The Buddhist Way of Tranquillity and Insight
by Kamalashila
This Windhorse Publications best-seller is a comprehensive guide to the methods and theory of Buddhist meditation. Written in an informal, accessible style, it provides a complete introduction to the basic techniques, as well as detailed advice for more experienced meditators seeking to deepen their practice.
The author is a long-standing member of the Western Buddhist Order, and has been teaching meditation for over seventeen years. In 1979 he helped establish a semi-monastic meditation community in North Wales, which has now grown into a public retreat center. For more than a decade he and his colleagues have been developing approaches to meditation that are firmly grounded in Buddhist tradition but readily accessible to people with a modern Western background. Their experience — as meditators, as students of the traditional texts, and as teacher — is distilled in this book.
The result is on the one hand a practical handbook, with a wealth of helpful detailed advice, completely with trouble-shooting guides and maps of the places our practice might take us. But it is also an inspiring exploration of the principles underlying Buddhist meditation, and of its real aims: heightened awareness, emotional positivity, and — ultimately —liberating insight into the true nature of reality.
Paperback, 304 pages, with photographs and charts
September 1996
List Price: $22.95
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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it… Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide.
The Buddha
