Buddhist Meditation

An Anthology of Texts from the Pali Canon

By: Sarah Shaw

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Hardcover | 10 February 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Meditative practice lies at the heart of the Buddhist tradition. This introductory anthology gives a representative sample of the various kinds of meditations described in the earliest body of Buddhist scripture, the Pali canon.

It provides a broad introduction to their traditional context and practice and supplies explanation, context and doctrinal background to the subject of meditation. The main themes of the book are the diversity and flexibility of the way that the Buddha teaches meditation from the evidence of the canon. Covering fundamental features of Buddhist practice such as posture, lay meditation, and meditative technique it provides comments both from the principal early commentators on Buddhist practice, Upatissa and Buddhaghosa, and from reputable modern meditation teachers in a number of Theravadin traditions.

This is the first book on Pali Buddhism which introduces the reader to the wide range of the canon. It demonstrates that the Buddha's meditative tradition still offers a path of practice as mysterious, awe-inspiring yet as freshly accessible as it was centuries ago, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Buddhism as well as Buddhist practitioners.

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Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Translator's note	p. xv
List of abbreviations	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
What is meditation?	p. 1
The early manuals	p. 4
The classification of meditation objects	p. 6
Different temperaments	p. 8
Finding a teacher or good friend	p. 10
Laypeople and the practice of meditation	p. 12
Sitting posture	p. 15
Samatha and vipassana	p. 18
Meditation: introductory texts	p. 21
Enlightenment (1)	p. 21
Enlightenment (2)	p. 21
Enlightenment (3)	p. 22
Seclusion	p. 22
Meditation	p. 23
Starting meditation	p. 24
The good friend	p. 28
The simile of the sun	p. 29
Companionship	p. 30
The mind	p. 31
The skilful mind and body	p. 33
Dispositions	p. 35
Two elephant kings	p. 36
The five hindrances	p. 39
Definition of each hindrance	p. 40
The world of the senses	p. 41
Dealing with the hindrances in practice	p. 43
Vijitasena	p. 44
Purification	p. 45
Six hindrances	p. 46
Abandoning the hindrances (nivaranappahana)	p. 48
Asking for help	p. 49
Assessing one's own mind	p. 51
Particular hindrances	p. 53
Longer texts: I. Concentration and the fruits of recluseship - the Samannaphala-Sutta	p. 59
The background story	p. 59
The fruits of the recluse	p. 61
The hindrances	p. 61
The jhanas	p. 62
Longer texts: II. The four foundations of mindfulness - the Satipatthana-Sutta	p. 76
1-10. The ten kasina practices	p. 86
Instructions concerning the device	p. 87
Elements	p. 99
11-20. The ten foulness (asubha)	p. 101
Ugliness	p. 105
Kulla	p. 106
An emergency	p. 106
The recollections: the first six	p. 109
The recollections (Anussati): (21-26) The six recollections	p. 109
The Triple Gem	p. 110
Recollection of the Buddha (Buddhanussati)	p. 113
Recollection of the dhamma (dhammanussati)	p. 119
Recollection of the sangha (sanghanussati)	p. 122
Recollection of virtue (silanussati)	p. 123
Recollection of generosity (caganussati)	p. 125
Recollection of devas (devatanussati)	p. 127
The recollections: the four mindfulnesses	p. 135
Mindfulness of death (maranasati)	p. 135
Mindfulness of body (kayagatasati)	p. 140
Breathing mindfulness (anapanasati)	p. 146
Recollection of peace (upasamanussati)	p. 158
31-34. The four divine abidings (brahmavihara)	p. 163
Loving-kindness (metta)	p. 163
Compassion	p. 165
Sympathetic joy	p. 165
Equanimity	p. 165
35-38. Meditation on the formless (arupasamapatti)	p. 173
Nirodha samapatti	p. 176
Buddhaghosa and Upatissa: the sphere of infinite space	p. 176
The sphere of infinite consciousness	p. 177
The sphere of nothingness	p. 177
The sphere of neither perception nor non-perception	p. 178
The eight jhanas and the cessation of perception and feeling	p. 179
The one perception and the one defining	p. 183
The perception of loathsomeness in food (ahare patikkulasanna)	p. 183
The defining of the four elements (Catudhatuvavatthanam/ekam vavatthanam)	p. 186
Conclusion	p. 194
Glossary	p. 199
Notes	p. 203
Canonical references	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 233
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