I tried getting that book by the Dalai Lama, but unfortunately I could not get my hands on it. It is not available where I live (Germany) and I also wasn't able to find a digital version on the internet.

Maybe you can give me a short description of how this "analytic meditation" works (via this thread or PM). It certainly sounds like the way to go for us western minds. I think I heard or read something like that before, but right now I am uncertain about how this is supposed to work.

In my opinion it is very helpful and necessary to analyze one's experiences that occur in the meditation sessions, it should just be AFTER the session, not while it is still going on. Sometimes it can be really frustrating to lose the 'object' of meditation (like watching the breath or just feeling in the moment) every 30 seconds and get drawn away by random silly thoughts. This is really not as easy as I thought I would be when I started. Some sessions I think to myself afterwards "That was a pretty good one", but usually it's more like "Meh, that was pretty bad, nothing but useless thought trains dragging me away all the time".
Oh well, I guess thats why we are practicing this and taking a course