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  1. Check the last link first since these are videos easy to watch, with the same content of the books.
  2.  
  3. For the suttas, the links point towards http://obo.genaud.net/ (created by a buddhist enthusiast I think), but all suttas are found on suttacentral (created by people around ajhan sujato I think) which is easier to use and has more translations (the links will be changed when I will have time to change them).
  4.  
  5. Reminder that the paramitas are designed to be applied, once the choice to speak of a subject and an object, towards the objects as well as the subject. People call *morality* the application of the paramitas towards towards what they think is NOT their self , and they call *mediation* the application of the paramitas towards (what they think is) their self.
  6. Of course, there is no difference between being moral towards one self and towards others (humans, animals, nature, and so on).
  7.  
  8. reminder that the dhamma is a nihilism, but only about the ignorance of the sterility of hedonism (this upsets hedonists): ultimately, there is no value in avidity, in aversion (towards what one feels and thinks) and in ignorance of the lack of value of avidity and aversion (towards what one feels and thinks).
  9.  
  10. ===VIDEOS AND OTHER LINKS===
  11.  
  12. >plenty of channels held by famous ajhans
  13. https://sites.google.com/site/dhammatube/
  14.  
  15. >some software to have the tipitaka
  16. http://www.tipitaka.org/index.shtml
  17. http://pali.sirimangalo.org/
  18. https://code.google.com/archive/p/jpalireader/
  19.  
  20.  
  21. >quick guide to learn about learning pali
  22. http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/ati_website/lib/authors/bullitt/learningpali.html
  23. http://www.pali.pratyeka.org/
  24. http://www.vridhamma.org/Theory-And-Practice-Courses
  25. http://ocbs.org/courses/pali-online-school/
  26. http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Appendix/A
  27.  
  28.  
  29.  
  30. >swift and clear exposition of the dhamma
  31. The Buddha’s Teaching As It Is, The fundamental teachings of Early Buddhism
  32. In the fall of 1979, while living at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi gave a series of lectures on the fundamental teachings of Early Buddhism. Bhante Gunaratana, at the time the President of the Buddhist Vihara Society, suggested he record the lectures so that the Vihara could distribute them as a set of cassette tapes.
  33. http://bodhimonastery.org/the-buddhas-teaching-as-it-is.html
  34.  
  35.  
  36.  
  37. >some secular teacher for those who enjoy them
  38. The Experience of Samadhi: An In-depth Exploration of Buddhist Meditation by Richard Shankman
  39. https://www.youtube.com/user/MettaDharma/playlists
  40. http://audiodharma.org/teacher/135/
  41.  
  42.  
  43. >begin with a youtube video:
  44. ven rakkhita Foundations of Buddhist Culture Modules Playlist
  45. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS8CNXvOOJGgz64i07kaYIOxdBYNvqcUZ
  46.  
  47.  
  48. >Entire collections of the suttas in pali and english, and the comparisons with other famous sources
  49. Index to Sutta Indexes
  50. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/sutta_toc.htm
  51.  
  52.  
  53. Various suttas in Pali, english, chinese, spanish and more
  54. https://suttacentral.net/
  55.  
  56.  
  57. >Materials from the early and medieval Buddhist tradition covering texts in Pāli and Sanskrit; line by line (interlinear) texts and translations; translations in English only; studies of grammar, prosody and compilation; maps, reference works and audio files.
  58. http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/
  59.  
  60.  
  61. >resources for explanations of the suttas
  62. Piya Tan, a former Theravada monk
  63. http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/
  64.  
  65.  
  66. >One Dhamma Talk, in order to have the general exposition of the observation of lack of self
  67. Anatta = "Not-Self" not "No-Self"
  68. http://obo.genaud.net/dhammatalk/bd_dhammatalk/dhamma_talk/not_self.htm#alagada
  69.  
  70.  
  71.  
  72. >===MINIMAL LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SUTTAS===
  73.  
  74. >===THE GOALS===
  75. >To understand the difference from the common person, the person under training, the aharant, the buddha
  76. Mulapariyaya Sutta from the Suttas of the Majjhima Nikaya Book I The Mulapannasa — The Root 50
  77. 1. Mulapariyaya Sutta (Muulapariyaaya, Mūlapariyāya), I.1
  78. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/mn/idx_majjhima_nikaya_1.htm#p1
  79.  
