{"product_id":"deepening-insight-teachings-on-vedan-257-in-the-early-buddhist-discourses","title":"Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedan\u0026#257; in the Early Buddhist Discourses","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ensuing pages present a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into \u003ci\u003evedanā\u003c\/i\u003e, \"sensation,\" \"feeling,\" or \"feeling tone.\" For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing \u003ci\u003evedanā\u003c\/i\u003es describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of \u003ci\u003evedanā\u003c\/i\u003e provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind's ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeepening Insight\u003c\/i\u003e is based on textual sources that reflect \"early Buddhism,\" which stands for the development of thought and practices during roughly the first two centuries in the history of Buddhism, from about the fifth to the third century BCE. These sources are the Pāli discourses and their parallels, mostly extant in Chinese translation, which go back to instructions and teachings given orally by the Buddha and his disciples. In those times in India, writing was not employed for such purposes, and for centuries these teachings were transmitted orally. The final results of such oral transmission are available to us nowadays in the form of written texts. Bhikkhu Anālayo's presentation is meant to provide direct access, through the medium of translation, to the Chinese \u003ci\u003eĀgama \u003c\/i\u003eparallels to relevant Pāli discourses. In commenting on such passages, his chief concern throughout is to bring out practical aspects that are relevant to actual insight meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14106566\"\u003eBhikkhu Anālayo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pariyatti Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681724034\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681724030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-REL\"\u003eReligion\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-REL007030\"\u003eBuddhism | Sacred Writings\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pariyatti Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42681560793325,"sku":"9781681724034","price":12.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_1fb7654f-68a1-4e08-bea8-53ca323a50ab.jpg?v=1649709310","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/deepening-insight-teachings-on-vedan-257-in-the-early-buddhist-discourses","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}