Right Concentration

Zusatztext "For those interested in exploring jhana! Leigh brings many years of skillful teaching to this accessible! clear! and helpful guide."Jack Kornfield! author of A Path with Heart "Leigh Brasington presents a clear map of jhana practice as he learned it from his teacher! Ayya Khema. As with many aspects of the Buddha's teachings! different traditions and lineages have different views on what constitutes these deeper states of concentration. Leigh offers many examples from his own experience and from his reading of the Buddhist texts in providing a valuable guide to this particular way of understanding and practicing them."Joseph Goldstein! author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening Informationen zum Autor LEIGH BRASINGTON is a teacher of Insight Meditation who was the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema, who authorized him to teach the jhanas. He has taught them, along with other insight practices, at well over one hundred residential retreats throughout the United States and Europe. Klappentext A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus associated with the Buddhist jhanas One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and more, leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering. So how does one achieve Right Concentration? According to the Buddha himself, the jhanas-a series of eight progressive altered states of consciousness-are an essential method. But because the jhanas can usually be achieved only through prolonged meditation retreat, they have been shrouded in mystery for years. Not anymore. In Right Concentration, Leigh Brasington takes away the mystique and gives instructions on how to achieve them in plain, accessible language. He notes the various pitfalls to avoid along the way and provides a wealth of material on the theory of jhana practice-all geared toward the practitioner rather than the scholar. As Brasington proves, these states of bliss and concentration are attainable by anyone who devotes the time and sincerity of practice necessary to realize them. Zusammenfassung A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus associated with the Buddhist jhanas One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that! together with ethics! livelihood! meditation! and more! leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering. So how does one achieve Right Concentration? According to the Buddha himself! the jhanas a series of eight progressive altered states of consciousnessare an essential method. But because the jhanas can usually be achieved only through prolonged meditation retreat! they have been shrouded in mystery for years. Not anymore. In Right Concentration ! Leigh Brasington takes away the mystique and gives instructions on how to achieve them in plain! accessible language. He notes the various pitfalls to avoid along the way and provides a wealth of material on the theory of jhana practiceall geared toward the practitioner rather than the scholar. As Brasington proves! these states of bliss and concentration are attainable by anyone who devotes the time and sincerity of practice necessary to realize them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Introduction PART I - Practical Jhanas The Preliminaries Access Concentration Entering the Jhanas First Jhana Second Jhana Third Jhana Fourth Jhana The Immaterial Jhanas PART II - Demystified Jhanas Vitakka & Vicara First Jhana Second Jhana Third Jhana Fourth Jhana The Jhana Summary Insight Knowledge The Immaterial States The Cessation of Perception and Feeling The P...

"For those interested in exploring jhana, Leigh brings many years of skillful teaching to this accessible, clear, and helpful guide."—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

"Leigh Brasington presents a clear map of jhana practice as he learned it from his teacher, Ayya Khema. As with many aspects of the Buddha’s teachings, different traditions and lineages have different views on what constitutes these deeper states of concentration. Leigh offers many examples from his own experience and from his reading of the Buddhist texts in providing a valuable guide to this particular way of understanding and practicing them."—Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

Autorentext
LEIGH BRASINGTON is a teacher of Insight Meditation who was the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema, who authorized him to teach the jhanas. He has taught them, along with other insight practices, at well over one hundred residential retreats throughout the United States and Europe.

Klappentext
A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus associated with the Buddhist jhanas

One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and more, leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering. So how does one achieve Right Concentration? According to the Buddha himself, the jhanas-a series of eight progressive altered states of consciousness-are an essential method. But because the jhanas can usually be achieved only through prolonged meditation retreat, they have been shrouded in mystery for years.

Not anymore. In Right Concentration, Leigh Brasington takes away the mystique and gives instructions on how to achieve them in plain, accessible language. He notes the various pitfalls to avoid along the way and provides a wealth of material on the theory of jhana practice-all geared toward the practitioner rather than the scholar. As Brasington proves, these states of bliss and concentration are attainable by anyone who devotes the time and sincerity of practice necessary to realize them.

Inhalt
Foreword
Preface
Introduction

PART I - Practical Jhānas
The Preliminaries
Access Concentration
Entering the Jhānas
First Jhāna
Second Jhāna
Third Jhāna
Fourth Jhāna
The Immaterial Jhānas

PART II - Demystified Jhānas
Vitakka & Vicāra
First Jhāna
Second Jhāna
Third Jhāna
Fourth Jhāna
The Jhāna Summary
Insight Knowledge
The Immaterial States
The Cessation of Perception and Feeling
The Psychic Powers

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