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Author : Tilmann Vetter
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004089594
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (895 download)
Download or read book The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism written by Tilmann Vetter and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tilmann Vetter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644385
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism written by Tilmann Vetter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Analayo
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1909314625
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation written by Analayo and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analayo investigates the meditative practices of compassion and emptiness by examining and interpreting material from the early Buddhist discourses. Similar to his previous study of satipaa'-a'-hana, he brings a new dimension to our understanding by comparing Pali texts with versions that have survived in Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan. The result is a wide-ranging exploration of what these practices meant in early Buddhism.
Author : Bhikkhu Anālayo
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911407562
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Mindfulness in Early Buddhism written by Bhikkhu Anālayo and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable resource for Buddhist scholars, meditation teachers, and practitioners wishing to deepen their own practice of mindfulness. In this in-depth guide, the author examines all aspects of mindfulness practice, explores the history of mindfulness in the Buddhist tradition, and provides instructions for meditation practice, all supported by translations of the early Buddhist canonical texts.
Author : Tse-fu Kuan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134074514
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Mindfulness in Early Buddhism written by Tse-fu Kuan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies what is meant by sati (smrti), usually translated as ‘mindfulness’, in early Buddhism, and examines its soteriological functions and its central role in the early Buddhist practice and philosophy. Using textual analysis and criticism, it takes new approaches to the subject through a comparative study of Buddhist texts in Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit. It also furnishes new perspectives on the ancient teaching by applying the findings in modern psychology. In contemporary Buddhism, the practice of mindfulness is zealously advocated by the Theravada tradition, which is the only early Buddhist school that still exists today. Through detailed analysis of Theravada's Pali Canon and the four Chinese Agamas - which correspond to the four main Nikayas in Pali and belong to some early schools that no longer exist - this book shows that mindfulness is not only limited to the role as a method of insight (vipassana) meditation, as presented by many Theravada advocates, but it also has a key role in serenity (samatha) meditation. It elucidates how mindfulness functions in the path to liberation from a psychological perspective, that is, how it helps to achieve an optimal cognitive capability and emotional state, and thereby enables one to attain the ultimate religious goal. Furthermore, the author argues that the well-known formula of ekaayano maggo, which is often interpreted as ‘the only way’, implies that the four satipa.t.thaanas (establishments of mindfulness) constitute a comprehensive path to liberation, and refer to the same as kaayagataa sati, which has long been understood as ‘mindfulness of the body’ by the tradition. The analysis shows that kaayagataa sati and the four satipa.t.thaanas are two different ways of formulating the teaching on mindfulness according to different schemes of classification of phenomena.
Author : Bhikkhu Analayo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 161429917X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Abiding in Emptiness written by Bhikkhu Analayo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abiding in Emptiness presents a practice-related exploration of emptiness in daily life and formal meditation, based on instructions found in the Buddha's Greater and the Smaller Discourses on Emptiness. This presentation provides translations of the relevant textual portions followed by explanations, a summary of the main points covered in each chapter, and practice instructions. The presentation in what follows is firmly grounded in early Buddhist thought, contextualized within the doctrinal framework provided by the early discourses, in clear awareness that this differs in some respects from perspectives underlying the Chan and the Mahāmudrā / Dzogchen traditions. Versions of the Greater and the Smaller Discourses on Emptiness exist in Pāli, Chinese, and Tibetan. Nevertheless, meditation on emptiness in its various forms has not garnered as much attention from Theravādins as it has from practitioners of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism. In an attempt to build a bridge between these different traditions and to facilitate an adoption of emptiness practices by contemporary practitioners operating within the framework of Theravāda thought, the translations are based entirely on Pāli discourse passages. The author's annotations provide a comparative perspective on such quotations. The main part of each chapter in this book consists in practice-related explorations of quotations from the Pāli version of the Greater and the Smaller Discourses on Emptiness (the Mahāsuññatasutta and the Cūḷa- suññatasutta). Toward the end of each exploration, the author presents a verse, translated from some other Pāli text, which in one way or another captures in a poetical manner some of the main points to be kept in mind, and a summary of the main points covered in the exploration. The first part of the verse taken up in the first chapter, entirely dedicated to daily-life dimensions of emptiness practice as the indispensable foundation for going deep in formal sitting, can also serve to convey the main theme underlying this whole book"--
Author : Bhikkhu Anālayo
Publisher : Pariyatti
ISBN 13 : 1681724057
