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Wisdom Wide and Deep

Author : Shaila Catherine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 086171623X
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Wide and Deep written by Shaila Catherine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you are interested in Dharma study, this book belongs in your library."---Phillip Moffitt, author of Dancing with Life "This book can be the guide for cultivating the inner calm we long for."---Christina Feldman, author of Compassion: Listening to the Cries of the World "This handbook respects both the ancient tradition and the needs of contemporary lay practitioners, without compromising either. Shaila Catherine blends scriptural references, personal examples, and timeless stories with detailed meditation instructions. The combination of pragmatic style and theoretical knowledge produces a striking invitation for the reader to apply these instructions and master the complete practice for awakening."---from the foreword by Pa-Auk Sayadaw, author of The Workings of Kamma "Catherine has managed a difficult feat---to be simultaneously encyclopedic and charming, all with extraordinary clarity. This meditation manual is a first for the West and will surely become a classic and a support for generations of practitioners."---Kate Wheeler, editor of In This Very Life: Liberation Teachings of the Buddha "Wisdom Wide and Deep is a powerful inspiration both for those who would like a glimpse of what's possible and for those intrepid explorers of the mind who want to bring these teachings to fulfillment. Highly recommended."---Joseph Goldstein, author of A Heart Full of Peace "Written in clear, practical language, this book converts theory into direct experience. It is a detailed exploration of deep calmness as well as insight. The West needs such manuals."---Christopher Titmuss, author of Light on Enlightenment "A valuable work as both a practice guide and a reference manual."---Guy Armstrong, insight meditation teacher

Focused and Fearless

Author : Shaila Catherine
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458783642
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 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.

Practicing the Jhanas

Author : Stephen Snyder
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780834822825
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Practicing the Jhanas written by Stephen Snyder and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a clear and in-depth presentation of the traditional Theravadin concentration meditation known as jhāna practice, from two authors who have practiced the jhānas in retreat under the guidance of one of the great living meditation masters, Pa Auk Sayadaw. The authors describe the techniques and their results, based on their own experience.

The Workings of Kamma

Author : The Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw
Publisher : Pa-Auk Meditation Centre (Singapore)
ISBN 13 : 981073512X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Workings of Kamma written by The Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw and published by Pa-Auk Meditation Centre (Singapore). This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, as he has encountered 'Western Buddhists', meditation master the Most Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw has seen the need for a thorough explanation of the workings of kamma in English. To that end he has composed The Workings of Kamma. It is a detailed analysis and discussion of the workings of kamma, in accordance with the Pali Texts: Vinaya, suttas, Abhidhamma, and the authoritative commentaries and subcommentaries. First, the Most Venerable Sayadaw gives a detailed discussion of how beings run on from life to life because of a belief in self, founded in craving and ignorance: he explains how those two factors are prime movers in the working of kamma. Next, he gives a comprehensive and practical analysis of the workings of kamma according to the roots of consciousness. That includes a practical and systematic analysis of the three merit-work bases: offering, morality, and meditation. Then, he analyses the ten courses of unwholesome and wholesome kamma: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, etc., and non-killing, non-stealing, etc. He discusses also the results of kamma: rebirth in hell, as a ghost, animal, human-, or celestial being. Mundane wholesome kamma unique to a Buddha's Dispensation he discusses as knowledge and conduct: necessary for future attainment of Nibbāna. Afterwards, he explains The Buddha's twelve categories of kamma: four for time of effect, four for order of effect, and four for function of effect. And he discusses how they operate over past, future, and present, and how their workings depend also on the achievement/failure of a certain rebirth, appearance, time, and means. Then comes a lengthy discussion of 'The Small Kamma-Analysis Sutta'. There The Buddha discusses how kamma accounts for the superiority/ inferiority of people. Next is a discussion of how a being's kamma 'paints a picture' of a being, who is in fact nothing more than the five aggregates. And finally, there is a detailed discussion of the gradual unworking of the potency of kamma with the insight knowledges leading up to the Stream-Entry Path Knowledge, etc. up to Arahantship. It ends with a detailed discussion of the Arahant's Parinibbāna, and what this means in practical terms. The Most Venerable Sayadaw gives many examples, with continuous reference to the Pali Texts. He cites and explains also the dangers of holding to a wrong view that denies the workings of kamma. And he explains the necessity for seeing the workings of kamma oneself with direct knowledge, explaining that one is otherwise unable to understand the Second Noble Truth: the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering. There is also a detailed analysis of the transition from one life to the next, and many charts help the reader understand the explanations on the practical level of consciousness and mental factors. [From a book published by Pa-Auk Meditation Centre, a Centre of Theravāda Buddhist Tradition]