  80.  
  81. >===THE DETAILS OF WHY DUKKHA===
  82. >to understand dependent co-arising (paticca samuppada) and not-self (anatta) [not no-self]
  83. Maha NIdana Sutta for Paticca Samuppada from the Suttas of the Digha Nikaya
  84. 15. Maha nidana Sutta, (Mahaanidaana, Mahā-Nidāna), II.55
  85. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/dn/idx_digha_nikaya.htm#p15
  86.  
  87.  
  88. >The Water-Snake Simile
  89. Suttas of the Majjhima Nikaya, Book I, The Mulapannasa — The Root 50
  90. 22. Alagaddupama Sutta (Alagadduupama, Alagaddūpama), I.130
  91. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/mn/idx_majjhima_nikaya_1.htm#p22
  92.  
  93.  
  94.  
  95.  
  96. >===MORALITY===
  97. >BEHAVIOR TOWARDS OTHERS AS WELL AS OURSELVES
  98. >to understand how to behave towards ourselves, that is to say the contemplation, the establishment of ''mindfulness''
  99. Satipatthana Sutta from the Suttas of the Majjhima Nikaya Book I The Mulapannasa — The Root 50
  100. 10. Satipatthana Sutta (Satipa.t.thaana, Satipatthāna), I.55
  101. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/mn/idx_majjhima_nikaya_1.htm#p10
  102.  
  103.  
  104. Mahasatipatthana Sutta from the Suttas of the Digha Nikaya
  105. 22. Mahasatipatthana Sutta (Mahaasatipa.t.thaana, Mahā-Satipatthāna), II.290
  106. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/dn/idx_digha_nikaya.htm#p22
  107.  
  108.  
  109. >What is concern? From taking its stand on non-attachment (alobha), non-hatred (adveDa), and non-deludedness (amoha) coupled with diligence (vīrya), it considers whatever is positive and protects the mind against things which cannot satisfy. Its function is to make complete and to realize all worldly and transworldly excellences.
  110.  
  111. Appamāda Carefulness, Earnestness, Diligence
  112. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/glossology/glossology/appamada.htm
  113. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apradama
  114.  
  115.  
  116. Nekkamma Dumping, Giving Up, Renunciation
  117. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/glossology/glossology/nekkamma.htm
  118. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekkamma
  119.  
  120.  
  121. Upekkha Objective Detachment, Equanimity
  122. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/glossology/glossology/upekkha.htm
  123. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upekkha
  124.  
  125.  
  126. four immeasurables/Brahmavihara/apramāna/appamaññā
  127. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmavihara
  128. >The four immeasurables are:
  129. >Loving-kindness/benevolence (Pāli: mettā, Sanskrit: maitrī) towards all: the hope that a person will be well; "the wish that all sentient beings, without any exception, be happy."[11]
  130. >Compassion/charity (Pāli and Sanskrit: karunā): the hope that a person's sufferings will diminish; "the wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering."[11]
  131. >Empathetic joy (Pāli and Sanskrit: muditā): joy in the accomplishments of a person—oneself or another; sympathetic joy; "the wholesome attitude of rejoicing in the happiness and virtues of all sentient beings."[11]
  132. >Equanimity (Pāli: upekkhā, Sanskrit: upekkā): learning to accept loss and gain, good-repute and ill-repute, praise and censure, sorrow and happiness (Attha Loka Dhamma),[12] all with detachment, equally, for oneself and for others. Equanimity is "not to distinguish between friend, enemy or stranger, but regard every sentient being as equal. It is a clear-minded tranquil state of mind—not being overpowered by delusions, mental dullness or agitation."[13]
  133.  
  134.  
  135. Metta Sutta: Good Will from the Samyutta Nikaya SN 46.54 translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
  136. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn46/sn46.054.than.html
  137.  
  138.  
  139. Brahmavihara Sutta: The Sublime Attitudes from the Anguttara Nikaya AN 10.208 translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
  140. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.208.than.html
  141.  
  142.  
  143.  
