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Buddhist scholar and teacher Bhikkhu Analayo explores the practice
of mindfulness of breathing in the sixteen steps of the Anapanasati
Sutta. This is an authoritative, practice-orientated elucidation of
a foundational Buddhist text, useful to meditators whatever their
tradition or background. In the first six chapters Analayo presents
practical instructions comparable to his Satipatthana Meditation: A
Practice Guide. The remaining chapters contain his translations of
extracts from the early Chinese canon. With his accompanying
commentary, these help the practitioner appreciate the early
Buddhist perspective on the breath and the practice of mindfulness
of breathing. Analayo presents his understanding of these early
teachings, arising from his own meditation practice and teaching
experience. His aim is to inspire all practitioners to use what he
has found helpful to build their own practice and become
self-reliant. The book is accompanied with freely downloadable
audio files offering guided and progressive meditation instructions
from the author.
Buddhist meditator and scholar Bhikkhu Analayo introduces the
Buddhist backgrounds to mindfulness, ranging from mindful eating to
its formal cultivation as satipatthana (the foundations of
mindfulness). He also offers a historical survey of the development
of mindfulness in different Buddhist traditions. Providing an
accessible guide, he offers practical exercises on how to develop
mindfulness. The orally transmitted early teachings examined here
provide a range of perspectives on mindfulness, with a clear
overarching focus on the role of mindfulness in the path to
`awakening', to an understanding of reality as it is. Analayo shows
how mindfulness is a central tool for recognizing the influence of
greed, anger and delusion, and how to emerge from these to progress
on the path of practice to liberation. He shows how mindfulness
brings about a clear vision of reality, fostering a gradual freeing
of the mind from these influences, and enabling us to be more fully
in touch with what is taking place and remain in the present; we
learn to slow down and come to our senses. As well as being
directed within, Analayo demonstrates how mindfulness helps us
discern how what we do impacts others, and thus naturally
strengthens our compassion, helping us avoid harming others and
ourselves. Mindfulness is something to be practised, and at the end
of each chapter Analayo provides instructions for developing
mindfulness step by step, bringing it into our personal experience.
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.
Analayo outlines how to meditate on emptiness, according to early
Buddhism. His presentation is geared to practical concerns,
something that the reader can put into practice when sitting on the
cushion, with an appendix giving a translation of the key
discourses from the Pali and Chinese. This brings out an aspect of
early Buddhism so far fairly neglected, providing an important
perspective on emptiness as a form of meditation in relation to
later developments, and is a practical companion to his bestselling
book: Satipatthana.
In this book, Analayo builds on his earlier ground-breaking work,
'Satipatthana: the Direct Path to Realization'. Here, he enlarges
our perspective on this seminal teaching by exploring the practices
of mindfulness as presented in both the Pali and Chinese versions
of this important discourse.
Disease and death are undeniably integral parts of human life. Yet
when they manifest we are easily caught unprepared. To prepare for
these, we need to learn how to skilfully face illness and passing
away. A source of practical wisdom can be found in the early
discourses that record the teachings given by the Buddha and his
disciples.The chief aim of this book is to provide a collection of
passages taken from the Buddha's early discourses that provide
guidance for facing disease and death. The present anthology
focuses on the theme of compassion, and is concerned with anukampa:
compassion as the underlying motivation in altruistic action. The
book combines translations of Buddhist Sanskrit discourse from the
Chinese original, with introductions that explain the basic
message, clarify terminology and ideas contained in the discourse,
and draw out some of their practical implications.
Analayo offers an inspiring biography of the Buddha based on the
early discourses and focusing on his meditative development and
practice. By focusing on the Buddha as a meditator, Analayo seeks
to provide inspiration and guidance to all meditators, of any
tradition and of any level of experience. Each of the twenty-four
chapters concludes with suggestions to support meditative practice.
"Surely destined to become the classic commentary on the
Satipatthana" --Christopher Titmuss "Now in its second printing
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