How to End Suffering

About the Book

       A Book For Summoning Hope From Despair And Turning Negative Energy Into The Power To Heal Wounds

• Transform personal weaknesses into strengths through meditation
• Get at the root of anger, fear, and greed in consciousness
• Navigate safely the great adventures of deepening meditation
• Discover within yourself a spark of the divine presence that pervades the universe
• Draw strength from that divine presence to face life´s trials



"The purpose of suffering is to go beyond suffering. The purpose of death is to go beyond death," -- Sri Eknath Easwaran.

In the last ten years of his life, one of the world´s foremost spiritual teachers, Sri Eknath Easwaran, poured his heart and his wisdom into showing his closest students the purpose of suffering, death, and the afterlife. Most especially, he taught how to rise above the suffering and confusion that interferes with spiritual growth. This book shares precious instruction from a man whose teachings are practiced by people all over the world and whose books are available also from Hyperion, Vintage, Penguin, and Nilgiri Press.

About the Author

ABOUT SRI EKNATH EASWARAN

Sri Eknath Easwaran came to the United States from India as a professor with the Fulbright exchange program in 1959. He taught meditation and the spiritual life for more than 40 years, most of them in this country, including what is considered to be the first accredited course on meditation at any university in the West -- Religious Studies 138X in 1968 at the University of California at Berkeley.

Many thousands of people heard him speak and more than a million copies of his books are in print. People practice his teachings in many countries around the world. His books have been translated into at least 20 languages, and people attended his retreats from all the five continents.

ABOUT DOLORES WOOD

Dolores Wood has worked in journalism and publishing for the past two decades. She worked with Sri Eknath Easwaran the last ten years of his life and lived in his meditation community. In the 1980s, she was a reporter for The Associated Press in Los Angeles, The Daily News, and Copley News Service, as well as a deputy press secretary for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

In 1990 she moved north, working for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat for almost two years before taking a job with Nilgiri Press, the publishing arm of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. She attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and graduated with a degree in journalism. She also worked as a police reporter in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was a reporter at The Albuquerque Journal. She now lives and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico.