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  • Tên sách : Concentration And Meditation
  • Tác giả : Christmas Humphreys
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  • Ngôn ngữ : Anh
  • Số trang : 843
  • Nhà xuất bản : LUND HUMPHRIES - LONDON & BRADFORD
  • Năm xuất bản : 1959
  • Phân loại : Sách tiếng Anh-English
  • MCB : 12010000004085
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Concentration And Meditation

A manual of mind development

By CHRISTMAS HUMPHREYS

President of the Buddhist society

 

PUBLISH NOTE

In 1943, the name of the Buddhist Lodge, the original publishers of this book, was changed to the Buddhist Society, London. As howerer, this present edition is a photographic reprint of the 1st edition, all stock of which were destroyed by fire during the war, no attempt has been made to change the ‘Lodge’ in the body of the work to ‘Society’. In the same way, any references to the Magazine, ‘Buddhism in England’ should now read ‘The Middle Way’.

 

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

            The importance of right motive

            Self-development or service

            Meditation and prayer

            The nature of self

            The power of thought

 

                        PART ONE

                        CONCENTRATION

CHAPTER ONE

            Preliminary observations

                        Definition of terms

                        Dangers and safeguards

                        Further preliminary observations

 

CHAPTER TWO

            Concentration

                        Concentration : general

                        The value of self-recollectedness

                        Concentration : particular exercises

                        Time and times

                        Place

                        Posture

                        Relaxation

                        Breathing

                        Begin

                        An object or an idea

                        Difficulties

                        Intruding thoughts

 

CHAPTER THREE

            Exercises in concentration

                        On a physical object

                        On counting the breaths

                        On watching thoughts

                        On visualisation

                        On colour

                        Summary of part one

                        PART TWO

                        LOWER MEDITATION

CHAPTER FOUR

            Lower meditation

                        Concentration and meditation

                        The purpose of meditation

                        The results of meditation

                        Meditation : general and particular

                        Choice of method

                        New difficulties

                        Meditation with and without seed

                        Preparation for meditation

                        The power of stilness

                        The power of the ideal

CHAPTER FIVE

            Objects of meditation

                        The meditation on the bodies

                        The meditation on things as they are

                        The meditation on dispassion

                        The meditation on motive

                        The meditation on particular doctrines

                        The meditation on the self

                        The meditation on Analogy

                        The four Brahma Viharas

CHAPTER SIX

            Character building

                        Dana

                        Sila

                        Asceticism

                        Desire

                        The elimination of Vice

CHAPTER SEVEN

            The culture of the emotions

                        The nature of emotion

                        The dangers of emotion

                        The culture of the emotions

                        INTERLUDE

            The law of health

 

                        PART THREE

                        HIGHER MEDITATION

CHAPTER EIGHT

            Higher meditation

                        The abandonment of intellect

                        Subjects of higher meditation

                        Loosening the fetters of form

CHAPTER NENE

            The raising of consciousness

                        The meditation on the higher third

                        The search for the impersonal

                        The three Gunas

                        The voice of mysticism

                        The fulness and the void

CHAPTER TEN

            The doctrine of the act

                        An action motiveless

CHAPTER ELEVEN

            The Jhanas

                        The formless Jhanas

                        Meditation with and without seed

                        The pause in the silence

CHAPTER TWELVE

            Zen meditation

                        Zen technique

                        The Koan and Mondo

                        The use of a Koan

                        Satori

                        The effects of Satori

                        PART FOUR

                        CONTEMPLATION

 

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Cpntemplation

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

            Ways to the One

                        Must one choose?

                        The principal terms

                        Theism

                        Ceremonial

                        Magic

                        Ethics

                        Meditation

                        Taoism and effort

                        Occultism

                        Mysticism

                        Mysticism and Occultism

                        Theosophy

                        The noble eightfold path

                        Yoga

                        Zen

                        The basic trinity

                        Synthesis

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

            Conclusion

                        The duty to teach

 

APPENDIX ONE

            Notes on group meditation

                        The leader

                        The choice of members

                        The choice of subject

                        Meetings

APPENDIX TWO

            Subjects for meditation

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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