  144. The Four Sublime States, Contemplations on Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity, by Nyanaponika Thera
  145. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nyanaponika/wheel006.html
  146.  
  147.  
  148.  
  149. >exposition on the paramitas (the virtues)
  150. A Study of the Pāramīs, Explains the Ten Pāramīs within the Theravada commentaries, Taught by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi at Bodhi Monastery during March 2003 - September 2003
  151. Ten Perfections:
  152. The Perfection of Giving
  153. The Perfection of Virtue
  154. The Perfection of Renunciation
  155. The Perfection of Energy
  156. The Perfection of Patience
  157. The Perfection of Truthfulness
  158. The Perfection of Determination
  159. The Perfection of Lovingkindness
  160. The Perfection of Equanimity
  161. The Perfection of Wisdom
  162. http://bodhimonastery.org/a-study-of-the-paramis.html
  163.  
  164.  
  165.  
  166. >===EXPOSITION OF THE CONTEMPLATION===
  167.  
  168.  
  169.  
  170. >Sutta on the jhanas and their utility for the path
  171. Anguttara Nikāya, Navaka Nipāta, Sutta 36, Jhānanisasaya Suttam, IV.422
  172. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/an/idx_09_navakanipata.htm#p36
  173.  
  174.  
  175.  
  176. >Dialogues of the Buddha
  177. Digha Nikaya, Sutta 34, XXXIV. Dasuttara Suttanta
  178. 34. Dasuttara Sutta, III 272
  179. http://obo.genaud.net/a/backmatter/indexes/sutta/dn/idx_digha_nikaya.htm#p34
  180.  
  181.  
  182. The Anapanasati Sutta --A Practical Guide to Mindfulness of Breathing and Tranquil Wisdom Meditation by Ven. U Vimalaramsi
  183. http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/clubs/buddhism/vimalaramsi/main.html
  184. >MN 118 Mindfulness of Breathing - Ānāpānasati Sutta (Anapanasati Sutta)
  185. Majjhima Nikaya 118 Mindfulness of Breathing - Ānāpānasati Sutta, A very important discourse explaining mindfulness of breathing and how it relates to the four foundations of mindfulness, to the seven enlightenment factors, and to true knowledge and deliverance.
  186. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIGZcoKeeWI
  187.  
  188. Correction, by the Tathagata, to Ariṭṭha on the contemplation of the breath
  189. >Saŋyutta Nikāya, V: MahāVagga, 54 Ānāpāna Saŋyutta, 1. Ekadhammavaggo, Sutta 6, Ariṭṭha Suttaṃ
  190. https://suttacentral.net/es/sn54.6
  191. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/sn/05_mv/idx_54_anapanasamyutta.htm#p6
  192.  
  193. >'Thus, lord. I abandon sensual desire for lusts that are past. Sensual desire for lusts to come is vanished.. Both inwardly and outwardly the consciousness of repugnance for things is perfectly disciplined.[12] Mindful I breathe in, mindful I breathe out.[13] That, lord, is how I practise concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing.'
  194. >'True, Ariṭṭha. That is concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing. And yet I-declare it is not. Now, Ariṭṭha, I will tell you how concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing is done perfectly, every detail. Do you listen to it. Apply your mind and I will speak.'
  195. >'I will, lord,' replied the venerable Ariṭṭha to the Exalted One. The Exalted One said:
  196. >'Now, Ariṭṭha, how is concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing done perfectly, in every detail?
  197. >In this method, Ariṭṭha, a monk who goes to the forest or the foot of a tree, or a lonely place, sits down cross-legged ... (as in Ī i) ... "contemplating renunciation I shall breathe out."
  198. >That, Ariṭṭha, is how concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing is done perfectly, in every detail.'
  199.  
  200.  
  201.  
  202. >Sutta Study Class with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi series:
  203.  
  204. https://suttacentral.net/en/mn117
  205. Majjhima Nikaya (MN 117: part 1-1, 2014.6.14) Bhikkhu Bodhi
  206. Chapter 117: Mahacattarisaka Sutta- The Great Forty. "The Majjhima Nikaya, the Middle Length Discourses", The Buddha defines the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path and explains their inter-relationships.
