In print for more than thirty years and translated into some ten languages, Nyanaponika Thera's "The Heart of Buddhist Meditation" has attained the stature of a modern spiritual classic. Combining deep personal insight with the power of clear exposition, the author guides the reader into the essential principles making uip the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness. Besides offering a lucid account of the basic practices of insight meditation, the book contains a complete translation of the Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, the Buddha's own instructions on the practice.

The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipatthana : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness : with an Anthology of ... the Pali and Sanskrit (Rider Pocket Editions)

Religion & Spirituality

Nyanaponika Thera

Christian Books & Bibles

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Written by a Westerner whose life experience was as a Buddhist monastic, this collection of essays conveys a friendly spirit, in the manner of a wise and practical teacher.

The Vision of Dhamma: Buddhist Writings of Nyanaponika Thera

Bodhi, Bhikkhu

Like Jesus's apostles...the main disciples of the historic Buddha were transformed by his awe-inspiring spiritual force!

Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy

Biographies & Memoirs

Hellmuth Hecker

Leaders & Notable People

Wisdom Pubns

The Abhidhamma, the third great division of early Buddhist teaching, expounds a revolutionary system of philosophical psychology rooted in the twin Buddhist insights of selflessness and dependent origination. In keeping with the liberative thrust of early Buddhism, this system organizes the entire spectrum of human consciousness around the two poles of Buddhist doctrine - bondage and liberation, Samsara and Nirvana - the starting point and the final goal. It thereby maps out, with remarkable rigour and precision, the inner landscape of the mind to be crossed through the practical work of Buddhist meditation. In this book of groundbreaking essays, Venerable Nyanaponika Thera, one of our age's foremost exponents of Theravada Buddhism, attempts to penetrate beneath the formidable face of the Abhidhamma and to make its principles intelligible to the thoughtful reader of today. His point of focus is the Consciousness Chapter of the Dhammasangani, the first treatise of the Abhidhamma Pitaka. Basing his interpretation on the detailed list of mental factors that the Abhidhamma uses as a guide to psychological analysis, he launches into bold explorations in the multiple dimensions of conditionality, the nature of consciousness, the temporality of experience, and the psychological springs of spiritual transformation. Innovative and rich in insights, this book does not merely open up new avenues in the academic study of early Buddhism. By treating the Abhidhamma as a fountainhead of inspiration for philosophical and psychological inquiry, it demonstrates the continuing relevance of Buddhist thought to our most astute contemporary efforts to understand the elusive yet so intimate nature of the mind.

Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Wisdom Publications

A perennial favorite, Great Disciples of the Buddha is now relaunched in our best-selling Teachings of the Buddha series. Twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the material in these stories has never before been assembled in a single volume. Through these engaging tales, we meet all manner of human beings - rich, poor, male, female, young, old - whose unique stories are told with an eye to the details of ordinary human concerns. When read with careful attention, these stories can sharpen our understanding of the Buddhist path by allowing us to contemplate the living portraits of the people who fulfilled the early Buddhist ideals of human perfection. The characters detailed include: 
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<li>Sariputta</li> <li>Nanda</li> <li>Mahamoggallana</li> <li>Mahakassapa</li> <li>Ananda</li> <li>Isidasi</li> <li>Anuruddha</li> <li>Mahakaccana</li> <li>Angulimala</li> <li>Visakha</li> <li>and many more.</li> </ul>
 Conveniently annotated with the same system of sutta references used in each of the other series volumes, Great Disciples of the Buddha allows the reader to easily place each student in the larger picture of Buddha's life. It is a volume that no serious student of Buddhism should miss.

Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (The Teachings of the Buddha)

Hecker, Hellmuth

The purpose of these pages is to draw attention to the far- and deep-reaching significance of the Buddha's 'Way of Mindfulness' (Satipatthana), and to give initial guidance to an understanding of these teachings and their practical value. This book is issued in the deep conviction that the systematic cultivation of Right Mindfulness, as taught by the Buddha in his Discourse on Satipatthana, still provides the most simple and direct, the most thorough and effective, method for training and developing the mind for its daily tasks and problems as well as for its highest aim: mind's own unshakable deliverance from Greed, Hatred and Delusion.

The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipatthna: A Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness

Buddhism

Samuel/Weiser

This is a commentary on the Satipatthana mindfulness meditation, an inquiry into the scope of their attention and the principal sources of its strength. Satipatthana, or the practice of mindfulness, was recommended by the Buddha for all who seek to grow spiritually, and eventually attain the realization of enlightenment. Buddhism itself is essentially a practical path, a system of physical and psychological techniques designed to bring about this realization. The method here described is the foundation of all Buddhist meditation practice. It is, however, not necessary for you to be a Buddhist in order to practice mindfulness. It does not matter whether you are a Christian, a Jew, or an atheist, as the purpose here is simply to expand your consciousness that bring you face to face with your mind. --- excerpt from book's Introduction

The Power of Mindfulness (Mindfulness Series 3)

Unity Press

Five Mental Hindrances

Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka

This booklet contains a translation of a collection of discourses by the Buddha on feelings ans their contemplation, the connected discourses on feelings, preceded by a penetrating introduction.

The Contemplation of Feelings

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