meditation-primer.txt

Matthieu Ricard, talks about happiness, why he started
meditating, and the mental attitude one adopts while meditating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_30JzRGDHI

Jon-Kabat Zinn, creator of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
(MBSR) program used in therapy and for meditation research. First
he talks (quite non-scientifically) about meditation, then has a
long nice guided meditation. The guided meditation is very good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

Sara Lazar, neuroscience researcher at Harvard Medical,
short TED-talk about the effects of MBSR on the brain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rRzTtP7Tc

Gil Fronsdal, Buddhist teacher, gives an introduction to mindfulness.
Each lecture is about 40min theory and 20min guided meditation. For one
week, every day, do the meditation exercise by yourself. Then listen to
the next talk in the series: http://audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/