  207. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S50GCMGQ3w
  208. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2HrqyqzXDQ
  209. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdJpWZDTCPU
  210. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jel4O51nGwE
  211. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAqKGjMEld0
  212.  
  213.  
  214. Majjhima Nikaya (MN 118: part 1-1, 2014.7.19) Bhikkhu Bodhi
  215. Chapter 118: Ānāpānasati Sutta - Mindfulness of Breathing. "The Majjhima Nikaya, the Middle Length Discourses", An exposition of sixteen steps in mindfulness of breathing and of the relation of this meditation to the four foundations of mindfulness and the seven enlightenment factors.
  216. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS0BaNYSv8U
  217. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNAp1yQM1PE
  218. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZCbxb1mk-o
  219. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxblItC8q3Y
  220. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLadYTdMy20
  221.  
  222.  
  223. >Transcendental Dependent Arising
  224. Suttas of the Samyutta Nikaya Nidanaavagga
  225. III. Dasabala (Dasabalaa, Dasabalā), II.27
  226. 23. Upanisa (Upanisaa, Upanisā), II.29
  227. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/sn/02_nv/idx_12_nidanasamyutta.htm#p23
  228.  
  229.  
  230. >How to establish an awareness of the being[=mind+body]
  231. Majjhima Nikaya Sutta 119 Kayagata-sati Sutta
  232. 119. Kayagatasati Sutta, (Kaayagataasati, Kāyagatāsati), III.88
  233. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/mn/idx_majjhima_nikaya_3.htm#p119
  234. Middle Length Sayings, Final Fifty Discourses, Discourse on mindfulness of body
  235. https://suttacentral.net/en/mn119
  236. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayagatasati_Sutta
  237.  
  238.  
  239. >Sutta Study Class with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi series:
  240. Chapter 119: Kāyagatāsati Sutta - Mindfulness of the body, "The Majjhima Nikaya, the Middle Length Discourses", The Buddha explains how mindfulness of the body should be developed and cultivated and the benefits to which it leads.
  241. Majjhima Nikaya (MN 119: part 1-1, 2014.8.23) Bhikkhu Bodhi
  242. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2u_kwSrj8
  243. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVPxqG5okQk
  244. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpEZV3KeaSA
  245. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvOHYVAn-sk
  246.  
  247.  
  248. >The animitta-ceto-samadhi is the contemplation that people call ''pure hindsight (vipassana)'' when they think in terms of the dichotomy ''samatha-vipassana''...
  249. Samyutta Nikāya, IV. Salāyatana Vagga, 40. Moggalāna Samyutta, 9. Animitta Suttam, IV.268
  250. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/sn/04_salv/idx_40_moggallanasamyutta.htm#p9
  251.  
  252. >The Greater Discourse on Emptiness
  253. Majjhima Nikaya, Sutta 122, Mahāsuññata suttam
  254. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/mn/idx_majjhima_nikaya_3.htm#p122
  255.  
  256. Sutta Study Class with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi series:
  257. Mahāsuññata Sutta: The Greater Discourse on Voidness. Upon finding that the bhikkhus have grown fond of socialising, the Buddha stresses the need for seclusion in order to abide in voidness. Majjhima Nikaya (MN 122: part 1, 2014.11.16) Bhikkhu Bodhi.
  258. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpTp_soGTs
  259. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbRFQ5btfHo
  260. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=919pQmum4yo
  261. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUna331UGlI
  262.  
  263.  
  264.  
  265.  
  266. >questions and answers
  267. Majjhimnanikāyo, Mūlapannāsako, V. Cūlayamakavaggo, Sutta 43, Mahāvedalla sutta
  268. 43. Mahavedalla Sutta, (Mahaavedalla, Mahāvedalla), I.292
  269. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/mn/idx_majjhima_nikaya_1.htm#p43
  270.  
  271.  
  272. >Moggalāna states what is the signless contemplation
  273. Samyutta Nikāya, IV. Salāyatana Vagga, 40. Moggalāna Samyutta, 9. Animitta Suttam, IV.268
  274. http://obo.genaud.net/backmatter/indexes/sutta/sn/04_salv/idx_40_moggallanasamyutta.htm#p9
  275.  
