Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory guide to Deeper States of Meditation
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0861715292
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Countless people worldlwide have made Mindfulness in Plain English a beloved and bestselling classic in almost a dozen languages. Now after nearly two decades, Bhante helps meditators of every stripe take their mindfulness practice to the next level - helping them go, in a word, beyond mindfulness. In the same warm, clear, and friendly voice, Bhante introduces the reader to what have been known for centuries as the "jhanas" - deeply calm, joyous, and powerful states of meditation that, when explored with the clearly presented tools in this book, can lead to a life of insight and unshakeable peace.
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IMPORTANT? SEEING IMPERMANENCE WITH VIPASSANA AWARENESS SEEING IMPERMANENCE IN JHANA SUFFERING SELFLESSNESS THE NO-SELF EXPERIENCE CHAPTER 8 - The Jhana States THE MATERIAL JHANAS THE IMMATERIAL JHANAS THE SUPRAMUNDANE JHANAS CHAPTER 9 - Access Concentration CHOOSING A MEDITATION SUBJECT THE ENTRY POINT CONCENTRATION STRENGTHENS ACCESS CONCENTRATION AND THE BREATH APPROACHING THE FIRST JHANA CHAPTER 10 - The First Jhana A DIFFERENT KIND OF JOY
other plans—from the Buddha’s time right down to the twenty-first century—but they may not work; they have not been tested by generation after generation for two thousand years. The Buddha’s plan even includes a guarantee: If you follow the instructions given in these discourses exactly, you can attain full enlightenment in as few as seven days. If you cannot get rid of all your defilements, you will attain at least the third stage of enlightenment within seven years. It’s like an extended
have felt the pain of the victims in your own heart. So you have decided not to be cruel and to cultivate compassion for all living beings. Now you are totally at peace. You feel totally secure. You have no fear that anyone will hurt you. Thoughts of cruelty fade and you no longer have any desire to hurt or punish anyone. The natural result is compassion. You naturally feel and identify with the struggles others are going through and you have a natural desire to help them however you can. Your
“remove the kasina.” Taking as your object the space left after the removal of the kasina, you advert to it as “boundless space, boundless space,” or simply as “space, space.” You strike at it with applied and sustained thought. You cultivate this practice again and again, repeatedly developing it until the concept reaches maturity. When your development is fully matured, a new moment of consciousness arises with boundless space as its object. With the complete surmounting of perceptions
the situations that arise in your life. Meditators find from their own experience that, when they practice meditation following moral and ethical principles, their greed, hatred, and delusion slowly diminish. As your meditation makes progress, you see the advantage of morality. Seeing this result, you do not become proud and praise yourself or disparage others. With a humble and impartial mind, you simply recognize that a clean mind—with mindfulness, friendliness, appreciative joy, and
