teachers and places he d encountered, as well as ideas and beliefs adopted and discarded. In other words, a setting and a plot. All of it was real, or real enough, the product of memory and interpretation, a new veracity. A memoir.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\"\u003e Eric Lerner\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\"\u003eItaly, March 2023\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"margin-left: 20px\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e With a guru, in monasteries, and isolated for weeks at a time in forests, [Lerner] practiced the Buddhist art of vipassana or  insight meditation.  From exercises which took him  inside his body  to undo knots of pain, he progressed through various stages of awareness... Sensitively and convincingly written, his self-absorbed book nearly succeeds in describing the ineffable.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\"\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Journey of Insight Meditation not only gives a fine introduction to Vipassana but sets a standard of excellence for spiritual journals of its kind. It is so good because Lerner is highly aware of the difference between the twin pitfalls of over-enthusiasm and over-analysis. His book is readable, thought-provoking and very real. Strongly recommended.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\"\u003e Library Journal\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Lerner captures with exquisite clarity the psychological underworld of the hardcore meditator. With candor and warmth he shares the pain, agony, occasional ecstasy and hard-earned insight he found as a student of Vipassana. His is a compelling travelogue of the mind.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\"\u003e Daniel Goleman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e I have shared many of the teachers, friends, and experiences of which Eric Lerner writes in this meditation diary. His characterization of the death gasps of our romanticism about self and journey I find to be a chillingly lucid and refreshingly accurate account of what is.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\" bis_skin_checked=\"1\"\u003e Ram Dass\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003chr\u003e  \u003cp id=\"audiobook\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 1.7rem\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Journey of Insight Meditation\" audiobook\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is an audio edition of \"Journey of Insight Meditation\" as read by Jonathan Nelson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNavigate the audio using the 'Chapters' menu at the bottom right side of the video player.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"\u003e \t\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1091684912?title=0\u0026amp;byline=0\u0026amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border: 1px solid #666\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 20px\"\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn\" onclick=\"location.href='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=1cNT2iuNouwf9-uq4fMtZQT4KDkT4WPBW';\"\u003eDownload Single File (214MB)\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn\" onclick=\"location.href='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=16OSx3QzsCf2YCZt3KYb12p-0vf0Sp0WX';\"\u003eDownload Chapters (214MB)\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cp style=\"text-align: center; margin: 20px;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/studio.youtube.com\/playlist\/PLs2yRU4JKVlqZdYKhlEowRsQlQvN0Gf5o\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"youtube_link\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen on YouTube\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e   \u003chr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/Audiobooks_c_40.html\"\u003eCheck out our complete audiobook catalog.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWe are grateful to the volunteers who offered their time and skills creating this product so that we can offer it freely. 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