Beyond Distraction

Author : Shaila Catherine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614297878
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Distraction written by Shaila Catherine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to overcome distraction in meditation practice and develop clarity in your relationships, work, and activities with this new guide from a beloved meditation teacher. The mind can be a potent tool, used to guide extraordinary achievements, inspire good works, and incline your spiritual path toward peace and awakening. But the mind can also produce thoughts that lead to suffering. For many people, thoughts run rampant and seem to oppress or control their lives. Even the Buddha tells us that before his enlightenment, he sometimes found his mind preoccupied by thoughts connected with sensual desire, ill will, and harm. But he figured out how to respond to thoughts skillfully and developed a step-by-step approach to calm the restless mind. Now, Insight Meditation teacher Shaila Catherine offers an accessible approach to training the mind that is guided by the Buddha’s pragmatic instructions on removing distracting thoughts. Drawing on two scriptures in the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Shaila shows you how to overcome habitual modes of thinking, develop deeper concentration, and discover the insights into emptiness that are vital for a liberating spiritual path. Following the Buddha’s pragmatic approach, Shaila guides you through five steps for overcoming distraction and focusing the mind: 1. Replace unwholesome thoughts with wholesome thoughts. For example, if you find yourself thinking thoughts of ill will toward a person, try thinking instead of their good qualities as an antidote. 2. Examine the dangers of distracting thoughts. Weigh the costs of allowing thoughts of ill will, lust, greed, and so forth to obsess your mind. The costs of dwelling on distracting thoughts nearly always outweigh any supposed benefits. 3. Avoid it, ignore it, forget it. Develop the skill to turn your attention away from habitual distractions. Remove the fuel and let the fires of distraction die out. 4. Investigate the causes of distraction. By understanding the conditions that perpetuate habitual thoughts, you can learn to free yourself from those patterns. 5. Apply determination and resolve. Supported by wisdom, you can make a firm decision to stop dwelling on patterns of thought that are not supporting your deepest values and goals in life. Each chapter includes exercises and reflections to help you cultivate the five steps to deeper concentration. You’ll learn about your mind and develop your ability to direct your attention more skillfully in meditation and daily activities. And ultimately, you’ll discover for yourself how these five steps boil down to one key realization: In the moment you recognize that a thought is just a thought, you will find yourself on the path to a life of remarkable freedom.

Wisdom Wide and Deep

Author : Shaila Catherine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786613630018
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Wide and Deep written by Shaila Catherine and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisdom Wide and Deep is an extended introduction to an in-depth training that emphasizes the application of concentrated attention to profound and liberating insight. With calm, tranquility, and composure established through a practical experience of jhana or deep concentration, meditators are able to halt the seemingly endless battle against hindrances, eliminate distraction, and facilitate a penetrative insight into the subtle nature of matter and mind.

Christian Insight Meditation

Author : Mary Jo Meadow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861715268
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Christian Insight Meditation written by Mary Jo Meadow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the long history of mysticism within Christianity and its many and varied approaches to meditation and contemplative prayer, more and more Christians have turned to Eastern religions to find a kind of guidance for their interior life that they were not able to find in Christianity. Some have completely abandoned the religion of their childhood, believing they have found the "pearl of great price" in Eastern meditation. Christian Insight Meditation offers an ancient Buddhist meditation practice within a Christian prayer tradition, to teach readers a process of inner purification meant to lead to deeper Christian faith and to the direct vision of God. This wonderful, inspiring book offers reliable guidance and a way for any of us to begin to follow the footsteps of such towering figures as John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. Readers will soon discover for themselves the power of Christian Insight Meditation to bring inner peace and healing and to deepen and enhance their Christian life, and the inseparable connection between wisdom and compassion known for centuries to both Christian and Buddhist meditators.

Right Concentration

Author : Leigh Brasington
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 083480302X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 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 272 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.

Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom

Author : Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807770825
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom written by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out a new vision for the teaching of English, building on themes central to Wilhelm's influential "You Gotta BE The Book." With portraits of teachers and students, as well as practical strategies and advice, they provide a roadmap to educational transformation far beyond the field of English. --from publisher description

Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away

Author : Ajahn Chah
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834823993
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away written by Ajahn Chah and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-03-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful Buddhist teachings, demystified—from the spiritual mentor of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield Previous books by Ajahn Chah have consisted of collections of short teachings on a wide variety of subjects. This new book focuses on the theme of impermanence, offering powerful remedies for overcoming our deep-seated fear of change, including guidance on letting go of attachments, living in the present, and taking up the practice of meditation. Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away also contains stories and anecdotes about this beloved master's life and his interactions with students, from his youth as a struggling monk to his last years when American students were coming to study with him in significant numbers. These stories help to convey Ajahn Chah's unique spirit and teaching style, allowing readers to know him both through his words and the way in which he lived his life.

Only a Great Rain

Author : Xingyun
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861711483
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Only a Great Rain written by Xingyun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the growing links between Eastern and Western spirituality, thisoray into the often underexposed methods of Chinese Buddhist meditationxplores the connections between the Three Higher Trainings--ethical conduct,editation, and wisdom--and reveals how they can be integrated into a modernife. Original. IP.

Wisdom Within

Author : Allison Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991284306
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Within written by Allison Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings

Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Publisher : Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
ISBN 13 : 1891868683
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to happiness is the mind. With the mind, we can switch our life to suffering or we can switch it to happiness, just as we change television channels, choosing to watch programs about fighting and war, or peaceful things, like the nature programs people seem to enjoy. Experiencing happiness or suffering depends entirely on what we do with our mind. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings is the record of a remarkable series of powerful and clear Dharma teachings given by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 2014 to students at Leeds and London in the United Kingdom. Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archiveâ¿¿s editor Gordon McDougall was present throughout these teachings and has now skillfully edited them into written form that retains the flavor of a great master giving precise instructions to the students sitting before him. In Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings, Rinpoche explains how to take care of our minds so that our happiness is in our own hands, gives profound teachings on the Buddhist philosophy of emptiness, discusses the need for ethics and a solid refuge, shows us how to cut the root of samsara, explores why practicing certain tantras is important and especially emphasizes how the guru is the most powerful object of our Dharma practice. Gordon has presented the subjects taught by Rinpoche in the order in which they were given, beginning with a deep commentary on the meaning of sang-gyÃ¤, the Tibetan term usually translated as "buddha," and retaining the powerful method by which Rinpoche would repeatedly reinforce and expand upon earlier topics. Rinpoche also spends much time discussing the great qualities of Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drolma), the incredible being who has become so important to Tibetan Buddhism, FPMT and the world.

The Wise Heart

Author : Jack Kornfield
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553382330
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Wise Heart written by Jack Kornfield and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the transformative power of Buddhist psychology—for meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to Buddhist psychology ever published in the West. Here is a vision of radiant human dignity, a journey to the highest expression of human possibility—and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.

Jhana Consciousness

Author : Paul Dennison
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834844664
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Jhana Consciousness written by Paul Dennison and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jhāna meditation and how it can transform our understanding of self and consciousness States of profound meditative concentration, the jhānas are central to the earliest Buddhist teachings. For centuries in Southeast Asia, oral yogāvacara (yoga practitioner) lineages kept traditional jhāna practices alive, but in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reforms in Theravāda Buddhism downplayed the importance of jhāna in favor of vipassanā (insight) meditation. Some began to consider the jhānas to be strictly the domain of monastics, unattainable in the context of modern lay life. In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in the jhānas, and as researcher Paul Dennison shows, the esoteric and sometimes “magical” pre-reform practices of Southeast Asia hold powerful potential for modern lay practitioners living in a more scientifically minded world. Drawing on traditional Buddhist doctrine, teachings from lesser-known meditation texts such as the Yogāvacara’s Manual, and findings from the first in-depth, peer-reviewed neuroscience study of jhāna meditation, Dennison unpacks this ancient practice in all its nuance while posing novel questions about perception, subjectivity, and the nature of enlightenment.

Wisdom Walk

Author : Sage Bennet, PhD
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577318226
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Walk written by Sage Bennet, PhD and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After experiencing a crisis of faith, Sage Bennet looked to the practices of the world’s religions for help. In Wisdom Walk, she beautifully outlines nine of these teachings, making them accessible without diminishing them, while exploring the essential beliefs of each tradition. From Hinduism: Create a home altar. From Buddhism: Meditate and find peace. From Islam: Surrender to prayer. From Christianity: Forgive yourself and others. From Judaism: Make time for the Sabbath. From Native American spirituality: Let nature be your teacher. From Taoism: Go with the flow. From New Thought: Catch God’s vision of your life. From all traditions: Offer yourself in service to others. Wisdom Walk provides a simple, easy-to-follow guide for bringing the world’s spiritual traditions into your own life through practical, powerful rituals.

Wise Thoughts for Every Day

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628721359
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Wise Thoughts for Every Day written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and recommended it to all his friends: a compendium of wise thoughts gathered over the course of a decade from his wide-ranging readings in philosophy and religion, and from his own spiritual meditations. It was banned under the Communists, and only one volume, A Calendar of Wisdom, drawn largely from the writings of other famous thinkers, has been published before in English. Wise Thoughts For Every Day is the volume comprising Tolstoy’s own most essential ideas about spirituality and what it is to live a good life. Designed by Tolstoy to be a cycle of daily readings, this book offers thoughts and aphorisms for every day according to a succession of themes repeated each month—such as God, the soul, desire, our passions, humility, inequality, evil, truth, happiness, prayer, and the blessings of love. At once challenging, comforting, and inspiring, this is a spiritual treasure trove and a book of great human warmth.