Early Buddhist Meditation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Buddhist Meditation write by Keren Arbel. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Early Buddhist Meditation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation
Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation write by Analayo. This book was released on 2015-07-27. Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Early Buddhist Meditation Studies
Early Buddhist Meditation Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Buddhist Meditation Studies write by Anālayo. This book was released on 2017-03-10. Early Buddhist Meditation Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Bhikkhu Analayo, scholar and meditation teacher, examines central aspects of Buddhist meditation as reflected in the early discourses of the Buddha, based on revised and reorganized material from previously published articles. The main topics he takes up are mindfulness, the path to awakening, absorption, and the brahmaviharas. He compares parallel versions of the discourses in a variety of languages which offers a window on the earliest stages in the development of these Buddhist teachings.
The Origin of Buddhist Meditation
The Origin of Buddhist Meditation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of Buddhist Meditation write by Alexander Wynne. This book was released on 2007-04-16. The Origin of Buddhist Meditation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mindfulness in Early Buddhism write by Bhikkhu Anālayo. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Mindfulness in Early Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
