Journey of insight meditation : a personal experience of the Buddha’s way

by Eric Lerner.

New York : Schocken Books, 1977.

Eric Lerner has written a memoir, “Journey of Insight Meditation “(Schocken, 1976), about his experiences traveling and living in Buddhist monasteries and communities in Asia and America. With a guru, in monasteries, and isolated for weeks at a time in forests, Lerner practiced the Buddhist art of vipassana or ‘insight meditation.’ From exercises which took him ‘inside his body’ to undo knots of pain, he progressed through various stages of awareness to glimpses of the ‘clear white light’ and, for an instant, nirvana. Sensitively and convincingly written, his self-absorbed book nearly succeeds in describing the ineffable

This background  led to his subsequent twenty-year career as a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood.