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Title: Breathing and Quieting the Mind

Author: DovBer Pinson

Narrator: Shlomo Zacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-15

Publisher: Zacks Audiobook Productions

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Self Development, Meditation

Publisher's Summary:

Achieving a sense of self-mastery and inner freedom demands that we gain a measure of hegemony over our thoughts. We learn to choose our thoughts so we are not at the mercy of whatever burps up to the mind, thus transforming a cluttered mind into a peaceful inner state of awareness. Through quieting the mind and conscious breathing, we can slow the onrush of anxious, scattered thinking and come to a deeper awareness of the interconnectedness of all of life. Once mastered, these techniques will carry over into every aspect and facet of our lives, improving our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Members Reviews:

Must read for the newbie and advanced Kabbalah student -- or for that matter anyone who wants to know about meditation

In a world where Twitter, Facebook and everyday life seemingly compete for more and more of our time, Rabbi Pinson teaches us how to slow down, bringing some of the most esoteric principles of Kabbalistic meditation down to earth in an easy to understand, and accessible way. Rabbi Pinson opens each section in Breathing and Quieting the Mind with a foundational introduction that provides a rich understanding even before the how-to part of the book. This is a page-turner. One gets the sense that Rabbi Pinson isn't afraid of revealing everything to help the reader achieve what he describes as Deviekus, or the spiritual sensation of being one with G-d. Lifelong spiritual seekers be forewarned: this is one of those books where you'll want to get a copy for yourself, and for everyone else in your life you know who could benefit from scholarly, but deeply spiritual insight and wisdom. The title is somewhat of a misnomer: You'll definitely learn about breathing and quieting the mind, but pick up a lot more. I'm not surprised that Rabbi Pinson has written another keeper.

An Important Book

This masterpiece of traditional Chassidic meditative techniques is just the medicine needed in a world of seemingly random and hectic occurrences. The methods prescribed herein as originally set down by Bal Shem Tov and other Jewish masters have long been hidden or largely ignored over the centuries except among certain circles of Kabbalists and Mystics. Thanks to the scholarship of the Rav Dovber Pinson these life changing methods are now available to all of us. We can change our lives and the world, one breath at a time.

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In this book, Rav DovBer Pinson weaves together storytelling about hasidic rebbes, scholarly exegesis of classical Jewish texts (the Rambam, the Ralbag and others), and "holy imagination" (the Alte Rebbe's term for the faculty through which we raise knowledge to the level of spiritual insight and receive revelations) in order to "redeem" traditional Jewish meditational practices that became "exiled" as a result of the Holoocaust. After the Shoah, the hasidic rebbes who survived made restoring their communities of faith and the everyday life of piety the most urgent task, and the continuity of a major religious practice--quieting the mind in solitude, making the ego transparent through cultivating the waking dream state of mindfuless meditation--was all but severed.