عنوان

Don't take your life personally /

(Number (ISBN

0946672318

(Number (ISBN

9780946672318

Title Proper

Don't take your life personally /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ajahn Sumedho ; edited by Diana St. Ruth.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Totnes, UK :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Buddhist Pub. Group,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

413 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (page 408) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Starting from here -- Beginning to sense the unborn -- Beyond the ego -- Buddha knows dhamma -- Welcoming everything -- Don't be afraid of trusting yourself -- Dhamma is not an ideal -- Disruption belongs -- Being human -- Sense the sacred -- This pure subject has no name -- Knowing not knowing -- Seeing the path -- Intuitive awareness -- The sense of timelessness -- Unshakable stillness -- Seeing the nature of form -- Don't make a problem about yourself -- This endless rebirth -- Receiving praise and blame -- 'This' is the deathless -- Before 'I am' arises -- The point includes everything -- The end of suffering -- No person in the present -- Three fetters -- To be right is not liberation -- Being awareness itself -- Information never cracks the puzzle -- Test it out! -- Glossary -- Ajahn Sumedho -- Bibliography.

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Text of Note

"Ajahn Sumedho urges us to trust in awareness and find out for ourselves what it is to experience genuine liberation from mental anguish and suffering, just as the Buddha himself did two and a half thousand years ago. Mindfulness or awareness is knowing, isn't it? It is a direct knowing, immanent here and now. It is being fully present, attentive, to this present moment as is. But defining mindfulness tends to make it into something -- and then it is no longer mindfulness, is it? Mindfulness is not a thing; it is a recognition, an intuitive awareness. It is awareness without grasping. With this recognition, we have perspective on the conditions that we experience in the present -- our thoughts, identities, and the conditioning we have. Concentration, on the other hand, is usually on a form. We choose an object and then put our full attention onto it in contrast to mindfulness which is formless and immeasurable, and does not seek a form. That is why describing mindfulness or awareness leads to the wrong attitude. Terms like 'wake up', 'awakening' or 'pay attention' are not definitions; they are suggestions to trust in this moment, to be present, to be here and now. Ajahn Sumedho, an American Buddhist monk, practiced for ten years in Thailand with the well known monk, Ajahn Chah. He has since spent over thirty years in England and is the founder of the Cittaviveka Forest Monastery in West Sussex and the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Hertfordshire. His many books include Teachings of a Buddhist Monk."--Publisher's website.

Spiritual life-- Buddhism.

Spiritual life-- Buddhism.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Sumedho,Ajahn.

St. Ruth, Diana.

Date of Transaction

20200822144540.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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