The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation
Published on 10. May 2010
256 pages
978-0-86171-921-1 (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 community to practice with. This is an enormously practical book that covers every aspect of the teachings a beginner needs to get started.
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Arinna Weisman | Jean Smith
The Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation
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08/2010
Wisdom Publications,U.S.
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Persons
Arinna Weisman has studied insight meditation since 1979 and has been teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison who was empowered by the great teacher U Bha Khin. She is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Center of the Pioneer Valley. Her dharma practice and teaching have been infused with her political and environmental activism. She was the first out queer teacher with Eric Kolvig to lead insight meditation retreats for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Queer community. She also leads 'Uncovering the Heart Retreats' integrating the practice of awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- chapter 1 The Possibility of Change:A Cinderella Story
- Exercise - TAKING REFUGE
- chapter 2 Meditation: The Path to Transforming Our Lives
- Exercise - A GUIDED SITTING MEDITATION
- Exercise - A GUIDED WALKING MEDITATION
- Exercise - MOVEMENT MEDITATION
- Exercise - DAILY PRACTICE
- chapter 3 Difficulties in Meditation-and Life
- Exercise - THE HINDRANCES
- chapter 4 The Buddha's BasicTeachings:The Four Noble Truths
- Exercise - INVESTIGATING SUFFERING
- chapter 5 The Eightfold Path:Wisdom
- Exercise - WISE INTENTION
- chapter 6 The Eightfold Path:Morality
- Exercise - THE PRECEPTS
- chapter 7 The Eightfold Path:Mental Discipline
- Exercise - WISE EFFORT
- Exercise - THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS
- chapter 8 Living Practice and the Divine Abodes
- DAILY PRACTICE
- chapter 9 Our Guides and Supports:Teachers, Sanghas, and Retreats
- chapter 10 The 2,500-Year Journey
- chapter 11 Frequently Asked Questions
- epilogue
- Selected Texts
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Insight Meditation Centers and Resources
- Glossary of Selected Terms in Buddhism
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Authors
