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Conquest of Mind



Size: 4½'' x 7½''
ISBN: 978-1-58638-005-2
Pages: 176
Author: Eknath Easwaran
Formats: Paperback, Hardcover (same price as paperback)

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Table of Contents | Read an Excerpt | Media Reviews and Endorsements | Reader Reviews

This book is for people who want to understand how the mind works, and how to change it.

If we want to grow to our fullest human potential, Easwaran says, we have to train the mind. If we follow his eight-point program, we can begin to choose the way we think and become the kind of person we want to be.

Drawing on the teachings of the Buddha, Easwaran’s approach is universal and practical, putting our destiny in our own hands. And since it’s hard to understand the hidden workings of the mind with the mind, Easwaran selects anecdotes to throw a spotlight on our thinking processes and to point the way to mastering them.

For readers who have enjoyed Easwaran’s Passage Meditation, Conquest of Mind gives another, intriguing perspective on his eight-point program.

Features
  • A comprehensive, readable explanation of the workings of the mind, by a writer who is a gifted teacher of meditation
  • Illustrated with many entertaining and insightful stories
  • Early chapters include an explanation of Easwaran’s method of passage meditation
  • Later chapters offer a penetrating commentary, based on the Buddha’s teachings, of the obstacles to mastery of the mind and of his strategies for freedom
  • The book concludes with an overview of the eight-point program

Table of Contents |

Introduction
1: Thinking in Freedom
2: Living Skills
3: Training the Mind
4: Juggling
5: Learning to Swim
6: All Life Is Yoga
7: Tremendous Trifles
8: The Forces of Life
9: Obstacles & Opportunities
10: Strategies for Freedom
An Eight-Point Program


Excerpt from Conquest of Mind |

Imagine that you are sitting in your living room, listening to little Joey tell you about his basketball game, when suddenly the television switches on. “Here,” it commands. “Watch me!” You say, “Yes, sir.” You don’t like the program, and you don’t really want to look at television when Joey is trying to talk to you. But the TV has caught your attention. The set says, “I feel like showing this now, so you sit back and watch.” And while Joey goes on, you look at him occasionally and say, “Uh-huh,” but you’re not really there; your mind is on the tube.

Then, abruptly, the set announces, “That’s it for now.” And despite your pleas, it turns itself off.

Most of us, if we had a set like this, would think we were caught in a science-fiction movie. But this is exactly what the mind does. It puts on any show it likes and that is what we have to think; it switches channels when it likes and we have to accept. “I can tell my hand what to do,” Augustine once observed, “and it obeys. Why can’t I do the same with my mind?”

Today, of course, most homes have a remote-control device for the television set. You lean back in a chair, press a button, and the set goes on. If you don’t like the commercial telling you what to have for breakfast, you press another button and the sound goes off. If you want to change channels, press a button; if you want to stop the show, just press again – whenever you choose. So when I go to a friend’s home to watch tennis, my host puts the remote controller in my hands. I watch Boris Becker play Ivan Lendl, and the moment a commercial cuts in or the commentators start talking about how much money is at stake, I turn off the sound and rest my eyes. This is using the television in freedom, and it is the way to use the mind in freedom too.


Media Reviews and Endorsements |

“Eknath Easwaran has a wonderfully easy style of writing, and there probably is no better meditation teacher . . . He offers clear guidance for training the mind, dealing with obstacles and opportunities in life.”
– The Quest

“What makes Easwaran's approach so attractive is his ability to merge East and West, ancient and modern, into a system of living that values simplicity, practicality, compassion, and humor.”
– NAPRA ReView

“This is not a book for anyone seeking a quick fix, but rather for those willing to develop the living skills which will enable them to become more creative and resourceful and to turn life’s obstacles into opportunities for growth . . . Easwaran is not pedantic, and his insights penetrate many levels. His book is practical as well as spiritual and offers many tips as to how we can begin to master and harness our power to harm or heal.”
– Body Mind & Spirit


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