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Patricia Mauerhofer rated it it was amazing Feb 09, She died in Colombo in Quotes from The Heart of Budd His fame as an exponent budhdist authentic Theravada Buddhism reached all corners of the globe.

I have to warn the uninformed reader, though, that the book presupposes at least a minimal acceptance of spiritual ideals and it not one of those "meditation budhdist an aid for relaxation is really cool let's get started"-kind of flashy meditation books that might be found in the self-help section of the nearest airport book shop.

I have that original copy and I am touched by how many underlined passages, how many exclamation points in margins, how many addendums of my own written in tiny scrawl appear in its fading pages. I'll update this with a review once I finish. An excellent nyanaponi,a of the Satipatthana Sutta. Then, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. This page was last edited on 18 Augustat I wish it was the second or third book on Buddhism I read rather than the first but I still learned a ton.

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Oct 14, Erik Steevens rated it it was amazing Shelves: It thdra a concise explanation of clear comprehension, which is the kind of mindfulness you use in the course of your daily life.

Nyanaponika Thera —94 was born in Germany and became a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka inwhere he hearr until his death. The goal of mindfulness is the development of the mind for its daily tasks as well as the highest aim of deliverance from greed, hatred and delusion.

Forest Hermitage, KandySri Lanka. Excellent, if somewhat dated, interpretation of mindfulness meditation in Theravada Buddhism. It was the early nineteeneighties. List of modern writers on Eastern religions List of writers on Buddhism.

Nyanaponika Thera, thereafter dutifully honoring the request of his teacher, meditatioh Ven. Buddhism Buddhism in the West Buddhist modernism. I just spent three days in an empty room, and I couldn't have been peachier. Retrieved September 11, It was the early nineteeneighties. For people interested in serious practice of meditation and I think that is the most important part of itI would still rather recommend "Mindfulness in Plain English".

It does a good job, however, at explaining what meditation is all about. This book is more difficult than most of the Buddhist books I've been reading. The basic premise of Satipatthana is that if the mind is "comprehended," the external world as well as our internal world of the body will be "comprehended.

Nyanaponika Thera

Having arranged for his mother to stay in Vienna, in early he finally was able to leave Europe for Sri Lanka, where he joined Ven. The goal of this practice is the liberation of all suffering.

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Heart of Buddhist Meditation : The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness

Bandaranaikemany State officials, and both the laity and religious dignitaries and prelates of all Nikayas. However, it introduced me to some useful concepts, such as cultivating an attitude of "Bare Attention" to whatever arises in your mind, without adding buddhist judgments. Nyanaponika Thera joined him at the new Kandy Hermitage.