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Title: Swallowing the River Ganges : A Practice Guide to the Path of Purification by Matthew Flickstein ISBN: 0-86171-178-5 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Companion for Meditators
Comment: This is a cloudless and exceedingly matter-of-fact atlas for anybody who involves themselves with meditation practice. This book is truly a practice guide, as the title suggests. Although I would without hesitation recommend this book to beginner's, it's honestly more for those of us more familiar with meditative practices.
The author, Matthew Flickenstein, takes aim at what most of us commonly call vipassana (insight) meditation. He gives a pretty surprising investigation into both it's benefits, and what sometimes can lead to actual drawbacks. The purpose of insight meditation, he points out, is to simply see things as they really are. Reality as it is. In order for that to happen, we need to not discriminate what we are aware of, we must be truly be aware of all that arises, without grasping or even resisting any of our experiences. But whenever we move our concentration in a specific direction, such as the breath, we are subtly forming a purpose and we are no longer communicating "no preference" in our awareness of what we are experiencing.
This book goes into much more specific detail about the benefits and drawbacks of certain styles of practice, something I could never summarize in the confines of such a review. Matthew Flickenstein presents us with a most intriguing body of work here, a priceless companion on our road of discovery and introspection. So what are you waiting for? Buy it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Just the path, ma'am
Comment: Confused or adrift in your practice? Maybe reading a lot and putting off actually getting on that cushion you ordered? Well, read this book (and Ayya Khema's *Visible Here and Now*) and you will be confused, lost, or procrastinating no more. Brilliant insight shined right where you need it. GET THIS BOOK!
Rating: 5
Summary: Sensible mysticism
Comment: Finally, a Dharma text that avoids the unnecessary mystical, vague, and ambiguous writing notorious in much of Buddhist literature without devaluating the inherent mystical, vague, and ambiguous nature of Buddhism. Bravo, Mr. Flickstein!
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Title: Journey to the Center: A Meditation Workbook by Matthew Flickstein, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana ISBN: 0861711416 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga by Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Bhikkhu Ñanamoli ISBN: 1928706002 Publisher: Pariyatti Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: In This Very Life : The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha by Sayadaw U. Pandita, Kate Wheeler ISBN: 0861713117 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Amaro ISBN: 0861713230 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Bhikkhu Bodhi ISBN: 086171072X Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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