  276.  
  277. “Signless” Meditations in Pāli Buddhism P Harvey - ‎1986 8674-8482-1-PB.pdf
  278. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jiabs/article/viewFile/8674/2581
  279.  
  280.  
  281. Living Word of the Buddha, SD vol 24 no 19 S 40.9, On the Question of the Signless Concentration of Mind, Animitta Ceto,samādhi Pañha Sutta, The Discourse on the Question of the Signless Concentration of Mind, [How to progress in the signless concentration], (Samyutta Nikaya 40.9/4:268 f), Translated by Piya Tan ©2008
  282. Animitta Ceto,samādhi Pañha Sutta.
  283. http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/24.19-Animitta-Cetosamadhi-Panha-S-s40.9-piya.pdf
  284.  
  285.  
  286. Samyutta Nikāya 12, Connected Discourses on Causation
  287. https://suttacentral.net/sn12
  288. 1. Dependent Origination
  289. https://suttacentral.net/en/sn12.1
  290. 2. Analysis of Dependent Origination
  291. https://suttacentral.net/en/sn12.2
  292.  
  293.  
  294. Upanisa Sutta: Prerequisites translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu © 1997
  295. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn12/sn12.023.than.html
  296. Transcendental Dependent Arising, A Translation and Exposition of the Upanisa Sutta, by Bhikkhu Bodhi © 1995
  297. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel277.html
  298.  
  299.  
  300. The Doctrine of Paticcasamuppada by U Than Daing
  301. http://wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/the-doctrine-of-paticcasamuppada/index.html
  302.  
  303.  
  304. A Discourse on Paticcasamuppada or The Doctrine of Dependent Origination by U Aye Maung
  305. http://wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/a-discourse-on-paticcasamuppada/index.html
  306.  
  307.  
  308.  
  309.  
  310. >===RESSOURCES on the CONTEMPLATION===
  311. ===IMPORTANT BOOKS===
  312. >insisting on the setting the samatha first, this book recast the use of the mindfulness through the three angas
  313. [swift introduction to the various sources PLUS good introduction to ''mindfulness'']
  314. A History of Mindfulness Bhikkhu Sujato.pdf
  315. http://santifm.org/santipada/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A_History_of_Mindfulness_Bhikkhu_Sujato.pdf
  316.  
  317.  
  318.  
  319. Bikkhu analayo:
  320. https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/en/personen/analayo.html
  321. >Bhikkhu Anālayo is a Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), scholar and meditation teacher. He was born in Germany in 1962, and ‘went forth’ in 1995 in Sri Lanka. He is best known for his comparative studies of early Buddhist texts as preserved by the various early Buddhist traditions.Bhikkhu Anālayo is a Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), scholar and meditation teacher.
  322.  
  323.  
  324. His talk from 2015 exposes that he contemplates the metta because the contemplation of the breath fails for him.
  325. http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/439/
  326. http://www.audiodharma.org/teacher/208/
  327.  
  328.  
  329. The Basic Dynamics of Insight Meditation
  330. Veneerable Analayo compares the three main insight traditions (Mahasi, Goenka, Pa Auk) and traces back similarities via the commentarial scheme of insight knowledges to a basic pattern of insight in the suttas.
  331. http://www.audiodharma.org/series/208/talk/2749/
  332.  
  333.  
  334. >the direct path to nirvana via the famous satipatthana sutta exposed by a theravadan
  335. Anãlayo satipatthana direct path analayo free-distribution-copy2.pdf
  336. https://ahandfulofleaves.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/satipatthana_direct-path_analayo_free-distribution-copy2.pdf
  337. plus analayo's non-free book which continues satipatthana_direct-path_analayo
  338. Perspectives on Satipatthana
  339.  
  340.  
  341. >My first book, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, came out of a PhD I did in Sri Lanka. It was the product of my academic study of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the practical experience I had gained in meditation, and what I had read about the experience of other meditators and teachers – I tried to bring all that together to come to a better understanding of the text itself.
  342.  
