Meditation

Eknath Easwaran's passage meditation method is one of those rare things: a spiritual practice with over thirty peer-reviewed studies behind it, taught successfully at UC Berkeley since the 1960s and still active worldwide. The eight-point program is genuinely learnable from this book alone, the prose is warm and practical without a trace of mystical fog, and the multifaith approach to sacred passages means it works across traditions. Readers committed to a single faith will want to think about whether the ecumenical framing fits their practice.