If not, you may want to try the Sunlun method or the ascetic way practiced by the forrest monks in Thai, or maybe some psychosynthesis. I'm a serious beginner mediator, I've spent the last month or two blocked. I am very disappointed about this book. Satipatthana, if done correctly, leads to the acquisition of Jhana, and by the practice of Jhana Satipatthana will be completed. This was well written book that went through the basics of meditation to the later stages in meditation from the Buddhist perspective. The bad reviews may be due to the fact that it does dive into deep meditation stages that the average reader may have not ex This was well written book that went through the basics of meditation to the later stages in meditation from the Buddhist perspective. 
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This is the teaching of the Buddhas. Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews. But as the beginning of Satipatthana Sutta said, it is the most direct way, but not the only way.
Mindfulness Bliss and Beyond : A Meditator's Handbook
Even so, that message - that there exists a blissful path to enlightenment through the mindfulndss - is equally important for our times, when science, materialism, skepticism and the guilt complex has made us all a little wary and pessimistic of spiritual bliss, fearful and forgetful of spiritual happiness. Not a book for the non-believer. Find out what the cause is. This audio book and for that matter the written version provide some of the clearest and most complete guidance on how amd meditate and how your perception will change as you progress nliss the different stages.
In Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond, self-described meditation junkie Ajahn Brahm shares his knowledge and experience of the jhanas - a core part of the Buddha's original meditation teaching.
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism By: Paperbackpages. Jan 07, Shinta rated it it was amazing Shelves: Why should those who get a fruit insist "my apple is best, only apples can satiate all hunger, and you can only get an apple by picking it up with your left hand," when there are apples, pears, melons and grapes on the table ready for the eating, and just as many ways to get them as there are hands, mouths and people?
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A wonderful antitdote to mindlessness teachings that proliferate in the West. For sloth and torpor, remember "give value to awareness. From a less academic standpoint, this book is a great mindfulnsss to the path set out in Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga--which can be, to say the l This book is a trip.
For example, the story of Susima in the Samyutta Nikaya S II, recounts the declaration of final liberation by a number of bhikkus in the presence of the Buddha at Rajagaha. The best book on meditation ever. The content of this book was what made me spend more time with meditation. miindfulness
Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond
For example, on pg. I'm a serious beginner mediator, I've spent the last month or two blocked. An excellent introduction to the purpose behind mindfulness meditation, "Mindfulness, Bliss and Beyond: Goenka, prepared under his guidance and with his approval.
Instead, he assumes that he does, and that it is us, the reader, who doesn't understand see pg. Gunaratana says that total loss of bodily sensation starts in the 4th jhana, Ajahn Brahm writes that complete absorption starts in the 1st jhana. It is worth to read it at least once until the end, to see clearly the path that we are aiming for, the path of letting go. Mar 18, Bobby rated it really liked it.
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Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook by Ajahn Brahm
With so many lay-practitioners writing books about the subject when they themselves are amateurs at best, it is a true boon to the serious buddhist to have an 'instruction manual' on meditation written by a meditation master. And if it's doubt, be confident and be inspired by the teachings. I guess this book is an example of the jhanas' great ability to expand horizons of understanding, even as they harbor a great ability to create blind-spots.
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Three years, and less than a quarter through. Never before has this material been approached in such an empowering way, by a teacher of such authority and popularity. Ajahn Chah then tells him, "If anyone asks you 'Why? Mindfulness Bliss and Beyond: Insightful Step by step a complicated subject for the modern mind is demystified. When does enlightenment come?
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