  343. >At that time I was working on the Pali sources of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta because the Buddha’s teachings were transmitted orally from India to Sri Lanka and then eventually written down in Pali, which is fairly similar to the original language or languages that the Buddha would have spoken. However, the transmission of the Buddha’s teachings also went in other directions, and we have versions of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta in Chinese and Tibetan. So after completing my PhD I learnt Chinese and Tibetan so that I could engage in a comparative study of parallel textual lineages, and this is the focus of my new book, Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna.
  344. >Although this was, at the outset, mainly an academic enterprise, what I discovered really changed the focus of my practice. When I took out the exercises that were not common to all three versions of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, I was left with a vision of mindfulness meditation that was very different to anything I would have expected. Contemplation of the body, which is the first of the four satipaṭṭhānas, for example, is usually practised in the form of the mindfulness of breathing and being mindful of bodily postures, but these exercises are not found in all versions. What I found in all three versions were the exercises that most of us do not like to do: seeing the body as made out of anatomical parts and thus as something that it is not beautiful, as something that is made up of elements and thus does not belong to me, and the cemetery contemplations – looking at a corpse that is decaying.
  345. >So then I understood: body contemplation is not so much about using the body to be mindful. It is rather predominantly about using mindfulness to understand the nature of the body. As a result of these practices one will become more mindful of the body, but the main thrust is much more challenging. The focus is on insight – understanding the body in a completely different way from how it is normally perceived.
  346. >Normally we look at the body and see it as ‘me’, but these texts are asking us to take that apart and see that actually we are made up of earth, water, fire and wind, of hardness, fluidity and wetness, temperature and motion. They are asking us to directly confront our own mortality – to contemplate the most threatening thing for us: death.
  347. >I found a similar pattern when I looked at the last satipaṭṭhāna, which is contemplation of dharmas. The practices that were common to all three versions were those that focused on overcoming the hindrances and cultivating the awakening factors. The emphasis is not so much on reflecting on the teachings, the Dharma, but really on putting them into practice, really going for awakening. As a result of this discovery I have developed a new approach to the practice of satipaṭṭhāna which I have found to be very powerful, and this would never have happened if I had not done the academic groundwork first.
  348. >BA: I think that balance is an absolutely central aspect of mindfulness practice. If you look at the Awakening Factors, the first one is mindfulness and the last one is usually translated as ‘equanimity’, but in my opinion it would be better to understand it as balance or equipoise. To be balanced means to be mindful and open to the present moment, to be free from desire and aversion, and this is what the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta continually comes back to.
  349.  
  350.  
  351.  
  352.  
  353.  
  354.  
  355. >This site is dedicated to the teachings of Venerable Ayya Khema (1923-1997), a Theravada Buddhist nun ordained in Sri Lanka . Her teachings (which were prolific) describe simple and effective meditation methods for development of calm and insight, for expanding feelings of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity towards others, and for overcoming obstacles to practice. She also gives detailed and lucid instructions for the meditative absorptions (jhanas) which provide access to higher states of consciousness, the way the Buddha himself practiced.
  356. http://ayyakhematalks.org/
  357.  
  358.  
  359. >an approach focused more on vipassana
  360. In This Very Life, The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha, Sayādaw U Pandita (1992), (Serialised with the Sayādaw’s Express Permission)
  361. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pesala/Pandita/index.htm
  362.  
  363.  
  364.  
  365. >are the jhanas required for stream-entry ?
  366. The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
  367. http://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebdha267.htm
  368.  
  369.  
  370.  
  371. >a book to become a yogi in vipassana
  372. Pa Auk Sayadaw Knowing and Seeing 4th Ed 2010.pdf
  373. http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books13/Pa-Auk-Sayadaw_Knowing-and-Seeing-4th-Ed-2010.pdf
  374. >This Burmese method puts forth the quality that is SATI [translated as mindfulness generally]: alertness/attention to whatever we perceive, plus a constant effort to recognize the five aggregates, learnt from the dhamma and remembering it, into every phenomenon. There are other qualities to have, such as effort [in walking or standing up], tranquillity, faith in the dhamma, wisdom [little insight, not the one of the five aggregates, but wisdom on being able to make headways], but the Burmese bet that the more SATI we have, the closer we are to nibanna. SATI does not need to be done a little, to be compensated by another quality if done too much, contrary to, for instance, samadhi [=concentration, generally gotten after samatha-tranquility of the mind and body] which needs to be balanced with effort. We can never ever do enough sati.
