 A Handbook for Living in the Present Moment
Also: Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D.
This book is written from the presentations given at a workshop on Tart’s psychological approach to mindfulness in 1991. This is to some degree based on Gurdjieff's work, and is about waking up moment by moment during everyday life. It retains the immediacy and informality of the workshop, and since Tart answers questions from students, he covers a lot of the practical practice of mindfulness. He has a great sense of humor and this is a fun book to read.
Tart says, “Experimental exercises and basic mindfulness practices that were used in the workshop are described in enough detail to be useful to you readers, who weren’t there. I still recommend my Waking Up for a systematic exposition of mindfulness techniques, but combining it with this one will make the whole presentation richer.… I cannot, however, stress strongly enough that, while reading about mindfulness is helpful, ideas about mindfulness are not mindfulness. Thinking about being present is not being present. The ultimate value of this book lies in the degree to which you try out the mindfulness practices and apply them in your life.”
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