The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2007
256 pages
978-0-307-42180-7 (ISBN)
Description
Arinna Weisman and Jean Smith combine clear explanations of the Buddha's teachings on freedom and happiness with their personal stories highlighting some of the challenges and insights of practice. The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation offers advice about going on retreat and help in choosing a teacher and a sangha (practice community), as well as suggestions for further reading and information on various Insight Meditation or Vipassana centers and resources. Here is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
1,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-307-42180-7 (9780307421807)
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Persons
ARINNA WEISMAN was a resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Society and recently founded the Dhamma Dena Meditation Center in Northampton, Massachusetts.
JEAN SMITH is the author of The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism and the editor of four collections of Buddhist teachings.
JEAN SMITH is the author of The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism and the editor of four collections of Buddhist teachings.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- The Nature of Suffering in Our Lives
- The Three Refuges
- Chapter 2
- Mindfulness
- Sitting Meditation
- Walking Meditation
- Chapter 3
- Sensual Desire
- Ill Will
- Sloth and Torpor
- Restlessness
- Doubt
- Chapter 4
- The Buddha's Life
- The Spread of Buddhism in Asia
- Buddhism Comes to the West
- Chapter 5
- The First Noble Truth
- The Second Noble Truth
- The Third Noble Truth
- The Fourth Noble Truth: The Noble Eightfold Path
- Chapter 6
- Right View
- Right Intention
- Chapter 7
- Right Speech and Right Action: The Five Precepts
- Right Livelihood
- Chapter 8
- Right Effort
- Right Mindfulness
- Right Concentration
- Chapter 9
- Lovingkindness
- Compassion
- Sympathetic Joy
- Equanimity
- Generosity
- Our Lives as Practice
- Chapter 10
- Dharma Teachers
- Sangha Today
- Going on Retreats
- What Kind of Retreat?
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Suttas
- The Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta)
- The Hindrances (Maha-Assapura Sutta)
- From The Dhammapada
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Other Bell Tower Books
- Glossary of Selected Terms in Buddhism
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Authors
- Other Books By Jean Smith
- Copyright Page