  375. a general pdf more about overview on buddhism through this technique
  376. http://www.paaukforestmonastery.org/books/teaching_training.pdf
  377.  
  378.  
  379. ===A GOOD WEBSITE INSTRUCTING ON THE ''VIPASSANA MEDITATION'' WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND VIDEOS OF EACH STEP.===
  380. >What is Vipassana or Insight Meditation?
  381. http://www.vipassanadhura.com/whatis.htm
  382. http://vipassanadhura.com/howto.htm
  383. with video of a duration of 50 minutes
  384. http://vipassanadhura.com/mindfulness.html
  385. >Vipassana (insight meditation) is the ultimate expression of Socrates' dictum, "know thyself." The Buddha discovered that the cause of suffering can actually be erased when we see our true nature. This is a radical insight. It means that our happiness does not depend on manipulating the external world. We only have to see ourselves clearly— a much easier proposition (but in the ultimate sense, knowing oneself with clarity reveals there is no permanent self, as the Buddha taught).
  386. >Vipassana meditation is a rational method for purifying the mind of the mental factors that cause distress and pain. This simple technique does not invoke the help of a god, spirit or any other external power, but relies on our own efforts.
  387. >Vipassana is an insight that cuts through conventional perception to perceive mind and matter as they actually are: impermanent, unsatisfactory, and impersonal. Insight meditation gradually purifies the mind, eliminating all forms of attachment. As attachment is cut away, desire and delusion are gradually diluted. The Buddha identified these two factors— desire and ignorance— as the roots of suffering. When they are finally removed, the mind will touch something permanent beyond the changing world. That "something" is the deathless, supramundane happiness, called "Nibbana" in Pali.
  388. >Insight meditation is concerned with the present moment— with staying in the now to the most extreme degree possible. It consists of observing body (rupa) and mind (nama) with bare attention.
  389. >The word "vipassana" has two parts. "Passana" means seeing, i.e., perceiving. The prefix "vi" has several meanings, one of which is "through." Vipassana-insight literally cuts through the curtain of delusion in the mind. "Vi" can also function as the English prefix "dis," suggesting discernment— a kind of seeing that perceives individual components separately. The idea of separation is relevant here, for insight works like a mental scalpel, differentiating conventional truth from ultimate reality. Lastly, "vi" can function as an intensive, in which case "vipassana" means intense, deep or powerful seeing. It is an immediate insight experienced before one's eyes, having nothing to do with reasoning or thinking.
  390.  
  391.  
  392. Moment to Moment Mindfulness, A PICTORIAL MANUAL FOR MEDITATORS, Achan Sobin S. Namto
  393. http://vipassanadhura.com/momenttomoment.htm
  394.  
  395.  
  396. ===HOW TO CONDUCT OURSELVEF DURING THE INTERVIEW AFTER A CONTEMPLATIVE CESSION===
  397. Wayfaring: A Manual for Insight Meditation, by Bhikkhu Sobin S. Namto, Wheels No: 266 / 267
  398. http://vipassanadhura.com/WayfaringGuideMeditators.html
  399.  
  400.  
  401.  
  402. >an exposition of the flaws of ''pure vipassana meditation'' which focuses more on loving-kindness meditation
  403. The Anapanasati Sutta --A Practical Guide to Midfulness of Breathing and Tranquil Wisdom Meditation by Ven. U Vimalaramsi
  404. http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/clubs/buddhism/vimalaramsi/main.html
  405.  
