Buddhist meditation
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0486427161
ISBN 13
9780486427164
Category
Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Subject
Meditation--Buddhism.; Buddhism--Doctrines.
Description
183 pages ; 22 cm; Originally published: New York : Harper & Row Publishers, 1969.; General introduction --Introduction.The meaning and purpose of Buddhist meditation ;Its range and principal divisions ;The literary sources ;The arrangement of the selections ;Buddhist meditation and modern psychotherapy --Selections.I.Devotional exercises.1.The three treasures:a.The recollection of the Buddha,b.The recollection of the Dharma,c.The recollection of the Samgha ;2.The Bodhisattva's example ;3.Worship ;4.A note on visions --II.Mindfulness.1.The mindful awareness of the body:a.Bodily postures, attitudes and behaviour,b.Breathing mindfulness ;2.The mindful awareness of mental processes:a.Feelings,b.The five hindrances ;3.The repudiation of the sensory world:a.Guarding the senses,b.The control of the mind,c.Similes for the evils of sense-desires ;4.The recollection of death ;5.Distaste for the body, and its functions:a.The thirty-two parts of the body,b.The repulsiveness of food,c.The foul. The corpses on the charnel field ;6.The goal (Nirvana). The recollection of peace --III.Trance.1.The practice of introversion:a.Withdrawal from the world,b.The eight stages of trance ;2.The cultivation of the social emotions:a.Nine preliminary reflections on hate,b.Unlimited friendliness,cUnlimited compassion,d.Unlimited sympathetic joy,e.Unlimited evenmindedness ;3.The evocation of deities --IV.Wisdom.1.The four holy truths:a.The truth of ill,b.The sixteen aspects ;2.The three marks of conditioned things:a.The 165 considerations,b.The three marks defined ;3.Survey of conditions:A The range of conditioning,b.The automatic nature of conditioning,c.Conditioned co-production ;4.Withdrawal from the world (the eight cognitions) ;5.Emptiness --Numerical lists --Glossary of technical terms.;
Biblio Notes
50669749
Number of Copies
1
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