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by Bhikkhu Analayo| 2021| 118 pages| 0.00390625| English

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The ensuing pages present a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedana, “sensation,” “feeling,” or “feeling tone.” For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight.A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanas describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain…they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedana provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind’s ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good.Deepening Insight is based on textual sources that reflect “early Buddhism,” which stands for the development of thought and practices during roughly the first two centuries in the history of Buddhism, from about the fifth to the third century BCE. These sources are the Pali discourses and their parallels, mostly extant in Chinese translation, which go back to instructions and teachings given orally by the Buddha and his disciples. In those times in India, writing was not employed for such purposes, and for centuries these teachings were transmitted orally. The final results of such oral transmission are available to us nowadays in the form of written texts. Bhikkhu Analayo’s presentation is meant to provide direct access, through the medium of translation, to the Chinese Agama parallels to relevant Pali discourses. In commenting on such passages, his chief concern throughout is to bring out practical aspects that are relevant to actual insight meditation.

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Author:Bhikkhu Analayo
Publication Year:2021
ISBN:9781681724058
Pages:118
Language:English
File Size:0.00390625
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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