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In this book the core of the Buddha's teaching is comprehensively cast in modern models of thought - borrowed from science and philosophy - and informed by contemporary concerns. It sets out the basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the so-called 'Noble Eightfold Path') wholly in the context of contemporary and everyday life, personal experience, human relationships, work, environmental concern and the human wish for peace. The reader, who may be completely new to Buddhism, is accompanied along the Path with practical exercises that are fully explained. The Path begins with an introductory overview and then proceeds through Right Speech, Right Acting, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Concentration, Right Mindfulness, Right Understanding and Right Resolve, and concludes with a short chapter on the relevance of the Path to the current global crisis. The reader is mentored throughout by practical meditational and contemplative exercises, with tables, diagrams, analogies and stories. Gradually the reader who has followed this handbook with commitment will feel the benefits of growing peacefulness, wisdom and compassion.
Contents
Foreword
Amaro Bhikkhu
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE Ethics
1 Right Speech: What I say
2 Right Acting: What I do
3 Right Livelihood: How I Live & Work
PART TWO Meditation
4 Right Effort: Directing the Mind
5a Right Concentration: Breathing
5b Right Concentration: Objects
6a Right Mindfulness: Refining Attention
6b Right Mindfulness: Anchor & Buoy Model
6c Right Mindfulness: Full Awareness
6d Right Mindfulness: Insight
PART THREE Wisdom
7a Right Understanding: Ignorance & Nibbāna
7b Right Understanding: Horizon Model
7c Right Understanding: Mirror Model
7d Right Understanding: Reflections Model
7e Right Understanding: Self & Waveform Model
7f Right Understanding: Emergence Model
7g Right Understanding: Self-Evaluation
8a Right Resolve: A Change of Heart
8b Right Resolve: Silence
Conclusion: A Global Awakening?
Appendix 1: Posture
Appendix 2: Glossary of Neologisms