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Deepening Insight written by Bhikkhu Anālayo and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, “sensation,” “feeling,” or “feeling tone.” For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight. A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind’s ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good. Deepening Insight is based on textual sources that reflect “early Buddhism,” which stands for the development of thought and practices during roughly the first two centuries in the history of Buddhism, from about the fifth to the third century BCE. These sources are the Pāli discourses and their parallels, mostly extant in Chinese translation, which go back to instructions and teachings given orally by the Buddha and his disciples. In those times in India, writing was not employed for such purposes, and for centuries these teachings were transmitted orally. The final results of such oral transmission are available to us nowadays in the form of written texts. Bhikkhu Anālayo's presentation is meant to provide direct access, through the medium of translation, to the Chinese Āgama parallels to relevant Pāli discourses. In commenting on such passages, his chief concern throughout is to bring out practical aspects that are relevant to actual insight meditation. Endorsements In spring 1990 S.N. Goenka initiated an international seminar named The Importance of Vedanā and Sampajañña. It had the purpose to disseminate the prominence of sensations (vedanā) as a core object of meditation to recognize the intrinsic nature of change and impermanence. Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo now provides a thorough, comprehensive and well selected collection on vedanā as maintained in the original early Pāli Canon. Along with the comparison to the Chinese Āgama, otherwise hardly available, this collection if adapted and applied to practice may indeed serve as an inspiring source for deepening insight. —Klaus Nothnagel, Pāli teacher and Center Teacher for Dhamma Pallava in Poland
Author : David McMahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190495812
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Meditation, Buddhism, and Science written by David McMahan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific study of Buddhist forms of meditation has surged in recent years, capturing the popular imagination and reshaping conceptions of what meditation is and what it can do. For perhaps the first time in history, meditation has shifted from Buddhist monasteries and practice centers to some of the most prominent and powerful modern institutions in the world, as well as non-institutional settings. As their contexts change, so do the practices-sometimes drastically. New ways of thinking about meditation are emerging as it moves toward more secular settings, ways that profoundly affect millions of lives all over the world. To understand these changes and their effects, the essays in this volume explore the unaddressed complexities in the interrelations between Buddhist history and thought and the scientific study of meditation. The contributors bring philosophical, cultural, historical, and ethnographic perspectives to bear, considering such issues as the philosophical presuppositions behind practice, the secularization of meditation, the values and goods assumed in clinical approaches, and the sorts of subjects that take shape under the influence of these transformed and transformative practices-all the more powerful for being so often formulated with the authority of scientific discourse.
Author : Analayo
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911407007
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Meditator's Life of the Buddha written by Analayo and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analayo offers an inspiring biography of the Buddha, focusing on his meditative development and practice, including extracts from the early discourses, with commentary by the author. He conveys not only a focus on the Buddha as a meditator, but also that the book's readers are meditators, that this is a life of the Buddha providing inspiration and guidance for meditators. Each of the twenty-four chapters concludes with suggestions for meditative practice or conduct.
Author : Keren Arbel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317383982
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Early Buddhist Meditation written by Keren Arbel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' (satipatthana) and the attainment of the four jhànas (i.e., right samàdhi), a key problem in the study of Buddhist meditation. The author challenges the traditional Buddhist understanding of the four jhànas as states of absorption, and shows how these states are the actualization and embodiment of insight (vipassanà). It proposes that the four jhànas and what we call 'vipassanà' are integral dimensions of a single process that leads to awakening. Current literature on the phenomenology of the four jhànas and their relationship with the 'practice of insight' has mostly repeated traditional Theravàda interpretations. No one to date has offered a comprehensive analysis of the fourfold jhàna model independently from traditional interpretations. This book offers such an analysis. It presents a model which speaks in the Nikàyas' distinct voice. It demonstrates that the distinction between the 'practice of serenity' (samatha-bhàvanà) and the 'practice of insight' (vipassanà-bhàvanà) – a fundamental distinction in Buddhist meditation theory – is not applicable to early Buddhist understanding of the meditative path. It seeks to show that the common interpretation of the jhànas as 'altered states of consciousness', absorptions that do not reveal anything about the nature of phenomena, is incompatible with the teachings of the Pàli Nikàyas. By carefully analyzing the descriptions of the four jhànas in the early Buddhist texts in Pàli, their contexts, associations and meanings within the conceptual framework of early Buddhism, the relationship between this central element in the Buddhist path and 'insight meditation' becomes revealed in all its power. Early Buddhist Meditation will be of interest to scholars of Buddhist studies, Asian philosophies and religions, as well as Buddhist practitioners with a serious interest in the process of insight meditation.
Author : Alexander Wynne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134097417
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Buddhist Meditation written by Alexander Wynne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the early Brahminic literature, the author asserts the origin of the method of meditation learned by the Buddha from his two teachers and identifies some authentic teachings of the Buddha on meditation.
Author : Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447034791
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Development of Early Indian Contemplative Practices written by Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120811140
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditaions and its role in the process to liberation. In a number of cases, the Buddhist canonical texts reject practices which they accept elsewhere. When these practices-sometimes rejected, sometimes accepted-correspond to what is known about non-Buddhist practices, the conculsion in then proposed that they are non-Buddhist practices which have somehow found their way into the Buddhist texts. A similar procedure enables one to choose between conflicting beliefs.
