"A rounded and incisive meditation manual based on U Pandita's 40 years of meditation experience. The author is masterful in his analysis of mind states and his commentary on the essentials of mediation practice will appeal to a wide variety of readers... These teachings are very profound and relevant to those of us who live in a culture where craving and aversion exert a strong and persistent hold over us." —Spirituality and Health

"This is a truly alive transmission of the Buddha's teachings...a direct and explicit guide to the freeing of the mind here and now. The Buddha's teachings can be realized by each one of us, and In This Very Life shows us how."—Joseph Goldstein

"In This Very Life is an exquisitely precise and profound analysis of mind states and meditation practice written in a remarkably clear, readable style."—Roger Walsh, Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy, University of California

"Vital teachings from one of the greatest living meditation masters."—Daniel Goleman, author of The Meditative Mind