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Insight Meditation

By the Venerable

Chao Khun Phra Sobhana Dhammasudhi

Meditation master

And

Senior  Incumbent Of The Bhuddhapadipa Templ

LONDON

Publish by

The Committee For The Advancement of Buddhist

The Buddhapadipa temple

99 christchurch road

East cheen, London S.W.14

England

PUBLISHER’S NOTES

We are living through a century when scientific discoveries and technical achievements not only come along at a pace that has never been known in history but they enter our daily life and upset our complacency over its meaning and purpose. Formely it was easy to either accept traditional religious concepts or adopt a cynical “eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die” attitude with its selfish, egotistical slant.

Nowadays, with high-quality television and satellite communications, human beings can exchange ideas and see what is happening around the world on a panoramic scale. Such everwidening horizons are already affecting our human outlook and creating in the new generation a sense of instability which, in the past, arose only from tragedies such as plagues, invasions and natural disasters. Instead of falling back on superstitious explanation for a philosophy of live we are now faced with technologies which destroy superstition and weaken religion.

Is anything left?

Yes. The human mind does not rest content with masses of information. Nor does it readily accept material prosperity as the acme of existence. Beauty and happiness are ever felt to be needed in human affairs. What then really lies at the heart of our being? Does a proven method exist whereby we can find out?

Again, yes! This book continues the efforts of 2,500 years of Buddhism to tell those who want to see for themselves how it is possible to lay aside concept and preconceptions of mind so as to dwell happily amid the problems of life, resistant to befuddling influences, as a useful member of the community and, eventually, unmoved by the inevitable approach of physical and mental dissolution. Other works recount the friendliness of the Buddha and the kindliness of his way of life, but this book details the practical manner of dwelling in the present without becoming enslaved by circumstances. To quote the Buddha: OPEN ARE THE DOORS TO THE DEATHLESS, LET HIM WITH EARS TO HEAR REPOSE TRUST.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

                                    PART I

INTRODUCTORY NOTES

            Meditation – Mental development to contemplate reality, to remove resentment, making the mind tranquil, discarding certain hindrances, gaining freedom and attaining complete liberation.

CHAPTER I.  The Aim of insight meditation

            Aims : 1.          General; 2.       Particular

            The meaning of Mindfulness

            Mindfulness of body

            Mindfulness of feeling

            Mindfulness of mental states

            Mindfulness of mental contents

            Contemplating the five hindrances

            Contemplating the five aggregates of attachment

            Contemplating the six internal and external spheres of the senses

            Contemplating the seven factors of enlightenment

            Contemplating the four noble truths

CHAPTER II.four beneficial facrors for Vipassana practice

(a)    Sincerity of purpose; (b) Full awareness of observation; (c) clear comprehension; (d) Avoidance of giving way to feelings of elation or dejection.

CHAPTER III. The beneficts of Vipassana practice

            Dwelling with contenment in the happiness of truth in the present life. Enjoyment of object through investigation. Acquisition of worldly knowledge. The attainment of perfection. The ten defilements of insight.

CHAPTER IV. Vipassan and the seven stages of Purification

            Purification of morality, purification of mind, purification of understanding, purification of overcoming doubt, purification of knowledge with insight into the distinction between path and ‘Not-Path’, purification of knowledge with insight into the way to make progress, purification of knowledge with insight into the noble path.

Vipassana and the thirty-seven elements pertaining to enlightenment

CHAPTER V.  The way of practice

            Exercises for strict practice. Exercises 1 to 7

            General advice for mindfulness practice in daily life

                                    PART II

                        SELECTED TALKS

The successive way to enlightenment

How to live by the Dhamma

The simile of the cloth

The parable of the watersnake

On beneficial impertubability

Fear and dread

How to remove distracting thought

On an exposition and analysis

How to acquire perfect view

Peace within

On emancipation

The all

Perversion and perfection

The central teaching of the Buddha

Self-protection

The right method

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