Beyond Mindfulness In Plain English

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Beyond Mindfulness In Plain English

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[Apologies if this is old news, it's copyrighted 2009 but I don't know how new it is; it might just be new to my local Barnes and Noble. Anyway, I almost did a cartwheel down the aisle when I saw it and wanted to pass along the title to anyone else that might not have known of it yet]

So, Bhante Gunaratana has written a sequel to Mindfulness In Plain English (titled as this post is) about Jhana meditations.

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Published by Wisdom Publications (same as previous book)

http://www.wisdompubs.org/Pages/display ... n=&image=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It came out Sept. 8, 2009 so you are definitely not "late" in this great announcement.
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Hmmm.... looking forward to reading it.

Thanks Tex
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Thanks for the heads-up Tex!

Looks great... it's on my shopping list.

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I have it and could not finish reading it all the way through due to all of the gramatical errors. Made it almost unreadable for me. I dont know what happened with the eiting but it is really bad. Very surpring coming from wisdom pubs who usually produces top knotch reads. I have consulted quite a few different copies and they all contain the same errors. I was extremely dissapointed as Mindfulness in plain english is one of my all time fave meditation manuals.

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Greetings BBB,
bodom_bad_boy wrote:I dont know what happened with the eiting but it is really bad.
Sorry, but that made me laugh.

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Hahah how ironic. lol
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isnt this his second book on jhanas? or is it a repackage of the old one?
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bodom said: I have it and could not finish reading it all the way through due to all of the gramatical errors. Made it almost unreadable for me. I dont know what happened with the eiting but it is really bad. Very surpring coming from wisdom pubs who usually produces top knotch reads. I have consulted quite a few different copies and they all contain the same errors. I was extremely dissapointed as Mindfulness in plain english is one of my all time fave meditation manuals.
Hello bodom, all,

I bought this book earlier in the week on the way back from India, at a bookshop in Bangkok Airport. It is said to be "An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation". It is the Wisdom edition and is edited by John Peddicord. It has top ratings by Joseph Goldstein, Ajahn Amaro, Matthew Flickstein, Shaila Catherine, Sharon Salzberg, Noah Levine, and Guy Armstong. I have just begun to delve into it, only read a chapter or two, but do not find any problems with the editing. The book seemed to be of the same standard as Bhante Gunaratana's previous books on Mindfulness.

Could you give some page numbers and examples of what bothered you?

Has anyone else read this book?

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Hi- In my laziness (or is it lack of time? :cry: ) I wonder if anyone could tell me what is different in it compared to the first book.
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I have read about halfway through and then got a little busy and did not finish it. I will go back to it and finish it since it is not that long. So far, I find it a very good book. The first part is very similar to the Mindfulness book and then after that he delves more deeply into the subject of the jhanas.
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bodom wrote: Very surpring coming from wisdom pubs who usually produces top knotch reads. I have consulted quite a few different copies and they all contain the same errors. I was extremely dissapointed as Mindfulness in plain english is one of my all time fave meditation manuals.

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"surprising," not "surpring"

"top notch," not "top knotch"

"disappointed," not "dissapointed"


I actually thought the book was good. I didn't have trouble with grammatical errors (though I don't doubt that they are there). I also really like Shaila Catherine's Focused and Fearless, and Ajahn Brahm's Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond is pretty good too.
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Nibbida wrote:
bodom wrote: Very surpring coming from wisdom pubs who usually produces top knotch reads. I have consulted quite a few different copies and they all contain the same errors. I was extremely dissapointed as Mindfulness in plain english is one of my all time fave meditation manuals.

:namaste:
"surprising," not "surpring"

"top notch," not "top knotch"

"disappointed," not "dissapointed"
Almost reminds me of my copy of this book. Thank you Nibbida, maybe you should contact Wisdom Pubs for an editing job.

*Cooran if i have the time I will go through my copy and give examples.

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bodom wrote:
Nibbida wrote:
bodom wrote: Very surpring coming from wisdom pubs who usually produces top knotch reads. I have consulted quite a few different copies and they all contain the same errors. I was extremely dissapointed as Mindfulness in plain english is one of my all time fave meditation manuals.

:namaste:
"surprising," not "surpring"

"top notch," not "top knotch"

"disappointed," not "dissapointed"
Almost reminds me of my copy of this book. Thank you Nibbida, maybe you should contact Wisdom Pubs for an editing job.

*Cooran if i have the time I will go through my copy and give examples.

:anjali:
Hah. I couldn't resist. :-) All in good fun.
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