Guide Through The Visuddhimagga

Author : U Dhammaratana
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 955240357X
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide through the Visuddhimagga written by U Dhammaratana and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditation is an essential part of the Buddhist way of life and Buddhist meditation practices cannot be explained apart from the fundamental doctrines of Buddhism. Buddhaghosa, the author of the Visuddhimagga (The Path of Purification), gave elaborate expositions of these fundamental doctrines. As such his work has served not only as a manual of meditation but also as the standard work on Theravada Buddhism as a whole. No other school of Buddhism has handed down to us a work of such importance. Therefore the Visuddhimagga occupies a unique position in the field of Buddhism in particular and the religious literature of the world in general. What is to the advantage of the scholar is sometimes to the disadvantage of the layman. While going through the elaborate explanations of a certain topic in the Visuddhimagga, one is liable to lose its thread and become confused. This book gives a clear outline of the system and its essential points so that the details can be understood without much difficulty.

Author : U. Dhammaratana
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Download or read book Guide through Visuddhimagga written by U. Dhammaratana and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : U. Dhammaratana
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Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide Through Visuddhimagga written by U. Dhammaratana and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shaila Catherine
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458783642
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focused and Fearless written by Shaila Catherine and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now ordinary meditators (and non-meditators) can understand how to attain non-ordinary states with relative ease. Blended with contemporary examples, pragmatic exercises, and ''how to'' instructions that anyone can try, Focused and Fearless provides a wealth of tools to cultivate non-distracted attention in daily life and on retreat. Shaila Catherine has a friendly, wise approach to the meditative states (jhanas) that lead to liberating insight. Focused and Fearless is about much more than merely meditation or concentration. It offers a complete path towards bliss, fearlessness, and true awakening.

Author : Mahasi Sayadaw
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9552400902
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Progress of Insight written by Mahasi Sayadaw and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of Vipassana or insight meditation was described by the Buddha as the “direct way” for the overcoming of all sorrow and grief and for realizing Nibbana, the state of perfect liberation from suffering. The essence of this practice consists in the four foundations of mindfulness: mindful contemplation of the body, feelings, states of mind, and mind objects.

Author : Yumi Ousaka
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index to the Visuddhimagga written by Yumi Ousaka and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Upatissa
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Path of Freedom written by Upatissa and published by . This book was released on 1936* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leigh Brasington
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 083480302X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right Concentration written by Leigh Brasington and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus associated with the Buddhist jhānas One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and more, leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering. So how does one achieve Right Concentration? According to the Buddha himself, the jhānas—a series of eight progressive altered states of consciousness—are an essential method. But because the jhānas can usually be achieved only through prolonged meditation retreat, they have been shrouded in mystery for years. Not anymore. In Right Concentration, Leigh Brasington takes away the mystique and gives instructions on how to achieve them in plain, accessible language. He notes the various pitfalls to avoid along the way and provides a wealth of material on the theory of jhāna practice—all geared toward the practitioner rather than the scholar. As Brasington proves, these states of bliss and concentration are attainable by anyone who devotes the time and sincerity of practice necessary to realize them.

Author : Kate Crosby
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611807948
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Esoteric Theravada written by Kate Crosby and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on Buddhism—there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravada meditation practices. This once-dominant traditional meditation system, known as borān kammatthāna, is related to—yet remarkably distinct from—Vipassana and other Buddhist and secular mindfulness practices that would become the hallmark of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. Drawing on a quarter century of research, scholar Kate Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kammatthāna, illuminating the historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era.

Author : Buddhaghosa
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9552400236
Total Pages : 853 pages
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Download or read book The Path of Purification written by Buddhaghosa and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Visuddhimagga - here rendered Path of Purification systematically summarizes and interprets the teaching of the Buddha contained in the Pali Tipiṭaka. As the principal non-canonical authority of the Theraváda, it forms the hub of a complete and coherent method of exegesis of the Tipiṭaka, using the "Abhidhamma method" as it is called. It sets out detailed practical instructions for developing purification of mind.