Author : Roderick S Bucknell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009236492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Early Buddhism written by Roderick S Bucknell and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist origins and discussion of the Buddha's teachings are amongst the most controversial and contested areas in the field. This bold and authoritative book tackles head-on some of the key questions regarding early Buddhism and its primary canon of precepts. Noting that the earliest texts in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese belong to different Buddhist schools, Roderick S. Bucknell addresses the development of these writings during the period of oral transmission between the Buddha's death and their initial redaction in the first century BCE. A meticulous comparative analysis reveals the likely original path of meditative practice applied and taught by Gautama. Fresh perspectives now emerge on both the Buddha himself and his Enlightenment. Drawing on his own years of meditative experience as a Buddhist monk, the author offers here remarkable new interpretations of advanced practices of meditation, as well as of Buddhism itself. It is a landmark work in Buddhist Studies.
Author : Roderick Bucknell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136804013
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Meditative Way written by Roderick Bucknell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist meditation, while attracting less popular attention than some other meditative disciplines, has given rise to a particularly rich literature in recent years. Despite differences in style and terminology, these modern writings on Buddhist meditation serve much the same purposes as did the manuals and commentaries of the classical masters: to explicate and interpret the Buddha's teachings on meditation, to clarify the nature and value of the various meditative techniques and attainments, and/or to offer advice on the actual practice of meditation. Meditators are increasingly inclined to compare and evaluate critically what the different contemporary meditation masters have to say, to weigh up the results of relevant scientific studies, or to consult translations of the primary texts in search of the Buddha's 'original' teachings on meditation. Writers on meditation are also increasingly adopting an appropriately critical approach, particularly as regards the reliability of textual accounts. Relatively few still commit the old error of assuming that the Pali canon is a complete and faithful record of what the Buddha said on the subject, or that the classical commentators were infallible authorities. The present collection of twenty-eight readings is designed to give meditators, researchers, and general readers ready access to representative samples of those writings, and to the principal relevant texts.
Author : David L. McMahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197661742
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Meditation written by David L. McMahan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rethinking Meditation provides a new theoretical and historical approach to Buddhist and Buddhist-derived meditative practices. It shows how, rather than coming down to us unchanged from the time of the Buddha, the standard articulation of mindfulness as bare, non-judgmental attention to the present moment is a distillation of particular strands of classical Buddhist thought that have combined with western ideas to create a unique practice tailored to modern forms of thought and ways of life. Part genealogical study and part philosophical argument, it inquires into some of the widespread assumptions about how meditation works and what it does, presenting a view of meditative practices as technologies of the self embedded in cultural forms of life. It shows that the relationship between meditative practices and cultural context is much more crucial than is suggested in typical contemporary articulations, which often emphasize transcendence of cultural conditioning and achieving "objective" internal access to the contents of consciousness. Meditation, McMahan argues, is always situated in social contexts and draws from repertoires of cultural categories, concepts, and values, sometimes accommodating them and sometimes resisting them. Rethinking Meditation also considers the scientific study of meditation and meditation in relation to modern articulations of secularism, freedom, authenticity, appreciation, and interdependence. It also examines the potential for meditation to enhance autonomy and addresses recent attempts to bring meditative practices to bear on social, political, and environmental issues"--
Author : Thich Thong Triet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998692036
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Zen and Contemporary Knowledge written by Thich Thong Triet and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes Venerable Zen Master Thich Thong Triet's pioneering work in using contemporary scientific knowledge to shed light on the profound Buddhist teaching and meditation practices. He identifies the brain areas that correspond to the worldly mind, wordless awareness mind and Buddha-mind taught by the Buddha. He establishes the physiological processes that link the mind, nervous system and internal organs during meditation, and explains the beneficial or harmful effects that a correct or incorrect meditation has on the body and mind. Master Thich Thong Triet's intuition was validated by the extensive f-MRI and EEG measurements of his brain activities, conducted at the University of Tübingen, Germany, while he went through various stages of Buddhist meditation. This book also contains clear and modern explanation on the terminology, concepts and practice of Buddhist meditation. It provides guidance to the serious meditation student and helps them avoid the most common pitfalls. For those who want to rise above a life tossed about by relentless thoughts, desires and emotions with its resulting ailing body and anguished mind, this book will give you a clear and scientific understanding that will inspire and guide you on your spiritual journey. As you diligently practice the correct meditation it teaches, you will reap in time the marvelous effects of your own Buddha-mind: lasting internal peace, infinite loving kindness and compassion, harmonious relationships, intuition, creativity, and spiritual wisdom.
