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by Jhana4 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:29 pm
Shalia Catherine is publishing a new book in 2011 Nov, it looks like a follow up to her excellent book explaining the jhanas ( "Focused and Fearless"):
Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana
In reading the scriptures, there are two kinds of mistakes:
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
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by bodom » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:45 pm
I enjoyed her first book. Definitely looking forward to this one. Thanks for posting.

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by jackson » Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:24 am
Thanks for the heads-up Jhana4! I also really enjoyed her first book and am interested to see what she will get into regarding Vipassana, should be interesting...
With metta,
Jackson
"The heart of the path is quite easy. There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice." - Ajahn Chah
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by bodom » Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:13 am
I started reading this book today and have to say I am
extremely impressed at the depth and clarity with which Shaila Catherine writes. This book should be in everyones library.
http://imsb.org/books/wwd.php
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by Goofaholix » Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:40 am
bodom wrote:I started reading this book today and have to say I am
extremely impressed at the depth and clarity with which Shaila Catherine writes. This book should be in everyones library.
http://imsb.org/books/wwd.php
I found it far too indepth, I really enjoyed her first book but this is more a very detailed step by step manual or commentary based on the Pa Auk method.
Invaluable if you committed to practising this method on an ongoing basis but not for the casual reader.
Maybe one day I will.
"Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering." - Ajahn Chah
"Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it." - Ajahn Chah
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by dhamma_newb » Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:01 am
The watched mind brings happiness.
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
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