📚 Meditation

Attention trained: the methods across traditions, and the clinical adoption of sitting quietly on purpose.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject meditation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Imitation of Christ	Thomas à Kempis	1568	394
	Thoughts in solitude	Thomas Merton	1958	24
	Biografía del silencio	Pablo d'Ors	2012	22
	Zen mind, beginner's mind	Shunryū Suzuki	1970	20
	Meditation	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1970	17
	The book of the secrets	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1912	16
	Conquest of mind	Eknath Easwaran	1988	14
	Phép lạ của sự tỉnh thức	Thích Nhất Hạnh	1976	13
	Creating Affluence	Deepak Chopra	1993	12
	Manifest Your Destiny	Wayne W. Dyer	1997	12
	The Happiness Hypothesis	Jonathan Haidt	2005	12
	Spiritual Direction and Meditation	Thomas Merton	1960	11
	Wherever You Go, There You Are	Jon Kabat-Zinn	1994	11
	Mindfulness for dummies	Shamash Alidina	2010	11
	Concentration and meditation	Christmas Humphreys	1968	10
	Emotional alchemy	Tara Bennett-Goleman	2001	10
	Buddhist Meditation	Edward Conze	1956	9
	Journey of awakening	Ram Dass.	1978	9
	Meditation	Eknath Easwaran	1978	9
	Meditation for dummies	Stephan Bodian	2007	8
	The things you can see only when you slow down	Haemin Sunim	2017	8
	How to meditate	Lawrence L. LeShan	1974	7
	Self-hypnosis and other mind-expanding techniques	Charles Tebbetts	1977	7
	The mind illuminated	Culadasa John Yates	2015	7
	Meditation	Grace Cooke	1955	6
	The inner guide meditation	Edwin C. Steinbrecher	1978	6
	The meditative mind	Daniel Goleman	1988	6
	Still the Mind	Alan Watts	2000	6
	Comfortable with Uncertainty	Pema Chödrön	2002	6
	Meditation and its methods according to Swami Vivekananda	Swami Chetanananda	1976	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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