The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness Paperback – July 1, 2014

Don’t think just get the book. If you’re getting stuck in practice Nyanaponika has an approach to meditation and mindfulness that may work for you. Mindfulness is Often something we go back to the beginning and start over and over again. At times a restart with new approach helps ten folds. (I) definitely needed a reproach and reminder of what the three fold guidance is. Breaking down the satipathana sutta is the way Nyanaponika teaches. This may not be for beginners but if you’re intermediate in studies getting stuck and can’t find what is wrong, get the book!

worth acquiring!

This seems to be the best intro, comprehensive and with both a helpful Part Two with an early text, and more commentary.

Have you ever heard “Pay attention to what you are doing or it’s all in your head “? This book explains that when you are very calm things look different. You can learn to change your perceptions. Best explanation of Buddhist philosophy I have read.

great book

Having read many other books on Vipassana before, I was surprised to discover that this book was the precursor of them all. Extremely engaging and lucid.

Among the Buddha's teachings to achive final liberation, the Four Establishment of Mindfulness is the most classical method of mental training which include shamatha and vipashyana metohods.Nyanaponika Thera is a eminence in the Theravada school so I trusted him to learn about this meditative training for the first time.Unfortunately the book was clearly wrote for people who already receive and practice these methods under the guidence of a presencial teacher . There are some key points not clear at all specially if you came from another tradition outside the Theravada school - which is my case. The Thera wrote the commentary in general manner not as a handbook for beginners practitioners but more like to reinforce to what the person has already been introduced.I found the training in the FEM very complicated and intrincated to put into practice, not suitable for me, but help me a lot to improve my own shamatha practice.About the general content, after a general introduction by the Thera, it comes the comentary to the FEM instead of the Sutta which should always goes first, or like in other cases the Sutta is comented line by line. Then comes an incomplete comentary to the Anapanasati Sutta, again the Sutta itself is separated in the final chapter. This separation makes you to do an extra effort jumping from one page to another in order to associate and understand the Buddha's words with the comments of the Thera.The final chapter contains excerpts from several Suttas where Lord Buddha remarks the fundamental importance of the practice of FEM.

Probably one of the main books about bouddhism.One of the principal communication pieces from Buddha -The Satipatthana Sutta- detailed explained by Nyannaponika Tera.Ivaluable!