Meditation and the Soft Will

For over fifty years, Georg Kuhlewind has worked to develop a universal cognitive spiritual path. Soundly based in contemporary consciousness, his writings on meditation are among the clearest available today. This book consists of three parts. The first is a short, practical treatise on meditation in the form of a sequence of exercises. An extended essay on "the soft will" follows. (The soft will--which is the will that works in speaking, as well as in artistic activities like playing the piano--is the will we use in meditation.) In the last part, we are led on a meditative journey though selected passages drawn from Zen Buddhism, Thomas Aquinas and the great early twentieth-century spiritual master and founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner.