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Meditation Retreats in Southeast Asia - January 2010Directory of Meditation Retreats Centres in Southeast Asia in English. Detailed information on Retreat centres in Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, Nepal and India. Compiled by Dieter Baltruschat and translated by Katharina Titkemeyer Munich, BGM January 2010. 92 views
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Toward a Theory of the Relation Between Tranquility and InsightThe Relation Between Tranquility and Insight Meditation
There are two main branches of Buddhist meditation techniques: insight meditation and tranquility meditation. Insight meditation is aimed at cultivating wisdom; tranquility meditation is aimed at cultivating calmness. Tradition generally considers the first to have been a new form of meditation invented by the historical Buddha and the second to have been highly developed by Indian practitioners by the time of the Buddha's life. The most common story is that the Buddha learned all that his meditation teachers had to offer and, still unsatisfied, developed his own type of meditation: vipassana. After he developed this insight meditation, he achieved nirvana and transcended suffering (dukkha). I find it useful to categorize scholars who have written on the relationship between vipassana and samatha into two groups: one group that considers vipassana to be essential and samatha to be inessential in the pursuit of nirvana, and a second group that views both samatha and vipassana to be essential.101 views
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Sri Lankan Meditation Centres (Laypeople)Information about Meditation Centres and other important places in Sri Lanka for visiting Western Buddhist lay practitioners. Updated: January 2005.208 views
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Sri Lankan Monasteries for MonasticsInformation about Meditation Centers, Forest Monasteries, and other important places in Sri Lanka for Western bhikkhus and serious lay practitioners. Updated: January 2005.209 views
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A Critical Analysis of the Jhanas in Theravada MeditationThis work, by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, provides an analytical study of the Jhanas, as they are an important set of meditative attainments in the contemplative discipline of Theravada Buddhism. Despite their frequent appearance in the texts, the exact role of the Jhanas in the Buddhist path has not been settled with unanimity by Theravada scholars, who are still divided over the question as to whether they are necessary for attaining Nibbana. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to determine the precise role of the Jhanas in the Theravada Buddhist presentation of the way to liberation. For source material the work relies upon the three principal classes of authoritative Therav?da texts: the Pali Tipitaka, its commentaries, and its sub-commentaries. To traditional canonical investigations modern methods of philosophical and psychological analysis are applied in order to clarify the meanings implicit in the original sources. The examination covers two major areas: first the dynamics of Jhana attainment, and second, the function of the Jhanas in realizing the ultimate goal of Buddhism, Nibbana or final liberation from suffering.287 views
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Anapanasati - Mindfulness of BreathingBuddhadasa, Bhikkhu
For the first time in the English language a comprehensive manual of Buddhist meditation known as anapanasati (the development of mindfulness of breathing) is available. Although this manual is primarily intended for the benefit of monks, it will greatly assist laymen, too, who wish to undertake a course of meditation but who do not have the guidance of a teacher. Originally published in Thai, this manual is one of the major works of the Ven. Buddhad?sa Bhikkhu and delivered in 1959 in the form of a series of lectures to monks of Suanmokkha Monastery, Chaiya, Thailand. Ven. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a major voice in the Buddhist world, is an accepted master of Buddhist meditation. In constructive positive language, the manual guides the meditator through the 16 steps of anapanasati.1155 views
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Mindfulness of Breathing and the Four Elements MeditationVen. Pa-Auk Sayadaw
This book contains the instructions for mindfulness-of-breathing meditation, the four-elements meditation, and the subsequent detailed discernment of materiality. The last section of this book covers some of the relevant theory. Several pages have been added by the Sayadaw covering the balancing of the five controlling faculties and seven factors of enlightenment. There is also the addition of his explanation of the difference between the experience of Nibbana and the experience of life-continuum (bhavanga).441 views
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The Practice which Leads to NibbanaVen. Pa-Auk Sayadaw
Translated by Greg Kleiman. This is the method of practising meditation that is taught at Pa Auk Tawya Monastery, (Myanmar) Burma. It is based on the explanation of meditation found in the Visuddhimagga commentary. Because of that the method involves several stages of practice which are complex, and involved. These stages include a detailed analysis of both mentality and matter, according to all the categories enumerated in the Abhidhamma, and the further use of this understanding to discern the process of Dependent Origination as it occurs in the Past, Present, and Future. Therefore people who are unfamiliar with the Visuddhimagga and the Abhidhamma will have difficulty in understanding and developing a clear picture of the practice of meditation at Pa Auk Tawya. For foreigners who cannot speak Burmese this problem is made even more difficult. This introduction has been written to help alleviate these difficulties by presenting a simplified example of a successful meditator's path of progress as he develops his meditation at Pa Auk Tawya.324 views
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Knowing and SeeingVen. Pa-Auk Sayadaw
Talks and Questions and Answers at a meditation retreat in Taiwan by Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw. This book details two approaches to insight meditation, namely, tranquility and insight and bare-insight meditation. These two methods are essentially identical, starting from four-elements meditation and continuing into insight meditation. In this book the reader has an explanation of the classic instructions for both methods. The talks in this book were given by the Sayadaw (teacher), from Pa-Auk, Mawlamyine, Myanmar, while he conducted a two-month meditation retreat at Yi-Tung Temple, Sing Choo City, Taiwan.325 views
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Guided Meditation for Primary StudentsBuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies for Schools
This is a series of guided meditations with instruction for teachers for primary students. This file is part of BuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies for Schools. It has seven guided meditations for students, with detailed instructions for teachers.343 views
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