  406. Talks given by Bhante Vimalaramsi at at the Easter Retreat in San Juan Bautista April 2014.
  407. MN 2 All the Taints - Sabbāsava Sutta - Easter Retreat 1 - Day 2 17-Apr-14
  408. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygzy_SU5n-k&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix&index=2
  409. MN 111 One by One as They Occurred - Anupada Sutta Easter Retreat 1 - Day 3 - 18-Apr-14
  410. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLZx-ZVXGsY&index=3&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix
  411. MN 18 The Honeyball - Madhupiṇḍika Suta - Easter Retreat 1 - Day 4 - 19-Apr-14
  412. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbE3hSgC3WA&index=4&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix
  413. MN 38 The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving - ER1 Day 5 20-Apr 20, 2014
  414. by Bhante Vimalaramsi
  415. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i37cB5yeYlk&index=5&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix
  416. MN 148 The Six Sets of Six - Chachakka Sutta - Easter Retreat 1 - Day 6 - 21-Apr-14
  417. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiCtt3VLy9E&index=6&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix
  418. MN 44 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers - Cūḷavedalla Sutta ER1 Day 7 22-Apr 2014
  419. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_N6FAitbg&index=7&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix
  420. MN 43 The Greater Series of Questions and Answers - Mahāvedalla Sutta Day 8 23-Apr-14
  421. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8JUk95JpCY&index=8&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix
  422. MN 21 The Simile of the Saw - Kakacūpama Sutta - Easter Retreat 1 - Day 9 25-Apr-14
  423. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THyhazOcAkY&index=9&list=PL3sECDBQqxlEIZKN4bYGrHo_jSpgOfjix
  424.  
  425.  
  426.  
  427.  
  428.  
  429.  
  430.  
  431.  
  432. >exposition of the path by one of the monk from the monastery of the forest
  433. Ajahn Maha Bua
  434. http://www.luangta.eu/site/downloads.php
  435.  
  436.  
  437. >collection of sermons on Nibbana
  438. >This penetrative study[5] shed new light on the early Buddhist views on the psychology of perception,[6] the conceptualizing process and its transcending.[7]
  439. Katukurunde Nanananda Thera, Nibbana - the mind stilled
  440. http://www.seeingthroughthenet.net/eng/gen.php?gp=books&cat=ms&p=1
  441. http://www.seeingthroughthenet.net/eng/gen.php?gp=sermons&cat=nn&p=1
  442. http://www.seeingthroughthenet.net/files/eng/books/ms/html/Mind Stilled.htm
  443.  
  444. >talks on Vipassana meditation
  445. Sayadaw U Pandita
  446. http://www.panditarama.net/#ui-tabs-9
  447.  
  448.  
  449. Burmese forest tradition
  450. The Essential Practice Part I Dhamma Discourses of Venerable Webu Sayādaw
  451. http://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh375-u.html
  452. The Essential Practice Part II Dhamma Discourses of Venerable Webu Sayādaw
  453. http://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh384-u.html
  454. The Essence of Buddha Dhamma
  455. http://host.pariyatti.org/treasures/The_Essence_Buddha_Dhamma-Ven_Webu_Sayadaw.pdf
  456.  
  457.  
  458. this is the first thing to take: watch videos of these retreats, especially the Q&A. this monk is famous and easy to follow. he is a good introduction, with some hippies flavors (only when he talks to lay people; he is alright when he talks to monks). he is quite rigorous in demanding that the jhanas are states where you no longer feel the 6 senses [people tend to lower the bar of these states, but they still call them jhanas]
  459. watch first videos of talks during a retreat
  460. https://www.youtube.com/user/AjahnBrahmRetreats/videos
  461. especially this one
  462. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9wWluu564c
  463.  
  464. another first thing to watch:
  465. a short video on the jhanas
  466. [YouTube] What is Jhana? By Ven. Henepola Gunaratana Nayaka Maha Thera(Bhante G) (embed)
  467. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lv0PFLZ12o
  468.  
  469. [YouTube] Bhante Gunaratana (1) What is samatha-vipassana? Part 1: samatha (embed)
  470. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaFOjJtEd2g
  471. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQOi9djyaA
  472. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NpmB2le3I
  473. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=div3NnAIoYU
  474. and all the others videos from this series
  475.  
  476. The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation by Henepola Gunaratana
  477. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/gunaratana/wheel351.html
  478.  
  479. Mindfulness in plain English, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana.
  480. http://www.urbandharma.org/pdf2/Mindfulness%20in%20Plain%20English%20Book%20Preview.pdf
  481. http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_english.php
  482.  
  483. Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation, Book by Henepola Gunaratana
  484. http://www.wisdompubs.org/sites/default/files/preview/Beyond%20Mindfulness%20Book%20Preview.pdf
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